The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
April 14 Literary Facts
Thomas Otway dies
Explore: Venice Preserved, Thomas Otway
James Branch Cabell is born
Vladimir Mayakovsky dies
Explore: Vladimir Mayakovsky, The Bedbug
Mark Strand is born
Explore: Eating Poetry, The Continuous Life, Mark Strand, Dark Harbor, Analysis of the Style and Diction in Mark Strand's "Eating Poetry"
Rachel Carson dies
Explore: Silent Spring, Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us, Analysis of Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring": Purpose, Impact, and Scientific Framework
F. R. Leavis dies
Explore: F. R. Leavis
Simone de Beauvoir dies
Explore: Belles Images, Les, A Woman Destroyed, Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, What does Simone de Beauvoir claim about the proletarian class and women in The Second Sex?