Author - Notable Historical Events
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Author - Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1774-08-01 |
Joseph Priestley, English theologian, chemist and author discovers oxygen |
1798-11-27 |
Rabbi Shneur Zalman, author (Tanya), released from St Petersburg jail |
1828-04-14 |
First American Dictionary: its author Noah Webster registers its copyright for publication |
1840-01-29 |
First Governor of New Zealand and co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi Captain William Hobson arrives in the Bay of Islands, NZ |
1849-10-03 |
American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death. |
1867-12-02 |
In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States. |
1893-09-04 |
English author Beatrix Potter first writes the story of Peter Rabbit for a 5 year old boy |
1897-05-18 |
Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published. |
1922-01-18 |
Irish author Liam O'Flaherty & others occupy Rotunda in Dublin |
1926-07-18 |
The South Africa author and journalist, Herman Charles Bosman, shoots and kills his stepbrother David Russell during a quarrel |
1938-06-14 |
Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal (kid books author) |
1944-02-10 |
Belgian resistance fighter and author Kamiel van Baelen arrested |
1945-10-07 |
Dutch author A M de Jong's murderer Ton van Gog escapes |
1957-10-17 |
French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature |
1962-10-25 |
American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize for Literature |
1964-10-22 |
French philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize |
1966-02-20 |
Author Valery Tarsis banished in USSR |
1967-04-19 |
Yugoslav author Mihaljo Mihaljov sentenced 4½ years |
1967-04-20 |
French author Régis Debray caught in Bolivia |
1967-11-17 |
French author Régis Debray sentenced to 30 years in Bolivia |
1968-06-03 |
Valerie Solanas, author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times. |
1969-11-12 |
Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union |
1970-10-08 |
Soviet author Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature |
1970-11-25 |
In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and two compatriots commit ritualistic suicide after an unsuccessful coup attempt. |
1970-12-23 |
French author Régis Debray freed in Bolivia |
1977-04-18 |
Alex Haley, author of "Roots", awarded Pulitzer Prize |
1985-10-17 |
French author Claude Simon won the Nobel Prize in literature |
1989-02-22 |
US authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman Rushdee, author of "Satanic Rituals" |
1989-07-20 |
Burma government puts author Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest |
1990-12-05 |
Salman Rushdie, author, ordered to death by Iran for blasphemy, appears in public for 1st time in 2 years |
1998-02-05 |
Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed agreement to purchase Minnesota Vikings for slightly more than $200 million, an NFL franchise record |
2016-02-20 |
Umberto Eco, famed author of 'The Name of the Rose,' dead at 84 |
2016-11-15 |
Gwen Ifill, Award-Winning Political Reporter and Author, Dies at 61 |
2017-03-14 |
Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Author and Filmmaker, Dies at 51 |
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Author - Notable Birthdays
Author - Birthdays
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
994-11-07 |
Muhammad ibn Hazm, historian/jurist/author of Islamic Spain |
1391-10-30 |
Eduard, [Dom Duarte], King of Portugal (1433-38)/author |
1441-02-09 |
Ali Sjir Neva'i [Fani], Turkish poet/author (Mahbub al-kulub) |
1478-02-07 |
Sir Thomas More, English statesman, humanist, and author (d. 1535) |
1478-12-06 |
Baldassare Castiglione, Italian diplomat and author (d. 1529) |
1492-01-12 |
Andreas Alicatus, Italian author |
1500-11-01 |
Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor/goldsmith/author (Perseus) |
1514-02-22 |
Tahmasp I, shah of Persia (1524-76)/author (Tazkire-i Shah) |
1547-09-29 |
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish author and novelist (Don Quixote), (d. 1616) |
1561-11-21 |
Carolus Scribani, Italian/Flemish jesuit/author |
1592-04-20 |
John Eliot, St Germans Cornwall, English MP/author |
1602-04-30 |
William Lilly, England, astrologer/author/almanac compiler |
1611-01-07 |
James Harrington, England, political author (Commonwealth of Oceans) |
1626-02-05 |
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, French author (d. 1696) |
1627-01-25 |
Robert Boyle, Ireld, physicist/chemist/author (experiments with color) |
1628-01-12 |
Charles Perrault, Paris France, author (Mother Goose) |
1628-11-28 |
John Bunyan, England, cleric/author (Pilgrim's Progress) |
1633-11-11 |
George Savile, 1st marquis of Halifax/author (Character of a Trimmer) |
1643-09-17 |
Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury/author |
1668-05-08 |
Alain R Lesage, French author (Turcaret ou le Financier) |
1686-08-01 |
Benedetto Marcello, Venice Italy, Italian author/composer (Lettera Famigliare) |
1692-11-07 |
Johannes G Schnabel, German author/surgeon (Insel Felsenburg) |
1696-12-22 |
James Oglethorpe, England, General/author/colonizer (Georgia) |
1697-03-09 |
Friederike C Neuber, German actress/author (Allerkostbarste Schatz) |
1697-04-01 |
Antoine François Prévost, French author and novelist (d. 1763) |
1714-09-17 |
Gottlieb W Rabener, German author (Vom Misbrauch of the Satire) |
1728-12-08 |
Johann G von Zimmermann, Swiss author |
1729-01-01 |
Edmund Burke, British author (Philosophy & Inquiry) [NS=Jan 12] |
1729-01-12 |
Edmund Burke, British author (Philosophy & Inquiry) [OS=Jan 1] |
1735-05-23 |
Charles Joseph, prince the Ligne, Belgian fieldmarshal/author |
1738-07-24 |
Elizabeth "Betje" Wolff-Bekker, Dutch author/poet (Sara Burgerhart) |
1740-09-12 |
Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (d. 1817) |
1740-11-04 |
Augustus Montague Toplady, English author of hymn "Rock of Ages" (d. 1778) |
1741-09-11 |
Johann J Angel, German author (Herr Lorenz Stark) |
