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

Oliver Goldsmith dies

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Robert E. Sherwood is born

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Marguerite Duras is born

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Maya Angelou is born

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Adam Clayton Powell Jr. dies

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Max Frisch dies

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Marilynne Robinson receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Gilead

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John Patrick Shanley receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for Doubt: A Parable

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David Hackett Fischer receives the Pulitzer Prize in history for Washington’s Crossing

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Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan receive the Pulitzer Prize in biography for De Kooning: An American Master

Ted Kooser receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Delights & Shadows

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