The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
February 4 Literary Facts
William Harrison Ainsworth is born
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper is published.
MacKinlay Kantor is born
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Russell Hoban is born
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Robert Coover is born
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Franklin Roosevelt, Josef Stalin, and Winston Churchill meet at Yalta in the Crimea
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Jonathan Larson is born
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Camara Laye dies
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