August 12

In literary history

• 2022Salman Rushdie was stabbed fifteen times on stage at a literary festival in upstate New York, thirty-three years after a fatwa had sentenced him to death. He lost sight in one eye and the use of one hand but survived, and called his memoir Knife.

Writers born on August 12

• Radclyffe Hall (1880)

The Daily Canon for August 12

Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway (1927).