Calendar of Literary Facts
June 24...
1604: Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford, dies
1729: Edward Taylor dies
1842: Ambrose Bierce is born
1911: Ernesto Sábato is born
1916: John Ciardi is born
1923: Yves Bonnefoy is born
1937: Anita Desai is born
1938: Lawrence Block is born
