On this day in literature
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)