Calendar of Literary Facts

June 30...

1685: John Gay is born

1894: Isaak (Emmanuilovich) Babel is born

1911: Czesław Miłosz is born

1930: Marion Zimmer Bradley is born

1932: Alexandre Biyidi (“Mongo Beti”) is born

1936: Margaret Mitchell publishes Gone With the Wind

1939: José Emilio Pacheco is born

1954: Lynn Riggs dies

1966: Margery Allingham dies

1984: Lillian Hellman dies