Friday, March 03, 2023

People I used to talk about in my classes in Burma--Edward Jenner

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220213-britains-miraculous-life-saving-garden-shed My mother caught smallpox as an infant and was forever scarred physically and mentally. Her elder sister died. Vaccination had been invented but had not reached Burma in 1910. km 3-3-2023

Oh--my big mistake--The White Countess was written by Nobel Laureate

Kazao Ishiguru, whom I met once at a book signing in Philadelphia, way back in the 1990s. And it's not Liam Neeson--it's Ralph Fien...