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Calendar of Literary Facts

1819: Herman Melville is born

1903: Paul Horgan is born

1916: Anne Hebert is born

1920: Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Society holds its national convention in New York

1939: Robert James Waller is born

1957: Sholem Asch dies

1963: Theodore Roethke dies

1981: Sidney (“Paddy”) Chayefsky dies

2000: Stanley Kunitz is appointed Poet Laureate of the United States, for a term beginning in October, 2000