September 24

In literary history

• 1991Theodor Geisel, who wrote as Dr. Seuss, died at eighty-seven. His most famous book, Green Eggs and Ham, was the result of a fifty-dollar bet that he could not write a story using only fifty distinct words. He won; his publisher never paid.

Writers born on September 24

• Horace Walpole (1717),
• F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896)

The Daily Canon for September 24

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925).