On this day in literature
February 28
In literary history
- 1571Michel de Montaigne retired on his thirty-eighth birthday to a tower on his estate, installed a thousand books, and had his resolution inscribed on the wall in Latin. The form he invented there, the essay, has never been improved upon.
Writers born on February 28
- Michel de Montaigne (1533),
- Peter Medawar (1915)