Calendar of Literary Facts
December 12...
1821: Gustave Flaubert is born
1889: Robert Browning dies
1905: Mulk Raj Anand is born
1911: Naguib Mahfouz is born
1928: Chingiz (Torekulovich) Aitmatov is born
1929: John Osborne is born
1995: Andrew Lytle dies
1999: Joseph Heller dies