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

May 6 Literary Facts

Henry David Thoreau dies

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Randall Jarrell is born

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John Steinbeck wins a Pulitzer for The Grapes of Wrath

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Ariel Dorfman is born

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