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THIS DAY IN LITERARY HISTORY On April 26th, 1914, the famous American writer Bernard Malamud was born in Brooklyn, New York. His parents were Russian Jewish immigrants. He had a younger brothe...

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THIS DAY IN LITERARY HISTORY On April 25th, 1719, Robinson Crusoe, the classic novel by the legendary English writer Daniel Defoe, was published. Although he wrote other classic novels such as...

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THIS DAY IN LITERARY HISTORY On April 24th, 1891, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the classic novel by the legendary Irish writer Oscar Wilde, was published. Like most novels of the time, it previ...

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This Day In Literary History On April 23rd, 1564, the legendary English writer William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England. No attendance records survived, but sc...

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THIS DAY IN LITERARY HISTORY On April 19th, 1824, the legendary English poet Lord Byron died in Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece, at the age of 36. Born George Gordon Byron in January of 1788 in Dove...

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THIS DAY IN LITERARY HISTORY On April 18th, 1958, a federal court ruled that the famous American poet Ezra Pound be released from a hospital for the criminally insane in Washington, DC. It wou...

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THIS DAY IN LITERARY HISTORY On April 17th, 1981, the original, unexpurgated version of Sister Carrie, the classic, controversial novel by the famous American writer Theodore Dreiser, was publ...

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This Day In Literary History On April 16th, 1962, The Golden Notebook, the classic novel by the Nobel Prize winning English writer Doris Lessing, was published. The novel is rightfully conside...

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THIS DAY IN LITERARY HISTORY On April 12th, 1916, the legendary American children's book writer Beverly Cleary was born. She was born Beverly Atlee Bunn in McMinnville, Oregon. Her parents wer...

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THIS DAY IN LITERARY HISTORY On April 11th, 1931, the legendary American writer Dorothy Parker resigned as drama critic for the New Yorker magazine. Best known as a poet, Dorothy began her ...

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THIS DAY IN LITERARY HISTORY On April 10th, 1906, The Four Million, the classic short story collection by the legendary American writer O. Henry, was published. It contained two of the author'...

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This Day In Literary History On April 9th, 1821, the legendary French poet Charles Baudelaire was born in Paris, France. His father Francois was a civil servant and amateur artist 34 years olde...

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Chandrika Radhakrishnan I submitted a story I wrote during a Practice session to reedsyprompts for a contest and they published it.

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THIS DAY IN LITERARY HISTORY On April 5th, 1926, the legendary American writer and journalist H.L. Mencken was arrested by Boston police for the possession and distribution of obscene literatu...

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THIS DAY IN LITERARY HISTORY On April 4th, 1928, the legendary African-American writer Maya Angelou was born. She was born Marguerite Ann Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri. When Maya was three, h...

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THIS DAY IN LITERARY HISTORY On April 3rd, 1957, Endgame, the classic play by the legendary Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, premiered in London. Although Beckett was an Irishman, he originall...

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This Day In Literary History On April 2nd, 1805, the legendary Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark. The Andersens were a working class family, but speculation (wh...

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THIS DAY IN LITERARY HISTORY On March 29th, 1936, the famous American writer Judith Guest was born in Detroit, Michigan. The famous poet Edgar Guest was her great-uncle. Judith Guest studied E...

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THIS DAY IN LITERARY HISTORY On March 28th, 1909, the famous American writer Nelson Algren was born. He was born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham in Detroit, Michigan, to a German Jewish mother and a Sw...

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THIS DAY IN LITERARY HISTORY On March 27th, 1923, the famous poet Louis Simpson was born. He was born in Jamaica to a Scottish father and a Russian mother. He emigrated to the United States at...

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This Day In Literary History On March 26th, 1920, This Side of Paradise, the classic first novel by the legendary American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, was published. In the summer of 1919, Fitz...

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THIS DAY IN LITERARY HISTORY On March 22nd, 1947, the legendary American writer James Patterson was born in Newburgh, New York. He earned his Master's Degree from Vanderbilt University. In 198...

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THIS DAY IN LITERARY HISTORY On March 21st, 1556, the famous English writer and cleric Thomas Cranmer was burned at the stake. Cranmer, a leader of the English Reformation and the Archbishop o...

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THIS DAY IN LITERARY HISTORY On March 20th, 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin, the classic novel by the legendary American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe, was published. Like most novels of the time, it f...

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This Day In Literary History On March 19th, 1933, the famous American writer Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey. His parents were of Ukrainian-Jewish descent. Roth graduated from Newark...

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