On this day in literature
August 4
In literary history
- 1944Anne Frank and her family were arrested in their Amsterdam hiding place. The diary papers fell to the floor when the Gestapo emptied a briefcase; Miep Gies gathered them up and locked them away, returning them to Otto after the war.
Writers born on August 4
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792),
- Knut Hamsun (1859),
- Witold Gombrowicz (1904),
- Tim Winton (1960)