February 22

Born:
1819 - James Russell Lowell
American Romantic poet, associated with the Fireside Poets group.

1863 - Charles McLean Andrews
American historian; Pulitzer Prize in History winner for 1935.

1890 - Duff Cooper
British politician, diplomat and author.

1892 - Edna St. Vincent Millay
American feminist poet who received the 1923 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.

1925 - Edward Gorey
American writer and artist known for his illustrated books, often set in Edwardian and Victorian times.

1937 - Joanna Russ
American feminist writer, best known for the satiric novel The Female Man









1945 - Gerald Stern
American poet, winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

1947 - Richard North Patterson
American author of legal and political thrillers.





Died:
1973 - Elizabeth Bowen

1978 - Hal Borland
1978 - Phyllis McGinley

1999 - William Bronk