Lord Tennyson's volume of poetry simply titled Poems was published on this day in 1842 | |
Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway was published on this day in 1925 | |
The Canadian Library Association was established in Ottawa on this day in 1946 | |
Publishing magnate (and Pulitzer winner for his interview in 1955 with Nikita Kruschchev) William Randolph Hearst Jr. died on this day in 1993 | |
Journalist and conservation activist Marjory Stoneman Douglas (The Everglades: River of Grass) died on this day in 1998 at the age of 108. A high school in Parkland, Florida named for her was the site of one of America's worst school shootings. | |
Pulitzer-winning poet Stanley Kunitz died on this day in 2006, at the age of 100 | |
Tom Wolfe (The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Right Stuff) died on this day in 2018 |
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