-It was on this day in 1847 that Charlotte Brontë published her novel Jane Eyre.
-On this day in 1930, William Faulkner published what he later said was his favorite of his
own novels: As I Lay Dying. (Which I am reading now.)
-On this day in 1866, the Reno brothers, John and Simeon Reno, pulled off the first train
robbery in American history. They took $13,000 from an Ohio and Mississippi railroad train in
Jackson County, Indiana.
-Poem: "Hard Rain" by Tony Hoagland from Hard Rain.
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