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Events with high posterior probability

Isaak Babel	In a 1928 letter to his White emigre father, Boris Pasternak wrote,'' Yesterday, I read Sunset, a play by Babel, and almost for the first time in my life I found that Jewry, as an ethnic fact, was a phenomenon of positive, unproblematic importance and power... I should like you to read this remarkable play...'' According to Pirozhkova, filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein was also an admirer of Sunset and often compared it to the writings of Émile Zola for,'' illuminating capitalist relationships through the experience of a single family.''
Emily Dickinson	MacGregor (Mac) Jenkins, the son of family friends who later wrote a short article in 1891 called'' A Child's Recollection of Emily Dickinson'', thought of her as always offering support to the neighborhood children.
Remy de Gourmont	In 1910, de Gourmont met Natalie Clifford Barney, to whom he dedicated his Lettres à l'Amazone (Letters to the Amazon).
Richard Burton	It was published in 1968, and is written in the tradition of A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas -- an author Burton refers to in his first sentence, which begins, `` There were not many white Christmases in our part of Wales in my childhood...'' Burton was married five times and he had four children.
Charlotte Bront?	Thackeray's daughter, writer Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie recalled a visit to her father by Charlotte : George Richmond (painter) | George Richmond Charlotte's friendship with Elizabeth Gaskell, whilst not necessarily close, was significant in that Gaskell wrote Charlotte's biography after her death in 1855.
Gertrude Stein	Sherwood Anderson in his public introduction to Stein's 1922 publication of Geography and Plays wrote : In a private letter to his brother Karl, Anderson said,'' As for Stein, I do not think her too important.
Dinah Manoff	In celebration of the poet Oscar Wilde's 150th birthday in 2004, Manoff read some of his works in the documentary Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde.
Robert Maheu	As part of the struggle to get rid of Maheu, Hughes wrote a manuscript letter to Davis and Gay which was published in facsimile by Life in January 1971 ; this publication provided Clifford Irving with a sample of Hughes' handwriting which he later used to attempt to forge Hughes' autobiography.
Paul Ekman	Encouraged by his college friend and teacher Silvan S. Tomkins Ekman wrote his famous book,'' Telling Lies'' and published it in 1985.
John Cowper Powys	It was not until 1915 that he published his first novel, Wood and Stone, which was dedicated to Thomas Hardy.
Robbie Ross	In 1893, a few years before Wilde's imprisonment for homosexuality, Ross had a sexual relationship with a boy of sixteen, the son of friends.
Geoffrey Hill	On these walks he often carried with him Oscar Williams' A Little Treasury of Modern Poetry (1946), and Hill speculates :'' there was probably a time when I knew every poem in that anthology by heart.''
Malcolm Pasley	Following is the outline of the academic career of Sir Malcolm Pasley : Sir Malcolm Pasley was married in 1965 to Virginia Wait they had two sons : Pasley wrote of many German authors, with his initial works on the German language, Nietzsche in particular, gaining him much fame.
Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe	She showed her love for Poe in an acrostic poem she composed when she was 23, dated February 14, 1846 : thumb | right | Virginia's handwritten Valentine's day | Valentine poem to her husband <poem> : Ever with thee I wish to roam -- : Dearest my life is thine.
Ken Grimwood	Towards the end of his life, Grimwood maintained a brief email correspondence with Hellboy screenwriter Peter Briggs, whom he contacted after seeing Briggs' review of Replay on the book's Amazon feedback page, revealed in an interview with Briggs in 2004.
Vernon Watkins	The 1983 book Portrait of a Friend by Watkins' wife Gwen (doline) (née Davies) deals with the relationship.
Bhikaiji Cama	It has been speculated that this moment may have been an inspiration to African American writer and intellectual W. E. B. Du Bois in writing his 1928 novel Dark Princess.
Robert Nye	In 1990 Nye's novel The Life and Death of My Lord Gilles de Rais was published by Hamish Hamilton and is considered by many to be the author's masterpiece.
Ethel Whibley	In correspondence Beatrix Whistler was referred to a' Trixie' or' Chinkie' ; his sister-in-law and secretary (1890 -- 94) Ethel Whibley was' Bunnie' ; his brother-in-law Charles Whibley was' Wobbles' ; his sister-in-law and secretary Rosalind Birnie Philip (the' Major') ; with Whistler signing family correspondence as' the' General' where he did not sign with his butterfly signature.
