August 13

In literary history

• 1946H. G. Wells died in his London flat, having spent fifty years imagining time machines, invisible men, Martian invasions, and the slow ruin of civilisation. The War of the Worlds had been published in 1898; by 1946 the ruin felt less imaginary.

The Daily Canon for August 13

Suttree by Cormac McCarthy (1979).