On This Day

What happened on this day in literary history?

Not a day goes by without something interesting happening in the world of books and writers. Here are some of the events that Susannah thinks are important.

Yesterday
Albert Camus 7 November 1913: Albert Camus is born. read more ...
Today
Bodleian Library Oxford, 1675 8 November 1602: The Bodleian Library in Oxford is opened. read more ...
Tomorrow
Stieg Larsson & the Millennium series 9 November 2004: Stieg Larsson, Swedish author and journalist, dies. read more ...
What happened this month?
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119521952The Old Man and the Sea is first published 219221922Henry Lawson dies 318601860Charles Dickens has a bonfire 419241924Children’s writer Joan Aiken is born 519581958Doctor Zhivago first published in English 619251925Andrea Camilleri is born 719621962Karen Blixen dies
814741474Italian poet and playwright Ludovico Ariosto is born 918281828Leo Tolstoy is born 1017971797Mary Wollstonecraft dies 1119421942First Famous Five book published 1219601960Ring of Bright Water is first published 1319161916Roald Dahl is born 1413211321Dante Alighieri dies
1518901890Agatha Christie is born 19151915Jeeves and Wooster appear together for the first time 1619931993Australian poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal dies 1718971897What Maisie Knew by Henry James is published 1817091709Samuel Johnson is born 1919111911William Golding is born 2018631863Jacob Grimm dies 2119371937The Hobbit first published
2218881888First issue of National Geographic Magazine is published 2318901890Château d’If opened to the public 18891889Wilkie Collins dies 2418961896F. Scott Fitzgerald is born 2519301930Children’s author Shel Silverstein is born 2618881888T.S. Eliot is born 2718711871Grazia Deledda is born 2818911891Herman Melville dies
2918101810Elizabeth Gaskell is born 3016591659Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked 18681868First volume of Little Women is published