Today in literary history!
Feb. 8
 | Jules Verne (Around the World in Eighty Days) was born on this day in 1828 |
| Kate Chopin (The Awakening) was born on this day in 1850 |
| Pulitzer winning poet Elizabeth Bishop (North & South, A Cold Spring) was born on this day in 1911 |
| John Grisham (The Firm) was born on this day in 1955 |
| Dame Iris Murdoch (Under the Net, Booker Prize winner The Sea, the Sea) died on this day in 1999 |
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