Born on this day – James Oliver Curwood:

 

Writer

Conservationist

June 12, 1878 – August 13, 1927

Credits:

Books:

A Gentleman of Courage (1924); Back to God's Country (1920); Baree, Son of Kazan (1917); Commerce on the Great Lakes (1907); Falkner of the Inland Seas (1931); Flower of the North (1912); Glory of Living (1928); God's Country (1921); God's County and the Woman (1915); Great Wilderness Stories (1997); Green Timber (1930); Isobel (1913); Kazan (1914); My Stories That I Like Best (1925); Nomads of the North (1919); Peter God (2005); Son Of A Hero (2004); Son of the Forests (1930); Steele of the Royal Mounted (1911); Swift Lightning (1926); The Alaskan (1922); The Ancient Highway (1925); The Black Hunter (1926); The Country Beyond (1922); The Courage of Captain Plum (1908); The Courage of Marge O'Doone (1918); The Crippled Lady of Peribonka (1929); The Danger Trail (1910); The Fiddling Man (1917); The Flaming Forest (1921); The Gold Hunters (1909); The Golden Snare (1921); The Great Lakes (1909); The Grizzly (1916); The Grizzly King / aka The Bear (1918); The Honor of Her People (1920); The Honor of the Big Snows (1911); The Hunted Woman (1916); The Match (1920); The Mouse (2005); The Plains of Abraham (1928); The River's End (1919); The Strength of Men (1920); The Valley of Silent Men (1920); The Wolf Hunters (1908); The Yellow Back (1920).

Movies and television:

A Captain's Courage (1926); A Fighting Chance (1913); A Flirt's Repentance (1914); A Man, a Girl, and a Lion (1917); A Pound for a Pound (1915); A Study in Tramps (1915); Back to God's Country (1919 / 1927 / 1953); Baree, Son of Kazan (1918 / 1925); Beautiful Belinda (1915); Beauty-Proof (1919); Betty in the Lions' Den (1913); Billy Smoke (1917); Call of the Klondike (1950); Call of the Yukon (1938); Caryl of the Mountains (1914 / 1936); Cats (1915); Clover's Rebellion (1917); Code of the Mounted (1935); Cupid Makes a Bull's Eye (1913); Danger Trail (1917); Dawn on the Great Divide (1942); Diamond Cut Diamond (1913); Duty and the Man (1913); Fangs of the Arctic (1953); Fathers of Men (1916); Fortune's Turn (1913); Four Minutes Late (1914); Galloping Dynamite (1937); Getting a Start in Life (1915); God's Country (1946); God's Country and the Law (1921); God's Country and the Woman (1916 / 1937); Gold Madness (1923); Hearts of Men (1914 / 1928); Her Fighting Chance (1917); His Dominant Passion (1914); His Fight (1914); His Fighting Blood (1915 / 1935); His Lordship Billy Smoke (1913); Husks (1916); I Am the Law (1922); In Defiance of the Law (1914); In the Days of Famine (1915); Isobel or the Trail's End (1920); Jacqueline, or Blazing Barriers (1923); Jan of the Big Snows (1922); Kazan (1921 / 1949); Law of the Timber (1941); Looking Forward (1910); Love's Western Flight (1914); Man's Law (1915); Memories That Haunt (1914); My Neighbor's Wife (1925); 'Neath Canadian Skies (1946); Nikki, Wild Dog of the North (1961); Nomads of the North (1920); North of the Border (1946); Northern Frontier (1935); Northern Patrol (1953); Northwest Territory (1951); Northwest Trail (1945); Paid in Advance (1919); Phantom Patrol (1936); Playing with Fire (1914); Polishing Up (1914); Prejudice of Pierre Marie (1911); Prisoners of the Storm (1926); Rags and the Girl (1915); Retribution (1915); River's End (1930 / 1940); Roaring Six Guns (1937); Rough Riding Rhythm (1937); Saturday Roundup (1951); Second Childhood (1914); Skull and Crown (1935); Snow Dog (1950); Soldiers of Chance (1917); Some Liar (1919); Song of the Trail (1936); Steele of the Royal Mounted (1925); Such a Little Pirate (1918); Tales of the Wild (1994–1995); Tangled Lives (1918); Tentacles of the North (1926); The Alaskan (1924); The Ancient Highway (1925); The Awakening (1915); The Battle of Frenchman's Run (1915); The Bear (1988); The Beauty Hunters (1916); The Broken Silence (1922); The Country Beyond (1926 / 1936); The Courage of Marge O'Doone (1920); The Coyote (1915); The Destroyers (1916); The Dream Girl (1914); The Eugenic Girl (1914); The Fatal Note (1914); The Feudists (1913); The Fifth Man (1914); The Fighting Texan (1937); The Fighting Trooper (1934); The Flaming Forest (1926); The Flashlight (1915); The Flower of the North (1921); The Girl from Porcupine (1921); The Girl Who Wouldn't Quit (1918); The Gods Redeem (1915); The Gold Ship (1916); The Golden Snare (1921); The Great Experiment (1915); The Hawk (1935); The Hunted Woman (1916 / 1925); The Jungle Lovers (1915); The Lady Killer (1915); The Last Man (1916); The Lone Trail (1932); The Lost Millionaire (1913); The Magical World of Disney (1964); The Man from Hell's River (1922); The Man Hater (1914 / 1917); The Midnight Call (1914); The Mystery of Dead Man's Isle (1915); The Mystery of the Seven Chests (1914); The Mystery of the Silver Skull (1913); The Northern Trail (1921); The Old Code (1915 / 1928); The Ordeal (1914); The Pirates (1913); The Poetic Justice of Omar Khan (1915); The Queen of Jungle Land (1915); The Red Blood of Courage (1915 / 1935); The Richest Girl in the World (1915); The River's End (1920); The Silver Trail (1937); The Skull and the Crown (1914); The Slaver (1927); The Sole Survivor (1917); The Soul Master (1917); The Speck on the Wall (1914); The Spirit of the Violin (1915); The Story of the Blood Red Rose (1914); The Strange Case of Princess Khan (1915); The Strange Case of Talmai Lind (1915); The Strength of Men (1913); The Test (1914 / 1935); The Tragedy That Lived (1914); The Trail Beyond (1934); The Treasure of Desert Isle (1913); The Valley of Silent Men (1922); The Vengeance of Rannah (1915); The Wandering Horde (1916); The Warmakers (1913); The Wheels of Fate (1913); The White Mouse (1914 / 1921); The Wilderness Mail (1914); The Wolf Hunters (1926 / 1949); The Yellow-Back (1929); The Young Man Who 'Figgered' (1915); Their Wives' Indiscretion (1913); Thor, Lord of the Jungles (1913); Thou Shalt Not Covet (1916); Till Death Us Do Part (1914); Timber Fury (1950); Timber War (1935); Toll of Sin (1917); Trail of the Yukon (1949); Trails End (1935); Trails of the Wild (1935); Two Women (1914 / 1919); Untamed Justice (1929); Unto Those Who Sin (1916); V debryakh, gde reki begut... (1988); Valley of Terror (1937); Vengeance of Rannah (1936); Venus and Adonis (1914); When the Door Opened (1925); When Women Go on the Warpath; or, Why Jonesville Went Dry (1913); Where the North Begins (1947); Whistling Bullets (1937); Why I Am Here (1913); Wild Horse Round-Up (1936); Wildcat Trooper (1936); Wilderness Mail (1935); Ye Vengeful Vagabonds (1914); Yukon Gold (1952); Yukon Manhunt (1951); Yukon Vengeance (1954).

