August 26

Eva Baltasar

Eva Baltasar (born August 26, 1978) Spanish poet and writer

Read more about Eva Baltasar here

Read a review of Baltasar's novel Mammoth here

Watch an interview with Eva Baltasar and Julia Sanches
 here


Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) (born August 26, 1910) Albanian/Macedonian Catholic nun, humanitarian, teacher, 1979 Nobel Peace Prize winner – Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light – The Private Writings of the Saint of Calcutta

Some American nuns recall Moter Teresa here

Mother Teresa accepts her Nobel Prize
 here


Earl Biggers

Earl Biggers (born August 26, 1884) U.S. novelist, playwright - Charlie Chan detective series

Read more about Earl Biggers here


Barbara Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich (born August 26, 1941) U.S. investigative journalist, essayist - Fear of Falling: the Inner Life of the Middle Class (1989)

Read what Ehrenreich thinks about socio-economic classes here

When the social worker confronts her client, or the manager his worker, they do so in an “objectively antagonistic” relationship. The PMC are “salaried mental workers who do not own the means of production and whose major function in the social division of labor may be described broadly as the reproduction of capitalist culture and capitalist class relations.”

Ehrenreich speaks on the topic of joy
 here