September 21

In literary history

• 1937George Allen and Unwin published The Hobbit after the publisher's ten-year-old son wrote an approving reader's report. The first printing of 1,500 copies sold out by December; the sequel editors immediately begged for took seventeen years to finish.

Writers born on September 21

• H.G. Wells (1866),
• Stephen King (1947)

The Daily Canon for September 21

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1895).