Born on this day – Bill Hunter:

 

Actor

February 27, 1940 – May 21, 2011

Born on this day – N. Scott Momaday:

 

Writer

February 27, 1934 – January 24, 2024

Awarded the National Medal of Arts by President George W. Bush in 2007.

Credits:

A First American Views His Land (1976); Again the Far Morning (2011); Ancestral Voice (1989); Ancient Child (1989); Angle of Geese and Other Poems (1974); Bringing on the Indians (1971); Circle of Wonder (1993); Colorado (1978); Conversations with N. Scott Momaday (1997); Discovering the Land of Light (1985); Dream Drawings (2022); Earth Keeper (2020); Four Arrows & Magpie (2006); House Made of Dawn (1968); In the Bear's House (1999); In the Presence of the Sun (1992); Meditations (2016); On Bavarian Byways (1986); Sacred Legacy (2000); Storyteller (1992); The American Indian in an Unhappy Hunting Ground (1969); The Best of the West (1991); The Colors of Night (1976); The Death of Sitting Bear (poems);  (2020); The Gourd Dancer (1976); The Journey of Tai-Me (1967); The Man Made of Words (1997); The Names (1976); The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969); The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Thirteenth Annual Collection (2000); Three Plays (2019).

Born on this day – Irwin Shaw:

 

Writer

February 27, 1913 – May 16, 1984

Credits:

50 Great American Short Stories (1963); 50 Great Short Stories (1952); Acceptable Losses (1982); Act of Faith and Other Stories (1946); Arena: Sports Science Fiction (1976); Beggarman, Thief (1977); Bread Upon the Waters (1981); Brooklyn Noir 2 (2005); Bury the Dead (1935); Evening In Byzantium (1973); First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); God Was Here But He Left Early (1973); Great World War II Stories (1989); In the Company of Dolphins (1964); Love on a Dark Street (1965); Lucy Crown (1956); Mixed Company (1950); Nightwork (1975); Paris! Paris! (1977); Points of View (1956); Ready or Not: Here Come Fourteen Frightening Stories! (1987); Retreat (1988); Rich Man, Poor Man (1969); Sailor Off the Bremen and Other Stories (1939); Selected Short Stories of Irwin Shaw (1961); Short Stories (1978); Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century (1954); The Amis Story Anthology (1992); The Top of the Hill (1979); The Troubled Air (1951); The Young Lions (1948); This Was Your War (1960); Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957); Two Weeks In Another Town (1960); Voices of a Summer Day (1951); Welcome to the city and other stories (2002); Whispers In Bedlam (1972); Wonderful Town (2000); Writing New York (1998).

Born on this day – Joan Bennett:

 

Actress

February 27, 1910 – December 7, 1990

Born on this day – John Steinbeck:

 

Writer

February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968

Credits:

Burning Bright (1950); Cannery Row (1945); Cup of Gold (1929); East of Eden (1952); Five Best Sellers (1989); In Dubious Battle (1936); Nothing So Monstrous (1936); Of Mice and Men (1937); Of Mice and Men and Short Stories (1937); Steinbeck Novels and Stories 1932-1937 (1978); Sweet Thursday (1954); The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976); The Forgotten Village (1941); The Gift (1992); The Grapes of Wrath (1939); The Long Valley (1938); The Moon Is Down (1942); The Moon Is Down and Short Stories (1942); The Pastures of Heaven (1932); The Pearl (1948); The Red Pony (1933); The Short Novels of John Steinbeck (1953); The Short Reign of Pippin IV (1957); The Vigilante (2018); The Wayward Bus (1947); The Winter of Our Discontent (1961); To A God Unknown (1933); Tortilla Flat (1935); Viva Zapata (1975); Zapata (1993).

Born on this day – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

 

Writer

February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882

Credits:

Aftermath (1873); Ballads and Other Poems (1841); Christus: A Mystery (1872); Coplas de Don Jorge Manrique (1833); Dante's Divine Comedy (1867); Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847); Flower-de-Luce (1867); Household Poems (1865); Hyperion (1839); ; In the Harbor (1882); Kavanagh (1849); Kéramos and Other Poems (1878); Michel Angelo: A Fragment; Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea (1835); Poems of Places (1874); Poems on Slavery (1842); Poets and Poetry of Europe (1844); Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863); The Arrow and the Song; The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems (1845); The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems (1858); The Divine Tragedy (1871); The Golden Legend (1851); The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi (1863); The Masque of Pandora and Other Poems (1875); The New England Tragedies (1868); The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1852); The Seaside and the Fireside (1850); The Song of Hiawatha (1855); The Spanish Student (1843); The Waif (1845); Three Books of Song (1872); Ultima Thule (1880); Voices of the Night (1839).

Sam Horn, on writing:

I have never met an author who was sorry he or she wrote a book.
They are only sorry they did not write it sooner.

- Sam Horn.