On this day in literature
February 21
In literary history
- 1944The Armenian poet Missak Manouchian was shot at Fort Mont-Valérien with twenty-two comrades, his last letter asking his wife not to weep. The Nazis had plastered their faces across Paris to discredit the Resistance; it made them icons instead.
Writers born on February 21
- W.H. Auden (1907),
- John Rawls (1921),
- David Foster Wallace (1962)