This Day in the Arts: November 11
1821:
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a Russian writer and thinker and one of the world’s greatest novelists, is born. His works dramatize religious, moral, political, and psychological issues.
1922:
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is born. This American novelist and short-story writer is best known for his irreverent satires of social and political trends and for his vision of life as an absurd, apocalyptic comedy.
