Portal:Literature/Adil archive/December/17
- 1685 - Thomas Tickell, English writer born
- 1796 - Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian novelist born
- 1807 - John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet born
- 1843 - Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is first published.
- 1847 - Émile Faguet, French writer and critic born
- 1873 - Ford Madox Ford, British writer born
- 1897 - Alphonse Daudet, French writer died
- 1916 - Penelope Fitzgerald, British writer born
- 1944 - Jack L. Chalker, American novelist born
- 1945 - Jacqueline Wilson, British author born
- 1957 - Dorothy L. Sayers, British writer died
- 1987 - Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian novelist died