In 2009, the American Anthropological Association's Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities released its final report concluding, in part, that, " When ethnographic investigation is determined by military missions, not subject to external review, where data collection occurs in the context of war, integrated into the goals of counterinsurgency, and in a potentially coercive environment – all characteristic factors of the HTS concept and its application – it can no longer be considered a legitimate professional exercise of anthropology.

In a March 2009 brief, the American Dental Association said " the available evidence does not support a connection between oral cancer and alcohol-containing mouthrinse ".

* 1894 – Gertrude Baines, American super-centenarian ( d. 2009 )

* 1920 – Jack Cover, American inventor of the Taser gun ( d. 2009 )

* 1986 – Tara Osseck, American model, Miss Missouri 2009

* 1925 – Joe Bowman, American and marksman and boot-maker ( d. 2009 )

* 1921 – Jack Kramer, American tennis player ( d. 2009 )

* 1933 – Dom DeLuise, American actor and comedian ( d. 2009 )

* 1949 – Ray Nettles, American football player ( d. 2009 )

* 1950 – Jim Carroll, American poet and actor ( d. 2009 )

* 1915 – Joan Alexander, American actress ( d. 2009 )

* 1919 – Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographer ( d. 2009 )

* 1954 – Mark Fidrych, American baseball player ( d. 2009 )

* 1910 – Lonny Frey, American baseball player ( d. 2009 )

* 1922 – George Kell, American baseball player ( d. 2009 )

* 1913 – Jack Dreyfus, American businessman, founded the Dreyfus Corporation ( d. 2009 )

* 1958 – Michael Jackson, American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor ( The Jackson 5 ) ( d. 2009 )

* 1911 – Lester Rodney, American journalist ( d. 2009 )

In 2009, American Media was taken over by its bondholders to keep it out of bankruptcy.

* 2009 – Frankie Manning, American dancer and choreographer ( b. 1914 )

* 1975 – Andy Hallett, American actor ( d. 2009 )

* 2009 – Dave Arneson, American game designer, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons ( b. 1947 )

On October 24, 2009, North American company Super Fighter Team released Zaku, an all new, all original horizontal shooter for the Lynx developed by PenguiNet.

Michigan Opera Theatre was the first major American opera company to present the work in 1983, and again in November 2009.

At the San Diego Comic Con in July 2009, IDW announced the upcoming publication of Al Capp's Li ' l Abner: The Complete Dailies and Color Sundays as part of their ongoing Library of American Comics project.

Neo-Victorianism: The Victorians in the Twenty-First Century, 1999 – 2009 ( Palgrave Macmillan ; 2011 ) 323 pages ; looks at recent literary & cinematic, interest in the Victorian era, including magic, sexuality, theme parks, and the postcolonial

In 2009, Neil Pearson, an antiquarian books expert, said that " A Black Sun book is the literary equivalent of a Braque or a Picasso painting — except it ’ s a few thousand pounds, not 20 million.

* Tinkers ( 2009 )— In this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Paul Harding, one of the characters, Gilbert, is a semi-legendary literary figured that graduated from Bowdoin and is rumored to been one of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classmates.

While musical activities continued and continue with Mayo Thompson and The Red Crayola, and the literary conversational project continued with Charles Harrison ( 1942 – 2009 ), by late 1976 the genealogical thread of this artistic work had been taken into the hands of Michael Baldwin and Mel Ramsden, with whom it remains.

In August 2009, de Botton replied to a competition advertised among British literary agents by BAA, the airport management company, for the post of " writer-in-residence " at Heathrow Airport.

In 2009, the Upper School's student literary arts magazine, " Gallimaufry ", received a Gold Crown award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.

Labor Day, an adult literary novel, was published in 2009, and is presently being adapted for a film to be directed by Jason Reitman.

In 2009 Asher wrote for Literary Kicks a serialized memoir of the Internet industry from 1993 to 2003, focusing on his personal struggles, failures and successes during the crazy years of the dot-com stock bubble ( 1995 to 2000 ) and crash ( 2000 to 2003 ), as well as his own experience as part of the Internet's growing literary scene.

In 2009 his Collected Critical Writings won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, the largest annual cash prize in English-language literary criticism.

The Fall 2009 issue of the University of San Francisco literary journal Switchback features a story by Charles Haddox, " The Ugly Duckling ", about a girl who has her own ugly duckling experience after being chosen to play the role of Princess Camilla in her junior high school's production of the play.

Bob Ellis wrote in Overland, ‘ What I think absorbs the reader in the deeply revelatory un-memoir Wild Amazement is ... Michael ’ s clear, almost hyper-real remembrance, as if experienced on a guided tour of a radiant, countercultural Disneyland, of a way of life, and a gravely joyous bohemia now gone, of how it was, and what a time it was, it really was, in Sydney in the sixties and seventies, in the Newcastle and the Journos ’ Club and the Push parties and the plans for a literary life .’ And in, Quadrant, Peter Corris wrote, ‘ Anyone interested in how contemporary Australian writing came to be the way it is, with its strengths and follies, its cliques and patrons, and the challenges it faces, will benefit from reading Wilding ’ s sensitive, sometimes bitchy, often funny and always intelligent tracing of his life ’ s trajectory .’ The Italian translation of Wild Amazement appeared in 2009.

The result, published in November 2009, has met with generally positive reviews from literary critics, who credit Borde and Malovany-Chevalier with having diligently restored the sections of the text missing from the Parshley edition, as well as correcting many of its mistakes.

In 2009 the LRBs circulation was 48, 000, making it the largest selling literary publication in Europe.

Barry, P 2009, ‘ Beginning theory: an introduction to literary and cultural theory ’, 3rd edn, Manchester University Press, New York.

In 2009, issue 31 of McSweeneys featured a Graustarkian short story, as part of a series on lost literary forms.

In 2005 EA acquired the rights to produce games based on the literary works as well, producing further titles up to the release of The Lord of the Rings: Conquest in 2009, when the licensing agreement expired.

* Mother's Day Story about a walk through Shinsekai / Kamagasaki by Don MacLaren, published September, 2009 in the literary magazine Danse Macabre

This spread has been helped along by literary agent and writer Mark Reiter and sports journalist Richard Sandomir, who have edited two books on bracketology as applied to the world around them, most recently The Final Four of Everything, which was published by Simon & Schuster in May 2009.

* On 23 April 2009, Philo hosted American literary theorist, legal scholar, and New York Times columnist Stanley Fish.

Wilson won the 2009 Best Travel Book Lowell Thomas Gold Award for " Along the Templar Trail " from the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation ; a literary award from the University of Pittsburgh ; and an international IPPY Award from Independent Publisher ( 2005 ).

A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx ( 2009 ) makes a claim for a literary tradition of American women writers.

In April 2008, Nabokov's son Dmitri Nabokov announced plans to publish the work, in what BBC2 late night news programme Newsnight later said was " likely to be the literary event of 2009.

BBC Newsnight predicted that the novel's publication was " likely to be the literary event of 2009.

The literary and cultural critic, Elaine Showalter adopted the title of Glaspell's short story A Jury of Her Peers for her 2009 book, applying it to the whole canon of American Women's Writing.