January 14

In literary history

• 1963Sylvia Plath published The Bell Jar under the name Victoria Lucas, partly to shield her mother from recognising herself in it. The reviews were quiet; Plath died twenty-eight days later; the book appeared under her own name only after her death.
• 1898Lewis Carroll died at his sisters' house in Guildford, a fortnight before his sixty-sixth birthday. He had published fantasy as Lewis Carroll and conducted his professional life as the mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson; the two identities never quite acknowledged each other.

Writers born on January 14

• John Dos Passos (1896),
• Yukio Mishima (1925)

The Daily Canon for January 14

Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein (1953).