On this day in literature
February 2
In literary history
- 1922Sylvia Beach published Ulysses on Joyce's fortieth birthday, having promised to do so after every English-language publisher refused. The book existed because a Paris bookseller loved it more than the people whose job it was to.
Writers born on February 2
- James Joyce (1882),
- Ayn Rand (1905),
- James Dickey (1923)