2007: Writers' Anniversaries

If I've forgotten any reasonably famous writers, please let me know.

2050th Anniversary:

Ovid (in March)

350th:

Bernard Fontenelle (Feb)

300th:

Carlo Goldini (Feb)
Henry Fielding (April)
Comte de Buffon (Sep.)

250th:

William Blake (Nov.)

200th:

Publication of poem "The Butterfly Ball"

Anniversary of:

H.W. Longfellow (Feb)
J.G. Whitter (Dec.)

150th:

Herman Bang (April)
Thornstein Veblen (July)
Axel Munthe (Oct)
George Gissing (Nov)
Joseph Conrad (Dec)
Morely Roberts (Dec)

100th:

James Michener (Feb)
J.D. Fitzgerald (Feb)
W. H. Auden (Feb)
Stephen Longstreet (April)
Daphne du Maurier (May)
Irene Hunt (May)
Herge (May)
Rachel Carson (May)
Patience Strong (June)
Rene Char (June)
Robert Heinlein (July)
Loren Eiseley (Sep)
Leon Edel (Sep)
Louis MacNeice (Sep)
Bernard Miles (Sep)
Helen MacInnes (Oct)
Astrid Lindgren (Nov)
William Steig (Nov)
Alberto Moravia (Nov)
Rumer Godden (Dec)
Christopher Fry (Dec)


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