September 15

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born September 15, 1977) Nigerian novelist – Half of a Yellow Sun (2006)

Read more about Adichie here

Watch Adichie talk about her writing
 here


Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie (born September 15, 1890) U.K. detective fiction writer – Murder in Mesopotamia (1936, Hercule Poirot)

Read more about Christie here

Watch the documentary
Agatha Christie - 100 Years of Poirot
 here

Watch a documentary about Christie's temporary disappearance here


Dan Lungu

Dan Lungu (born Septembe 15, 1969) – Romanian novelist, short story writer, sociologist, essayist – Chicken Paradise (aka Hen’s Heaven) (2006)

Read an article by Dan Lungu
"The Paradox of Nostalgia Over Communism"


Marie Arana

Marie Arana (born September 15, 1949) U.S. / Peruvian journalist, memoirist – American Chica (2001); Bolivar, American Liberator (2013)

Visit Marie Arana's website https://mariearana.net/maries-story/

Marie Arana talks about the subject of her book
 Bolivar: American Liberator


Elizabeth Welskopf

Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich (Elizabeth Charlotte Welskopf) (born September 15, 1901) – German novelist, history professor, philosopher – Das helle Gesicht (The Pale Face)

Read more about Welskopf here