November 20

In literary history

• 1910Leo Tolstoy died of pneumonia at a remote railway station, ten days after secretly fleeing his family estate at 3 a.m. Reporters, a Pathé film crew, and the wife he had been fleeing all converged outside; she was barred from the room.
• 1895Oscar Wilde was transferred to Reading Gaol, handcuffed and in convict dress on the platform at Clapham Junction while a crowd jeered and spat. He wept at the same hour every day for a year afterward.

Writers born on November 20

• Don DeLillo (1936)

The Daily Canon for November 20

White Noise by Don DeLillo (1985).