The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
May 16 Literary Facts
H. E. Bates is born
Explore: The Daffodil Sky, H. E. Bates
Arturo Uslar Pietri is born
Juan Rulfo is born
Explore: Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo, Because We Are So Poor
William Hoffman is born
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Adrienne Rich is born
Explore: Living in Sin, Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law, Adrienne Rich, Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
The 70,000 Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto are liquidated by German occupation forces after an unsuccessful uprising
Explore: Holocaust Represented in Literature
George Ade dies
James Agee dies
Explore: A Death in the Family, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, James Agee
Irwin Shaw dies
Explore: The Young Lions, Irwin Shaw, The Eighty-Yard Run, The Girls in Their Summer Dresses