Memoirist John Howard Griffin

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John Howard Griffin

Living place: Texas

Birthday: 16-6-1920 (104 years old)

Population of US 1920: 106,461,000

Global rank: #58754

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Who is Memoirist John Howard Griffin?
Texas-born author and journalist of race-themed justice works. He is best remembered for Black Like Me, a 1960 year-old memoir posing as an African-American in South America.
His early literary works, published in the 1950s, included The Devil Rides Outside, Land of the High Sky, and Nuni.
 
 

Young / Before famous

After studying French at the University of Poitiers and medicine at the French Ecole de medicine, he served in the Battle of the Pacific during World War II as a member of the United States Army Air Force.

Family life info

He was raised in Dallas, Texas by John Griffin and pianist Lena Griffin. His marriage to Elizabeth Ann Holland produced four children and lasted from 1953 until his death in 1980.

Close relationship

Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Memoirist John Howard Griffin?
Actor James Whitmore starred in the 1964 version of Griffin's memoir, Black Like Me.

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When was Memoirist John Howard Griffin born?
John Howard Griffin birthday 16-6-1920 (at the age of 104).
Where is Memoirist John Howard Griffin's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
John Howard Griffin was born in Texas, . is a Memoirist, whose Zodiac is Gemini, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Monkey. John Howard Griffin's global rank is 58754 and whose rank is 30 in list of famous Memoirist. Population of US in 1920 is about 106,461,000 persons.
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Events in 1920 and 16-6

Events in US in the birth year of John Howard Griffin

  • Women's suffrage goes into effect following Tennessee's ratification of the 19th amendment (Aug. 26).
  • Factory worker Nicola Sacco and fish peddler Bartolomeo Vanzetti are picked up by police (May 5) in connection with an April 15 murder and robbery in South Braintree, Mass.
  • A bomb explodes in the J.P. Morgan bank building in New York City, killing 30 and injuring 200 (Sept. 16).

Birthday John Howard Griffin (16-6) in history

  • Day 16-6 year 1487: The Battle of Stoke is over, and it is the final battle of the "War of the Roses", lasting 30 years.
  • Day 16-6 year 1858: Senate candidate Abraham Lincoln declared, "a house divided against itself cannot stand."
  • Day 16-6 year 1904: Events in James Joyce's novel Ulysses took place on this day, which is celebrated as Bloomsday, for the main character, Leopold Bloom.
  • Day 16-6 year 1933: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Industrial Recovery Act.
  • Day 16-6 year 1963: Valentina Tereshkova of the USSR became the first woman in space.
  • Day 16-6 year 1996: Russia voted in its first independent presidential election. Boris Yeltsin eventually won in a runoff.
  • Day 16-6 year 2004: The 9/11 Commission determined that Saddam Hussein had no strong links to al-Qaeda, contradicting White House beliefs.
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