HUGH J. M'NALLY
Date: 04 April 1948
McNally, Hugh J
Dan Simmons Birthday, Date of Birth
Dan Simmons (Peoria (Illinois), 4 april 1948) is een Amerikaanse schrijver van sciencefiction, fantasy en horror.
Simmons was 17 jaar lang leraar lager onderwijs, voordat hij zich fulltime op het schrijven richtte. Met het eerste verhaal dat hij publiceerde in 1982, won hij een literatuurprijs. Sindsdien heeft hij vele andere prijzen gewonnen, waarvan de belangrijkste de Hugo Award voor Hyperion is (uitgereikt in augustus 1990 tijdens de 48e World Science Fiction Convention in het Nederlands Congres Centrum te Den Haag). Dit is trouwens het eerste deel van zijn meest bekende werk, de space opera tetralogie De Hyperion Canto's, waarvan de andere delen De Ondergang van Hyperion (The Fall of Hyperion), Endymion en De opkomst van Endymion (The Rise of Endymion) zijn.
In 2003 is hij met Ilium aan een nieuw epos begonnen, dat in 2005 vervolledigd werd met Olympos. Deze boeken combineren elementen uit The Tempest van Shakespeare en À la Recherche du Temps Perdu van Marcel Proust met de Ilias van Homerus. Simmons zal bij de verfilming van dit werk trouwens producer zijn.
Read more...- Birthday, Date of Birth
- Sunday, April 4, 1948
- Place of Birth
- United States
- Age
- 77
- Star Sign
- ♈
The April 4, 1948 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♈. It was the 94 day of the year. President of the United States was Harry S. Truman.
If you were born on this day, you are 77 years old. Your last birthday was on the Friday, April 4, 2025, 213 days ago. Your next birthday is on Saturday, April 4, 2026, in 151 days. You have lived for 28,337 days, or about 680,098 hours, or about 40,805,916 minutes, or about 2,448,354,960 seconds.
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4th of April 1948 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on April 4, 1948
The Men Who Set the Soviet 'Line'
Date: 04 April 1948
By H. E. SALISBURY
H. SALISBURY
Article on USSR Politburo members
Trials of the Genocides -- From the Official Records; TRIAL OF THE MAJOR WAR CRIMINALS BEFORE THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL: Official Text in the English Language. Volumes 1-6. Nuremberg, Germany: The International Military Tribunal. Distributed by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C. $50 per set of 37 vols.
Date: 04 April 1948
By BENJAMIN KAPLAN
Benjamin KAPLAN
books on trials revd
U.S. PROTESTS ON PLAY; Russians Offer 'Deep Are Roots' in Berlin Without Permission
Date: 05 April 1948
Deep Are the Roots, by J Gow and A d'Usseau: US Information Control Dept protest to USSR authorities against unauthorized performance, Berlin
News of Food; Celery Among Plentiful Vegetables; Two Ways ot Preparing It Are Offered
Date: 05 April 1948
HONG KONG EXILES COMBAT NANKING; Reds, Kuomintang Rebels and the Democratic League Agitate for Chiang's Fall
Date: 04 April 1948
By TILLMAN DURDIN
Tillman DURDIN
Pol exiles reptd using Hong Kong as base for organizing opposition to Govt; Dem League leaders restore organization; abandon policy of changing Govt by peaceful means; Communist influence revd
Old-Fashioned Editor; PARK BENJAMIN: Poet and Editor. By Merle M. Hoover. 229 pp. New York: Columbia University Press. $3.
Date: 04 April 1948
By MAXWELL GEISMAR
Maxwell GEISMAR
Hoover, M M: Park Benjamin; Poems of Park Benjamin; Genealogy of Park Benjamin
VATICAN PAPER SEES FAKE IN RED CHARGE
Date: 04 April 1948
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES
documents published by Left-Wing press alleging proof of Vatican control over Premier de Gasperi called lie by Vatican l'Osservatore Romano
Italy Parades Army in Cities As Warning to Communists; ROME COMMUNISTS WARNED BY PARADE
Date: 05 April 1948
By ARNALDO CORTESI
Arnaldo CORTESI
mil rev held, Rome, as warning to Communists against revolt; 25,000 troops march; illus; Left-Wing attempt to appease Cath Ch seen; Communist pol rally broken up, Gorizia