![]() | The Marquis de Sade (The 120 Days of Sodom) died on this day in 1814 |
![]() | Charles Dickens (David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist) gave his first public reading in the United States at Tremont Temple in Boston on this day in 1867 |
![]() | British science writer Nigel Calder (The Comet is Coming!, Spaceship Earth) was born on this day in 1931 |
![]() | Ann Patchett (The Patron Saint of Liars, Orange Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award winner Bel Canto) was born on this day in 1963 |
![]() | Robertson Davies (Fifth Business) died on this day in 1995 |
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