Portal:Literature/Adil archive/September/15

• 1613 - François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer born
• 1613 - Thomas Overbury, English writer died (murdered)
• 1701 - Edmé Boursault, French writer died
• 1789 - James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist born
• 1889 - Robert Benchley, American author born
• 1890 - Agatha Christie, English writer remembered for her 80 mystery novels, particularly featuring detectives Hercule Poirot or Miss Marple, is born
• 1898 - J. Slauerhoff, Dutch poet and novelist born
• 1914 - Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer born
• 1926 - Rudolf Christoph Eucken, German writer died
• 1955 - Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is published in Paris by Olympia Press.
• 1969 - Jim Curtiss, American writer born
• 1989 - Robert Penn Warren, American writer died
• 2003 - Josef Hiršal, Czech novelist died