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This Week in Literary History: The First Ballpoint Pen is Sold in New York City
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October 26, 2026

This Week in Literary History: The First Ballpoint Pen is Sold in New York City

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. In the summer of 1944, news of an exciting new invention made its way to American newspapers. A Hungarian-Argentinian journalist named László Bíró had patented a new kind of pen, one

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