William McNab (botanist)	His Father, James McNab, was also an accomplished scientist, also a Botanist he was the previous horticulturist and principal gardener at the Royal Botanic Garden In 1877 William Robinson described his father as being :'' among the faithful few who never deserted the beautiful hardy flora of our gardens for the famous red and yellow streaks that sometimes disfigure even our great botanic gardens.
Henri Fauconnier	His friend Jacques Boutelleau (who would later be known under the pen name Jacques Chardonne following the publication of The Epithalame in 1921) came every day.
Patrick Pearse	Maxwell also suppressed a letter from Pearse to his mother, and two poems dated 1 May 1916.
Oscar Wilde	Douglas soon dragged Wilde into the Victorian underground of gay prostitution and Wilde was introduced to a series of young, working class, male prostitutes from 1892 onwards by Alfred Taylor.
Jenny Sullivan	Jenny wrote the play J for J (Journals for John) which was prompted after she found a packet of unsent letters (in 1995) written by Barry decades earlier to her older brother, Johnny, who was mentally disabled.
Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson	By her own account in the aforementioned 1890 letter to Higginson, Susan describes how she had imagined a volume of Emily's writings with `` many bits of her prose-passages from early letters quite surpassing the correspondence of of Gunderodi -LSB- e -RSB- with Bettine -LSB- von Arnim -RSB- -LSB- a romantic friendship celebrated by Goethe -RSB-... -LSB- using -RSB- quaint bits to my children... Of course I should have forestalled criticism by only printing them.''
Anatol E. Baconsky	Unusual episodes involving Baconsky's death were reported by two of his writer friends, Octavian Paler and Petre Stoica -- Paler recalled that the only book to have fallen out of his shelf during the 1977 earthquake was Remember ; Stoica told a similar story involving a painting that Baconsky had made, and which he had received as a gift.
Catherine Carswell	Neither of her first two books had brought her fame or fortune and she became only well known after finishing a controversial biography of Scotland's national poet Robert Burns in 1930.
Carina Burman	Her first,'' Min salig bror Jean Hendrich'' (1993) deals with Johan Henric Kellgren from the point of view of his brother and his mistress in a series of letters.
John Fitzgerald (poet)	FitzGerald remained in close touch with Lewis until the latter's death in 1985, dedicating his first book of poetry'' i SL am agor drws a ffenestri'','' to SL for opening a door and windows''.
Irving Kane Pond	In 1918, he wrote the following in the dedication to his book, The Meaning of Architecture :'' This book is dedicated to my brother -- my lifelong companion and partner Allen Bartlit Pond.
Harry Bates (author)	Under the pseudonym of Anthony Gilmore, Harry Bates wrote the following stories in the Hawk Carse series with Desmond W. Hall, collected in Space Hawk : The Greatest of Interplanetary Adventurers (New York : Greenberg, 1952) : Boucher and McComas described the 1952 collection as'' strongly commended to all connoisseurs of prose so outrageously bad as to reach its own kind of greatness.''
Oscar Wilde	Frank Harris, his friend and editor, wrote a biography, Oscar Wilde : His Life and Confessions (1916) ; though prone to exaggeration and sometimes factually inaccurate, it offers a good literary portrait of Wilde.
Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie	To the memory of the former of these he afterwards paid a graceful tribute in a biographical sketch (Fortnightly Review, February 1881) ; and to the close of his life there existed between him and M. de Laveleye relations of mutual esteem and cordial intimacy.
Catherine Carswell	During the autumn of 1916 she had nearly finished the work on her novel and she exchanged lengthy letters about it with Lawrence, who in return asked her for advice with his newest novel, Women in Love.
Max Ernst	In 1927 Ernst married Marie-Berthe Aurenche, and it is thought his relationship with her may have inspired the erotic subject matter of The Kiss and other works of that year.
Clifford Irving	In 1970, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Irving met with an author of children's books and old friend, Richard Suskind, and created the scheme to write Hughes's'' autobiography''.
John Berger	In 1958, Berger published his first novel, A Painter of Our Time, which tells the story of the disappearance of Janos Lavin, a fictional exiled Hungarian painter, and his diary's discovery by an art critic friend called John.
Marlen Haushofer	In a letter written to a friend in 1961, Marlen describes the difficulty with its composition : I am writing on my novel and everything is very cumbersome because I never have much time and, mainly, because I can not embarrass myself.
Reginald Bathurst Birch	He was best known for his depiction of the titular hero of Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1886 novel Little Lord Fauntleroy, which started a craze in juvenile fashion.
