Portal:Literature/Adil archive/October/7

• 1576 - John Marston, English writer born
• 1577 - George Gascoigne, English poet died
• 1849 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer died
• 1853 - James Whitcomb Riley, American poet born
• 1894 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, American writer died
• 1913 - Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist and writer born
• 1929 - Robert Westall, British author born
• 1934 - Amiri Baraka, American playwright and poet born
• 1935 - Thomas Keneally, Australian author (Schindler's Ark) born
• 1943 - Radclyffe Hall, British author died
• 1955 - First reading of the Allen Ginsberg poem "Howl" took place in San Francisco.
• 1981 - Albert Cohen, Greek-born novelist died