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November 7		Janet Flanner, France
		On this day in 1978 Janet Flanner died. Her bi-weekly "Letter From Paris" was published in The New Yorker for a half-century, and then collected in the award-winning Paris Journal and other volumes. They offer a better and more reliable alternative to such memoirs as Hemingway's A Moveable Feast, from one close to several Lost Generations, and closer to France.
November 6		Robert Frost's Dismal Swamp
		On this day in 1894 twenty-year-old Robert Frost departed for the Dismal Swamp on the Virginia-North Carolina border. He was poor, jobless, unpublished, expelled from Dartmouth College, and recently spurned by his high school sweetheart. Adding it all up, Frost packed a small bag, took a train to New York, a steamer to Virginia, and began walking into a soggy heart of darkness.
November 5		Early Sam Shepard
		On this day in 1943 Sam Shepard was born. Shepard's father was an air force pilot, and years of moving base to base made an impression, if not a theme for the early plays: "I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in.... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself."