Calendar of Literary Facts
October 16...
1854: Oscar Wilde is born
1888: Eugene O’Neill is born
1891: Sarah Winnemucca dies
1900: Edward (Jeffrey Irving) Ardizzone is born
1927: Günter Grass is born
1942: Joseph Bruchac III is born
1944: Paul Durcan is born
1995: Conceived by Louis Farrakhan, the Million Man March is held in Washington, D.C.
1997: James A. Michener dies
1999: Jean Shepherd dies
