![]() | Henry Fielding's Tom Jones was first published on this day in 1749 |
![]() | Henry James (The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, The Turn of the Screw) died on this day in 1916 |
![]() | The academic integrity of Webster's New International Dictionary was questioned on this day in 1939 when the non-existent word "Dord" was discovered to have been mistakenly included. |
![]() | Scottish historian David R. Ross (On the Trail of William Wallace, The Black Douglas, For Freedom) was born on this day in 1958 |
![]() | Henry R. Luce, the magazine publisher who created Time, Life, Sports Illustrated and Fortune, died on this day in 1967 |
![]() | Daniel Handler, better known under his pen name Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events) was born on this day in 1970 |
![]() | Thomas Pynchon's epic postmodern novel Gravity's Rainbow was first published on this day in 1973 |
![]() | On this day in 1989, two bookstores in Berkeley, California were firebombed for selling Salman Rushdie's controversial novel (The Satanic verses). |
![]() | Pulitzer-winning historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. (War and the American Presidency) died on this day in 2007 |
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