On this day in literature
October 27
In literary history
- 1932Sylvia Plath was born in Boston. Her only novel appeared thirty years later under the name Victoria Lucas, because she did not want it read as her own life, and she was dead within a month of its publication.
Writers born on October 27
- Dylan Thomas (1914),
- Nawal El Saadawi (1931),
- Sylvia Plath (1932),
- Neil Sheehan (1936)