Portal:Literature/Adil archive/November/5
- 1549 - Philippe de Mornay, French writer born
- 1613 - Isaac de Benserade, French poet born
- 1715 - John Brown, English writer born
- 1836 - Karel Hynek Mácha, Czech poet died
- 1857 - Ida M. Tarbell, American author and journalist born
- 1895 - Charles MacArthur, American author born
- 1930 - Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- 1953 - Joyce Maynard, American writer born
- 1975 - Lionel Trilling, American critic and writer died
- 1977 - René Goscinny, French comic book writer died
- 1997 - James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter died
- 2005 - John Fowles, English writer died