Calendar of Literary Facts

January 17...

1600: Pedro Calderón de la Barca is born

1673: Molière dies

1706: Benjamin Franklin is born

1860: Anton Chekhov is born

1902: The Times Literary Supplement, a weekly review of literature and scholarship, begins publication in London

1914: William Stafford is born

1925: Robert Cormier is born

2001: Gregory Corso dies

2002: Camilo José Cela dies