Ellen Glasgow	In The Woman Within (1954), an autobiography written for posthumous publication, Glasgow tells of a long, secret affair with a married man she had met in New York, whom she called'' Gerald B.'' Ellen also maintained a close lifelong friendship with James Branch Cabell, another notable Richmond writer.
Leonard Bahr	As an artist, professor, father, and husband (of Florence E. Riefle, whom he married in 1934), Leonard was a humble man who saw the best in most people and sought the understanding of higher truth to life's situations and challenges.
Ted G?rdestad	Also in 2005, as mentioned above, Ted's brother Kenneth wrote a biography about Ted's life called Jag vill ha en egen måne, named after Ted's breakthrough single.
August Strindberg	In 1884 Strindberg wrote a collection of short stories, Getting Married, that presented women in an egalitarian light and for which he was tried for and acquitted of blasphemy in Sweden.
Anna Akhmatova	Olga Della-Vos-Kardovskaya, 1914 Akhmatova had a relationship with the mosaic artist and poet Boris Anrep ; many of her poems in the period are about him and he in turn created mosaics in which she is featured.
Henry Williamson	In 1950, the year his only child by this marriage Harry Williamson was born, he edited a collection of poems and short stories by James Farrar, a promising young poet who had died, at the age of 20, in the Second World War.
Roland Merullo	Leaving Losapas, Merullo's first novel, was published by Houghton Mifflin in 1991 and named a B. Dalton Discovery Series Choice.
Loree Rackstraw	In 2009, Rackstraw published Love As Always, Kurt : Vonnegut As I Knew Him, a literary memoir detailing her long-term friendship with Kurt Vonnegut, as well as her responses, as a literary critic, to his work.
Seo Jeong-ju	Seo Jeongju Poems (Seo Jeongju siseon), published in 1956, contains such poems as `` By the Thawing Han River'' (Pullineun hangang ga-aeseo) and `` Sangni Gwawon'' (Sangni gwawon) that sing of a certain reconciliation between nature and han, a deep-seated sense of grief, as well as the poems `` Crane'' (Hak) and `` A Prayer'' (Gido) that shows the poet's artistic maturity and his capacity for self-perception.
Charles Rawden Maclean	In these writings, Maclean was referred to as John Ross, possibly a nickname on account of his ginger hair, In 1825 Isaacs was apprenticed to serve on the 150 ton brig, The Mary under Lieutenant King.
Rebecca West	In September 1912 West accused the famously libertine writer H. G. Wells of being'' the Old Maid among novelists'' in a provocative review in Freewoman of his novel Marriage.
Maxwell Perkins	Perkins last discovery was Marguerite Young, who started her mammoth Miss MacIntosh, My Darling in 1947 with his encouragement, signing a contract in 1947 based on her 40 page manuscript.
Oscar Wilde	In 1954 Vyvyan Holland published his memoir Son of Oscar Wilde, which recounts the difficulties Wilde's wife and children faced after his imprisonment.
John Cheever	An early draft of'' The Day the Pig Fell into the Well'' -- a long story with elaborate Chekhovian nuances, meant to'' operate something like a rondo,'' as Cheever wrote to his friend and New Yorker editor William Maxwell -- was completed in 1949, though the magazine did not make space for it until five years later.
John McCrae	McCrae's friend and former student, Lt. Alexis Helmer, was killed in the battle, and his burial inspired the poem,'' In Flanders Fields'', which was written on May 3, 1915 and first published in the magazine Punch.
Ernest Dowson	In 1889, aged 23, Dowson fell in love with the eleven-year-old Adelaide'' Missie'' Foltinowicz, daughter of a Polish restaurant owner ; she is reputed to have been the subject of one his best-known poems, Non Sum Qualis eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae.
Robert Shelton (critic)	Shelton spent decades writing and rewriting his Dylan opus, No Direction Home, The Life and Music of Bob Dylan which was published in 1986, following years of wrangling with publishers over taste and length.
Nathaniel Parker Willis	Still, in 1835 Willis was popular enough to introduce Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to important literary figures in England, including Ada Byron, daughter of Lord Byron.
Tom Gordon	His popularity in Boston at this point led New England - based writer and Red Sox fan Stephen King to reference him as the object of infatuation for the young protagonist of the 1999 novel The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.
Maxwell Perkins	Nonetheless, Perkins remained Fitzgerald's friend to the end of Fitzgerald's short life, in addition to his editorial relationship with the author, particularly evidenced in The Great Gatsby (1925), his masterpiece, which benefited substantially from Perkins' criticism.
