Calendar of Literary Facts
November 30...
1554: Philip Sidney is born
1667: Jonathan Swift is born
1817: Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen is born
1835: Samuel Langhorne Clemens (“Mark Twain”) is born
1874: L. M. Montgomery is born
1900: Oscar Wilde dies
1912: Gordon Parks is born
1935: Fernando Pessoa dies
1941: Ron Arias is born
1947: David Mamet is born
1960: Tad Mosel’s drama All the Way Home is first performed
1977: Sir Terence Rattigan dies
1987: James Baldwin dies
1998: Margaret Walker dies
2001: John Knowles dies
