Calendar of Literary Facts

September 11...

1862: William Sydney Porter (“O. Henry”) is born

1885: D. H. Lawrence is born

1928: William X. Kienzle is born

1934: Leon Rooke is born

1958: Robert W. Service dies

2001: Members of the Al-Quaeda terrorist network commandeer and crash four commercial airliners, destroying New York’s World Trade Center and part of the Pentagon, killing nearly 3,000 American citizens