1741-10-18 |
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, French general and author (d. 1803) |
1743-09-22 |
Quintin Craufurd, British author (d. 1819) |
1744-07-19 |
Heinrich Christian Boie, German author (d. 1806) |
1752-06-13 |
Fanny Burney, England, author (Camille, Evelina) |
1753-11-03 |
August G Meissner, German author |
1758-07-21 |
Elizabeth Hamilton, author (Cats: A Celebration) |
1758-09-10 |
Hannah Webster Foster, American author (d. 1840) |
1758-11-16 |
Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist (d. 1841) |
1760-05-10 |
Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, soldier/author/composer (Marseillaise) |
1762-11-16 |
Petronella Moens, Frisian author/poetess |
1763-02-03 |
Caroline von Wolzogen, [von Lengefeld], German author |
1763-03-09 |
William Cobbett, English journalist and author (d. 1835) |
1763-09-02 |
Caroline von Schelling, [Michaelis], German author |
1765-03-04 |
Charles Dibdin, England, composer/author (Sea Songs)/actor (baptized) |
1766-04-22 |
Madame de Staël, French author (d. 1817) |
1770-06-20 |
Moses Waddel, American educator/minister and bestselling author (d. 1840) |
1770-11-05 |
Etienne P de Senancour, French author (Obermann) |
1771-03-22 |
Heinrich D Zschokke, Swiss author (Das Goldmacherdorf) |
1771-05-26 |
Rahel Varnhagen von Ense-Levin, German saloon owner/author |
1771-06-03 |
Sydney Smith, Woodford Essex, preacher/reformer/author |
1772-04-11 |
Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author/poet (El Duque de Viseo) |
1773-03-26 |
Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician/astronomer/author (Marine Sextant) |
1775-02-05 |
Margaretha J de Neufville, author (Small Pligten) |
1779-07-15 |
Clement Clarke Moore, US, author ('Twas the Night Before Xmas) |
1779-08-22 |
James Kirke Paulding, American author (d. 1860) |
1779-11-05 |
Washington Allston, US painter/author |
1780-06-03 |
William Hone, England, author/bookseller (Every-Day Book) |
1785-02-21 |
Karl A Varnhagen von Ense, German officer/author (Die Sterner) |
1785-10-18 |
Thomas Love Peacock, English author (Headlong Hall) |
1788-09-22 |
Theodore Edward Hook, English author (d. 1841) |
1788-10-24 |
Sarah Josepha Hale, author (Mary Had a Little Lamb) |
1789-05-28 |
Bernard Severin Ingemann, Danish author (Tomorrow- og Aftensange) |
1791-06-09 |
John Howard Payne, US, author/actor/diplomat (Home Sweet Home) |
1791-09-01 |
Lydia Sigourney, US, religious author (How to Be Happy) |
1792-09-26 |
William Hobson, first Governor of New Zealand and co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi, born Waterford, Ireland (D.1842) |
1792-11-13 |
Edward John Trelawney, England, traveler/author (Adv of Younger Son) |
1795-09-20 |
Peter of Limburg Brouwer, physician/classical/author |
1795-10-16 |
William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (d. 1876) |
1796-01-21 |
John Gelinde van Blom, Frisian notary/author |
1796-05-04 |
Horace Mann, Franklin Massachusetts, American educator/author/editor (pioneered public schools) |
1796-07-26 |
George Catlin, US, author/painter (American Indian scenes) |
1797-08-30 |
Mary Shelley, London England, author (Frankenstein) |
1797-11-04 |
Aleksander A Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, Russian author |
1800-04-16 |
William Chambers, author/publisher (Basis of Communication & Coding) |
1800-11-23 |
Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/author (Povesti) |
1801-02-21 |
John Henry Newman, England, cardinal/author (Dream of Gerontius) |
1802-01-06 |
Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romania, author/novelist/writer (Gramatica) |
1802-02-11 |
Lydia Maria Child, US, author/abolitionist (Juvenile Miscellany) |
1802-02-26 |
Victor Hugo, France, author (Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables) |
1802-07-24 |
Alexandre Dumas, Aisne France, author (3 Musketeers, Count of Monte Cristo), (d. 1870) |
1803-01-03 |
Douglas William Jerrold, London, author/playwright/wit (Punch Mag) |
1803-09-28 |
Prosper Mérimée, French author (d. 1870) |
1804-01-31 |
Jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author/poet/critic |
1804-07-04 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Salem Massachusetts, author (House of 7 Gables, Scarlet Letter) |
1805-04-02 |
Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, author of 150 fairy tales |
1805-10-23 |
Adalbert Stifter, Austrian author (Nachsommer) |
1805-12-31 |
Marie-C-S de Flavigny Agoult, [Daniel Stern], French author (Knife) |
1808-02-04 |
Josef Kajetán Tyl, Czech playwright, author of the Czech national anthem(d. 1856) |
1808-04-26 |
Martha Finley, children's book author |
1808-06-17 |
Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian author (d. 1845) |
1808-12-06 |
Johan M Dautzenberg, Flemish author (Future) |
1809-01-19 |
Edgar Allan Poe, Boston, author (Pit & the Pendulum) |
1809-08-29 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Cambridge MA, physician/author (Old Ironsides) |
1810-05-24 |
Abraham Geiger, theologian/author/leader of Reform Judaism |
1811-03-03 |
Vissarion Belinsky, Sveaborg Finland, Russian author (Literary Review) |
1811-06-14 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Litchfield Connecticut, American author (Uncle Tom's Cabin) |
1811-09-06 |
Johanna D Courtmans-Berchmans, Flemish author (Rozeken Pot) |
1811-09-15 |
Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch author |
1812-12-23 |
Samuel Smiles, Scotland, author (Self-Help, Character, Duty) |
1813-11-30 |
Hermann Kurz, German author/poet |
1814-01-17 |
Ellen Wood, English author (East Lynne, Pomeroy Abbey) |
1814-04-15 |
John Lothrop Motley, US, historian/author (Rise of Dutch Rep) |
1815-10-29 |
Ľudovít Štúr, Slovak politician, author of Slovak language (d. 1856) |
1815-12-21 |
Thomas Couture, French painter/author |
1817-09-14 |
Theodor Storm, German judge/author (Imense China) |
1817-11-25 |
John Bigelow, American statesman and author (d. 1911) |
1817-11-30 |
Theodor Mommsen, Germ, historian/author (Imperial Lives, Nobel 1902) |
