December 21

In literary history

• 1940F. Scott Fitzgerald died of a heart attack in Hollywood at forty-four, working on a novel about a film producer and reading his Princeton alumni magazine when he fell. The Last Tycoon was found unfinished on his desk.

Writers born on December 21

• Anthony Powell (1905)

The Daily Canon for December 21

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost (1923).