Calendar of Literary Facts

November 9...

1721: Mark Akenside is born

1818: Ivan Turgenev is born

1918: Guillaume Apollinaire dies

1923: James Schuyler is born

1928: Anne Sexton is born

1934: Carl Sagan is born

1938: Kristallnacht (“night of broken glass”) begins a compaign of government-approved anti-Jewish violence in Germany, Austria, and Sudetenland

1953: Dylan Thomas dies