On this day in literature
November 6
In literary history
- 1880Robert Musil was born in Klagenfurt. He died in Geneva in 1942 with The Man Without Qualities unfinished and his reputation gone, and eight people came to his cremation. The novel began to reappear in the 1950s and is now held to be one of the century's greatest.
Writers born on November 6
- Robert Musil (1880),
- James Jones (1921)