William Golding, English author, is born

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William Golding: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1983
Lord of the Flies Game

British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in NYC

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December 2, 1867
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EDSITEment feature: The Gift of Holiday Traditions
Victorian Web: Charles Dickens

Virginia Woolf, British writer, is born

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Virginia Woolf in the Classroom

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

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Related Lesson Plans: 
Lesson 1: Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: Images of Faulkner and the South
Lesson 1: Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: Introduction
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Audio Recording of William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Banquet Speech - December 10, 1950

Novelist and critic Virginia Woolf drowns herself at age 59

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Virginia Woolf in the Classroom
President Barack Obama is sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts

Presidential Inaugurations: A Capitol Parade on a Cold Winter's Day

The cornerstone of the inaugural ceremony is the inaugural address. Each president attempts to outline in the course he hopes to follow over the coming years in just a few short pages.

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1935 drawing of Steinbeck by James Fitzgerald. National Portrait Gallery.

John Steinbeck: A Voice for a Region, A Voice for America

This National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for Teachers held at the Steinbeck Institute, San Jose State University, contains a rich collection of scholarly essays, lesson plans, maps, and images covering Steinbeck's work and his world.

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Household Genius wearing a toga

Pompeii and the Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius

Use this feature to understand the lives of people in Southern Italy before, during, and after the famous eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE, as well as learn how it inspired Neoclassicism.

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George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” is published

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"Animal Farm": Allegory and the Art of Persuasion

Octavio Paz Lozano, Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, is born

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Six Hispanic Literary Giants
Poetry Foundation: Octavio Paz

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