Calendar of Literary Facts

September 15...

1889: Claude McKay is born

1914: Adolfo Bioy Casares is born

1916: José Echegaray dies

1926: Rudolf Eucken dies

1935: The German Reichstag passes the “Nuremburg Laws,” stripping German-born Jews of their citizenship and barring them from marrying Aryans or flying the German flag

1938: Thomas Wolfe dies

1952: Loren D. Estleman is born

1987: Margaret Laurence dies

1989: Robert Penn Warren dies