On this day in literature
October 21
In literary history
- 1772Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born at Ottery St Mary in Devon. The albatross was not his idea. Wordsworth, walking the Quantocks beside him, suggested he have the mariner shoot one of the birds and let the spirits of the region take their revenge.
Writers born on October 21
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772),
- Ursula K. Le Guin (1929)