1818-10-25 |
Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author (V Lesach) [NS=Nov 6] |
1818-11-06 |
Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author (V Lesach) [OS=Oct 25] |
1819-02-19 |
Mark Prager Lindo, English/Dutch author/novelist/writer |
1819-03-26 |
Louise Otto, Germany, author/feminist |
1819-05-27 |
Julia Ward Howe, US, author/lecturer (Battle Hymn of the Republic) |
1819-08-01 |
Herman Melville, New York, author (Moby Dick, Billy Budd), (d. 1891) |
1819-11-22 |
George Eliot, [Mary Anne Evans], Nuneaton England, author (Middlemarch, Silas Marner) |
1820-03-30 |
Anna Sewell, British author (d. 1878) |
1820-04-05 |
Nadar, [Félix Tournachon], French painter/cartoonist/author/ballonist |
1821-03-16 |
Ernest Feydeau, French author (Georges Feydeau) |
1822-01-07 |
Lucius C M Bakker, Frisian physician/author (Goethe) |
1822-04-03 |
Edward Everett Hale, US, clergyman/author (Man without a Country) |
1823-09-16 |
Francis Parkman, American historian/author (Oregon Trail) |
1823-10-20 |
Thomas Hughes, England, author (Tom Brown's School Days) |
1824-12-10 |
George MacDonald, Scotland, sci-fi author (Princess & Curdie) |
1825-06-07 |
Richard D Blackmore, England, author (Norie, Lorna Doone) |
1826-11-24 |
Collodi, [Carlo Lorenzini], Italian author (Pinocchio) |
1827-04-10 |
Lewis Wallace, Major General (Union volunteers)/author (Ben Hur) |
1827-06-12 |
Johanna Spyri, Hirzel Switzerland, Swiss children's author (Heidi) (d. 1901) |
1827-09-01 |
Jacobus J Cremer, painter/author (Overbetuwsche Novellen) |
1829-01-06 |
Kanagaki Robun [Bunzo Nozaki], Japanese humorist/gesaku-author |
1829-01-18 |
Louis van Haecke, Flemish chaplain/author (Blood to Bridge) |
1829-02-15 |
Silas Weir Mitchell, US physician/author (Roland Blake) |
1829-09-12 |
Charles Dudley Warner, Mass, newspaperman/author (Being a Boy) |
1830-05-15 |
Martinus W van der Aa, author/Dutch head-editor (The Time) |
1831-06-07 |
Amelia Edwards, English author and Egyptologist (d. 1892) |
1831-09-08 |
Wilhelm Raabe, [Jakob Corvinus], German author (Der Hungerpastor) |
1831-10-15 |
Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, author (Ramona) |
1832-01-09 |
Félix-Gabriel Marchand, journalist, author and politician, Premier of Quebec (d. 1900) |
1832-01-13 |
Horatio Alger, Jr., Chelsea Massachusetts, American minister and author (Lost at Sea, Work & Win) |
1832-01-27 |
Lewis Carroll, [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], Halton, Cheshire, author (Alice in Wonderland), (d. 1898) |
1832-02-26 |
John George Nicolay, US, author (Abe Lincoln's biographer) |
1832-04-13 |
Juan Montalvo, Ecuadoran author (d. 1889) |
1832-11-29 |
Louisa May Alcott, Germantown Pennsylvania, American author (Little Women) |
1832-12-08 |
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author "Pa Guds Veje" and Nobel laureate (d. 1910) |
1833-08-11 |
Robert Green Ingersoll, NY, author/politician/agnostic (Att Gen-R-Ill) |
1833-11-06 |
Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (d. 1908) |
1834-11-13 |
Ignacio M Altamirano, Mexican author (El Zarco) |
1835-02-15 |
Demetrius Vikelas, Greek author (d. 1908) |
1835-02-27 |
Richard Garnett, English author (Ananda the Miracle Worker) |
1835-08-27 |
Albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author/mayor/painter |
1835-11-09 |
Emile Gaboriau, author (father of French detective novels) |
1835-11-30 |
Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens], American author (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn) |
1835-12-04 |
Samuel Butler, England, author (Erewhom, Way of All Flesh) |
1835-12-18 |
Lyman Abbott, American author (d. 1922) |
1836-08-25 |
Bret Harte, US, author (Outcasts of Poker Flat) |
1836-09-11 |
Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (d. 1870) |
1836-10-04 |
Juliette Adam-Lamber, French author (Salon/Nouvelle Revue) |
1836-11-11 |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, US, author/editor (Story of a Bad Boy) |
1837-03-01 |
Ion Creanga, Romanian fairy tale author (Amintiti the Copilarie) |
1838-05-11 |
Walter Goodman, British painter, illustrator and author (d. 1912) |
1838-11-14 |
August Senoa, Croatian author (Zlatarevo zlato) |
1838-12-20 |
Edwin Abbott Abbott, English schoolmaster, theologian, and author (d. 1926) |
1839-05-27 |
Luigi Capuana, Sicilian author/critic (Roccaverdina) |
1840-11-25 |
Hugo Verriest, Flemish author/poet (Flemish Movement) |
1840-12-11 |
Kemal Bey, Turkey, poet/author (Fatherland-1872) |
1841-03-04 |
Kristian Mandrup Elster, Norwegian author (And fremmed Fugl) |
1842-08-14 |
Henry Duff Trail, journalist/author |
1843-04-15 |
Henry James, American/British author (Turn of the Screw, Bostonians), (d. 1916) |
1843-10-25 |
Gleb Uspensky, Russia, author (Power of the Soil) |
1844-03-31 |
Andrew Lang, Scotland, author (The Blue Fairy Book) |
1846-05-05 |
Henryk Sienkiewicz, Poland, author (Quo Vadis, Nobel 1905) |
1847-11-02 |
George Sorel, French Socialist thinker/author (violent revolutions) |
1847-11-08 |
Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/author (Dracula) |
1849-03-28 |
James Darmesteter, French author and antiquarian (d. 1894) |
1849-07-12 |
William Osler, Canada, physician/author (circulatory system) |
1849-07-29 |
Max Nordau, Austrian author and Zionist leader (d. 1923) |
1849-09-03 |
Sarah Orne Jewett, Maine, author (Country of the Pointed Firs) |
1849-11-24 |
Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of childrens book (My Secret Garden) |
1849-12-11 |
Ellen Key, Swedish theory/author/feminist (Courageous Woman) |
1849-12-22 |
Fritz Mauthner, Bohemia, German author/philosopher (skepticism) |
1850-03-26 |
Edward Bellamy, author (Looking Backward) |
1850-06-27 |
Lafcadio Hearn, US, journalist/author (Chita) |
1850-08-05 |
Guy de Maupassant, France, author (Boule de Suif) |
1850-09-02 |
Eugene Field, author/journalist (Little Boy Blue) |
1850-11-05 |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (d. 1919) |
1850-11-13 |
Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh, Scotland, author (Treasure Island), (d. 1894) |
