Literary Facts - August 27
1635: Lope de Vega dies. (Explore: The Gardener's Dog, The Sheep Well, The King, the Greatest Alcalde, Lope de Vega Carpio)
1871: Theodore Dreiser is born. (Explore: Sister Carrie, An American Tragedy, The Lost Phoebe, Theodore Dreiser, How is Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie chapter 1 and 3 analyzed from a...)
1929: Ira Levin is born. (Explore: The Boys from Brazil, Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives, Ira Levin)
1949: Beatrice Culleton is born
1959: Jeanette Winterson is born. (Explore: Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson, The Passion, Lighthousekeeping)
1963: W. E. B. Du Bois dies. (Explore: The Souls of Black Folk, The Song of the Smoke, The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois, W. E. B. Du Bois, What were the major arguments by W.E.B Du Bois in regards to furthering civil...)