Baquet's Guide to the World's Classics: Memoir

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Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American Author and Explorer
(1836-1870)

Just the Facts:

Name: Fitz Hugh (or "FitzHugh") Ludlow
Birth: September 11, 1836, New York City, New York, USA
Death: September 12, 1870, Geneva, Switzerland
Language: English
Who he was: American author, journalist, and explorer best known for his autobiographical book The Hasheesh Eater
Included in lists (What's This?): GC

Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along!

Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!

Fanny Burney, English Author
(1752-1840)

Just the Facts:

Name: Frances Burney
Known as: Fanny Burney
Birth: June 13, 1752, King's Lynn, UK
Death: January 6, 1840, Bath, UK
Language: English
Who she was: English satirical novelist, diarist, and playwright known especially for novels Evelina, Camilla, and The Wanderer; and the non-fiction Memoirs of Doctor Burney.
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

Francisco Garces, Spanish Franciscan
(1738-1781)

Garces converting Indians

Just the Facts:

Name: Francisco Garces
Birth: April 12, 1738, Morata de Jalón, Spain
Death: July 18, 1781, Fort Yuma, California, USA
Language: Spanish
Who he was: Pioneering Spanish Franciscan missionary and explorer of Sonora and Baja California, Mexico, and Arizona and California, USA. Left a Diary after being killed in an Indian uprising near present-day Yuma, Arizona.
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

Martha Summerhayes, Arizona Writer
(1844-1926)

Just the Facts:

Name: Martha Summerhayes
Birth: October 22, 1844, Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA
Death: May 12, 1926, Schenectady, New York, USA
Language: English
Who she was: American travel memoirist and "army wife" who brought her Massachusetts sensibilities to Vanished Arizona, her observations of life in that territory, where she and her husband lived off and on from 1874 to 1900.
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

John C. Van Dyke, American Art Scholar
(1856–1932)

Just the Facts:

Name: John C. Van Dyke
Birth: April 21, 1856, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Death: Unknown place and date, 1932
Language: English
Who he was: American art historian and critic who wrote not only on art, but on his time in the West in The Desert. Also a posthumous Autobiography.
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

Tobias Wolff, American Writer
(1945 - )

Just the Facts:

Name: Tobias Wolff
Birth: June 19, 1945, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Language: English
Who he is: American short story writer, memoirist, and novelist; memoirs This Boy's Life; In Pharaoh's Army; novels Ugly Rumours; The Barracks Thief; Old School

Maya Angelou, American Writer and Activist
(1928-2014)

Just the Facts:

Name: Marguerite Annie Johnson
Known as: Maya Angelou
Birth: April 4, 1928, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Death: May 28, 2014, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Language: English
Who she was: American poet, memoirist, and activist; I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; On the Pulse of Morning

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French Writer and Poet
(1900-1944)

Just the Facts:

Name: Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint-Exupéry
Known as: Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Birth: June 29, 1900, Lyon, France
Death: July 31, 1944, Marseille, France
Language: French
Who he was: French writer and poet; The Little Prince; Wind, Sand and Stars; Night Flight

Lewis H. Garrard, American Adventurer
(1829-1887)

Just the Facts:

Name: Lewis H. Garrard
Birth: June 15, 1829, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Death: July 7, 1887, Lakewood, New York, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American adventurer who wrote Wah-to-yah and the Taos Trail
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

Susan Shelby Magoffin, American Frontier Traveler
(1827-1855)

Just the Facts:

Name: Susan Shelby Magoffin
Birth: July 30, 1827, Danville, Kentucky, USA
Death: October 26, 1855, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Language: English
Who she was: American traveler and diarist; Down the Santa Fe Trail and Into Mexico
Included in lists (What's This?): SW

Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-American Novelist
(1899-1977)

Just the Facts:

Name: Vladimir Nabokov
Birth: April 22, 1899, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Death: July 2, 1977, Montreux, Switzerland
Language: Russian, English
Who he was: Russian-American novelist; novels The Defense; The Gift; Bend Sinister; Lolita; Pnin; Pale Fire; Ada, or Ardor; memoir Speak, Memory
Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom; GC

Yokomitsu Riichi, Japanese Writer
(1898-1947)

Just the Facts:

Name: Yokomitsu Riichi
Birth: March 17, 1898, Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
Death: December 30, 1947, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Language: Japanese
Who he was: Japanese writer; The Sun; Machine; Shanghai; memoir "Haru wa basha ni note" ("Spring Riding in a Carriage") and other stories

Nagai Kafu, Japanese Writer
(1879-1959)

Just the Facts:

Name: Nagai Sōkichi
Known as: Nagai Kafu
Birth: December 3, 1879, Tokyo, Japan
Death: April 30, 1959, Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Language: Japanese
Who he was: Japanese novelist, short-story writer, playwright, essayist, and diarist; Ude Kurabe (Geisha in Rivalry); Amerika Monogatari (American Stories); Sumidagawa (Sumida River); Bokuto Kidan (A Strange Tale from East of the River); films The Strange Story of Oyuki; Bungō: Sasayaka na yokubō; Yume no onna (Yearning)

Laura Ingalls Wilder, American Author
(1867-1957)

Just the Facts:

Name: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Birth: February 7, 1867, Pepin, Wisconsin, USA
Death: February 10, 1957, Mansfield, Missouri, USA
Language: English
Who she was: American author; Little House on the Prairie and its sequels

Harris Newmark, Prussian-American
Businessman and Historian (1834-1916)

Just the Facts:

Name: Harris Newmark
Birth: July 5, 1834, Löbau, Germany
Death: April 4, 1916, Los Angeles, California, USA
Language: German, English
Who he was: Prussian-American businessman and historian; Sixty Years in Southern California: 1853-1913

Horace Bell, American Author and Lawman
(1830-1918)

Just the Facts:

Name: Horace Bell
Birth: December 11, 1830, New Albany, Indiana, USA
Death: June 29, 1918, Berkeley, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American author and lawman; Reminiscences of a Ranger
Included in lists (What's This?): CA

William L. Manly, American Pioneer
(1820-1903)

Just the Facts:

Name: William L. Manly
Birth: April 6, 1820, St. Albans, Vermont, USA
Death: February 5, 1903, Lodi, California, USA
Language: English
Who he was: American pioneer; Death Valley in '49
Included in lists (What's This?): CA

Richard Henry Dana, American Writer
(1815-1882)

Just the Facts:

Name: Richard Henry Dana (Jr.)
Birth: August 1, 1815, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Death: January 6, 1882, Rome, Italy
Language: English
Who he was: American writer; Two Years before the Mast
Included in lists (What's This?): HC; CA; Bloom

Samuel Pepys, English Bureaucrat
(1633-1703)

Just the Facts:

Name: Samuel Pepys
Birth: February 23, 1633, London, England, UK
Death: May 26, 1703, Clapham, London, England, UK
Language: English
Who he was: English naval administrator; Diary of Samuel Pepys

Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along!

Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!

Ivan Bunin, Russian Writer
(1870-1953)

Just the Facts:

Name: Ivan Bunin
Birth: October 22, 1870, Voronezh, Russia
Death: November 8, 1953, Paris, France
Language: Russian
Who he was: Russian writer; The Village; The Life of Arseniev; Cursed Days; Nobel Prize in Literature (1933)
Included in lists (What's This?): GGB (+PGR 3); Bloom

Let's consider this a placeholder as I build out the site.
Once that's done, I'll be back to fill in the details--an essay,
links to online and Amazon books, and more. I'll be posting
updates on Facebook and Twitter. Follow along!

Until I get to it, there's always Wikipedia!

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