1851-03-03 |
Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (d. 1911) |
1851-07-15 |
Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian author (d. 1889) |
1852-01-08 |
James Milton Carroll, American pastor and author (d. 1931) |
1852-02-08 |
Nikolai Garin [Michailovski], Russ author (Tjoma Kartashov) [NS=2/20] |
1852-02-16 |
William Scarborough, Macon Ga, linguist/author (Birds of Aristophanes) |
1852-02-20 |
Nikolai Garin [Michailovski], Russian author (Tjoma Kartashov) |
1852-05-24 |
Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, author/politician |
1853-01-11 |
Gustav Falke, German author/poet (Der Mann im Nebel) |
1853-03-05 |
Howard Pyle, illustrator/painter/author (King Stork) |
1854-01-01 |
James Frazer, Britain, anthropologist/author (The Golden Bough) |
1854-08-02 |
Francis Marion Crawford, British author |
1854-10-20 |
Alphonse Allais, French author/humorist (Pass the Bile) |
1855-04-09 |
Gyula Reviczky, Hungarian author/poet |
1856-03-04 |
Toru Dutt, English and French poet and author (d. 1877) |
1856-05-15 |
Lyman Frank Baum, NY, children's book author (Wizard of Oz) |
1856-06-19 |
Elbert Hubbard, US, editor/publisher/author (Message to Garcia) |
1856-06-22 |
Henry Rider Haggard, Norfolk, England, author (King Solomon's Mine, She, Dawn) |
1856-08-17 |
Violet Paget, [Vernon Lee], British author (Satan the master) |
1856-09-28 |
Kate Douglas Wiggins, author (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm) |
1857-04-20 |
Charles LP "Philip" Zilcken, painter/author (HW Knife Day) |
1857-08-08 |
Henry Osborn, Conn, paleontologist/author (52 Years of Research) |
1857-11-22 |
George Gissing, English author (Thyrza, Crown of Life) |
1858-01-05 |
Gustaf af Geijerstam, Swedish author (Boken om Lillebror) |
1858-01-17 |
Tomas Carrasquilla, Colombian author (Frutos de mi Tierra) |
1858-04-01 |
Arnold Aletrino, Dutch physician-criminologist/author (From Life) |
1858-08-19 |
Edith Nesbit, England, children books author (Railway Children) |
1858-11-20 |
Selma Lagerlöf, Mårbacka, Värmland, author and Nobel laureate (The Wonderful Adventures of Nils), (d. 1940) |
1858-11-25 |
Alfred Capus, French author (d. 1922) |
1859-01-13 |
Karl Bleibtreu, German author (Revolution of Literature) |
1859-02-18 |
Sholem Aleichem, [Solomon Rabinowitz], author (Fiddler on the Roof) |
1859-03-08 |
Kenneth Grahame, Scottish author (Wind in the Willows) |
1859-05-22 |
Arthur Conan Doyle, UK, author brought Sherlock Holmes to life twice |
1859-06-22 |
Frank Heino Damrosch, author/musician/teacher (found Inst of Music) |
1859-08-12 |
Katharine Lee Bates, US, author (America the Beautiful) |
1859-10-15 |
Jaime de Magalhes Lima, Portuguese author/poet (Salmos do Prisoneiro) |
1859-10-25 |
Stephanie H [Lapidoth-]Swarth, Dutch author (Lonely Flowers) |
1860-01-11 |
Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian/French painter/author (Journal) |
1860-02-11 |
Rachilde, [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery], French author (Monsieur Venus) |
1860-07-03 |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, economist/lecturer/author/feminist |
1860-08-14 |
Ernest T Seton, naturalist/painter/author (Buffalo Wind-1938) |
1861-02-12 |
Lou [Andreas-]Salome, Russian/German author (Im Kampf um Gott) |
1861-06-19 |
Jose Protacio Rizal, Calamba City Laguna, optician/author/nationalist (Noli Me Tángere, El Filibusterismo) |
1862-05-05 |
Max Elskamp, Belgian author/poet (Lesson Joies Blondes, Maya) |
1862-05-22 |
August Cuppens, Flemish author/pastor |
1862-08-01 |
Montague Rhodes James, scholar/author/editor |
1862-09-21 |
James E. Talmage, LDS apostle and author (d. 1933) |
1862-10-04 |
Edward Stratemeyer, American author (d. 1930) |
1862-10-06 |
Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, US, politician/author (Progressive) |
1862-11-15 |
Gerhart Hauptmann, Obersalzbrunn, Germany, author (Before Dawn-Nobel 1912), (d. 1946) |
1863-03-03 |
Arthur Machen, Welsh-born author (d. 1947) |
1863-08-17 |
Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and naturalist (d. 1924) |
1863-12-31 |
Alfredo Panzini, Italian author (Dizionario Moderno) |
1864-01-16 |
Frank Bacon, actor/author (Lightnin) |
1864-02-06 |
John Henry Mackay, Scottish/German author/poet (Anarchists) |
1864-02-14 |
Israel Zangwill, England, Jewish author/Zionist (Children of Ghetto) |
1864-04-18 |
Richard Harding Davis, US, journalist/author (In The Fig) |
1864-09-27 |
Alexander Cohen, Dutch anarchist/author |
1865-02-03 |
Martinus Ballings, Flemish jesuit/author (Will Power) |
1865-07-18 |
Laurence Housman, England, author/playwright (Victoria Regina) |
1865-12-30 |
Rudyard Kipling, Bombay, author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907), (d. 1936) |
1866-01-30 |
Gelett Burgess, author (Purple Cow) |
1866-07-28 |
Beatrix Potter, England, children's author and illustrator ("The Tale of Peter Rabbit") |
1867-01-01 |
Charles Edward Montague, English author/critic (Fiery Particles) |
1867-02-07 |
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Wisc, kid book author (Little House on Prarie) |
1867-02-12 |
Hedwig Courths-Mahler, German author (Warbride) [or Febr 18] |
1867-07-25 |
Max Dauthendy, German painter/author (Ewige Hochzeit) |
1867-08-14 |
John Galsworthy, England, author (Forsyte Saga-Nobel 1932) |
1867-11-06 |
Marie Bregendahl, Danish author (Holger Hauge og hans Hustru) |
1868-01-14 |
Catharina A M de Savornin Lohman, Dutch author (Belief) |
1868-03-27 |
Patty Smith Hill, author/songwriter (Happy Birthday To You) |
1868-03-28 |
Maxim Gorky [Alexei Maximovich Peshkov], Nizhny Novgorod, Russian Empire, Russian playwright and author (Mother and The Lower Depths) |
1868-10-18 |
Ernst Didring, Swedish author (d. 1931) |
1868-11-09 |
Emmanuel K de Bom, Flemish author (Wrakken) |
1869-01-23 |
Herbert David Croly, US author (Promise of American Life) |
1869-03-16 |
F. A. Forbes, Scottish author (d. 1936) |
1869-09-07 |
Margot SE Scharten-Antink, Dutch author (Catherina, Sprotje) |
1869-12-05 |
Ellis Parker Butler, American author (d. 1937) |
1870-02-03 |
