February 18

In literary history

• 1885Mark Twain published Huckleberry Finn in the United States, three months after its British release, following a printer's error that inserted an obscene illustration into the first edition. The Concord Public Library banned it immediately as 'the veriest trash.'

Writers born on February 18

• Toni Morrison (1931)

The Daily Canon for February 18

A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh (1934).