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