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June 16		Oates, Reap & Sow
		On this day in 1938 Joyce Carol Oates was born. She began making picture stories with pretend writing at age three -- "complicated narratives," she says, many done on the backs of her father's sheets of sandpaper. Today she has over a hundred books published, and she continues to turn out two and sometimes four books a year, in almost all genres.
June 15		Joyce, Dublin, Dubliners
		On this day in 1914 James Joyce's Dubliners was published, a much-delayed and highly-contested event which took "nine years of my life." Joyce said he merely wished to give the Irish "one good look at themselves in my nicely polished looking-glass," and that it wasn't his fault "that the odour of ashpits and old weeds and offal hangs round my stories."
June 14		Being and Not Being There
		On this day in 1933 Jerzy Kosinski was born, as Jerzy Lewinkopf, in Lodz, Poland. Kosinski's father changed the family name at the beginning of WWII in an effort to escape persecution as a Jew. As described later in Kosinski's international best-seller, The Painted Bird, this plan went horribly wrong -- and then decades later stories began to surface that it and other aspects of Kosinski's life didn't happen at all.