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November
1296 - Guillaume Durand , French writer died
1530 - Étienne de La Boétie , French judge and writer born
1588 - Jean Daurat , French poet died
1607 - Georg Philipp Harsdorffer , German poet born
1636 - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux , French poet and critic born
1643 - John Strype , English historian and biographer born
1704 - Paul Daniel Longolius , German encyclopedist born
1790 - Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France , in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
1871 - Stephen Crane , American writer born
1880 - Sholom Asch , Polish-born American writer born
1880 - Grantland Rice , American sports writer born
1886 - Hermann Broch , Austrian author born
1903 - Theodor Mommsen , German writer died
1907 - Alfred Jarry , French writer died
1955 - Dale Carnegie , American writer died
1972 - Ezra Pound , American poet died
2006 - William Styron , American author died
1549 - Philippe de Mornay , French writer born
1613 - Isaac de Benserade , French poet born
1715 - John Brown , English writer born
1836 - Karel Hynek Mácha , Czech poet died
1857 - Ida M. Tarbell , American author and journalist born
1895 - Charles MacArthur , American author born
1930 - Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature .
1953 - Joyce Maynard , American writer born
1975 - Lionel Trilling , American critic and writer died
1977 - René Goscinny , French comic book writer died
1997 - James Robert Baker , American novelist, screenwriter died
2005 - John Fowles , English writer died
1692 - Louis Racine , French poet born
1692 - Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux , French writer died
1833 - Jonas Lie , Norwegian author born
1846 - Alexander Chavchavadze , Georgian poet and general died
1880 - Robert Musil , Austrian novelist born
1910 - Giuseppe Cesare Abba , Italian patriot and writer died
1921 - James Jones , American writer born
1952 - Michael Cunningham , American writer born
1984 - Gastón Suárez , Bolivian novelist and dramatist died
2000 - L. Sprague de Camp , American writer died
2001 - Anthony Shaffer , English dramatist died
1491 - Teofilo Folengo , Italian poet born
1674 - John Milton , English poet died
1710 - Sarah Fielding , English writer born
1847 - Bram Stoker , Irish novelist born
1869 - Zinaida Gippius , Russian poet born
1900 - Margaret Mitchell , American author born
1904 - Cedric Belfrage , English writer born
1908 - Martha Gellhorn , American writer and journalist born
1919 - P. L. Deshpande , Indian author born
1953 - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin , Russian writer died
1953 - John van Melle , South African author died
1954 - Kazuo Ishiguro , British author of Japanese origin is born
2005 - David Westheimer , American novelist died
1664 - Henry Wharton , English writer born
1832 - Émile Gaboriau , French writer, novelist and journalist born
1877 - Muhammad Iqbal , Indian National poet of Pakistan born
1905 - Erika Mann , German writer born
1911 - Tabish Dehlvi , Pakistani poet born
1911 - Howard Pyle , American author died
1918 - Guillaume Apollinaire , French poet died
1928 - Anne Sexton , American poet born
1929 - Imre Kertész , Hungarian writer born
1934 - Carl Sagan , American astronomer and writer born
1937 - Roger McGough , English poet born
1953 - Dylan Thomas , Welsh poet and author died
2004 - Iris Chang , American author died
1617 - Barnabe Rich , English soldier and writer died
1644 - Luís Vélez de Guevara , Spanish writer died
1728 - Oliver Goldsmith , English playwright born
1759 - Friedrich von Schiller , German writer born
1772 - Pedro Correia Garção , Portuguese poet died
1871 - Winston Churchill , American novelist born
1879 - Vachel Lindsay , American poet born
1887 - Arnold Zweig , German author born
1893 - John P. Marquand , American writer born
1891 - Arthur Rimbaud , French poet died
1909 - Renee Vivien , American poet died
1960 - Neil Gaiman , English writer born
1995 - Ken Saro-Wiwa , Nigerian writer died
2001 - Ken Kesey , American author died
1493 - Bernardo Tasso , Italian poet born
1623 - Philippe de Mornay , French writer died
1834 - Hans Christian Andersen 's The Ugly Duckling was first published.
1764 - Barbara Juliana, Baroness von Krüdener , Russian writer born
1821 - Fyodor Dostoevsky , Russian novelist born
1836 - Thomas Bailey Aldrich , American poet and novelist born
1901 - F. Van Wyck Mason , American author born
1914 - Howard Fast , American author born
1919 - Kalle Päätalo , Finnish novelist born
1922 - Kurt Vonnegut , Jr., American novelist born
1928 - Carlos Fuentes , Mexican writer born
1929 - Hans Magnus Enzensberger , German writer born
1950 - Mircea Dinescu , Romanian poet born
1954 - Mary Gaitskill , American author born
1970 - Lee Battersby , Australian author born
1999 - Jacobo Timmerman , Argentine writer and journalist died
1773 - John Hawkesworth , English writer died
1839 - Louis-Honoré Fréchette , French Canadian poet born
1880 - Alexander Blok , Russian poet born
1889 - George S. Kaufman , American playwright born
1892 - Guo Moruo , Chinese writer born
1906 - Henri Charrière , author of Papillon born
1922 - José Saramago , Portuguese writer born
1930 - Chinua Achebe , Nigerian author born
1946 - Terrence McKenna , American writer born
1952 - Robin McKinley , American writer born
1954 - Andrea Barrett , American writer born
1967 - Craig Arnold , American poet born
1973 - Alan Watts , English writer died
1976 - Danny Wallace , British author born
1995 - Jack Finney , American author died
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
1722 - Hryhori Skovoroda , Ukrainian poet born
1819 - George Eliot , British novelist born
1869 - André Gide , French writer born
1877 - Endre Ady , Hungarian poet born
1884 - Syed Sulaiman Nadvi , Pakistani biographer born
1916 - Jack London , American writer died
1932 - William Walker Atkinson , American author died
1936 - James Burke , British writer born
1947 - Valerie Wilson Wesley , American author born
1962 - Victor Pelevin , Russian writer born
1963 - Aldous Huxley , British author died
1963 - C. S. Lewis , Irish author died
1970 - Stel Pavlou , British novelist born
1986 - William Bradford Huie , American writer died
1993 - Anthony Burgess , British author died
1616 - Richard Hakluyt , English writer died
1644 - Areopagitica by John Milton is published.
