Status Updates From A Reader's Book of Days: Tr...

October 3

BORN: 1924 Harvey Kurtzman (editor of Mad and Help!, Little Annie Fanny), Brooklyn
1925 Gore Vidal (Burr, Julian, Myra Breckinridge), West Point, N.Y.

DIED: 1896 William Morris (News from Nowhere, Kelmscott Press), 62, London
1967 Woody Guthrie (Bound for Glory), 55, New York City

October 2

BORN: 1879 Wallace Stevens (Harmonium, Ideas of Order), Reading, Pa.
1904 Graham Greene (The Heart of the Matter), kkBerkhamsted, England

DIED: 2002 Norman O. Brown (Life Against Death), 89, Santa Cruz, Calif.
2005 August Wilson (The Piano Lessons, Fences), 60, Seattle

October 1

BORN: 1914 Daniel J. Boorstin (The Image, The Discoverers), Atlanta
1946 Tim O'Brien (The Things They Carried), Austin, Minn.

DIED: 2004 Richard Avedon (Portraits), 81, San Antonio
2012 Eric Hobsbawm (The Age of Revolution), 95, London

September 30

BORN: 1207 Rumi (The Masnavi, The Shams), Wakhsh, Persia
1924 Truman Capote (Other Voices, Other Rooms), New Orleans

DIED: 1990 Michel Leiris (Manhood, The Rules of the Game), 89, Saint-Hilaire, France
2006 André Schwartz-Bart (The Last of the Just), 78, Pointe-á-Pitre, Guadeloupe

September 29

BORN: 1547 Miguel de Cervantes (Don Quixote), Alcalá de Henares, Spain
1810 Elizabeth Gaskell (Cranford, North and South), London

DIED: 1902 Émile Zola (Germinal, L'Assommoir, Nana), 62, Paris
1967 arson McCullers (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter), 50, Nyack, N.Y.

September 28

BORN: 1943 George W.S. Trow (Within the Context of No Context), Greenwich, Conn.
1944 Simon Winchester (The Professor and the Madman), London

DIED: 1891 Herman Melville (The Confidence-Man, Billy Budd), 72, New York City
1970 John Don Passos (The 42nd Parallel, 1919, The Big Money), 74, Baltimore

September 27

BORN: 1955 Charles Burns (Black Hole, Big Baby), Washington, D.C.
1958 Irvine Welsh (Transporting, The Acid House), Edinburgh

DIED: 1961 H.D. (Helen in Egypt, Trilogy), 75, Zurich
2009 William Safire (On Language, Safire's Political Dictionary), 79, Rockville, Md.

September 26

BORN: 1888 T.S. Eliot (The Waste Land, Four Quarters), St. Louis
1949 Jane Smiley (A Thousand Acres, The Age of Grief), Los Angeles

DIED: 1936 Harriet Monroe (editor, Poetry) 75, Arequipa, Peru
1990 Alberto Moravia (The Conformist, Contempt, Boredom), 82, Rome

September 25

BORN: 1897 William Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying), New Albany, Miss.
1930 Shel Silverstein (Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic), Chicago

DIED: 1968 Cornell Woolrich (The Bride Wore Black), 64, New York City
1970 Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front), 72, Locarno, Switzerland

September 24

BORN: 1896 F. Scott Fitzgerald (This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby), St. Paul, Mine,
1944 Eavan Boland (Against Love Poetry, In a Time of Violence), Dublin

DIED: 1991 Dr. Seuss (Green Eggs and Ham, The Lorax), 87, La Jola, Calif.
2004 Francois Sagan (Bonjour Tristesse, A Certain Smile), 69, Honfleur, France

September 23

BORN: 1865 Baroness Emmuska Orczy (The Scarlet Pimpernel), Tarnaörs, Hungary
1907 Pauline Réagi (The Story of O), Rochefort, France

DIED: 1889 Wilkie Collins (The Woman in White, The Moonstone), 65, London
1939 Sigmund Freud (Civilization and Its Discontents), 83, London

September 22

BORN: 1924 Rosamunde Pilcher (The Shell Seekers), Lelant, England
1932 Fay Weldon (The Lives and Loves of a She-Devil), Birmingham, England

DIED: 1914 Henri Alain-Fournier (The Lost Estate), 27, aux-lés-Palameix, France
1968 Charles Jackson (The Lost Weekend), 65, New York City

September 21

BORN: 1866 H.G. Wells (The War of the World, Tuno-Bungay), Bromley, England
1947 Stephen King (Carrie, The Stand, The Dark Tower), Portland, Maine

