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Calendar of Literary Facts

1837: Charlotte L. Forten is born

1871: Jesse Lynch Williams is born

1887: Marcus Garvey is born

1924: Evan S. Connell Jr. is born

1925: John Hawkes is born

1930: Ted Hughes is born

1932: V. S. Naipaul is born

1936: Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin is born

1939: Ed Sanders is born

1943: LaVyrle Spencer is born

1950: Black Elk dies

1965: Jack Spicer dies

1987: Carlos Drummond de Andrade dies