Literary Facts - April 14
1685: Thomas Otway dies. (Explore: The Soldier's Fortune, The Orphan, Venice Preserved, Thomas Otway)
1879: James Branch Cabell is born. (Explore: James Branch Cabell, The Cream of the Jest)
1930: Vladimir Mayakovsky dies. (Explore: Vladimir Mayakovsky, The Bathhouse, The Bedbug, A Cloud in Pants)
1934: Mark Strand is born. (Explore: Eating Poetry, The Continuous Life, Mark Strand, Dark Harbor, What does Mark Strand want to show us in his poem "Eating Poetry"?)
1964: Rachel Carson dies. (Explore: Silent Spring, Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us, Why did Rachel Carson write "Silent Spring?")
1978: F. R. Leavis dies. (Explore: F. R. Leavis, The Living Principle)
1986: Simone de Beauvoir dies. (Explore: Belles Images, Les, A Woman Destroyed, Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, What specifically does Simone de Beauvoir claim about the relationship...)