Julius Beerbohm	In a volume of reminiscences collected on the death of Herbert Beerbohm Tree by Max Beerbohm, Herbert's widow Helen Maud Tree recalled Julius :'' It was in the autumn of 1882 that I first met Julius, (Herbert's younger brother (Max, their half-brother was then a little boy of ten).
William John Fitzpatrick	In 1895, shortly before his death, he published anonymously Memories of Father -LSB- James -RSB- Healy, the well-known wit ; but the book was quite unworthy of its subject, partly from the difficulty of communicating the subtle charm of Healy's personality to the printed page, and partly from the writer's defective sense of humour.
Gertrude Stein	Faÿ had been the primary translator of Stein's work into French and subsequently masterminded her 1933 -- 34 American book tour, which gave Stein celebrity status and proved to be a highly successful promotion of her memoir,'' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.''
John Gray (poet)	Wilde's trial appears to have prompted some intense soul-searching in Gray and he re-embraced Catholicism in 1895.
Howard Brenton	In 2008 most theatre critics expressed surprise that Brenton, long a political firebrand of the hard Left, author with Tariq Ali of several anti-establishment squibs, had written a biographical play about Harold Macmillan, Never So Good at the National Theatre, that seemed wholly sympathetic to the former Tory prime minister.
W. H. Davies	Later Days, the 1925 sequel to The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp, describes the beginnings of Davies' career as a writer and his acquaintance with Belloc, Shaw and de la Mare, amongst many others.
George Moore (novelist)	Gertrude Stein mentions Moore in her The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933), describing him as' a very prosperous Mellon's Food baby'.
Oscar Wilde	Later, in Oscar Wilde : A Summing Up (1939) and his Autobiography he was more sympathetic to Wilde.
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia	I am so afr (aid) that S. I. (governess Sofia Ivanovna Tyutcheva) can speak... about our friend something bad,'' Anastasia's twelve-year-old sister Tatiana wrote to their mother on March 8, 1910.''
Alfred Rupert Hall	As David Knight ends the obituary to Rupert Hall published in The Guardian in 2009 :'' Rupert and Marie were inseparable and devoted ; she died 18 days after him.
Galway Kinnell	Kinnell wrote two elegies for his close friend, the poet James Wright, upon the latter's death in 1980.
George William Kinman	Two letters from Headmaster George Kinman to Wallace's son William, are kept in the Natural History Museum The first, dated 19 July 1916, reads, I shall be very glad indeed to have the pictures mentioned in your letter, whether Dr Wallace painted them himself or not.
Lana Wood	In 2002, Wood cooperated with author Suzanne Finstad for the book Natasha : The Biography of Natalie Wood (ISBN 0609809571), which contained controversial allegations that her former brother-in-law Wagner is a closeted homosexual and was responsible for her sister's death.
Bela Borsody Bevilaqua	Bela Borsody Bevilaqua's letters from Krakow, where he was garrisoned as an officer in 1916, addressed to his friend, the author and poet Artúr Keleti, were also signed by a certain lady called Lolly, who appeared as `` Mrs. Bevilaqua'' in her signature at the end of November.
Alphonse Royer	Little has been written about Royer's personal life, although Fritz H. Eisner in his analysis of four letters by Heinrich Heine, describes one of them (circa 1843) as'' written to Dolores Royer, the wife of Heine's friend Alphonse Royer''.
Pauline Marie Armande Craven	In 1828 her father was sent to Rome, and Pauline, at the suggestion of the art critic Alexis Rio, made her first literary essay with a description of the emotions that she experienced on a visit to the catacombs.
Lawrence Durrell	Around this time, he chanced upon a copy of Henry Miller's 1934 novel Tropic of Cancer, and wrote to Miller, expressing intense admiration for his novel.
Robert Lowell	In a 1962 interview, Sylvia Plath stated that Life Studies had influenced the poetry she was writing at that time (and which her husband, Ted Hughes, would publish posthumously as Ariel a few years later) :'' I've been very excited by what I feel is the new breakthrough that came with, say, Robert Lowell's Life Studies, this intense breakthrough into very serious, very personal, emotional experience which I feel has been partly taboo.
Aleister Crowley	In early 1912, Crowley published The Book of Lies, a work of mysticism that biographer Lawrence Sutin described as'' his greatest success in merging his talents as poet, scholar, and magus''.
James Emerson Tennent	He was a friend of both Charles Dickens and Dickens's biographer John Forster, and was the dedicatee of Dickens's last completed novel Our Mutual Friend (1865).
