Portal:Literature/Adil archive/September/20

• 1878 - Upton Sinclair, American writer born
• 1884 - Maxwell Perkins, American editor of novelists born
• 1898 - Theodor Fontane, German writer died
• 1902 - Stevie Smith, British poet and novelist born
• 1923 - Geraldine Clinton Little, Irish-born poet born
• 1928 - Donald Hall, American poet born
• 1948 - George R. R. Martin, American writer born
• 1971 - Giorgos Seferis, Greek writer died
• 1975 - Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and writer died