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December 2 Birthday: Georges-Pierre Seurat

Anne — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:41:41 +0000

Georges-Pierre Seurat, artist

Dec. 2, 1859-Mar. 29, 1891

Seurat and La Grande Jatte: Connecting the Dots by Robert Burleigh (Abrams, 2004)

Focused on a single painting by the French painter Seurat, the author weaves in the story of the artist’s life.

Seurat’s masterpiece, Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte was the subject of an exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago.

September 3 Birthday: Bessie Delany

Anne — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:18:40 +0000

Bessie Delany, dentist and author

Sept. 3, 1891- Sept. 25, 1995

Women of Hope: African Americans Who Made a Difference by Joyce Hansen (Scholastic, 1998)

Bessie Delany, who lived to be 104, came to national attention when she and her sister and a New York Times reporter collaborated on the story of her and her sister’s life: Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years. Delany was the second African American woman to become a dentist in NY.

For more information about the Delany sisters, visit a Having Our Say page.

April 23 Birthday: Sergei Prokofiev

Anne — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:28:03 +0000

Sergei Prokofiev, musician

April 23, 1891-March 5, 1953

Lives of the Musicians: Good Times, Bad Times (and What the Neighbors Thought) by Kathleen Krull, illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt (Harcourt, 1993)

The Russian composer of Peter and the Wolf, dreamed of composing from an early age.

“All Prokifiev. All the time,” is how The Prokofiev Page describes itself. Drop by for a biography, photographs, interviews and links.