As an organization whose mission is to both reflect and advance the art of fiction, we’re honoring our 200th anniversary by looking back on how storytelling has evolved since then. When The Center for Fiction opened its doors in 1821 as the Mercantile Library of New York, Percy Bysshe Shelley mourned his friend John Keats in his poem, “Adonais,” William Hazlitt released his collection of essays, Table Talk, Lord Byron finished his play, Sardanapalus, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe published his fourth novel, Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years.
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