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The Calendar of Literary Facts contains more than 6,500 events in literary history.

September 15 Literary Facts

Claude McKay is born

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Adolfo Bioy Casares is born

Explore: The Invention of Morel, Adolfo Bioy Casares

José Echegaray dies

Rudolf Eucken dies

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

Loren D. Estleman is born

Margaret Laurence dies

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Robert Penn Warren dies

Explore: All the King's Men, Blackberry Winter, Robert Penn Warren