Calendar of Literary Facts
October 18...
1777: Heinrich von Kleist is born
1859: Henri Bergson is born
1896: Harold Lenoir Davis is born
1945: Hatcher Hughes dies
1948: Ntozake Shange is born
1950: Wendy Wasserstein is born
1951: Terry McMillan is born
1955: José Ortega y Gasset dies
1960: Mark Mathabane is born
