Dec 24, 2009

Calendar of Literary Facts

January 25...

1640: Robert Burton dies

1759: Robert Burns is born

1882: Virginia Stephen (Virginia Woolf) is born

1933: Alden Nowlan is born

1950: George Orwell dies

1961: Jonathan Larson is born

1996: Jonathan Larson dies, the day before the off-Broadway opening of his rock opera Rent