On this day in literature
April 11
In literary history
- 2007Kurt Vonnegut died of brain injuries from a fall at his Manhattan home. He had spent a career arguing that human beings were put on earth to fart around. He did not seem to regard that as a criticism.
Writers born on April 11
- Dean Acheson (1893),
- Sándor Márai (1900),
- Dorothy Allison (1949)