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of historical trivia regarding books, cats, and other animals. Actually this blog has evolved so that it is described better as a blog about cats in history and culture. And we take as a theme the advice of Aldous Huxley: If you want to be a writer, get some cats. Don't forget to see the archived articles linked at the bottom of the page.

March 23, 2013

March 23, 1968

Edwin O'Connor (July 29, 1918 to March 23, 1968) was a Pultizer Prize winning American novelist.
After graduating from Notre Dame, this Rhode Island native worked as a television reviewer and radio announcer. His novel, The Last Hurrah (1956). was also made into a movie, for which he wrote the screen play. His book,The Edge of Sadness (1961). includes this appercu---

What do you say about a child's drawing.... to the child....Without looking foolish? For of all artists children are the most openly contemptuous of misinterpretation...[T]he gray blob one supposes to be a cow is always a cat.

The Edge of Sadness, which limned Irish American and Catholic milieus, won the 1962 Pulitzer for fiction.
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