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
