Calendar of Literary Facts
August 9...
1593: Izaak Walton is born
1631: John Dryden is born
1927: Daniel Keyes is born
1936: American athlete Jesse Owens, a black man, wins four gold medals at the summer Olympic games in Berlin—a bitter pill for Adolf Hitler, who had earlier boasted of the inherent superiority of the “Aryan race”
1949: Jonathan Kellerman is born
1976: José Lezama Lima dies
1978: James Gould Cozzens dies
