Calendar of Literary Facts
December 17...
1873: Ford Madox Hueffer (later Ford Madox Ford) is born
1903: Erskine Caldwell is born
1904: Sylvia Ashton-Warner is born
1916: Penelope Fitzgerald is born
1919: Ezekiel Mphahlele is born
1957: Dorothy L. Sayers dies
1987: Marguerite Yourcenar dies