Dec 18, 2009

Calendar of Literary Facts

February 19...

1717: David Garrick is born

1858: Charles Alexander Eastman is born

1917: Carson McCullers is born

1918: Under the facilitation of W. E. B. Du Bois, the first Pan-African Congress is held in Paris, France

1937: Horacio Quiroga dies

1939: Luther Standing Bear dies

1951: André Gide dies

1952: Knut Hamsun dies

1988: René Char dies

2002: Virginia Hamilton dies