Calendar of Literary Facts
April 7...
1712: A slave revolt takes place in New York City; afterward 21 insurgents are executed
1770: William Wordsworth is born
1900: Roberto Arlt is born
1931: Donald Barthelme is born
1949: The Rodgers-and-Hammerstein musical South Pacific, based upon James A. Mitchener’s Tales of the South Pacific, is first performed
2003: Jeffrey Eugenides receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Middlesex
