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March 31 Literary Facts
Andrew Marvell is born
Explore: Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress, The Garden, Themes and Carpe Diem in Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress"
John Donne dies
Explore: A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, John Donne, Death, be not proud, John Donne's Holy Sonnets
Nikolai Gogol is born
Explore: The Government Inspector, The Overcoat, Nikolai Gogol, The Diary of a Madman
Charlotte Brontë dies
Explore: Jane Eyre, Villette, The Professor, Charlotte Brontë, Why did Charlotte Bronte pretend to be a male author?
John Fowles is born
Explore: The Magus, The Collector, The French Lieutenant's Woman, John Fowles
John Jakes is born
Explore: The Kent Family Chronicles, American Dreams
Israel Horovitz is born
Christina Stead dies
Explore: The Man Who Loved Children, Christina Stead
John Ciardi dies
Explore: John Ciardi