Portal:Literature/Adil archive/June/27
- 1884 - Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet born
- 1953 - Alice McDermott, American novelist born
- 1957 - Malcolm Lowry, English novelist died
- 2001 - Tove Jansson, Finnish author died
- 2005 - Shelby Foote, American author and historian of the The Civil War: A Narrative series died