Calendar of Literary Facts
February 8...
1577: Robert Burton is born
1587: Mary Stuart (“Mary Queen of Scots”) is beheaded in England
1851: Kate Chopin is born
1906: Henry Roth is born
1911: Elizabeth Bishop is born
1924: Lisel Mueller is born
1955: John Grisham is born
1998: Halldór Laxness dies
1999: Iris Murdoch dies
