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

March 18 Literary Facts

Laurence Sterne dies

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Friedrich Hebbel is born

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Stéphane Mallarmé is born

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Robert P. Tristram Coffin is born

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Wilfred Owen is born

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Richard Condon is born

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John Updike is born

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Mark Medoff is born

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Louis Bromfield dies

John D. Voelker dies

Odysseus Elytis dies

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