Today in literary history!
Sep. 2
 | Allen Drury (Advise and Consent) was born on this day in 1918 |
| Ayn Rand started writing Atlas Shrugged on this day in 1946 |
| J. R. R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings) died on this day in 1973 |
| Maeve Binchy's The Glass Lake was published on this day in 1994 |
| Allen Drury (Advise and Consent) died on this day in 1998, his eightieth birthday |
| Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin was published on this day in 2000. It would win the Booker Prize in 2000 and the Hammett Prize in 2001. |
| Frederik Pohl (All the Lives he Led, Man Plus) died on this day in 2013 |
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