Calendar of Literary Facts

October 14...

1888: Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp (“Katherine Mansfield”) is born

1906: Hannah Arendt is born

1946: Tim O’Brien is born

1961: Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows’s musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is first performed

1965: Randall Jarrell dies

1967: Marcel (Andre) Ayme dies

1982: Howard Sackler dies

1997: Harold Robbins dies

1998: Cleveland Amory dies