DIED: 19 B.C. Virgil (The Aeneid, The Eclogues), 50, Brundisium, Roman Empire
1918 Jacqueline Susann (Valley of the Dolls, The Love Machine), 56, New York City

BORN: 1948 George R.R. Martin (A Game of Thrones), Bayonne, N.J.
1951 Javier Marias (Your Face Tomorrow), Madrid

DIED: 1863 Jacob Grimm (Grimm's Fairy Tales, Deutsches Wörterbuch), 78, Berlin
1933 Annie Besant (The Ancient Wisdom, Occult Chemistry), 85, Adyar, India

September 19

BORN: 1920 Roger Angell (The Summer Game, Let Me Finish), New York City
1921 Paulo Freire (The Pedagogy of the Oppressed), Recife, Brazil

DIED: 1942 Condé Nast (publisher of Vogue, Vanity Fair), 69, New York City
1985 Italo Calvino (If on a winter's night a traveler), 61, Siena, Italy

September 17

BORN: 1932 Robert B. Parker (Promised Land, Early Autumn), Springfield, Mass.
1954 Steven Pinker (The Language Instinct, The Blank Slate), Montreal

DIED: 1830 William Hazlitt (Table-Talk, The Spirit of the Age), 52, London
1951 Gelett Burgess (Goops, and How to Be Them), 85, Carmel, Calif

September 16

BORN: 1898 H.A. Rey (Curious George, The Stars), Hamburg, Germany
1950 Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Coloured People, The Signifying Monkey), Keyset, W. Va.

DIED: 1672 Anne Bradstreet (The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America), c. 60, North Andover, Mass.
2007 Robert Jordan, (Wheel of Time series), 58, Charleston, S.C.

September 15

BORN: 1789 James Fenimore Cooper (The Last of the Mohicans), Burlington, N.J.
1890 Agatha Christie (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd), Torquay, England

DIED: 1938 Thomas Wolfe (Look Homeward, Angel, Of Time and the River), 37, Baltimore

1989 Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men, Night Rider), 84, Stratton, Vt.

September 14

BORN: 1930 Allan Bloom (The Closing of the American Mind), Indianapolis
1934 Kate Miller (Sexual Politcs, The Loony-Bin Trip), St. Paul, Mine.

DIED: 1321 Dante Alighieri (The Divine comedy, La vita nuovo), C. 56, Ravenna, Italy
1982 John Gardner (Grendel, The Art of Fiction), 49, Susquehanna, Pa.

September 13

BORN: 1916 Roald Dahl (James and the Giant Peach), Llandaff, Wales
1920 Else Holemelund Minarik (Father Bear Comes Home), Denmark

DIED: 1592 Michel de Montaigne (Eassays), 59, Chateau de Montaigne, France
1928 Italo Svevo (Zero's Conscience), 66, Motta di Licenza, Italy

September 12

BORN: 1880 H. L. Mencken (The American Language, Prejudices), Baltimore
1943 Michael Ondaatje (Coming Through Slaughter), Colombo, Ceylon

DIED: 1869 Peter Mark Roget (Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases), 90, West Malvern, England
2008 David Foster Wallace (Consider the Lobster), 46, Claremont, Calif.

September 11

BORN: 1885 D.H. Lawrence (Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow), Eastwood, England
1959 Andre Dubus III (The House of Sand and Fog, Townie), Oceanside, Calif.

DIED: 1958 Robert W. Service ("The Cremation of Sam McGee"), 84, Lancieux, France
2009 Jim Carroll (The Basketball Diaries, Forced Entries), 60, New York City

September 10

BORN: 1935 Mary Oliver (American Primitive, Thirst), Maple Heights, Ohio
1937 Jared Diamond (Guns, Germs, and Steel; Collapes), Boston

DIED: 1976 Dalton Trumbo (Johnny Got His Gun, Eclipse), 70, Los Angeles
1994 Amy Clampitt (The Kingfisher, What the Light was Like), 74, Lenox, Mass.

September 9

BORN: 1868 Mary Austin (The Land of Little Rain, The Ford), Carlinville, Ill.
1964 Aleksandar Hemon (Nowhere Man, The Lazarus Project), Sarajevo

DIED: 1898 Stéphane Mallarmé (The Afternoon of a Faun), 56, Valvins, France
1980 John Howard Griffin (Black Like Me, Scattered Shadows), 60, Fort Worth, Tex.

August 2022 - July 2023 is the plan.