All Episodes

Amy Lowell Passed Away - May 12th

Camilo José Cela Born - May 11th

Shel Silverstein Passed Away - May 10th

Joy Harjo Born - May 9th

Carol Ann Duffy Born - May 1st

World Book and Copyright Day - April 23rd

Kathy Acker Born - April 18th

Chaucer Day - April 17th

Aphra Behn Born - April 16th

Jean Genet Passed Away - April 15th

Words and Music by Colette Bryce - April 14th

John Dryden Poet Laureate - April 13th

Tama Janowitz Born - April 12th

John O'Hara Passed Away - April 11th

The Great Gatsby Published - April 10th

Charles Baudelaire Born - April 9th

Barbara Kingsolver Born - April 8th

Gabriela Mistral Born - April 7th

William Wordsworth, Poet Laureate - April 6th

Carrie - April 5th

Bettina von Armin Born - April 4th

Washington Irving - April 3rd

International Children's Book Day - April 2nd

Milan Kundera Born - April 1st

Unexpected Announcement - March 26th

Flannery O'Connor Born - March 25th

Jules Verne Passed Away - March 24th

Bowie the Bookworm - March 23rd

Noh Theatre - March 22nd

V.S. Pritchett Passed Away - March 21st

Henrik Ibsen Born - March 20th

Philip Roth Born - March 19th

Stéphane Mallarmé Born - March 18th

Penelope Lively Born - March 17th

César Vallejo Born - March 16th

Benjamin Spock Passed Away - March 15th

Karl Marx Passed Away - March 14th

Gabriel García Márquez Born (Fixed) - March 6th

Leslie Marmon Silko Born (Fixed) - March 5th

Nikolai Gogol Born - March 4th

Marguerite Duras Passed Away - March 3rd

Dr. Seuss Born - March 2nd

Ryunosuke Akutagawa Born - March 1st

Michel de Montaigne - February 28th

John Steinbeck Born - February 27th

Victor Hugo Born - February 26th

Tennessee Williams Passed Away - February 25th

Ferenc Herczeg Passed Away - February 24th

Pedro Bloch Passed Away - February 23rd

Arthur Schopenhauer Born - February 22nd

Anaïs Nin Born - February 21st

Takuboku Ishikawa Born - February 20th

Alfredo Bryce Echeñique Born - February 19th

Audre Lorde Born - February 18th

Julia de Burgos Born - February 17th

The Scott-Christie Duel - February 16h

Giosuè Carducci Born - February 15th

P.G. Wodehouse Passed Away - February 14th

Haiku - February 13th

Judy Blume Born - February 12th

Voltaire Returns from Exile - February 11th

Boris Pasternak Born - February 10th

Alice Walker Born - February 9th

Elizabeth Bishop Born - February 8th

Charles Dickens Born - January 7th

María Zambrano Alarcón - February 6th

Carson McCullers Hosts Lunch - February 5th

Announcement - January 29th

Pride and Prejudice Published - January 28th

Victoria Ocampo Born - January 27th

Ex Libris - January 26th

Virginia Woolf Born - January 25th

E.T.A. Hoffman Born - January 24th

Derek Walcott Born - January 23rd

August Strindberg Born - January 22nd

George Orwell Passed Away - January 21st

Johannes Vilhem Jensen Born - January 20th

Patricia Highsmith Born - January 19th

Rubén Darío Born - January 18th

Anton Chekhov Born - January 17th

Don Quixote Published - January 16th

Mario Vargas Llosa Becomes an Official RAE Member - January 15th

Yukio Mishima Born - January 14th

Zola's "J'Accuse" Letter Published - January 13th

Charles Perrault Born - January 12th

Thomas Hardy Passed Away - January 11th

Sinclair Lewis Born - January 10th

Simone de Beauvoir Born - January 9th

Carmen Conde Passed Away - January 8th

El Ateneo Grand Splendid - January 7th

Gibrán Khalil Gibrán Born - January 6th

Umberto Eco Born - January 5th

Albert Camus Died - January 4th

J. R. R. Tolkien Born - January 3rd

Pedro Cuadra Cardenal Passed Away - January 2nd

E.M. Forster Born - January 1st