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
21 June 1905: Jean-Paul Sartre is born. read more ...
Today
22 June 1856: Henry Rider Haggard is born. read more ...
Tomorrow
23 June 1819: Rip van Winkle is published. read more ...
What happened this month?
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119421942 First Little Golden Books published
| 219501950 Peanuts first appears
| 318671867 Anthony Trollope resigns from his day job to write full-time
| 417981798 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is first published
17951795 Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Sarah Fricker marry
| 519021902 Thousands attend the funeral of Émile Zola
| 618921892 Alfred, Lord Tennyson dies
| 719641964 The Giving Tree is first published
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819701970 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize
| 919281928 Topaze by Marcel Pagnol premieres
| 1019301930 British playwright Harold Pinter is born
| 1119631963 Jean Cocteau dies
| 1218221822 Victor Hugo and Adèle Foucher marry
| 1319581958 Paddington Bear is born
| 1419261926 Winnie-the-Pooh is published
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1519521952 Charlotte’s Web is published
| 1618541854 Oscar Wilde is born
| 1719571957 Albert Camus wins the Nobel Prize
| 1818511851 Moby-Dick is published
| 1917451745 Jonathan Swift dies
| 2018541854 Arthur Rimbaud is born
| 2117721772 Samuel Taylor Coleridge is born
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2218701870 Lord Alfred Douglas is born
| 2319381938 Zane Grey dies
| 2417881788 Sarah Josepha Hale is born
| 2514001400 Geoffrey Chaucer dies (maybe)
| 2618491849 Shirley by Charlotte Brontë is published
| 2718721872 Emily Post is born
| 2817261726 Gulliver’s Travels is published
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2919241924 Frances Hodgson Burnett dies
| 3018111811 Sense and Sensibility is published
| 3117951795 John Keats is born
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