The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
January 13 Literary Facts
Horatio Alger, Jr. is born
Emile Zola publishes his controversial letter "J’Accuse" in a French newspaper, in defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus
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A. B. Guthrie Jr. is born
Edmund White is born
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James Joyce dies
Explore: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, James Joyce
Frank Peretti is born
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Jay McInerney is born
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Sterling Brown dies
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