Theodore Taylor, author of The Cay and The Trouble with Tuck, was born on June 23, 1921 in North Carolina. He also has published an autobiography 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 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 a couple of years ago for a class I taught at homeschool co-op. It was . . . interesting, existentialist. Anouilh quote: “One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.”