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
23 July 1996: Jessica Mitford dies. read more ...
Today
24 July 1802: Alexandre Dumas is born. read more ...
Tomorrow
25 July 1834: Samuel Taylor Coleridge dies. read more ...
What happened this month?
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120052005 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is published
18821882 Henry Kendall dies
| 219241924 James Baldwin is born
| 318611861 Great Expectations is completed
| 418751875 Hans Christian Andersen dies
| 518501850 Guy de Maupassant is born
| 618091809 Alfred, Lord Tennyson is born
| 717541754 Henry Fielding leaves England to improve his health
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818961896 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is born
| 918991899 P.L. Travers is born
| 1019121912 Virginia Woolf marries
| 1118971897 Enid Blyton is born
| 1219201920 Louisa Lawson dies
| 1319461946 H.G. Wells dies
| 1418611861 John Galsworthy is born
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1517711771 Walter Scott is born
| 1619021902 Georgette Heyer is born
18651865 Dame Mary Gilmore is born
| 1719451945 Animal Farm is published
| 1818501850 Honoré de Balzac dies
| 1919301930 Frank McCourt is born
| 2018361836 William Makepeace Thackeray marries
| 2119201920 Christopher Robin Milne is born
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2219201920 Ray Bradbury is born
| 2319491949 Helen Churchill Candee dies
| 2414551455 First printing of the Gutenberg Bible
| 2518851885 Laura Ingalls marries Almanzo Wilder
| 2618741874 Zona Gale, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama is born
| 2719551955 The Guinness Book of Records is published
| 2818111811 Percy Bysshe Shelley and Harriet Westbrook marry
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2916321632 John Locke is born
| 3020132013 Seamus Heaney dies
| 3118661866 Elizabeth von Arnim is born
16881688 John Bunyan dies
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