On this day in literature
November 30
In literary history
- 1900Oscar Wilde died in Paris at forty-six, three years after taking the overnight steamer out of England on the day he left prison. He never went back to Britain or Ireland, and he never published another line of the kind that had made him.
Writers born on November 30
- Jonathan Swift (1667),
- Mark Twain (1835),
- L.M. Montgomery (1874),
- Winston Churchill (1874),
- R.H. Tawney (1880),
- John Dickson Carr (1906)