Ada Negri, Italian poet/author (Il Libro di Mara) |
1870-07-27 |
Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc, England, author (Path to Rome) |
1870-08-26 |
Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author (Pojedinok) [NS=Sept 7] |
1870-09-07 |
Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author (Pojedinok) [OS=Aug 26] |
1870-12-18 |
Saki, [Hector Hugo Munro], Burma, author (Reginald, When William Came) |
1871-01-10 |
Enrica Freiin von Handel-Manzetti, Austrian author (Jesse & Maria) |
1871-08-03 |
Vernon Louis Parrington, author (Romantic Revolution, Pulitzer 1928) |
1871-08-06 |
Emanuel Querido, [Joost Mendes], author/publisher |
1871-11-10 |
Winston Churchill, US, author (Crisis, Crossing) |
1872-01-24 |
Ethel Turner, Australian author (d. 1958) |
1872-09-09 |
Delilah L Beasley, US author/columnist (Negro trail-blazers) |
1872-11-15 |
Robert marquess of Flers, French author (Habit Vert) |
1872-12-28 |
Pío Baroja y Nessi, San Sebastián, Spanish Basque writer, author of over 100 novels (The Struggle for Life, Zalacain the Adventurer) |
1873-02-11 |
Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author/novelist (Pages from My Life) |
1873-04-26 |
Otto zur Linde, German author (Charon) |
1873-05-03 |
[Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll, Norwegian author (Kvinnen og Den) |
1873-12-07 |
Willa Cather, US, author (My Antonia) |
1874-01-14 |
Thornton Waldo Burgess, author (Peter Rabbit) |
1874-02-03 |
Gertrude Stein, Penn, author (Autobiography of Alice B Toklas) |
1874-02-11 |
Elsa Beskow, [Maartman], Swedish children's book/fairy tales author |
1874-04-18 |
Oskar Ernst Bernhardt, German author (d. 1941) |
1874-07-01 |
Michel H Campen, author/critic (Bikoerim) |
1874-08-03 |
Eugene Baie, Belgian author (Sub rosa et sub umbra) |
1874-11-18 |
Clarence Shepard Day, NYC, author (Life with Father) |
1874-11-26 |
Edmond Fleg[enheimer], Swiss/French author (Ecoute Israel) |
1874-11-30 |
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Clifton Prince Edward Island, Canadian author (Anne of Green Gables) |
1875-01-12 |
Marika Stiernstedt, Swedish author (Ulla Bella) |
1875-02-02 |
Annette Kolb, German/French author (Small Fanfare) |
1875-03-14 |
Isadore Gilbert Mudge, US, librarian/author (Thackeray Dictionary) |
1875-04-27 |
Andre Baillon, Belgian/French author (Un homme si simple) |
1875-09-01 |
Edgar Rice Burroughs, US, sci-fi author (Tarzan of Apes, Mars Saga) |
1875-11-07 |
Augusta Anderson, Rosa and the Author |
1875-11-27 |
Wladyslaw Orkan, [Szmaciarz-Smreczynsky], Pol author (Nowele Zebrane) |
1876-05-10 |
Ivan Cankar, Slavs author (Hlapec Jernej-Njegova Pravica) |
1876-06-11 |
Alfred L Kroeber, Hoboken NJ, author (Anthropologist looks at History) |
1876-09-13 |
Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio, author/publisher (Winesburg) |
1877-01-17 |
May Gibbs, Australian children's author (d. 1969) |
1877-02-17 |
Henri Vandeputte, Belgian author/poet (L'homme Jeune) |
1877-02-18 |
Betsy Ranucci-Beckmann, [Theodora], Dutch author/actress (Dead Water) |
1877-04-18 |
Vicente Sotto, Filipino patriot, author (d. 1950) |
1877-11-14 |
René de Clerq, Flemish poet/author (Emergency Horn) |
1877-12-31 |
Lawrence Beesley, English journalist and author (d. 1967) |
1878-01-30 |
Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (d. 1940) |
1878-04-06 |
Erich Mühsam, German author (d. 1934) |
1878-12-31 |
Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan author/poet (El Crimen del Otro) |
1879-01-15 |
Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author (d. 1961) |
1879-01-19 |
Marie Koenen, author/wife of Felix Rutten (Wassend Cereal) |
1879-01-26 |
Ludovicus H [Lode] Baekelmans, Flemish (stage)author (Tille) |
1879-06-04 |
Mabel Lucie Attwell, English children's author and illustrator (d. 1964) |
1879-09-27 |
Cyril M Scott, English pianist/composer/author (Heroic Suite) |
1879-11-19 |
Karel van den Oever, Flemish author/poet (Geuzenstad) |
1880-06-17 |
Carl Van Fight, US author/critic (Red, Nigger Heaven) |
1880-06-27 |
Helen Keller, Ala, blind-deaf author/lecturer had more sense than many |
1880-07-31 |
Munshi Premchand, Indian Author (d. 1936) |
1880-08-12 |
Marguerite "John" Radclyffe-Hall, author |
1880-08-22 |
Gorch Fock, German author and poet (d. 1916) |
1880-11-25 |
Leonard S Woolf, English author/husband of Virginia Woolf |
1880-11-25 |
Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (d. 1960) |
1881-01-01 |
Carry van Bridges, [de Haan], Dutch author (Heleen, Eva) |
1881-03-17 |
Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Less bror Harris) |
1881-04-03 |
Margaret MJ "Daisy" Ashford, English author (Young Sisters) |
1881-08-02 |
Ethel Mary Dell, English author (Storm Drift) |
1881-08-13 |
Jacqueline [Pierrette] R van Stuwe, [Eline v S], Dutch author |
1881-10-30 |
Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and author (d. 1941) |
1882-01-18 |
Alan Alexander Milne, Hampstead Middlesex, English author (Winnie-the-Pooh) |
1882-01-25 |
Virginia Woolf [Adeline], London, author (Jacob's Room, To Lighthouse), (d. 1941) |
1882-02-14 |
George Jean Nathan, US, editor/author/critic (American Mercury) |
1882-04-30 |
Trijntje "Nine" van de Schaaf, author (To the Invisible) |
1882-10-11 |
Will Vesper, German author (Vom grossen Krieg) |
1882-11-18 |
Wyndham Lewis, English author/painter (Tarr, Apes of God) |
1883-02-15 |
Sax Rohmer (real name Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward), English author of Dr Fu Manchu novels (d. 1959) |
1883-03-27 |
Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (d. 1980) |
1883-05-06 |
Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher/author [or May 9] |
1883-06-02 |
Bokke R S Pollema, Dutch Frisian journalist/author (Lock of Hair) |
1883-07-03 |
Franz Kafka, Czech, author (Metamorphosis, Trial, Amerika) |
1883-08-06 |
Scott Nearing, US sociologist/pacifist/author (The Good Life) |
1883-09-10 |
Euphemia "Phemia" Molkenboer, Dutch author/poster artist |
1883-12-04 |
Katharine Susannah Prichard, Australian author (d. 1969) |
1884-01-18 |
