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The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.

November 12 Literary Facts

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell dies

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George Dillon is born

Roland Barthes is born

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26,000 German Jews are arrested and sent by the Nazis to concentration camps

Chester Himes dies

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