Calendar of Literary Facts

November 28...

1628: John Bunyan is born

1694: Matsuo Basho dies

1757: William Blake is born

1859: Washington Irving dies

1907: Alberto Pincherle is born

1912: In a signal episode in his life, Sherwood Anderson suffers a nervous collapse and abruptly walks out of his business in Elryia, Ohio; after this event he began writing fiction in earnest

1914: Owen Dodson is born

1915: Yves Theriault is born

1924: Dennis Brutus is born

1944: Rita Mae Brown is born

1957: Ketti Frings produces the drama Look Homeward, Angel

1966: Truman Capote throws a landmark party, his Black-and-White Masked Ball, at New York’s Plaza Hotel, inviting a who’s-who of personages from the world of entertainment, politics, literature, and art

1969: Jose Maria Arguedas dies