Calendar of Literary Facts
August 28...
1749: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is born
1814: Sheridan Le Fanu is born
1828: Leo Tolstoy is born
1859: Leigh Hunt dies
1906: John Betjeman is born
1913: Robertson Davies is born
1948: Vonda McIntyre is born
1952: Rita Dove is born
1993: William Stafford dies
