People born in the month of September usually fall under the star sign, Virgo. Virgos born on September 15 have a talent for communicating. They are truthful but they need a fantasy world that lets them escape from harsh realities. They believe in putting their reputation on the line for a good cause but they are not controversial. Their sensitive nature may sometimes hide a sparkling personality.
Some of the greatest writers of our time were born today and keeping the Virgo-characteristic in mind, it is not surprising that they became great communicators and interesting personalities.
Below are 5 top writers born today, September 15. Fun fact: Only one on our list is still living.
1. Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE was an English writer. She is known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around her fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. Christie also wrote the world’s longest-running play, a murder mystery, The Mousetrap, and, under the pen name Mary Westmacott, six romances. In 1971 she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) for her contribution to literature. Guinness World Records lists Christie as the best-selling novelist of all time.
She was born on the 15th of September 1890 and died on the 12th of January 1976 at 85.
Her novels have sold roughly 2 billion copies, and her estate claims that her works come third in the rankings of the world’s most-widely published books, behind only Shakespeare’s works and the Bible.
2. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer whose works range from novels to short stories to nonfiction. She was described in The Times Literary Supplement as “the most prominent” of a “procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors [who] is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature”.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born on the 15th of September 1977.
Ngozi Adichie’s original and initial inspiration came from Chinua Achebe, after reading late Prof. Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”, at the age of 10. Adichie was inspired by seeing her own life represented in the pages.
3. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac was a noted French author of maxims and memoirs. It is said that his world-view was clear-eyed and urbane, and that he neither condemned human conduct nor sentimentally celebrated it. Born in Paris on the Rue des Petits Champs, at a time when the royal court was vacillating between aiding the nobility and threatening it, he was considered an exemplar of the accomplished 17th-century nobleman. Until 1650, he bore the title of Prince de Marcillac.
He was born on the 15th of September 1613 and died on the 17th of March 1680 at 66.
His importance as a social and historical figure is overshadowed by his towering stature in French literature. His literary work consists of three parts—his Memoirs, the Maximes, and his letters.
4. Claude McKay Festus
Claudius “Claude” McKay was a Jamaican writer and poet, who was a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance. He wrote four novels: Home to Harlem (1928), a best-seller that won the Harmon Gold Award for Literature, Banjo (1929), Banana Bottom (1933), and in 1941 a manuscript called Amiable With Big Teeth: A Novel of the Love Affair Between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem which remained unpublished until 2017.
McKay also authored collections of poetry, a collection of short stories, Gingertown (1932), two autobiographical books, A Long Way from Home (1937) and My Green Hills of Jamaica (published posthumously in 1979), and a non-fiction, socio-historical treatise entitled Harlem: Negro Metropolis (1940). His 1922 poetry collection, Harlem Shadows, was among the first books published during the Harlem Renaissance. His Selected Poems was published posthumously, in 1953.
He was Bron on the 15th of September 1889 and died of the 22nd of May 1948.
5. James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances draw a picture of frontier and American Indian life in the early American days which created a unique form of American literature. He lived most of his life in Cooperstown, New York. He attended Yale University for three years, where he was a member of the Linonian Society. Among his most famous works is the Romantic novel “The Last of the Mohicans” , often regarded as his masterpiece.
He was born on the 15th of September, 1789 and died on the 14th of September, 1851 at 61.
May the souls of the dead continue to rest in peace. Happy birthday to Our Dear Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
By Samiah Olabimpe