On this day in literature
September 25
In literary history
- 1897William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, into a family that spelled the name Falkner. The u arrived by somebody else's mistake, on his RAF papers or a typesetter's proof depending on who tells it, and he kept it. Asked about the change, he said either way suited him.
Writers born on September 25
- Charles Robert Maturin (1780),
- Lu Xun (1881),
- William Faulkner (1897)