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September 30 in literary history
Literary history for September 30: 23 writers born, 7 writers who died and 3 literary events from 1207 to 2015. Born on this day: Téa Obreht, Cecelia Ahern, Jay Asher.
Writers born on September 30
| Born | Writer | Known as |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Téa Obreht | American writer (born 1985) |
| 1981 | Cecelia Ahern | Irish novelist (born 1981) |
| 1975 | Jay Asher | American writer |
| 1975 | Ta-Nehisi Coates | American writer and journalist (born 1975) |
| 1972 | Ari Behn | Norwegian author (1972–2019) |
| 1967 | Emmanuelle Houdart | Swiss artist and illustrator (born 1967) |
| 1960 | Nicola Griffith | British-American writer (b. 1960) |
| 1957 | Fran Drescher | American actress and writer (born 1957) |
| 1951 | John Lloyd (producer) | British producer and writer (born 1951) |
| 1950 | Laura Esquivel | Mexican writer and politician |
| 1943 | Ian Ogilvy | English actor, playwright and novelist (born 1943) |
| 1937 | Jurek Becker | German writer, screenwriter and GDR dissident (1937–1997) |
| 1936 | Sevgi Soysal | Turkish writer (1936–1976) |
| 1929 | Carol Fenner | American children's writer |
| 1928 | Elie Wiesel | American writer and activist (1928–2016) |
| 1927 | W. S. Merwin | American poet (1927–2019) |
| 1924 | Truman Capote | American writer (1924–1984) |
| 1913 | Bill Walsh (producer) | American film producer, screenwriter, and comics author (1913–1975) |
| 1904 | Waldo Williams | Welsh poet and pacifist (1904–1971) |
| 1898 | Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire | Wife-and-husband illustrator and children's writer duo |
| 1814 | Lucinda Hinsdale Stone | American feminist, educator, traveler, writer and philanthropist |
| 1700 | Stanisław Konarski | Polish pedagogue, educational reformer, political writer, poet, dramatist and priest |
| 1207 | Rumi | Sufi mystic and poet (1207–1273) |
Writers who died on September 30
| Died | Writer | Known as |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Göran Hägg | Swedish writer |
| 2010 | Stephen J. Cannell | American television producer and writer (1941–2010) |
| 1998 | Robert Lewis Taylor | American writer |
| 1990 | Patrick White | Australian writer (1912–1990) |
| 1987 | Alfred Bester | American science fiction author (1913–1987) |
| 1865 | Samuel David Luzzatto | Italian Orthodox rabbi, linguist and poet (1800–1865) |
| 1628 | Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke | English poet, dramatist, and statesman (1554–1628) |
Literary events on September 30
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 2005 | Controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in a Danish newspaper. |
| 2005 | The Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published controversial editorial cartoons depicting Muhammad, sparking protests across the Islamic world by many who viewed them as Islamophobic and blasphemous. |
| 1980 | Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation. |
Featured
Téa Obreht (1985) — Téa Obreht is an American novelist. She won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2011 for The Tiger's Wife, her debut novel.
Cecelia Ahern (1981) — Cecelia Ahern is an Irish novelist, known for her works like Where Rainbows End, If You Could See Me Now, and PS, I Love You. Born in Dublin, Ahern is published in nearly fifty countries, and has sold over 25 million copies of her novels worldwide. Two of her books have been adapted as motion films.
Jay Asher (1975) — Jay Asher is an American writer and novelist. He is best known for writing the bestselling 2007 book Thirteen Reasons Why, which later became a very popular Netflix series.
Sources & data
- Compiled from Wikipedia’s “On this day” selections (CC BY-SA 4.0), filtered for writers and literary events.