On this day
September 7 in literary history
Literary history for September 7: 23 writers born, 20 writers who died and 1 literary events from 1601 to 2013. Born on this day: W. Earl Brown, Jennifer Egan, Peggy Noonan.
Writers born on September 7
| Born | Writer | Known as |
|---|---|---|
| 1963 | W. Earl Brown | American actor, screenwriter, producer and musician (born 1963) |
| 1962 | Jennifer Egan | Novelist, short story writer |
| 1950 | Peggy Noonan | American political commentator and author (born 1950) |
| 1944 | Houshang Moradi Kermani | Iranian children's writer |
| 1940 | Dario Argento | Italian film director and screenwriter |
| 1939 | Peter Gill (playwright) | Welsh theatre director, playwright and actor (1939–2026) |
| 1934 | Sunil Gangopadhyay | Indian poet and author (1934–2012) |
| 1932 | Malcolm Bradbury | English author and academic (1932–2000) |
| 1927 | Eric Hill | English children's book author and illustrator (1927–2014) |
| 1923 | Nancy Keesing | Australian writer (1923–1993) |
| 1920 | Harri Webb | Welsh poet |
| 1904 | C. B. Colby | American writer |
| 1903 | Margaret Landon | American writer known for 'Anna and the King of Siam' (1903–1993) |
| 1903 | Dorothy Marie Donnelly | Dorothy Marie Donnelly, American poet and author (died 1994) |
| 1900 | Taylor Caldwell | American novelist (1900–1985) |
| 1895 | Jacques Vaché | French poet (1895–1919) |
| 1887 | Edith Sitwell | British poet and critic (1887–1964) |
| 1885 | Elinor Wylie | American poet |
| 1876 | C. J. Dennis | Australian poet (1876–1938) |
| 1870 | Aleksandr I. Kuprin | Russian author (1870–1938) |
| 1866 | Tristan Bernard | French playwright (1866–1947) |
| 1795 | John William Polidori | English writer and physician (1795-1821) |
| 1791 | Giuseppe Gioachino Belli | Italian poet (1791–1863) |
Writers who died on September 7
| Died | Writer | Known as |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Ilja Hurník | Czech composer and essayist (1922–2013) |
| 1995 | Russell Johnson (cartoonist) | American cartoonist |
| 1994 | Terence Young (director) | British film director and screenwriter (1915–1994) |
| 1985 | Jacoba van Velde | Dutch writer, translator and dramaturge |
| 1985 | José Zabala-Santos | Filipino cartoonist (1911–1985) |
| 1983 | Tamurbek Dawletschin | Soviet writer (1904–1983) |
| 1981 | Christy Brown | Irish writer and painter (1932–1981) |
| 1962 | Karen Blixen | Danish writer (1885–1962) |
| 1956 | C. B. Fry | English sportsman and writer (1872–1956) |
| 1954 | Bud Fisher | American cartoonist (1885–1954) |
| 1943 | Mary Karadja | Swedish writer and spiritualist (1868–1943) |
| 1939 | Kyōka Izumi | Japanese writer (1873–1939) |
| 1929 | Frederic Weatherly | English barrister and lyricist (1848-1929) |
| 1921 | Alfred William Rich | English artist, teacher and author (1856–1921) |
| 1907 | Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu | Romanian writer and philologist (1838–1907) |
| 1892 | John Greenleaf Whittier | American Quaker poet and abolitionist (1807–1892) |
| 1881 | Sidney Lanier | American musician and poet (1842–1881) |
| 1833 | Hannah More | English poet and playwright (1745–1833) |
| 1655 | François Tristan l'Hermite | French dramatist |
| 1601 | John Shakespeare | Father of playwright William Shakespeare (1520–1601) |
Literary events on September 7
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1911 | French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum. |
Featured
W. Earl Brown (1963) — William Earl Brown is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, musician, and songwriter.
Jennifer Egan (1962) — Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short-story writer. Her novel A Visit from the Goon Squad won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. From 2018 to 2020, she served as the president of PEN America.
Peggy Noonan (1950) — Margaret Ellen Noonan is an American weekly columnist for The Wall Street Journal and contributor to NBC News and ABC News. She was a primary speechwriter and Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan from 1984 to 1986. Five of Noonan's books have been New York Times bestsellers.
Sources & data
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