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July 16 Literary Facts
Mary Ann Morse Baker (Mary Baker Eddy) is born
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Anita Brookner is born
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Caroline Blackwood is born
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Linda Hogan is born
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Hilaire Belloc dies
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Tony Kushner is born
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Evelyn Waugh publishes “An Act of Homage and Reparation to P. G. Wodehouse”—perhaps the single-most influential plea for restoring Wodehouse’s reputation among the English—in the London Sunday Times
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Heinrich Boell dies
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Nicolás Guillén dies
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May Sarton dies
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