Portal:Literature/Adil archive/May/6
- 1868 - Gaston Leroux, French writer born
- 1871 - Christian Morgenstern, German author born
- 1897 - Paul Alverdes, German writer born
- 1915 - Theodore White, American writer born
- 1940 - John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.