On This Day

What happened on this day in literary history?

Not a day goes by without something interesting happening in the world of books and writers. Here are some of the events that Susannah thinks are important.

Yesterday
Death of Charles Dickens 9 June 1870: Charles Dickens dies. read more ...
Today
Maurice Sendak signs books in 1981 10 June 1928: Maurice Sendak is born. read more ...
Tomorrow
Anthony Trollope marries Rose Heseltine 11 June 1844: Anthony Trollope marries. read more ...
What happened this month?
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120052005The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is published 18821882Henry Kendall dies 219241924James Baldwin is born 318611861Great Expectations is completed 418751875Hans Christian Andersen dies 518501850Guy de Maupassant is born 618091809Alfred, Lord Tennyson is born 717541754Henry Fielding leaves England to improve his health
818961896Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is born 918991899P.L. Travers is born 1019121912Virginia Woolf marries 1118971897Enid Blyton is born 1219201920Louisa Lawson dies 1319461946H.G. Wells dies 1418611861John Galsworthy is born
1517711771Walter Scott is born 1619021902Georgette Heyer is born 18651865Dame Mary Gilmore is born 1719451945Animal Farm is published 1818501850Honoré de Balzac dies 1919301930Frank McCourt is born 2018361836William Makepeace Thackeray marries 2119201920Christopher Robin Milne is born
2219201920Ray Bradbury is born 2319491949Helen Churchill Candee dies 2414551455First printing of the Gutenberg Bible 2518851885Laura Ingalls marries Almanzo Wilder 2618741874Zona Gale, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama is born 2719551955The Guinness Book of Records is published 2818111811Percy Bysshe Shelley and Harriet Westbrook marry
2916321632John Locke is born 3020132013Seamus Heaney dies 3118661866Elizabeth von Arnim is born 16881688John Bunyan dies