On this day in literature
February 23
In literary history
- 1821John Keats died in Rome at twenty-five, his lungs by then nearly dissolved. He had asked that his gravestone carry no name, only: 'Here lies One Whose Name Was Writ in Water.' His name has never stopped being read.
Writers born on February 23
- Samuel Pepys (1633),
- W.E.B. Du Bois (1868)