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Today in History: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Share a September 24 Birthday

24 Sep 2026 8:03 a.m. · Source: U.S. Library of Congress

The Library of Congress marks September 24 as the birthday of The Great Gatsby author F. Scott Fitzgerald, born in 1896, and writer Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, born in 1825.

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