September 2

In literary history

• 1973J.R.R. Tolkien died in Bournemouth at eighty-one, buried in Oxford beside his wife Edith, whose gravestone bore the single word he had given her: Lúthien, the immortal elf who chose death to follow the man she loved.

Writers born on September 2

• Giovanni Verga (1840),
• Joseph Roth (1894)

The Daily Canon for September 2

Miss Julie by August Strindberg (1888).