Theodore Taylor, author of The Cay and The Trouble with Tuck, was born on June 23, 1921 in North Carolina. He also has an autobiography out according to his website. I haven’t read it, but I like the title: Making Love To Typewriters. The Cay is a good coming-of-age story, by the way, about a boy from the Southern United States during WW II who is marooned on an island with an elderly black man.

Jean Anouilh, b 1910. French playwright. We read Anouilh’s Antigone last year for a class I taught at homeschool co-op. It was . . . interesting, sort of existentialist. Anouilh quote: “One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.”