Calendar of Literary Facts
November 18...
1836: W. S. Gilbert is born
1865: The New York Saturday Press publishes “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog,” by Mark Twain
1884: Wyndham Lewis is born
1922: Marcel Proust dies
1939: Margaret Atwood is born
1946: Alan Dean Foster is born
1987: George Ryga dies
