Calendar of Literary Facts
April 5...
1588: Thomas Hobbes is born
1837: Algernon Charles Swinburne is born
1856: Booker T. Washington is born
1904: Richard Eberhart is born
1920: Arthur Hailey is born
1926: H. L. Mencken is arrested for selling a copy of The American Mercury to the secretary of the Boston Watch and Ward Society; the offending issue contained the story “Hatrack,” which the Society deemed obscene
1935: Edwin Arlington Robinson dies
1997: Allen Ginsberg dies
2004: Doug Wright receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for I Am My Own Wife
2005: Saul Bellow dies
