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