On this day in literature
October 2
In literary history
- 1872Phileas Fogg left the Reform Club on a wager that he could circle the earth in eighty days, and Jules Verne brought him back with seconds to spare. Seventeen years later Nellie Bly did it for real in seventy-two, stopping at Amiens to meet the man who had thought of it.
Writers born on October 2
- Wallace Stevens (1879),
- Graham Greene (1904)