Calendar of Literary Facts
October 19...
1605: Thomas Browne is born
1745: Jonathan Swift dies
1784: Leigh Hunt is born
1908: Jacinto Benavente’s El marido de su viuda: Comedia en un acto (His Widow’s Husband: A Comedy in One Act) is produced
1918: Russell Kirk is born
1926: Edward Lewis Wallant is born
1931: David Cornwell (John Le Carré) is born
1938: Renata Adler is born
1950: Edna St. Vincent Millay dies
2004: Alan Hollinghurst receives the Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty
