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

September 13 Literary Facts

Michel de Montaigne dies

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The first slave rebellion in North America occurs in Gloucester County, Virginia

Sherwood Anderson is born

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Bruce Chatwin is born

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