Bret Harte

Bret Harte was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he also wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches.

25 August 1836

Born on the same birth day (25 August): Althea Gibson • Arthur Wood (cricketer, born 1898) • Bill Handel • Billy Ray Cyrus • David Alan Basche • Deanna Nolan • Helmut Hasse • Javed Qadeer • John Neal (writer) • Marvin Harrison • Masumi Asano • Rollie Fingers • Shock G • Taslima Nasrin • Tiina Intelmann • Wilhelm von Homburg

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