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On this day in 1967 Langston Hughes died, aged sixty-five. Hughes was one of the most influential and respected of....
8:56 AM May 24th
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On this day in 1855 Walt Whitman registered the title Leaves of Grass with the clerk of the United States District....
10:10 PM May 16th
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On this day in 1883 Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi was published. Much of the book had appeared as a popular...
9:01 PM May 14th
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On this day in 2001 Douglas Adams died of a heart attack, aged forty-nine. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and....
10:18 PM May 12th
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On this day in 1907 Kenneth Grahame wrote the first of a series of letters to his son, Alastair, describing the....
10:14 PM May 10th
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On this day in 1918 Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians was published. Its four essays -- on Cardinal Manning,....
7:22 AM May 10th
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On this day in 1956 John Osborne's first play, Look Back in Anger, opened at London's Royal Court Theatre....
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On this day in 1932 William Faulkner reluctantly arrived in Hollywood to begin work as a screenwriter, a labor that....
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On this day in 1862 Henry David Thoreau died at the age of forty-four, from bronchial and respiratory problems....
9:49 AM May 7th
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On this date in 1927 Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse was published. Many of the earliest reviews were lukewarm,...
9:22 AM May 7th
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On this day in 1810 Lord Byron swam the Hellespont, in emulation of Leander's legendary swims to visit his beloved....
9:44 AM May 3rd
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On this day in 1594, Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew was entered in the Stationers' Register. Much of. . . .
10:48 PM May 2nd
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On this day in 1642, courtier, soldier, and gentleman-poet Richard Lovelace presented the Kentish Petition to....
10:10 PM May 1st
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On this day in 1980 Alfred Hitchcock died. Hitchcock borrowed from a long list of 20th century novelists, but in....
9:49 PM Apr 30th
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On this day (or possibly the next) in 1394, Geoffrey Chaucer's twenty-nine pilgrims met at the Tabard Inn in....
9:05 AM Apr 19th
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On this day in 1981 the University of Pennsylvania Press issued their edition of Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie....
8:00 PM Apr 18th
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On this day in 1962, Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook was published. It is the most highly-praised and still the....
10:22 PM Apr 17th
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On this day in 1906, borrowing from John Bunyan, President Roosevelt made his famous speech labeling as....
2:23 PM Apr 15th
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On this day in 1939 Seamus Heaney was born. His first collection of poems earned four major awards and provoked....
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On this day in 1931, Dorothy Parker stepped down as drama critic for The New Yorker, so ending the "Reign of ....
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