Calendar of Literary Facts

August 3...

1873: Alexander Posey is born

1887: Rupert Brooke is born

1920: Phyllis Dorothy James White (P. D. James) is born

1924: Joseph Conrad dies

1937: Diane Wakoski is born

1943: Steven Millhauser is born

1954: Colette dies

1964: Flannery O’Connor dies