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

September 4

BORN: 1905 Mary Renault (The King Must Die), Forest Gate, England
1908 Richard Wright (Black Boy, Uncle Tom's Children), Roxie, Miss.

DIED: 1977 E. F. Schumacher (Small Is Beautiful), 66, Romont, Switzerland
1989 Georges Simenon (Dirty Snow, My Friend Maigret), 86, Lausanne, Switzerland

September 3

BORN: 1940 Eduardo Galeano (Open Veins of Latin America), Montevideo, Uruguay
1963 Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point, Outliers), Fareham, England

DIED: 1883 Ivan Turgenev (Fathers and Sons, Torrents of Spring), 64, Bougival, France
2001 Pauline Kael (I Lost It at the Movies), 82, Great Barrington, Mass.

September 2

BORN: 1894 Joseph Roth (The Radetsky March),, Brody, Austro-Hungarian Empire
1918 Allen Drury (Advice and Consent, Preserve and Protect), Houston, Tex.

DIED: 1973 J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings), 81, Bournemouth, England
1997 Viktor Frankl (Man's Search for Meaning), 92, Vienna

September 1

BORN: 1889 Herbert Asbury (The Gangs of New York), Farmington, Mo.
1942 C.J. Cherryh (Downbelow Station, Cyteen), St. Louis

DIED: 1729 Richard Steele (The Tatler, The Spectator), 57, Carmarthen, Wales
1967 Siegfried Sassoon (Counter-Attack), 80, Heytesbury, England

August 31

BORN: 1885 DuBose Heyward (Porgy, Mamba's Daughters), Charleston, S.C.
1908 William Sorayan (The Human Comedy), Fresno, Calif.

DIED: 1688 John Bunya (The Pilgrims's Progress), 59, London
1951 Abraham Cahan (The Rise of David Lewinsky), 91, New York City

August 30

BORN: 1797 Mary Shelley (Frankenstein), London
1943 Robert Crumb (Fritz the Cat, Zap Comix), Philadelphia

DIED: 1989 Seymour Krim (Shake It for the World, Smarts), 67, New York City
2006 Naguib Mahfouz (Palace Walk, Midaq Alley), 94, Cario

August 29

BORN: 1929 Thom Gunn (The Man with Night Sweats), Gravesend, England
1947 Temple Grandin (Thinking in Pictures, Animals in Translation), Boston

DIED: 1769 Edmond Hoyle (A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist), c. 97, London
1981 Lowell Thomas (With Lawrence in Arabia), 89, Pawling, N.Y.

August 28

BORN: 1749 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (The Sorrows of Young Werther), Frankfurt
1828 Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace, Anna Karenina), Yasnaya Pollyanna, Russia

DIED: 1989 Joseph Alsop (I've Seen the Best of It), 78, Washington, D.C.
1993 E. P. thompson (The Making of the English Working Class), 69, Worcester, England

August 26

BORN: 1880 Guillaume Apollinaire (Calligrammes, Alcools), Rome
1941 Barbara Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dime, Fear of Falling), Butte, Mont.

DIED: 1945 Franz Werfel (The Forty Days of Musa Degh), 54, Los Angeles
1989 Irving Stone (Lust for Life, The Agony and the Ecstasy), 86, Los Angeles

August 25

BORN: 1921 Brian Moore (Black Robe, Lies of Silence), Belfast, Northern Ireland
1949 Martin Amis (Money, Time's Arrow), Swansea, Wales

DIED: 1900 Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil) 55, Weimar, Germany
1984 Truman Capote (Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood), 59, Los Angeles

August 24

BORN: 1899 Jorge Borges (A Universal History of Infamy), Buenos Aires
1977 John Green (Paper Towns, The Fault in Our Stars), Indianapolis

DIED: 1943 Simone Weil (Waiting for God, The Need for Roots), 34, Ashford, England
2004 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (On Death and Dying), 78, Scottsdale, Ariz.

August 23

BORN: 1926 Clifford Geertz (The Interpretation of Cultures), San Francisco
1975 Curtis Sittenfeld (Prep, American Wife), Cincinnati

DIED: 1723 Increase Mather (A Further Account of the Trials of the New-England Witches), 84, Boston
2012 James Fogle (Drugstore Cowboy), 75, Monroe, Wash.

August 22

BORN: 1920 Ray Bradbury (The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451), Waukegan, Ill.
1931 Annie Proulx (Brokeback Mountain, The Shipping News), Norwich, Conn.

DIED: 1979 James T. Farrell (Young Lonigan, Judgement Day), 75, New York City
2007 Grace Haley (Enormous Changes at the Last Minute), 84, Thetford, Vt.

August 21

BORN: 1930 Joseph McElroy Women and Men), New York City
1937 Robert Stone (Dog Soldiers, Children of Light), Brooklyn

DIED: 1940 Leon Trotsky (The History of the Russian Revolution), 60, Mexico City
2007 Siobhan Dowd (Bog Child, The London Eye Mystery), 47, Oxford, England

August 20

BORN: 1890 H.P. Lovecaft (At the Mountains of Madness), Providence, R.I.
1951 Greg Bear (The Forge of God, Darwin's Radio), San Diego. Calif.

