Ayn Rand begins writing Atlas Shrugged . E. E. Cummings dies in North Conway, New Hampshire, of a brain hemorrhage. September 4 Author Hamlin Garland is born. Wright is born near Natchez, Mississippi. They talk of the dignity of work.
True Work is the necessity of poor humanity's earthly condition.
The dignity is in leisure. Kerouac is in New York with his girlfriend Joyce Glassman. Henry David Thoreau leaves Walden. Jack Kerouac dreams that his head is bandaged and that he's being chased by the police. He hides inside a parade of children chanting his name.