1804 - Richard Graves , British writer died
1897 - Nirad C. Chaudhuri , Indian writer born
1908 - Nelson S. Bond , American science fiction writer born
1909 - Nigel Tranter , British historian and writer born
1920 - Paul Celan , Romanian-born German poet born
1923 - Urmuz , Romanian writer died
1931 - Dervla Murphy , Irish traveller and author born
1936 - Robert Barnard , British mystery writer born
1965 - Jennifer Michael Hecht , American poet born
1974 - Cornelius Ryan , Irish-born author died
1976 - André Malraux , French author died
1990 - Roald Dahl , British author died
1394 - Charles, Duke of Orléans , French poet born
1583 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar , Spanish poet born
1632 - Baruch Spinoza , Dutch philosopher born
1713 - Laurence Sterne , Irish novelist born
1801 - Ludwig Bechstein , German poet born
1826 - Carlo Collodi , Italian author born
1849 - Frances Hodgson Burnett , British-born author born
1859 - Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species .
1870 - Comte de Lautréamont , French writer died
1888 - Dale Carnegie , American writer born
1925 - William F. Buckley Jr. , American writer born
1927 - Ahmadou Kourouma , Ivorian writer born
1973 - John Neihardt , American writer died
1996 - Sorley MacLean , British poet died
2004 - Arthur Hailey , British-born author died
1562 – Lope de Vega , Spanish playwright born
1778 – Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck , British Christian writer born
1785 – Richard Glover , British poet died
1845 – José Maria de Eça de Queiroz , Portuguese novelist born
1858 – Alfred Capus , French author born
1895 – Helen Hooven Santmyer , American writer born
1904 – Ba Jin , Chinese novelist born
1913 – Lewis Thomas , American physician and essayist born
1926 – Poul Anderson , American writer born
1947 – Léon-Paul Fargue , French poet died
1950 – Johannes V. Jensen , Danish writer died
1968 – Upton Sinclair , American journalist, politician, and writer died
1970 – Yukio Mishima , Japanese writer died
8 BC - Horace , Roman poet and satirist died
1895 - Alexandre Dumas, fils , French author died
1898 - Fredric Warburg , publisher and author born
1907 - L. Sprague de Camp , American writer born
1909 - James Agee , American writer born
1933 - Jacques Godbout , French Canadian novelist born
1937 - Gail Sheehy , American writer born
1943 - Nicole Brossard , French Canadian poet born
1953 - Eugene O'Neill , American writer died
1975 - Ross McWhirter , British co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records died
1694 - Matsuo Bashō , Japanese poet died
1757 - William Blake , British poet born
1793 - Carl Jonas Love Almqvist , Swedish romantic poet born
1821 - Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov , Russian poet born
1832 - Leslie Stephen , English author born
1859 - Washington Irving , American writer died
1864 - James Allen , English writer born
1881 - Stefan Zweig , Austrian writer born
1896 - Dawn Powell , American writer born
1904 - Nancy Mitford , British essayist and satirist born
1907 - Alberto Moravia , Italian writer born
1911 – Václav Renč , Czech poet born
1960 - Richard Wright , American author died
1965 - Erwin Mortier , Belgian author born
1968 - Enid Blyton , British children's author died
1973 - Marthe Bibesco , Romanian writer died
2001 - William Kienzle , American author died
2003 - Antonia Forest , British children's author died
1554 - Philip Sidney , English courtier, soldier, and writer is born
1667 - Jonathan Swift , Irish writer and satirist born
1813 - Louise-Victorine Ackermann , French poet born
1817 - Theodor Mommsen , German author born
1835 - Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain ), American writer born
1874 - Lucy Maud Montgomery , Canadian author born
1900 - Oscar Wilde , Irish writer died
1907 - Jacques Barzun , French-born historian and author born
1935 - Fernando Pessoa , Portuguese poet died
1943 - Etty Hillesum , Dutch diarist died
1947 - David Mamet , American playwright born
1957 - Joël Champetier , French Canadian author born
1967 - Patrick Kavanagh , Irish poet died
1987 - Simon Carmiggelt , Dutch journalist and writer died
1997 - Kathy Acker , American author died
2004 - Pierre Berton , Canadian author died