On this day in literature
July 18
In literary history
- 1817Jane Austen died at forty-one in Winchester with Sanditon unfinished, having published all six novels anonymously. Her gravestone in the cathedral lists her virtues at length; it never thought to mention she wrote.
Writers born on July 18
- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811),
- Nelson Mandela (1918),
- Thomas Kuhn (1922),
- Hunter S. Thompson (1937)