July 11

In literary history

• 1960Harper Lee published To Kill a Mockingbird, won the Pulitzer the following year, and spent the rest of her life refusing interviews. She published no second novel for fifty-five years, which turned out to be a more eloquent statement than any she might have made.
• 2023Milan Kundera died in Paris, having lived in exile since Czechoslovakia stripped him of his citizenship in 1975 for works it found intolerable. The country eventually restored his citizenship in 2019, long after it had ceased to be the country that took it.

Writers born on July 11

• E.B. White (1899)

The Daily Canon for July 11

The Bacchae by Euripides (-405).