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September 26 in literary history
Literary history for September 26: 21 writers born and 14 writers who died from 1241 to 2014. Born on this day: Jake Paltrow, Mark Haddon, Will Self.
Writers born on September 26
| Born | Writer | Known as |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Jake Paltrow | American film director, screenwriter and actor |
| 1962 | Mark Haddon | English writer and illustrator (born 1962) |
| 1961 | Will Self | English writer and journalist (born 1961) |
| 1959 | Ilya Kormiltsev | Russian writer (1959–2007) |
| 1957 | Bob Staake | American cartoonist |
| 1949 | Jane Smiley | American novelist (born 1949) |
| 1949 | Minette Walters | English writer |
| 1946 | Andrea Dworkin | American feminist writer and activist (1946–2005) |
| 1946 | John MacLachlan Gray | Canadian writer, composer and performer (born 1946) |
| 1946 | Louise Simonson | American comic book writer and editor (born 1946) |
| 1946 | Christine Todd Whitman | American politician and author (born 1946) |
| 1932 | Vladimir Voinovich | Russian writer and Soviet dissident (1932–2018) |
| 1919 | Matilde Camus | Spanish poet (1919–2012) |
| 1889 | Gordon Brewster | Irish cartoonist (1889–1946) |
| 1888 | J. Frank Dobie | American writer (1888–1964) |
| 1888 | T. S. Eliot | Poet, essayist and playwright (1888–1965) |
| 1887 | Edwin Keppel Bennett | British writer (1887–1958) |
| 1876 | Ghulam Bhik Nairang | Pakistani writer and politician (1876–1952) |
| 1873 | Wacław Berent | Polish novelist and translator |
| 1872 | Max Ehrmann | American writer, poet, and attorney (1872–1945) |
| 1843 | Joseph Furphy | Australian author and poet (1843–1912) |
Writers who died on September 26
| Died | Writer | Known as |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Sam Hall (writer) | American screenwriter |
| 2005 | Helen Cresswell | English children's writer (1934–2005) |
| 1997 | Dorothy Kingsley | American screenwriter |
| 1990 | Alberto Moravia | Italian novelist and journalist (1907–1990) |
| 1987 | Herbert Tichy | Austrian author, geologist, journalist and climber |
| 1973 | Samuel Flagg Bemis | American historian and biographer |
| 1972 | Charles Correll | American comedian, actor and writer (1890–1972) |
| 1947 | Hugh Lofting | English-American children's writer (1886–1947) |
| 1935 | Andy Adams (writer) | American writer |
| 1935 | Iván Persa | Hungarian Slovene Roman Catholic priest and writer |
| 1904 | Lafcadio Hearn | Writer and translator (1850–1904) |
| 1327 | Cecco d'Ascoli | Italian physician and poet (1257–1327) |
| 1313 | Gottfried von Hagenau | Medieval priest, physician, theologian and poet from Alsace, France |
| 1241 | Fujiwara no Teika | Japanese poet and court noble |
Featured
Jake Paltrow (1975) — Jake Paltrow is an American film director, screenwriter and actor. Coming from a family of actors, he is the younger brother of Gwyneth Paltrow and the son of Bruce Paltrow and Blythe Danner.
Mark Haddon (1962) — Mark Haddon is an English novelist, best known for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2003). He won the Whitbread Award, the Dolly Gray Children's Literature Award, the Guardian Prize, and a Commonwealth Writers' Prize for his work.
Will Self (1961) — William Woodard Self is an English writer, journalist, political commentator and broadcaster. He has written 11 novels, five collections of shorter fiction, three novellas and nine collections of non-fiction writing.
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