Literary Facts - November 17
1494: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola dies. (Explore: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man)
1916: Shelby Foote is born. (Explore: Shelby Foote, Oration on the Dignity of Man)
1930: Elizabeth Cook-Lynn is born
1939: Auberon Waugh is born. (Explore: Auberon Waugh)
1992: Audre Lorde dies. (Explore: What My Child Learns of the Sea, Audre Lorde, Chosen Poems, Old and New)
1995: Charles Gordone dies. (Explore: Charles Gordone)