Calendar of Literary Facts
October 30...
1751: Richard Brinsley Sheridan is born
1857: Gertrude Atherton is born
1871: Paul Valéry is born
1886: Zoë Akins is born
1930: Timothy Findley is born
1937: Rudolfo Anaya is born
1938: Orson Welles’s Halloween Eve radio broadcast describing in realistic fashion a Martian invasion of the Earth, based upon H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds, terrifies many radio listeners throughout the United States
1956: Pío Baroja dies
1975: Michael Cristofer’s drama The Shadow Box is first performed
