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

Sidney Howard is born

Laurie Lee is born

Explore: Laurie Lee, Compare and contrast the themes, style, and attitudes in Robert Frost's "After Apple Picking" and Laurie Lee's "Apples".

Robert Kroetsch is born

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James Weldon Johnson dies

Explore: The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, James Weldon Johnson, The Creation

Barbara Chase-Riboud is born

Luis Valdez is born

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