More of the Muser’s favorite authors:  John Angus McPhee (born 1931)  Clive Staples Lewis (1898-1963)  Gabriel García Márquez (1931)  Richard George Adams (1920-2016) George Eliot (1819–1880)  Franz Kafka  (1883–1924)  John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) 

John Arthur Lithgow (born October 19, 1945) is an American actor.  He studied at Harvard University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before becoming known for his diverse work on stage and screen.  He has received numerous accolades including six Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Tony Awards as well as nominations for two Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and four Grammy Awards.  Lithgow has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2001 and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2005.  Lithgow launched into a career as a recording artist with Singin' in the Bathtub, a 1999 album of children's music.  In June 2002, Lithgow released his second children's album Farkle and Friends; however, Waylon Jennings died four months before its release, and it was dedicated to his memory.  It was the musical companion to his book The Remarkable Farkle McBride, which tells the story of a young musical genius.  Farkle and Friends features the vocal talents of Lithgow and Bebe Neuwirth, backed by the Bill Elliott Swing Orchestra as well.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lithgow   His last name is pronounced LITH-go.   

The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded October 9, 2024 to South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel committee called “her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”  Han, 53, won the International Booker Prize in 2016 for “The Vegetarian,” an unsettling novel in which a woman’s decision to stop eating meat has devastating consequences.  https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/nobel-prize-literature-awarded-south-korea-author-han-kang-rcna174811   

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton received the Nobel Prize in Physics for their research in machine learning with artificial neural networks.  Find listings for 2024 at https://www.nobelprize.org/all-nobel-prizes-2024/    

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson for their studies of global inequality.   

http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com  Issue 2865  October 16, 2024