Calendar of Literary Facts
July 21...
1796: Robert Burns dies
1899: Hart Crane is born
1911: Marshall McLuhan is born
1933: John Gardner Jr. is born
1940: P. G. Wodehouse, living at villa in Le Touquet, France, is arrested and interned by German occupation forces, as are all English nationals under the age of 60
1943: Tess Gallagher is born
1944: Buchi Emecheta is born
