On this day in literature
November 8
In literary history
- 1623Shakespeare's First Folio was entered in the Stationers' Register. Eighteen of its plays had never been printed, so without two actors going to the trouble seven years after his death there would be no Macbeth, no Tempest, no Twelfth Night and no Julius Caesar.
Writers born on November 8
- Bram Stoker (1847),
- Margaret Mitchell (1900),
- Kazuo Ishiguro (1954)