Calendar of Literary Facts

April 25...

1800: William Cowper dies

1852: Leopoldo (Enrique Garcia) Alas (y Urena) is born

1873: Walter de la Mare is born

1936: Bernard DeVoto publishes a scathing review of Thomas Wolfe’s The Story of a Novel which outrages the sensitive Wolfe and leads to his leaving his longtime editor, Maxwell Perkins

1939: Ted Kooser is born

1998: Wright Morris dies