January 11

In literary history

• 1928Thomas Hardy died at Max Gate, having dictated a final poem to his wife that morning. His admirers could not agree where to bury him: his heart went to Stinsford with his first wife, his ashes to Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey.

Writers born on January 11

• Alexander Hamilton (1755),
• William James (1842),
• Alan Paton (1903)

The Daily Canon for January 11

The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James (1902).