Happy 200th Birthday, Charles Dickens!

Today, February 7th 2012, is Charles Dickens' 200th birthday! In honor of this event, and if you're a user of Flickr, we invite you to stop by our Dickens Word Search, now on our Flickr account. You can interact with the puzzle to help find the names of a variety of classic Dickens characters buried in a word maze. Happy Dickens Birthday, one and all!

Happy Birthday, Weldon Kees!

Today, Feb. 24, is the anniversary of the Nebraska native, Weldon Kees' birth; he was born in 1914 in Beatrice. Garrison Keillor began his "Writers' Almanac" this morning with mention of Kees.

You can find out more information about Kees in our Nebraska Author Weldon Kees booklist, and on the web site of the Heritage Room of Nebraska Authors.