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