The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
October 12 Literary Facts
Christopher Columbus discovers the West Indies
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Louis Hemon is born
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Alice Childress is born
Explore: Wine in the Wilderness, A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich, Alice Childress
Alex Haley is born
Explore: The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots: The Saga of an American Family, Alex Haley
Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault (Anatole France) dies
Charles Gordone is born
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Harold Pinter wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
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