Dec 18, 2009

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