Calendar of Literary Facts
January 13...
1832: Horatio Alger, Jr. is born
1898: Emile Zola publishes his controversial letter "J’Accuse" in a French newspaper, in defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus
1901: A. B. Guthrie Jr. is born
1940: Edmund White is born
1941: James Joyce dies
1951: Frank Peretti is born
1955: Jay McInerney is born
1989: Sterling Brown dies
