September 5

In literary history

• 1957Viking Press published On the Road and Gilbert Millstein's rave ran in the New York Times the same morning. Kerouac had gone to bed obscure; he spent the remaining twelve years of his life unable to recover from the fame.

Writers born on September 5

• Arthur Koestler (1905)

The Daily Canon for September 5

Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler (1940).