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  Rudyard Kipling was an English author famous for an array of works like 'Just So Stories' and 'The Jungle Book.' He received the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize and its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined. Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book, Kim, and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King". His poems include "Mandalay", "Gunga Din", "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If—“. He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of c...

  Adler long strove to bring philosophy to the masses, and some of his works (such as How to Read a Book) became popular bestsellers. He was also an advocate of economic democracy and wrote an influential preface to Louis O. Kelso's The Capitalist Manifesto.    Great Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952, by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., to present the Great Books in a 54-volume set.  The original editors had three criteria for including a book in the series: the book must be relevant to contemporary matters, and not only important in its historical context; it must be rewarding to re-read; and it must be a part of "the great conversation about the great ideas", relevant to at least 25 of the 102 great ideas identified by the editors. The books were not chosen based on ethnic and cultural inclusiveness, historical influence, or the editors' agreement with the views expressed by the authors.  FOOD F...

  TODAY IN LITERARY HISTORY:  Horror writer Shirley Jackson was born. [1916] This American author has influenced a raft of later writers, especially in the horror genre, including Stephen King, Richard Matheson, and Neil Gaiman. Her short story ‘The Lottery’ has been widely acclaimed, and her 1959 novel The Haunting of Hill House is viewed as one of the best ghost stories published in the twentieth century.   On June 26, 1948, subscribers to The New Yorker received a new issue of the magazine in the mail. There was nothing to outwardly indicate that it would be any different, or any more special, than any other issue. But inside was a story that editors at the magazine would, more than half a century later, call “perhaps the most controversial short story The New Yorker has ever published”: Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery.” Though now a classic, the story—about a small New England village whose residents follow an annual rite in which they draw slips of paper...