Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson born

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All Together Now: Collaborations in Poetry Writing
Play with Words: Rhyme & Verse
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Amercian Academy of Poets - Robert Louis Stevenson

American poet and writer Eve Merriam born

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All Together Now: Collaborations in Poetry Writing
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American Academy of Poets: Eve Merriam

Herman Melville, American writer, is born

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August 1, 1819
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Hawthorne: Author and Narrator
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Life and Works of Herman Melville
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Louisa May Alcott, American author, dies

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March 6, 1888
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Thoreau's Circle: Who's Who in Transcendentalism
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NEH Humanities magazine article: Little Woman The devilish, dutiful daughter, Louisa May Alcott
Thinkfinity: "Today in History"
PBS Documentary: The Woman Behind Little Women

Boris Pasternak, Russian author of Doctor Zhivago, born

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February 10, 1890
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American Academy of Poets: Boris Pasternak
Nobel Prize in Literature 1958
Masterpiece Theatre: Doctor Zhivago

John Steinbeck, American writer, is born

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February 27, 1902
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Steinbeck’s Use of Nonfiction Sources in "The Grapes of Wrath"
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Virginia Woolf, British writer, is born

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January 25, 1882
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Virginia Woolf in the Classroom

1949 Nobel Prize winner, American novelist, William Faulkner is born

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September 25, 1897
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Lesson 1: Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Images of Faulkner and the South
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Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" published

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April 25, 1719
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