Calendar of Literary Facts

May 9...

1805: Friedrich Schiller dies

1860: J. M. Barrie is born

1897: Rudolph Fisher is born

1920: Richard Adams is born

1921: Mona Van Duyn is born

1934: Alan Bennett is born

1938: Charles Simic is born

1951: Joy Harjo is born

1968: George Dillon dies

1981: Nelson Algren dies