On this day in literature
September 30
In literary history
- 1868Louisa May Alcott published the first volume of Little Women, a novel she had not wanted to write, about a world she considered dull. It sold out within weeks, and she would never escape it.
- 2017The United Nations fixed International Translation Day to 30 September, the feast of St Jerome, who spent his last decades in Bethlehem turning the Bible into the Latin that Europe would read for a thousand years. It took until 2017 for the General Assembly to say so.
Writers born on September 30
- Rumi (1207),
- Truman Capote (1924)