The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
May 12 Literary Facts
George Chapman dies
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Lorine Niedecker is born
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Farley Mowat is born
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Claribel Alegría is born
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Amy Lowell dies
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Andrei Voznesensky is born
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Frederick Schiller Faust dies
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Louis Zukofsky dies
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Josephine Miles dies
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