![]() | Edgar Allan Poe's best-known poem, The Raven, was published in the New York Evening Mirror on this day in 1845 |
![]() | Anton Chekhov was born on this day in 1860 |
![]() | Edward Lear (A Book of Nonsense) died on this day in 1888. Lear is best known for popularizing the Limerick. |
![]() | Edward Abbey (The Monkey Wrench Gang) was born on this day in 1927 |
![]() | Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front was published on this day in 1929. Although a bestseller, it would soon be banned and burned in Nazi Germany. |
![]() | Germaine Greer (Sex and Destiny) was born on this day in 1939 |
![]() | Journalist and satirist H. L. Mencken (The American Language) died on this day in 1956 |
![]() | Robert Frost, four-time Pulitzer winning poet, died on this day in 1963 |
![]() | Vietnam veteran and convicted library thief Gustav Hasford died on this day in 1993. His semi-autobiographical novel The Short-Timers would be adapted into Stanley Kubrick's acclaimed 1987 movie "Full Metal Jacket." |
![]() | Howard Frank Mosher (Where the Rivers Flow North) died on this day in 2017. |
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