On this day in literature
September 29
In literary history
- 1902Émile Zola was found dead of carbon monoxide from a blocked chimney flue. In 1953, a roofer's deathbed confession alleged he and his workmates had blocked it deliberately and cleared it before dawn, on behalf of the anti-Dreyfus right.
Writers born on September 29
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547),
- William Beckford (1760),
- Elizabeth Gaskell (1810)