It's National Poetry Month in the USA and Canada! | |
Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe was published on this day in 1719 | |
Anna Sewell (Black Beauty) died on this day in 1878 | |
DC Comics introduced Batman on this day in 1939 in Detective Comics #27. | |
American poet Ted Kooser (The Blizzard Voices, Valentines) was born on this day in 1939 | |
British writer Alan Sillitoe (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner) died on this day in 2010. Sillitoe was one of the "Angry Young Men" of the 1950s. | |
Veronica Roth's Divergent was published on this day in 2011 | |
John le Carré's A Delicate Truth was published on this day in 2013 |
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