Arthur Ransome, English author (Swallows & Amazons) |
1884-01-20 |
A[braham P] Merritt, US, sci-fi author (Moon Pool, Creep Shadow!) |
1884-03-18 |
Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (d. 1968) |
1884-06-30 |
Georges Duhamel, French author (d. 1966) |
1884-08-26 |
Earl Biggers, author ("Charlie Chan" detective series) |
1884-11-03 |
Apie [Adrian P] Prince, Dutch author (Me Own Way) |
1884-11-10 |
Jan van Nijlen, Flemish poet/author (Bird Phoenix) |
1885-06-26 |
Anna M F van Wageningen-Salomons, author (Girl Student) [or 9/26] |
1885-08-15 |
Edna Ferber, American author & playwright (American Beauty, Cimarron) (d. 1968) |
1885-08-28 |
Vance Palmer, Australian author (d. 1959) |
1885-09-06 |
Franz T Csokor, Austrian author (Writings on the Wall) |
1885-09-26 |
Anna M F "Annie" Wageningen-Salomons, author (Girl Student) [or 6/26] |
1885-10-24 |
Ernest Claes, Belgian author (Saints from Zichem) |
1885-11-05 |
Will Durant, US, author/historian (Story of Civilization) |
1886-02-23 |
Ventura Garcia Calderon, Peruvian diplomat/author |
1886-02-28 |
Jose Gutierrez Solana, Spanish painter/author (Madrid Escenas) |
1886-03-18 |
Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips, Dutch author (Between Heaven & Earth) |
1886-05-10 |
Karl Barth, Basel Switzerland, theologian/author (Action in Waiting) |
1886-10-01 |
Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian/author |
1886-11-15 |
René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (d. 1951) |
1886-11-21 |
Harold G Nicolson, English diplomat/author (Good Behaviour) |
1887-01-25 |
Diego Valeri, Italian author/poet (Le Gaie Tristezze) |
1887-02-01 |
Charles Nordhoff, English-born author (d. 1947) |
1887-02-10 |
[Fran J] Vital Celen, Flemish literary/author [or Feb 9] |
1887-02-22 |
Mary Ellen Chase, educator/author (Windswept, 1959 Sarah Hale Award) |
1887-02-24 |
Mary Ellen Chase, US linguistic/author (White Gate) |
1887-09-07 |
Edith L Sitwell, English poetess/author (Wheels) |
1887-10-10 |
Rie Cramer, [Marie Holman], Dutch cartoonist/author |
1887-11-10 |
Arnold Zweig, German antifascist/author (Erziehung vor Verdun) |
1887-11-15 |
René Maran, Martinique, author (Batouala, Prix Goncourt) |
1888-01-24 |
Hedwig "Vicki" Baum, Austrian/US author (Men Never Know) |
1888-06-18 |
S S Van Dine, [William Huntingdon Wright], author (Canary Murder Case) |
1888-11-16 |
Henri [Ferdinand M J] Bosco, French author/poet (Gogol) |
1888-11-24 |
Dale Carnegie, author (How to Win Friends & Influence People) |
1888-12-27 |
Thea von Harbou, German author and actress (d. 1954) |
1889-02-10 |
Howard Spring, British author/novelist/writer/critic (O Absalom) |
1889-03-12 |
Þórbergur Þórðarson, Icelandic author (d. 1974) |
1889-09-07 |
Bruce F Cummings, English author (Journal of a Disappointed Man) |
1889-09-19 |
Sarah Delany, author/teacher |
1889-11-24 |
Cissy van Marxfield, [Setske Beek-de Haan], Dutch author |
1890-01-11 |
Oswald de Andrade, Brazilian author (d. 1954) |
1890-03-25 |
Marten Baersma, [MH Bottema], Friesan author (De ljochte kimen) |
1890-05-02 |
E[dward] E[lmer] "Doc" Smith, US, sci-fi author (Triplanetary). Died 1965 |
1890-05-05 |
Christopher Morley, author (Kitty Foil) |
1890-06-10 |
Paul J M Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author |
1890-09-10 |
Franz Werfel, Austria, author (40 Days of Musa Dagh) |
1890-09-15 |
Claude McKaye, Jamaica/US author (Songs of Jamaica, Banjo) |
1890-10-18 |
[Agathe] Henriette [M de Beaufort], Dutch author (Rembrandt) |
1890-11-15 |
Richmal Crompton, British author (d. 1969) |
1891-01-03 |
Osip E Mandelstam, Polish/Russian poet/author (Kamenj) [NS=Jan 15] |
1891-03-28 |
Karel MJF Cruysberghs, Flemish author |
1891-04-30 |
Watze Cuperus, Frisian author (Swart mar leaflik) |
1891-05-15 |
David Vogel, Ukraine, author (Huwelijksleven) |
1891-06-26 |
Vladislav Vancura, Czech physician/(stage)author/resistance fighter |
1891-08-26 |
Emmy van Lokhorst, Dutch author |
1891-09-11 |
William Thomas Walsh, American author (d. 1949) |
1891-11-05 |
Mary Dorna, Dutch author |
1891-12-02 |
Charles H. Wesley, author writer and Brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Inc. (d. 1987) |
1891-12-26 |
Henry Miller, Manhattan, New York, author/artist (Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer, Sexus), (d. 1980) |
1892-02-18 |
Wendell Wilkie, American Presidential candidate (R-1940)/author (One World). Died 1944 |
1892-03-27 |
Thorne Smith, author (Topper, Rain in the Doorway, Stray Lamb) |
1892-04-15 |
Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (d. 1983) |
1892-05-19 |
Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian author (Povestj Zjizni) [OS] |
1892-05-31 |
Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian author (Bespokojnaja Joenostj) [NS] |
1892-06-12 |
Djuna Barnes, American author (d. 1982) |
1892-06-26 |
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, China, author (Good Earth-Nobel 1938) |
1892-08-02 |
John Kieran, NYC, columnist/author (Natural History of NYC) |
1892-10-27 |
Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian author/mayor of Palmeira |
1892-12-21 |
Rebecca West, [Cicily I F Andrews], Engl author (Meaning of Treason) |
1892-12-25 |
Rebecca West, [Cicely Isabel Fairfield], English author |
1893-01-13 |
Clarke Ashton Smith, US, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds, Genius Loci) |
1893-03-03 |
Beatrice Wood, potter/artist/author |
1893-08-10 |
Voranc Prezikov, [Lovro Kuhar], Slovenian author (Samorastniki) |
1893-10-01 |
Faith Baldwin, New Rochelle NY, author/novelist (They Who Love) |
1893-11-11 |
Alceu Amoroso Lima, Brazilian author |
1893-11-14 |
Evert S J Kruythoff, Ned Antillean author (conservation flora) |
1893-12-31 |
Max Lamberty, Flemish sociologist/author (Flemish Resurrection) |
1894-05-20 |
Adela Rogers St John, journalist/author (Foreign Correspondent) |
1894-06-13 |
Mark van Doren, Ill, author (Happy Critic, Transients) |
1894-07-26 |
Aldous Huxley, Godalming, Surrey, English author (Brave New World, Island) |
1894-08-17 |
Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian/poet/author (Jorden) |
1894-09-13 |
John B[oynton] Priestly, author (Good Companions)/wed Jessica Hawkes |
1894-10-18 |
H. L. Davis, American author (d. 1960) |
1894-10-21 |
Rampo Edogawa, Japanese author and critic (d. 1965) |
1894-10-24 |
Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Bengali author (d. 1987) |
1895-01-16 |
Nat Schachner, American author (d. 1955) |
1895-01-24 |
Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet/author (Der Halbe Mensch) |
1895-03-29 |
Ernst Jünger, German author (d. 1998) |
1895-03-31 |
Vardis A Fisher, US author (Darkness & Deep) |
1895-05-02 |
Peggy Bacon, Ridgefield Ct, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads) |
1895-07-29 |
Michail M Zosjtsjenko, Russian author |
1895-08-10 |
Michail M Soschtschenko, Russian author |
1895-10-08 |
Jeanne G van Schaik-Willing, Dutch author (Sinner & the Girl) |
1895-10-18 |
Raymond Brulez, Flemish author (Appearance at Kallista) |
1895-11-05 |
Charles MacArthur, American author (d. 1956) |
1895-11-16 |
Michael Arlen, Armenia, English author (An American Verdict) |
1895-11-17 |
Gregorio López y Fuentes, Mexican author (d. 1966) |
1895-12-01 |
Henry Williamson, English author (d. 1977) |
1895-12-19 |
Ingeborg Refling-Hagen, Norwegian author/poet (Loke Saar Havre) |
1895-12-19 |
Maurice Roelants, Belgian author (Jazz Player) |
1896-01-20 |
Elmer R Diktonius, Finnish musicologist/author (Janne Kubik) |
1896-04-21 |
Henry M de Montherlant, French novelist and stage author (La Reine Morte) |
1896-06-16 |
William Fitzgerald Jenkins, author (Time Tunnel, Land of Giants) |
1896-06-16 |
Murray Leinster, American author (d. 1976) |
1896-09-20 |
Fjodor I Panfjorov, Russian author (Volga) [NS=Oct 2] |
1896-09-24 |
F Scott Fitzgerald, St Paul Minn, author (Great Gatsby), (d. 1940) |
1896-10-02 |
Fjodor I Panfjorov, Russian author (Volga) [OS=Sep 20] |
1896-11-16 |
Joan Lindsay, Australian author (d. 1984) |
1896-11-23 |
Joris Vriamont, Flemish author/music publisher |
1896-11-27 |
Giovanni B Angioletti, Italian author (Il giorno del giudizio) |
1896-12-05 |
(Lady Huxley) Juliette Baillot, author |
1896-12-12 |
Eslanda Goode, US anthropology/author under Paul Robeson |
1896-12-15 |
Betty Smith, American author (d. 1972) |
1897-01-08 |
Dennis Wheatley, British author (d. 1977) |
1897-04-17 |
Antonius F "Anton" Coolen, Dutch author (Village by the River) |
1897-05-22 |
Robert Neumann, Austrian/British author (Waters of Babylon) |
1897-06-08 |
John G. Bennett, British scientist and author (d. 1974) |
1897-08-11 |
Enid Blyton, children's writer and fifth most popular author in the world (Famous Five, Secret Seven, The Adventure) |
1897-08-20 |
Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian author (Det Store Spelet) |
1897-09-25 |
William Faulkner, New Albany Mississippi, author (Sound & Fury-Nobel 1949), (d. 1962) |
1897-10-08 |
Rouben Mamoulian, movie director/author (Mark of Zorro, Applause) |
1897-11-01 |
Naomi Mitchison, author (African Heroes, Return to Fairy Hill) |
1897-11-15 |
Sacheverell Sitwell, English poet/author (People's Palace) |
1897-12-01 |
Manuel A Neat, Curacaos author (Nobleza di Coerazon) |
1897-12-30 |
Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (d. 1976) |
1898-01-06 |
Jan Filip Boon, Flemish author/editor (De Standaard 1929-39) |
1898-01-23 |
Freda Utley, British scholar and author (d. 1978) |
1898-05-23 |
Scott O'Dell, American author (d. 1989) |
1898-06-09 |
Curzio Malaparte, [Kurt E Suckert], Italian author (Kaputt) |
1898-06-27 |
Alexandra G "Alja" von Hoyer-Rachmanova, Russ/Aust author (Students) |
1898-07-22 |
Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (d. 1943) |
1898-08-20 |
Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author and historian (d. 1973) |
1898-08-24 |
Malcolm Cowley, Belsano Penn, author (Flowering of New England) |
1898-09-16 |
H.A. Rey, American children's author, creator of "Curious George" (d. 1977) |
1898-11-12 |
Abraham J D van Oosten, Dutch poet/author (His Master's Voice) |
1898-11-27 |
Fredric Warburg, publisher and author (d. 1981) |
1898-11-29 |
C. S. Lewis [Clive Staples], Belfast, sci-fi author (Silver Chair), (d. 1963) |
1899-01-14 |
Carlos Romulo, Filipino diplomat and author (d. 1985) |
1899-03-08 |
Elmer Keith, Firearms enthusiast and Author (d. 1984) |
1899-04-30 |
Jannetje Fisherman-Roosendaal, author (regional novels) |
1899-07-21 |
Ernest Hemingway, Oak Park Illinois, author ('for whom the bell tolled... ', Nobel 1954), (d. 1961) |
1899-11-02 |
Eddy [Charles E] du Perron, Dutch author/poet |
1899-11-25 |
William R Burnett, US, author (Little Caesar) |
1899-12-09 |
Jean de Brunhoff, France, children's book author (Babar the Elephant) |
1900-04-16 |
Polly Adler, Russia, bordello proprieter/author (House is not a Home) |
1900-05-07 |
Bauke Tuinstra, Dutch/Frisian notary/author (Earste Keur) |
1900-05-13 |
Jos Panhuysen, author (Pornographer) |
1900-05-14 |
Hal Borland, American author (d. 1978) |
1900-05-31 |
Helma Wolf-Catz, Dutch author (Undercurrent, Coral Reef) |
1900-06-28 |
Leon Kruczkowski, Polish author (Kordian into Cham) |
1900-07-25 |
Enrique Amorim, Uruguayan author (La victoria no viene sola) |
1900-11-08 |
Margaret Mitchell, Atlanta, Georgia, author (Gone With the Wind), (d. 1949) |
1900-11-18 |
Howard Thurman, theologian/author (Deep River, Deep in the Hunger) |
1900-11-19 |
Anna Seghers, [Netty Radvanyi-Reiling], German author (7th Cross) |
1900-12-16 |
Victor S Pritchett, literary critic/author (Myth Makers) |
1900-12-21 |
Oda Schaefer, German author/poet (Die Windharfe, Ladies Only) |
1901-02-20 |
René Jules Dubos, France, US microbiologist/author (Health & Disease) |
1901-02-23 |
Aartje W "Mien" van It Sant-van Bommel, author (Mieke-serial) |
1901-05-01 |
Antal Szerb, Hungarian author and historian (d. 1945) |
1901-05-11 |
Mari Sandoz, Nebraska, author (Cheyenne Autumn) |
1901-05-15 |
Xavier Herbert, Australian author (d. 1984) |
1901-06-13 |
Lode Zielens, Flemish author/journalist (Obscure Blood) |
1901-07-09 |
Barbara Cartland, romance author (Camfield #69) |
