On this day
September 3 in literary history
Literary history for September 3: 16 writers born and 19 writers who died from 1592 to 2017. Born on this day: Kiran Desai, Steven Johnson Leyba, Malcolm Gladwell.
Writers born on September 3
| Born | Writer | Known as |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Kiran Desai | Indian author (born 1971) |
| 1966 | Steven Johnson Leyba | Steven Johnson Leyba, American painter and author |
| 1963 | Malcolm Gladwell | Canadian journalist and author (born 1963) |
| 1961 | Andy Griffiths (author) | Australian children's writer (born 1961) |
| 1957 | Sadhguru | Indian yogi and author (born 1957) |
| 1941 | Sergei Dovlatov | Soviet journalist and writer (1941–1990) |
| 1940 | Eduardo Galeano | Uruguayan writer and journalist (1940–2015) |
| 1938 | Liliane Ackermann | French community leader, writer, lecturer |
| 1938 | Sarah Bradford | English author |
| 1938 | Caryl Churchill | British playwright (born 1938) |
| 1930 | Cherry Wilder | Pseudonym of Kiwi science fiction and fantasy writer Cherry Barbara Grimm, née Lockett |
| 1926 | Alison Lurie | American novelist and academic (1926–2020) |
| 1923 | Mort Walker | American comic strip cartoonist (1923–2018) |
| 1920 | Tereska Torrès | French writer (1920–2012) |
| 1897 | Sally Benson | American author of short stories and screenwriter (1897–1972) |
| 1849 | Sarah Orne Jewett | American novelist (1849–1909) |
Writers who died on September 3
| Died | Writer | Known as |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | John Ashbery | American poet (1927–2017) |
| 2013 | Janet Lembke | American author and translator (1933–2013) |
| 2005 | R. S. R. Fitter | British naturalist & author (1913–2005) |
| 2003 | Alan Dugan | American poet (1923–2003) |
| 2002 | W. Clement Stone | American New Thought author (1902–2002) |
| 2000 | Edward Anhalt | American screenwriter |
| 1999 | Emma Bailey | American auctioneer and author |
| 1981 | Alec Waugh | British novelist (1898–1981) |
| 1970 | Vasil Gendov | Bulgarian actor, film director and screenwriter (1891–1970) |
| 1963 | Louis MacNeice | Irish poet and playwright (1907–1963) |
| 1962 | E. E. Cummings | American poet and author (1894–1962) |
| 1942 | Will James (artist) | Canadian-American artist and writer (1892–1942) |
| 1936 | Nikita Balieff | Russian Armenian born vaudevillian, stage performer, writer, impresario and director |
| 1906 | Mihály Kolossa | Slovene ploughman and writer (1846–1906) |
| 1903 | Joseph Skipsey | English miner, author and poet (1832–1903) |
| 1901 | Evelyn Abbott | English writer and classical scholar (1843–1901) |
| 1883 | Ivan Turgenev | Russian writer (1818–1883) |
| 1653 | Claudius Salmasius | French classical scholar, writer and professor in Leiden (1588–1653) |
| 1592 | Robert Greene (dramatist) | English author (1558–1592) |
Featured
Kiran Desai (1971) — Kiran Desai is an Indian author. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. In 2015, The Economic Times named her one of 20 most influential global Indian women.
Steven Johnson Leyba (1966) — Steven Johnson Leyba is an American artist and musician whose work has used swastikas..
Malcolm Gladwell (1963) — Malcolm Timothy Gladwell is a British-Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He has published eight books. He is also the host of the podcast Revisionist History and co-founder of the podcast company Pushkin Industries.
Sources & data
- Compiled from Wikipedia’s “On this day” selections (CC BY-SA 4.0), filtered for writers and literary events.