Calendar of Literary Facts

June 7...

1843: Friedrich Holderlin dies

1917: Gwendolyn Brooks is born

1933: Max Eastman publishes “Bull in the Afternoon,” a retrospective article attacking Ernest Hemingway’s craft which enraged Hemingway and eventually led to a scuffle between critic and author

1943: Nikki Giovanni is born

1954: Louise Erdrich is born

1979: Forrest Carter dies