Recommended reading: The Diary, by Anne Frank (1948)

 

The Diary

by Anne Frank (1948).

Description:

Anne Frank's extraordinary diary, written in the Amsterdam attic where she and her family hid from the Nazis for two years, has become a world classic and a timeless testament to the human spirit. Now, in a new edition enriched by many passages originally withheld by her father, we meet an Anne more real, more human, and more vital than ever. Here she is first and foremost a teenage girl—stubbornly honest, touchingly vulnerable, in love with life. She imparts her deeply secret world of soul-searching and hungering for affection, rebellious clashes with her mother, romance and newly discovered sexuality, and wry, candid observations of her companions. Facing hunger, fear of discovery and death, and the petty frustrations of such confined quarters, Anne writes with adult wisdom and views beyond her years. Her story is that of every teenager, lived out in conditions few teenagers have ever known.

Ursula K. Le Guin, on books:

 

By and large books are mankind's best invention.
– Ursula K. Le Guin.

On this day in music history - The album Hummingbird, by 2002 (2021)

Hummingbird

by 2002

was released on June 11, 2021.

 

On this day in music history - The album Where the Action Is..., by Sue Foley (2002)

Where the Action Is...

by Sue Foley

was released on June 11, 2002.

On this day in movie history - Bronco Billy (1980)

Bronco Billy

directed by Clint Eastwood,

written by Dennis Hackin,

was released in the United States on June 11, 1980.

Music by Snuff Garrett.

Cast:

Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Geoffrey Lewis, Scatman Crothers, Bill McKinney, Sam Bottoms, Dan Vadis, Sierra Pecheur, Walter Barnes, Woodrow Parfrey, Beverlee McKinsey, Doug McGrath, Hank Worden, William Prince, Pam Abbas, Eyde Byrde, Douglas Copsey, John Wesley Elliott Jr., Chuck Hicks, Bob Hoy, Jefferson Jewell, Dawneen Lee, Don Mummert, Lloyd Nelson, George Orrison, Michael Reinbold, Tessa Richarde, Cha Cha Sandoval-McMahon, Valerie Shanks, Sharon Sherlock, James Simmerman, Roger Dale Simmons, Jenny Sternling, Chuck Waters, Jerry Wills, Diablo Dean, Scott Atkins, Alison Eastwood, Kyle Eastwood, Scott Glatt III, Merle Haggard, Danny Jensen, R.C. Keene, Juliette Lewis, David Reed, Thomas Iloe Rose, Arlis Tranmer, George Wendt, Gayla Wilson-Corbin.

On this day in movie history - Night Moves (1975)

Night Moves

directed by Arthur Penn,

written by Alan Sharp,

was released in the United States on June 11, 1975.

Music by Michael Small.

Cast:

Gene Hackman, Susan Clark, Jennifer Warren, Edward Binns, Harris Yulin, Kenneth Mars, Janet Ward, James Woods, Anthony Costello, John Crawford, Melanie Griffith, Ben Archibek.