Calendar of Literary Facts
1878
- Carl Sandburg is born
- General William Booth founds the Salvation Army
- Upton Sinclair is born
- John Masefield is born
- William Stanley Braithwaite is born
- Thomas Hardy publishes The Return of the Native
- Edward Thomas is born (March 3)
- Ferenc Molnar is born (January 12)
- William Cullen Bryant dies (June 12)
- Horacio Quiroga is born (December 31)
