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

April 25 Literary Facts

William Cowper dies

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Leopoldo (Enrique Garcia) Alas (y Urena) is born

Bernard DeVoto publishes a scathing review of Thomas Wolfe’s The Story of a Novel which outrages the sensitive Wolfe and leads to his leaving his longtime editor, Maxwell Perkins

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Wright Morris dies

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