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1588

Thomas Hobbes is born

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1837

Algernon Charles Swinburne is born

Explore: Algernon Charles Swinburne, Atalanta in Calydon, Hymn to Proserpine

1856

Booker T. Washington is born

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1904

Richard Eberhart is born

Explore: Richard Eberhart, The Fury of Aerial Bombardment, The Groundhog

1920

Arthur Hailey is born

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1926

H. L. Mencken is arrested for selling a copy of The American Mercury to the secretary of the Boston Watch and Ward Society; the offending issue contained the story “Hatrack,” which the Society deemed obscene

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1935

Edwin Arlington Robinson dies

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1997

Allen Ginsberg dies

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2004

Doug Wright receives the Pulitzer Prize in drama for I Am My Own Wife

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2004

Franz Wright receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Walking to Martha’s Vineyard

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