Calendar of Literary Facts

July 16...

1821: Mary Ann Morse Baker (Mary Baker Eddy) is born

1928: Anita Brookner is born

1931: Caroline Blackwood is born

1947: Linda Hogan is born

1953: Hilaire Belloc dies

1956: Tony Kushner is born

1961: Evelyn Waugh publishes “An Act of Homage and Reparation to P. G. Wodehouse”—perhaps the single-most influential plea for restoring Wodehouse’s reputation among the English—in the London Sunday Times

1985: Heinrich Boell dies

1989: Nicolás Guillén dies

1995: May Sarton dies