The Diary Review

Andrew Ellicott, one of the most important early surveyors in the United States, was born 270 years ago today. He helped survey borders with...

Edvard Munch, one of Norway’s most famous sons, and the painter of one of the world’s most famous paintings, The Scream , died 80 years ago ...

‘Odd things, like a button drawer. Mean Thing, fishhooks, barbs in your hand. But marbles too. A genius for being agreeable. Junkyard crucif...

‘ I must forget how to write. I must unlearn what has been taught me.’  This is John Wieners, an American beat poet born 90 years ago today,...

‘On way home, at night, an anguish of suffering in the thought that I can never hope to have an intellectual companion at home.’ This is Geo...

Beatrix Potter - author and illustrator of the much-loved Peter Rabbit books - died 80 years ago today. As a teenager and young woman, Potte...

‘The day began with the barber telling me that, as of September 19, we will have to wear a badge bearing the word “Jew,” even six-year-old c...

Today marks the 80th anniversary of the death of E. M. Delafield, a British writer much loved for The Diary of a Provincial Lady , first pub...