Portal : Literature/Adil archive/November/18
1865 - Mark Twain 's story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press .
1874 - Clarence Day , American author born
1889 - William Allingham , Irish author died
1906 - Klaus Mann , German writer born
1922 - Marcel Proust , French novelist died
1926 - George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize , saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
1939 - Margaret Atwood , Canadian writer (Surfacing , The Handmaid's Tale ) born
1941 - Émile Nelligan , Quebec poet died
1946 - Alan Dean Foster , American author born
1952 - Paul Eluard , French poet died
1957 - Seán Mac Falls , Irish-born poet born
1966 - Jorge Camacho , Spanish poet born
1985 - Calvin and Hobbes , a comic strip by Bill Watterson , is first published.
1999 - Paul Bowles , American novelist died