Portal:Literature/Adil archive/October/22

• 1071 - William IX, Duke of Aquitaine and poet born
• 1565 - Jean, Vicomte d'Aguisy Grolier de Servieres, French bibliophile died
• 1818 - Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle, French poet born
• 1919 - Doris Lessing, British writer born
• 1920 - Timothy Leary, American writer born
• 1954 - Jibanananda Das, Bengali poet died
• 1959 - Arto Salminen, Finnish writer born
• 1978 - John Riley, English poet murdered
• 1989 - Ewan MacColl, English author died
• 1995 - Sir Kingsley Amis, English writer died
• 1998 - Eric Ambler, English novelist died