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

A slave revolt takes place in New York City; afterward 21 insurgents are executed

William Wordsworth is born

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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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