October 22

In literary history

• 1964Jean-Paul Sartre became the first person to refuse the Nobel Prize in Literature, arguing that a writer who accepts an institutional honour becomes an institution. He had tried to prevent the Academy from choosing him; they chose him anyway.

Writers born on October 22

• Doris May Lessing (1919)

The Daily Canon for October 22

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost (1916).