On this day in literature
September 7
In literary history
- 1962Karen Blixen died of malnutrition at Rungstedlund, the family house where she wrote Out of Africa; by the end she could not eat at all. Hemingway, on winning the Nobel in 1954, had named her one of three writers who deserved it more than he did.
Writers born on September 7
- Jennifer Egan (1962)