November 18

In literary history

• 1922Marcel Proust died having dictated revisions to his proofs until 3:30 that morning, still correcting the novel he had spent fourteen years building. Three of the seven volumes appeared only posthumously, edited by his brother.

Writers born on November 18

• Margaret Atwood (1939)

The Daily Canon for November 18

The Apology by Plato (-399).