Portal:Literature/Adil archive/September/26
- 1763 - John Byron, English poet died
- 1887 - Edwin Keppel Bennett, British writer born
- 1888 - T. S. Eliot, American-born writer and editor born
- 1932 - Vladimir Voinovich, Russian writer and dissident born
- 1947 - Hugh Lofting, British writer died
- 1949 - Jane Smiley, American writer born
- 1961 - Will Self, British author born
- 1990 - Alberto Moravia, Italian author died