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

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.

September 8

BORN: 1924 Grace Metalious (Peyton Place), The Tight White Collar), Manchester, N.H.
1947 Ann Beattie (Chilly Scenes of Winter, Distortions), Washington, D.C.
1954 Jon Scieszka (The Stinky Cheese Man, Math Curse), Flint, Mich.

DIED: 1995 Eileen chang (Lust, Caution: Love in a Fallen City), 74, Los Angeles

September 7

BORN: 1900 Taylor Caldwell (Captains and the Kings), Manchester, England
1962 Jennifer Egan (A visit from the Good Squad, Look at Me), Chicago

DIED: 1962 Isak Dinesen (Winter's Tales), 77, Rungsed, Denmark
1990 A. J. P. Taylor (The Struggle for Mastery in Europe), 84, London

September 6

BORN: 1928 Robert M. Pursig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance), Minneapolis
1974 China Miévo;;e. (Perdido Street Statiion), Norwich, England

DIED: 1939 Arthur Rackham (illustrator of Grimm's Fairy Tales), 71, Limpsfield, England
1994 James Clavell (Shōgun, Noble House), 69, Vevey, Switzerland

September 5

BORN:1935 Ward Just (An Unfinished Season, Echo House), Michigan City, Ind.
1950 Cathy Guisewite (Cathy), Dayton, Ohio

DIED: 1803 Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (Les liaisons dangereuses), 61, Taranto, Italy
1997 Leon Edel (Henry James), 89, Honolulu