November 27

In literary history

• 1895Alfred Nobel signed his will in Paris, directing the bulk of his fortune toward five annual prizes, one of them for literature. He had made the fortune from dynamite. He died the following year; the first prizes were awarded in 1901.

Writers born on November 27

• James Agee (1909)

The Daily Canon for November 27

The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol (1842).