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.