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
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 30 June 1936: Gone With the Wind is first published. read more ...
Nancy Mitford in 1932 30 June 1973: Nancy Mitford dies. read more ...
Today
George Sand c. 1845 1 July 1804: George Sand is born. read more ...
Irna Phillips 1 July 1901: Irna Phillips, American scriptwriter, is born. read more ...
Tomorrow
Ernest Hemingway in 1953 2 July 1961: Ernest Hemingway dies. read more ...
What happened this month?
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  119521952The Old Man and the Sea is first published 219221922Henry Lawson dies 318601860Charles Dickens has a bonfire 419241924Children’s writer Joan Aiken is born 519581958Doctor Zhivago first published in English 619251925Andrea Camilleri is born
719621962Karen Blixen dies 814741474Italian poet and playwright Ludovico Ariosto is born 918281828Leo Tolstoy is born 1017971797Mary Wollstonecraft dies 1119421942First Famous Five book published 1219601960Ring of Bright Water is first published 1319161916Roald Dahl is born
1413211321Dante Alighieri dies 1519151915Jeeves and Wooster appear together for the first time 1619931993Australian poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal dies 1718971897What Maisie Knew by Henry James is published 1817091709Samuel Johnson is born 1919111911William Golding is born 2018631863Jacob Grimm dies
2119371937The Hobbit first published 2218881888First issue of National Geographic Magazine is published 2318901890Château d’If opened to the public 18891889Wilkie Collins dies 2418961896F. Scott Fitzgerald is born 2519301930Children’s author Shel Silverstein is born 2618881888T.S. Eliot is born 2718711871Grazia Deledda is born
2818911891Herman Melville dies 2918101810Elizabeth Gaskell is born 3018681868First volume of Little Women is published