On this day in literature
October 11
In literary history
- 1963Jean Cocteau died of a heart attack at Milly-la-Forêt, hours after the morning papers carried the news of Edith Piaf's death. The story that hearing it stopped his heart is almost certainly untrue, and has never once stopped being told.
Writers born on October 11
- François Mauriac (1885),
- James M. McPherson (1936)