Almanac: V.S. Pritchett on best-selling novelists (1)
"One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential." V.S. Pritchett, "Rider Haggard: Still Riding"
Today is Sunday, May 31, 2026 Broadway Baby Birthdays: Matt Cavenaugh Todd McKenney Brooke Shields Gerry McIntyre Lea Thompson Raz Thompson Vicki Sue Robinson Mitch Weissman Gregory Harrison John Bonham Joe Namath James Cahill Ray Aranha Peter Yarrow Jim Hutton Barbara Barrie Richard Morse Denholm Elliott Barbara Pepper George Sklar Don Ameche Nancy Welford Rusty Lane Margalo Gillmore Fred Allen Hal Skelly Barry Conners Hamilton Revelle Emmett C. King John Joy Merle Dandridge Jack Gilpin James Costigan Helen Waddell Walt Whitman