Tag: literature

ON THIS DAY: The death of Edgar Allan Poe (1849)

The master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe, one of America’s most influential writers and poets, died on this day in 1849 in Baltimore,...

ON THIS DAY: Goethe (1749) and Tolstoy (1828) are born

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) Born on 28 August 1749 in Frankfurt am Main, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was one of Germany’s greatest literary figures...

ON THIS DAY: Ernest Hemingway is born (1899)

On 21 July 1899, Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, USA. Over the course of the 20th century, he would go on...

ON THIS DAY: Celebrating Nikola Tesla (1856) and Marcel Proust (1871)

Two towering figures in science and literature were born on this day: Nikola Tesla (1856) and Marcel Proust (1871). Their legacies continue to shape...

ON THIS DAY: Poet Allen Ginsberg is born (1926)

On 3 June 1926, in Newark, New Jersey, Allen Ginsberg was born — a poet whose name would come to define a cultural and...

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