March 24

In literary history

• 1955Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opened on Broadway with a third act Tennessee Williams had not wanted to write; director Elia Kazan had pressured him to revise it. Williams published both versions in the script and let readers judge. The play won the Pulitzer.

Writers born on March 24

• William Morris (1834)

The Daily Canon for March 24

The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (1924).