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May 22nd in Literary History

1527

Niccolò Machiavelli dies

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1859

Arthur Conan Doyle is born

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1885

Victor Hugo dies

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1927

Peter Matthiessen is born

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1934

Garry Wills is born

1936

M. Scott Peck is born

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1940

The Auschwitz concentration camp is established in Poland

1948

Claude McKay dies

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1967

Langston Hughes dies

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1972

C. Day Lewis dies

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