Contemporaries

 "It seemed strange and oddly romantic to Gloria that she and this woman [a civil war widow] had been contemporaries." - from The Beautiful and the Damned. Glad to read I'm not the only one who likes to look at who was alive at the same time. Just made a database of my artistic influences so I could look at them in chronology. Here's a small Gantt chart of some of the writers (and Picasso!) I like who have been or are alive during my lifetime. Lit-nerd! I know.