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December 11 in literary history
Literary history for December 11: 28 writers born and 15 writers who died from 1737 to 2021. Born on this day: Jeff McComsey, Adi Keissar, Colleen Hoover.
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15writers died
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Writers born on December 11
| Born | Writer | Known as |
|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Jeff McComsey | Jeff McComsey, American author and illustrator |
| 1980 | Adi Keissar | Israeli poet |
| 1979 | Colleen Hoover | American writer (born 1979) |
| 1967 | Chris Shepherd | British animator, writer, and director |
| 1966 | Erik Honoré | Norwegian writer, musician, and record producer (born 1966) |
| 1962 | Ben Browder | American actor, writer and film director |
| 1957 | Peter Bagge | American cartoonist (born 1957) |
| 1946 | Diana Palmer (author) | American romance novelist |
| 1939 | Thomas McGuane | American writer (born 1939) |
| 1937 | Jim Harrison | American poet, novelist, and essayist (1937–2016) |
| 1932 | Keith Waldrop | American poet, translator and professor (1932–2023) |
| 1923 | Morrie Turner | American cartoonist |
| 1922 | Grace Paley | American author, poet, teacher, and activist (1922–2007) |
| 1921 | Ilmar Laaban | Estonian poet and literary critic |
| 1918 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Soviet-Russian author and dissident (1918–2008) |
| 1916 | Elena Garro | Mexican writer (1916-1998) |
| 1913 | Jean Marais | French actor, writer, director and sculptor (1913–1998) |
| 1911 | Val Guest | British director and screenwriter (1911–2006) |
| 1911 | Naguib Mahfouz | Egyptian writer (1911–2006) |
| 1909 | Ronald McKie | Australian novelist (1909–1991) |
| 1908 | Manoel de Oliveira | Portuguese film director, screenwriter and racing driver (1908–2015) |
| 1905 | Robert Henriques | British writer (1905–1967) |
| 1904 | Marge (cartoonist) | American cartoonist |
| 1882 | Subramania Bharati | Indian writer, poet, and Independence activist |
| 1872 | René Bull | Irish illustrator and photographer |
| 1858 | Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko | Soviet and Russian theatre director, writer, playwright, and producer |
| 1810 | Alfred de Musset | French writer (1810–1857) |
| 1801 | Christian Dietrich Grabbe | German playwright (1801–1836) |
Writers who died on December 11
| Died | Writer | Known as |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Anne Rice | American author (1941–2021) |
| 2015 | Abish Kekilbayev | Kazakh politician and writer (1939–2015) |
| 2013 | Barbara Branden | Canadian writer (1929–2013) |
| 2003 | Ahmadou Kourouma | Ivorian novelist (1927–2003) |
| 1996 | Willie Rushton | English cartoonist and comedian (1937–1996) |
| 1991 | Artur Lundkvist | Swedish writer (1906–1991) |
| 1987 | G. A. Kulkarni | Indian writer (1923–1987) |
| 1975 | Nihal Atsız | Turkish ultranationalist writer, novelist, and poet (1905–1975) |
| 1968 | Arthur Hays Sulzberger | Publisher of The New York Times from 1935 to 1961 |
| 1951 | Hijri Dede | Hijri Dede, Iraqi Turkmen poet and writer (born 1881) |
| 1941 | John Gillespie Magee Jr. | Royal Canadian Air Force officer and poet |
| 1920 | Olive Schreiner | South African author and activist (1855–1920) |
| 1918 | Ivan Cankar | Slovene writer and political activist (1876–1918) |
| 1747 | Edmund Curll | British publisher and bookseller (c. 1675–1747) |
| 1737 | John Strype | English clergyman, historian and biographer (1643–1737) |
Featured
Jeff McComsey (1981) — Jeff McComsey, is an American illustrator and author of graphic novels, animations, and video game art.
Adi Keissar (1980) — Adi Keissar is an Israeli poet, and founder of the cultural group Ars Poetica.
Colleen Hoover (1979) — Margaret Colleen Hoover is an American author who primarily writes novels in the romance and young adult fiction genres. She is best known for her 2016 novel It Ends with Us. Many of her works were self-published before they were picked up by a publishing house.
Sources & data
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