September 26

In literary history

• 1988Salman Rushdie published The Satanic Verses to immediate literary acclaim in Britain. Five months later, the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for his death, and Rushdie spent the following nine years living under a police alias.

Writers born on September 26

• T.S. Eliot (1888),
• Martin Heidegger (1889)

The Daily Canon for September 26

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot (1915).