Portal:Literature/Adil archive/May/24

• 1595 - Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library
• 1855 - Arthur Wing Pinero, English playwright born
• 1899 - Henri Michaux, French poet born
• 1905 - Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian writer born
• 1928 - William Trevor, Irish writer born
• 1940 - Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet born
• 2004 - Milton Shulman, Canadian author died