This Week in Literary History: The First Ballpoint Pen is Sold in New York City
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This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. In the summer of 1944, news of an exciting new invention made its way to American newspapers. A Hungarian-Argentinian journalist named László Bíró had patented a new kind of pen, one
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