On this day in literature
October 8
In literary history
- 1920Frank Herbert was born in Tacoma, Washington. Sent to write a magazine piece about the Oregon dunes, he never filed it and got Dune instead, which more than twenty publishers turned down before Chilton, a house known for car repair manuals, took it.
Writers born on October 8
- Marina Tsvetaeva (1892),
- Frank Herbert (1920)