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 William Gaddis, one of the first and most important post-modern novelists, was born on this date in 1922.

The Gaddis Annotations

 

It's also the centenary of the birth of composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks, born on this date in 1912 in Melbourne, Australia. Her opera Nausicaa (1961), with libretto by Robert Graves, was her most successful work.

Peggy Glanville-Hicks at 100, Music From Other Minds

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