January 29

In literary history

• 1845Edgar Allan Poe published The Raven in the New York Evening Mirror and became famous almost overnight. The poem had been sold to its first publisher for nine dollars; Poe died broke four years later, in circumstances nobody fully explained.

Writers born on January 29

• Anton Chekhov (1860)

The Daily Canon for January 29

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (1904).