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The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.

April 17 Literary Facts

John Ford is born

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Orestes Brownson dies

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William Hope Hodgson dies

Cynthia Ozick is born

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Basil Bunting dies

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Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin receive the Pulitzer Prize in biography for American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

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David M. Oshinsky receives the Pulitzer Prize in history for Polio: An American Story

Claudia Emerson receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Late Wife

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Geraldine Brooks receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for March

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Gabriel García Márquez dies.

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