March 28

In literary history

• 1941Virginia Woolf walked into the River Ouse with stones weighted in her coat pockets. She left two notes; the one for her husband Leonard read: 'You have given me the greatest possible happiness.' Her last novel, Between the Acts, appeared that summer.

Writers born on March 28

• Maxim Gorky (1868)

The Daily Canon for March 28

The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (1940).