On this day in literature
September 8
In literary history
- 1935Huey Long was shot in the Louisiana State Capitol he had built, and died thirty-one hours later. Robert Penn Warren turned him into Willie Stark in All the King's Men, then spent the rest of his life insisting that Willie Stark was not Huey Long and was only himself.
Writers born on September 8
- Lodovico Ariosto (1474),
- W.W. Jacobs (1863)