Acclaimed poet Theodore Huebner Roethke was born on May 25, 1908, in Saginaw, Michigan. Considered one of the most influential poets of his time, he won the 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and two National Book Awards for Poetry.
James Mercer Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1901, in Joplin, Missouri.
Author Willa Sibert Cather was born on December 7, 1873, in Gore, Virginia.
Playwright and novelist Thornton Wilder was born on April 17, 1897, in Madison, Wisconsin.
On September 24, 1966, the US Post Office introduced the American Folklore Series.
Writer Francis Bret Harte was born on August 25, 1836, in Albany, New York.
On July 8, 1918, author Ernest Hemingway was wounded while serving with the Red Cross on the Italian Front in World War I.
On October 14, 1926, A.A. Milne published the first collection of Winnie-the-Pooh stories.
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota.