The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.
April 7 Literary Facts
A slave revolt takes place in New York City; afterward 21 insurgents are executed
William Wordsworth is born
Explore: William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, The Solitary Reaper, The Poetry of Wordsworth
Roberto Arlt is born
Donald Barthelme is born
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The Rodgers-and-Hammerstein musical South Pacific, based upon James A. Mitchener’s Tales of the South Pacific, is first performed
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Jeffrey Eugenides receives the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for Middlesex
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Samantha Power receives the Pulitzer Prize in literature for ‘A Problem from Hell’: America and the Age of Genocide
Robert A. Caro receives the Pulitzer Prize in biography for Master of the Senate
Rick Atkinson receives the Pulitzer Prize in history for An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943
Paul Muldoon receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Moy Sand and Gravel
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Nilo Cruz receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for Anna in the Tropics
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