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

December 28 Literary Facts

1872

Pío Baroja is born

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1902

Mortimer Adler is born

1924

Carl Spitteler dies

1932

Manuel Puig is born

Explore: Kiss of the Spider Woman, Betrayed By Rita Hayworth, Heartbreak Tango, Manuel Puig, What themes in Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman align with Latin American works?

1945

Theodore Dreiser dies

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1986

John D. Macdonald dies

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2001

William X. Kienzle dies

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