On this day in literature
November 22
In literary history
- 1963Aldous Huxley died in Los Angeles, unable to speak, having written his wife a note asking for a hundred micrograms of LSD. C.S. Lewis had died an hour or so earlier in Oxford. Kennedy was shot that afternoon and neither death was reported.
Writers born on November 22
- George Eliot (1819),
- George Gissing (1857),
- André Gide (1869)