On this day in literature
November 24
In literary history
- 1859Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in a first printing of 1,250 copies that sold out the same day. He had held the argument back for twenty years, unnerved by it. It has not stopped since.
Writers born on November 24
- Baruch de Spinoza (1632),
- Laurence Sterne (1713),
- Carlo Collodi (1826),
- Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849),
- Arundhati Roy (1961)