Robert Edmund Strahorn	In 1911, Dell's publication of `` Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage'' contributed greatly to Robert's success in Spokane.
Alfred Ludlam	Still extant is a vivid description of the earthquake and its destructive impact on the Wellington region, written by Alfred Ludlam to Sir David in a lengthy private letter dated 8 March 1855.
George Haven Putnam	In 1884, Putnam hired the then twenty-six-year old Theodore Roosevelt as a special partner who in the ensuing years would write several works published by Putnam.
Lord Alfred Douglas	More than a decade after Wilde's death, with the release of suppressed portions of Wilde's De Profundis letter in 1912, Douglas turned against his former friend, whose homosexuality he grew to condemn.
Fyodor Tyutchev	The death of Eleonore in 1838 hit Tyutchev hard and appears to have silenced him as a poet for some considerable time : for ten years afterwards he wrote hardly any lyric verse.
Sophia of Nassau	The marital crisis was observed and mentioned by her closets surrounding, and during a trip on the continent in 1876, Sophia sent Oscar what she referred to as a farewell letter.
Arthur Desmond	Henry Lawson composed a poem which appeared in the New Zealand periodical Fair Play in Wellington on 30 Dec 1893 in defense of Desmond in December 1893, which reads in part : ARTHUR DESMOND They are stoning Arthur Desmond, and, of course its understood By the people of New Zealand that he is n't any good.
John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry	In February 1895, angered by the apparent ongoing homosexual relationship between author Oscar Wilde and his son Alfred, Queensberry called Wilde a'' somdomite'' (sic) in handwriting on a visiting card at Wilde's club.
Douglas Cleverdon	In 1954 Cleverdon produced Under Milk Wood, the premier of the Dylan Thomas dramatic poem ; according to Jenny Abramsky it had taken seven years to persuade Thomas to write it.
Lord Alfred Douglas	Said to be a roman a clef based on the relationship of Wilde and Douglas, it would be one of the texts used against Wilde during his trials in 1895.
Rosine Guiterman	In 1949, despite her full time work as a teacher and social activist, she found time to write a book, Harriet Newcomb and Margaret Hodge : A Short Account of Two Pioneers in Education, in order to help to keep alive the memory of two early feminists and educators.
Calum Maclean	An entry from a diary, which he wrote in Gaelic, gives an insight into his work as an ethnographer at this time : Thòisich mise, Calum I. Mac Gille Eathain, a' cruinneachadh beul-airthris agus litreachas beóil ann an eilean Ratharsair am paraiste Phort-righeadh anns an Eilean Sgitheanach air an 19mh lá de'n Dùdhlachd (Nodhlaig) 1945.
Fleeming Jenkin	In 1869 he wrote, People may write novels, and other people may write poems, but not a man or woman among them can say how happy a man can be who is desperately in love with his wife after ten years of marriage.
Allegra Byron	In an 1818 letter to his half-sister Augusta Leigh, Byron wrote that'' She is very pretty -- remarkably intelligent... She has very blue eyes -- that singular forehead -- fair curly hair -- and a devil of a spirit -- but that is Papa's.''
Barry Sullivan (actor)	His daughter Jenny Sullivan wrote the play J for J (Journals for John) after she found a packet of unsent letters (in 1995) written by Barry decades earlier to her older brother, Johnny, who was mentally disabled.
Lewis Marnell	In his Skateboarder magazine tribute from the April/May 2013 issue, Craig concluded by stating :'' He was a great man, husband, son, brother, uncle, mentor, friend, and skateboarder.
Thomas Walsh (miner)	In 1896, he came home and uttered the words which later became the title of his daughter's book,'' Daughter, I've struck it rich !''
James Joyce	In 1900 his laudatory review of Henrik Ibsen's When We Dead Awaken was published in Fortnightly Review ; it was his first publication and, after learning basic Norwegian to send a fan letter to Ibsen, he received a letter of thanks from the dramatist.
Frankie Lymon	One day in 1955, a neighbor gave The Premiers several love letters that had been written to him by his girlfriend, with the hopes that he could give the boys inspiration to write their own songs.
Edward FitzGerald (poet)	The marriage was evidently a disaster, probably due to Edward's sexual leanings, for the couple separated after only a few months, despite having known each other for many years, including collaborating on a book about her father's works in 1849.
Hugh Walpole	Among A C Benson's literary friends was Henry James, and with Benson's encouragement Walpole wrote James a fan letter in late 1908.