September 15

In literary history

• 1955Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita was published in Paris by Olympia Press after five American publishers refused it, one warning that everyone involved would go to jail. The novel became one of the most celebrated books of the century it had horrified.

Writers born on September 15

• La Rochefoucauld (1613),
• James Fenimore Cooper (1789),
• Agatha Christie (1890),
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977)

The Daily Canon for September 15

Antigone by Sophocles (-441).