John Newbery (1713-67) of England was one of the first publishers to publish books for children.
The Newbery Medal, established in his name in 1921, is awarded each year for the best American children’s book.
The author of The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Stephen Crane was born in 1871, six years after the end of the Civil War. He died in 1900.
The author of Gone With the Wind (1936) Margaret Mitchell died in 1949 at age forty-eight after being hit by a taxi in Atlanta. The author of Gone With the Wind (1936) died in 1949 at age forty-eight after being hit by a taxi in Atlanta.
Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-96) put the traditional song “Auld Lang Syne” into its present form in The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1803).
Poet Vachel Lindsay killed himself by drinking Lysol, in 1931 at age fifty-two.
The subtitle of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850) was A Romance.
“II Penseroso,” written in 1632 is Milton’s companion work to “L’Allegro”.