On this day in literature
October 15
In literary history
- 1844Friedrich Nietzsche was born at Röcken in Saxony. He had the fourth part of Thus Spoke Zarathustra printed at his own expense, forty copies, and gave them to his closest friends with a vehement wish that it never be made public. It is in every edition now.
Writers born on October 15
- Mikhail Lermontov (1814),
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844),
- John Kenneth Galbraith (1908),
- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr (1917),
- Mario Puzo (1920),
- Italo Calvino (1923)