Calendar of Literary Facts
May 15...
1856: L. Frank Baum is born
1886: Emily Dickinson dies
1891: Pope Leo XIII issues a landmark social-justice encyclical, Rerum Novarum
1911: Max Frisch is born
1926: Peter Shaffer is born
1930: Joseph F. Girzone is born
1936: Paul Zindel is born
1998: John Hawkes dies
