June 12

In literary history

• 1942Anne Frank received a red-checked diary for her thirteenth birthday in Amsterdam. A month later her family went into hiding; she addressed it as Kitty and wrote in it for two years until the knock came.

Writers born on June 12

• Djuna Barnes (1892),
• Anne Frank (1929)

The Daily Canon for June 12

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866).