Calendar of Literary Facts

March 12...

1471: Sir Thomas Malory dies

1912: Irving Layton is born

1922: Jean-Louis Lebris de (“Jack”) Kerouac is born

1928: Edward Albee is born

1936: Virginia Hamilton is born

1947: Tom Clancy is born

1953: Carl Hiaasen is born

2001: Robert Ludlum dies

2003: Howard Fast dies