Calendar of Literary Facts

April 17...

1586: John Ford is born

1621: Henry Vaughan is born

1695: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz dies

1790: Benjamin Franklin dies

1863: C. P. Cavafy is born

1876: Orestes Brownson dies

1918: William Hope Hodgson dies

1928: Cynthia Ozick is born

1985: Basil Bunting dies

1986: Bessie Head dies

2006: Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin receive the Pulitzer Prize in biography for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer