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
