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
