On this day in literature
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
- Wallace Stegner (1909),
- Toni Morrison (1931),
- Ian Hacking (1936)