Calendar of Literary Facts
May 25...
1681: Pedro Calderón de la Barca dies
1803: Ralph Waldo Emerson is born
1908: Theodore Roethke is born
1925: Rosario Castellanos is born
1927: Robert Ludlum is born
1935: W. P. Kinsella is born
1938: Raymond Carver is born
1949: Jamaica Kincaid is born
1964: Frank D. Gilroy’s drama The Subject Was Roses is first performed
1988: Raymond Carver dies
