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
27 July 1870: Hilaire Belloc is born. read more ...
Today
28 July 1814: Percy Bysshe Shelley elopes with Mary Godwin. read more ...
28 July 1866: Beatrix Potter is born. read more ...
Tomorrow
29 July 1954: J.R.R. Tolkien published the first volume of the Lord of the Rings series. read more ...
What happened this month?
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119521952 The Old Man and the Sea is first published
| 219221922 Henry Lawson dies
| 318601860 Charles Dickens has a bonfire
| 419241924 Children’s writer Joan Aiken is born
| 519581958 Doctor Zhivago first published in English
| 619251925 Andrea Camilleri is born
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719621962 Karen Blixen dies
| 814741474 Italian poet and playwright Ludovico Ariosto is born
| 918281828 Leo Tolstoy is born
| 1017971797 Mary Wollstonecraft dies
| 1119421942 First Famous Five book published
| 1219601960 Ring of Bright Water is first published
| 1319161916 Roald Dahl is born
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1413211321 Dante Alighieri dies
| 1519151915 Jeeves and Wooster appear together for the first time
| 1619931993 Australian poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal dies
| 1718971897 What Maisie Knew by Henry James is published
| 1817091709 Samuel Johnson is born
| 1919111911 William Golding is born
| 2018631863 Jacob Grimm dies
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2119371937 The Hobbit first published
| 2218881888 First issue of National Geographic Magazine is published
| 2318901890 Château d’If opened to the public
18891889 Wilkie Collins dies
| 2418961896 F. Scott Fitzgerald is born
| 2519301930 Children’s author Shel Silverstein is born
| 2618881888 T.S. Eliot is born
| 2718711871 Grazia Deledda is born
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2818911891 Herman Melville dies
| 2918101810 Elizabeth Gaskell is born
| 3018681868 First volume of Little Women is published
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