Calendar of Literary Facts
February 9...
1866: George Ade is born
1874: Amy Lowell is born
1906: Paul Laurence Dunbar dies
1923: Brendan Behan is born
1940: J. M. Coetzee is born
1944: Alice Walker is born
1964: The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, launching Beatlemania in the U.S.
