On this day in literature
November 26
In literary history
- 1943Marilynne Robinson was born in Idaho. She published Housekeeping in 1980, wrote no more fiction for twenty-four years while she taught and raised two sons, and then published Gilead, which won the Pulitzer.
Writers born on November 26
- Eugène Ionesco (1909),
- Marilynne Robinson (1943)