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Calendar of Literary Facts

1880: Gustave Flaubert dies

1895: Edmund Wilson is born

1925: The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters is organized by A. Philip Randolph

1930: Gary Snyder is born

1937: Thomas Pynchon is born

1940: Peter Benchley is born

1943: Pat(ricia) Barker is born

1952: Elizabeth Becker (Beth Henley) is born

1985: Theodore Sturgeon dies

1988: Robert A. Heinlein dies