DIED: 1887 Jules Laforgue (The Imitation of Our Lady the Moon), 27, Paris
2001 Fred Hoyle (The Black Cloud(, 86, Bournemouth, England

August 18

BORN: 1922 Alain Robbe-Grillet (The Voyeur, The Erasers), Brest, France
1974 Nicole Krauss (The History of Love, Great House), New York City

DIED: 1850 Honoré de Balzac (Père Goriot, Eugenię Gradet), 51, Paris
1981 Anita Loos (Gentleman Prefer Blondes), 92, New York City

August 17

BORN: 1932 V.S. Naipaul (A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River), Chaquanas, Trinidad
1959 Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections, Freedom), Western Spring, Ill.

DIED: 1935 Charlotte Perkins Gilman (The Yellow Wallpaper), 75, Pasadena, Calif.
1973 Conrad Aiken (The Charnel Rose, Ushant), 84, Savannah, Ga.

August 16

BORN: 1902 Georgette Heyer (The Black Moth, The Grand Sophy), London
1902 Wallace Thurman (The Blacker the Berry), Salt Lake City

DIED: 1949 Margaret Mitchell (Gone with the Wind), 48, Atlanta
1998 Dorothy West (The Wedding, The Living Is Easy), 91, Boston

BORN; 1771 Walter Scott (Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Waverley), Edinburgh
1885 Endna Ferber (So Big, Show Boat, Giant), Kalamazoo, Mich.

DIED: 2009 Richard Poirier (A World Elsewhere), 83, New York City
2012 Harry Harrison (Make Room! Make Room!), 87, Brighton, England

August 14

BORN: 1947 Danielle Steele (The Promise, Fine Things), New York City
1950 Gary Larson (The Far Side), Tacoma, Wash.

DIED: 1951 William Randolph Hearst (publisher, New York Journal), 88, Beverly Hills, Calif.
1963 Clifford Odets (Waiting for Lefty, Awake and Sing!), 57, Los Angeles

August 13

BORN: 1940 Michael Herr (Dispatches, Winter Winchell), Syracuse, N.Y.
1961 Tom Perrotta (Election, Little Children), Garwood, N.J.

DIED: 2004 Julia Child (Mastering the Art of French Cooking), 91, Montecito, Calif.
2012 Helen Gurley Brown (Sex and the Single Girl), 90, New York City

August 12

BORN: 1937 Walter Dean Myers, (Fallen Angels, Monster), Martinsburgh, W.Va.
1964 Katherine Boo (Behind the Beautiful Forevers(, Washington, D.C.

DIED: 1955, Thomas Mann (The Magic Mountain, Doctor Faustus), 80, Zurich
1964 Ian Fleming (Dr. No, chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang), 56, Canterbury, England

August 11

BORN: 1897 Louise Bogan (The Blue Estuaries), Livermore Falls, Maine
1922 Mavis Gallant (From the Fifteenth District), Montreal

DIED: 1890 John Henry Newman (Apologia pro vita sua), 89, Edgbaston, England
1979 J.G. Farrell (Troubles, The Siege of Krishapur), 44, Bantry Bay, Ireland

August 10

BORN: 1962 Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games, Catching Fire), Hartford, Conn.
1963 Andrew Sullivan (Virtually Normal), South Godstone, England

DIED: 1948 Montague Summers (The History of Witchcraft and Demonology), 68, Richmond, England

August 9

BORN: 1922 Philip Larkin ("The Whitson Weddings," High Windows), Coventry, England
1949 Jonathan Kellerman (When the Bough Breaks), New York City

DIED: 1967 Joe Orton (Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Loot), 34, London
2008 Mahmoud Darwish (Unfortunately, It Was Paradise), 67, Houston, Tex.

August 8

BORN: 1922 Gertrude Himmelfarb (The Roads to Modernity), Brooklyn
1931 Roger Penrose (The Road to Reality), Colchester, England

DIED: 1984 Ellen Raskin (The Westing Game), 56, New York City
2008 Ted Solotaroff (Truth Comes in Blows), 79, East Quogue, N.Y,

BORN: 1942 Garrison Keillor (Lake Wobegon Days, WLT), Anoka, Minn.
1953 Anne Fadiman (The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down), New York City

DIED: 1941 Rabindranath Tiger (Gitanjali, The Home and the World), 80, Calcutta
1995 Bridget Brophy (Hackenfeller's Ape, Black Ship to Hell) 66, Louth, England

BORN: 1934 Dian di Prima (Loba, Memoirs of a Beatknik), Brooklyn
1934 Piers Anthony (A Spell for Chameleon, Split Infinity), Oxford, England

DIED: 2010 Tony Judt (Postwar, The Memory Chalet), 62, New York City
2012 Robert Hughes (The Fatal Shore, The Shock of the New), 74, Bronx, N.Y.

BORN: 1850 Guy de Maupassant (Bel-Ami, "Boule de Sif"), Dieppe, France
1934 Wendell Berry (Jyber Crow, The Unsettling of America), Her County, Ky,

DIED: 1895 Friedrich Engels (The Condition of the Working Class in England), 74, London
2009 Budd Schulberg (What Makes Sammy Run?), 95, Quogue, N.Y.