Calendar of Literary Facts
May 19...
1795: James Boswell dies
1864: Nathaniel Hawthorne dies
1883: José Ortega y Gasset is born
1895: José Martí dies
1925: Malcolm Little (Malcolm X) is born
1930: Lorraine Hansberry is born
1933: Elena Poniatowska is born
1946: Booth Tarkington dies
1971: Ogden Nash dies
1984: John Betjeman dies
