Fyodor Dostoevsky, born 1821in Moscow Louisa May Alcott, 1854, first published story “The Rival Prima Donnas” appears under the pen name Flora Fairfield in the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette Kurt Vonnegut, born 1922, in Indianapolis James Baldwin, in 1948 sails for Europe with a one-way ticket “I think the health of our civilization … and [...]
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Nov 11 ~ Literary Calendar
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Nov 10 ~ Literary Calendar
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William Hogarth, born 1697 in London Oliver Goldsmith, born 1730 in Ballymahon Samuel Richardson begins his first book, Pamela, at age 50 Friedrich von Schiller, born 1759 in Wurttemberg Vachel Lindsay, born 1879 in Springfield, Illinois “I think the health of our civilization … and our concern for the future can be tested by how well [...]
Nov 9 ~ Literary Calendar
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Mark Akenside born 1721[Newcastle upon Tyne] Ivan Turgenev born 1818, in Orel, Russia Anne Sexton born 1928 in Newton Ma Dylan Thomas died 1953 St. Vincent’s Hospital (NY), age 39
