On this day in literature
March 26
In literary history
- 1892Walt Whitman died in Camden, New Jersey, having spent thirty-seven years revising Leaves of Grass from twelve poems to nearly four hundred. He declared the final edition complete in January 1892. He died in March, as if he had simply been waiting to finish.
- 1920This Side of Paradise was published, F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel, and its 3,000 copies sold out in three days. Zelda Sayre had refused to marry him until he could provide for her. They were married the following week.
Writers born on March 26
- Robert Frost (1874),
- Viktor Frankl (1905),
- Tennessee Williams (1911)
The Daily Canon for March 26
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (1947).