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
