June 26

In literary history

• 1997Bloomsbury printed five hundred copies of a first novel by an unknown author, three hundred of them shipped straight to libraries. The book was Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

Writers born on June 26

• Pearl S. Buck (1892),
• Aimé Césaire (1913)

The Daily Canon for June 26

Notebook of a Return to the Native Land by Aimé Césaire (1939).