June 13

In literary history

• 2023Cormac McCarthy died in Santa Fe at eighty-nine, having written twelve novels in a prose stripped of punctuation and sentiment, each one convinced that violence is the permanent grammar of the world.

Writers born on June 13

• Fanny Burney (1752),
• W.B. Yeats (1865),
• Fernando Pessoa (1888),
• Dorothy L. Sayers (1893)

The Daily Canon for June 13

Sailing to Byzantium by W.B. Yeats (1928).