1901-08-30 |
John Gunther, Chicago Ill, author/host (John Gunther's High Road) |
1901-11-11 |
F. Van Wyck Mason, American author (d. 1978) |
1902-01-05 |
Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English author (Cold Comfort Farm) |
1902-01-19 |
Heinrich Schmist-Barrien, German author (Moorkeerl) |
1902-02-22 |
Hanns Neupert, German piano builder/author (Das Klavichord) |
1902-02-25 |
Max Kommerell, German literary/author (Die Gefangenen) |
1902-02-27 |
John Steinbeck, Salinas California, author (Grapes of Wrath-Nobel 1962) |
1902-04-04 |
Louise L de Vilmorin, French poetess/author (Lutin Sauvage) |
1902-04-04 |
Stanley G. Weinbaum, American science-fiction author (d. 1935) |
1902-04-11 |
Quentin Reynolds, NYC, newscaster (Its News to Me)/author (FBI) |
1902-04-28 |
Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (d. 1979) |
1902-05-04 |
Cola [Nicolas] Debrot, Bonaire governor (Neth Antilles)/author |
1902-05-10 |
Joachim Prinz, author/Rabbi of Berlin (1926-37) |
1902-07-25 |
Eric Hoffer, longshoreman/author (True Believer) |
1902-08-10 |
Curt Siodmak, German-born author (d. 2000) |
1902-09-13 |
Hermine Heijermans, Dutch actress/author |
1902-11-02 |
Gyula Illyes, Hungarian author/poet (Az Ismertlen Illyes) |
1902-11-18 |
Jorgen Nielsen, Danish author (regional novels) |
1902-12-23 |
Norman Maclean, American author (d. 1990) |
1902-12-28 |
Mortimer J Adler, NYC, author (Encyclopedia Brittanica) |
1903-02-21 |
Raymond Queneau, [M Presle], French author (Un Enfant a Dit) |
1903-02-22 |
Morley Callaghan, Canada, author (Toronto Star, Native Argosy) |
1903-03-03 |
Rabbe A Enckell, Fins author/poet (Lutad about Brunnen) |
1903-04-20 |
Dagmar Edqvist, Swedish author (Kamrathustru-Wife & Comrade) |
1903-05-05 |
James Beard, US, culinary expert/author (Delights & Prejudices) |
1903-05-21 |
Manly Wade Wellman, Angola, sci-fi author (After Dark, Devil's Planet) |
1903-07-10 |
John Wyndham P L B Harris, US, sci-fi author (Day of the Triffids) |
1903-07-14 |
Irving Stone, US, author (Love is Eternal, Lust for Life) |
1903-10-28 |
Evelyn A Waugh, London, author (Brideshead Revisited, Scoop) |
1903-11-01 |
Jean Tardieu, author |
1903-11-07 |
Lodewijk AM "Lou" Lichtveld, [Albert Helman], Suriname author |
1903-12-08 |
Kathleen (Kitty) Rosalind Muggeridge, author |
1903-12-10 |
William Plomer, Transvaal, author (Paper Houses, I Speak of Africa) |
1903-12-17 |
Erskine P Caldwell, author (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre) |
1904-01-20 |
Theodore Brameld, author/educator (Use of Explosive Ideas) |
1904-02-01 |
S J Perelman, Brooklyn, author/humorist (Around the World in 80 Days) |
1904-02-02 |
Buzurg Alavi, Persian author (Panjah va sih nafar, Namal'ha) |
1904-02-25 |
Adelle Davis, author (Lets Stay Healthy)/nutritionist (died of cancer) |
1904-02-27 |
James Thomas Farrell, US, author (Studs Lonigan trilogy) |
1904-03-02 |
Dr. Seuss, [Theodor Geisel], Springfield, Massachusetts, children's author (Horton Hears a Who!) |
1904-07-15 |
Rudolf Arnheim, German-born author (d. 2007) |
1904-07-27 |
Agnes Yarnall, sculptor, artist, author laa, 1987 |
1904-08-03 |
Clifford D[onald] Simak, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Empire, Way Station) |
1904-08-04 |
Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author (Ferdydurke, Pornography) |
1904-08-06 |
M Revis, [Willem Fisherman], author (Gelakte Brain) |
1904-08-27 |
Norah Lofts, British author (d. 1983) |
1904-09-19 |
Karen Aabye, Danish author (Less bedstemor there jomfru) |
1904-10-21 |
Edmond [Moore] Hamilton, US, sci-fi author (Danger Planet) |
1904-11-14 |
Marya Mannes, NYC, author (The Reporter) |
1904-11-28 |
Nancy Mitford, English author (Love in a cold climate) |
1904-12-06 |
Eve Denise Curie, French pianist/author/daughter of Madame Curie |
1905-01-06 |
Eric Frank Russell, UK, sci-fi author (Hugo, Deep Space, Dark Tides) |
1905-03-01 |
Pol le Roy, Flemish author/novelist/writer (Stroom) |
1905-03-07 |
Vera Fjodorova Panova, Russian author (Sputniki) |
1905-07-04 |
Lionel Trilling, author (1969 Poses Award, Liberal Imagination) |
1905-07-19 |
Edgar P Snow, US author/journalist: Red star over China |
1905-08-20 |
Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (d. 1973) |
1905-11-04 |
Martin Raschke, German author/publisher/war correspondent |
1905-11-09 |
Erika Mann, German/US author (Other Germany)/daughter of Thomas Mann |
1905-11-14 |
Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian author |
1905-11-17 |
Wazyk, [Adam Wagman], Polish poet/author (Eyes & Mouth) |
1905-12-01 |
Charles Finney, US, author (Circus of Dr Lao) |
1906-01-22 |
Robert E[rvin] Howard, US, sci-fi author (Conan the Conqueror) |
1906-02-24 |
Alexis Curvers, Belgian author (Tempo di Roma, Bourg-le-Rond) |
1906-03-04 |
Meindert DeJong American author (d. 1991) |
1906-05-09 |
Eleanor Estes, author (Ginger Pye, Moffats) |
1906-05-16 |
Margret Rey, author and illustrator (d. 1996) |
1906-05-29 |
T.H. White, Bombay India, English author (King Arthur) |
1906-06-22 |
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Englewood New Jersey, American author and aviator (Gift from the Sea) |
1906-08-05 |
Francis Walder, [Francois Waldburger], Belgian author |
1906-09-27 |
Jim Thompson, American author (d. 1977) |
1906-10-29 |
Fredric [William] Brown, US, sci-fi author (Martians Go Home) |
1906-11-07 |
Jan Vercammen, Flemish author/chief inspector LO (Primary Education) |
1906-11-18 |
Klaus Mann, German/US author (Mephisto)/son of Thomas Mann |
1906-12-19 |
H Allen Smith, Ill, humorist/author (Low Man on Totem Pole) |
1907-01-05 |
Anton Ingolic, Slavic author (After Splavih, After Prelomu) |
1907-02-03 |
James A. Michner, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, American author (Tales of the South Pacific, Hawaii) |
1907-02-11 |
E W Swanton, author & sports commentator |
1907-04-12 |
Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator (d. 1979) |
1907-04-15 |
Gerald Abrahams, Liverpool, author (Teach Yourself Chess) |
1907-04-22 |
Ivan Efremov, Russian paleontologist and author (d. 1972) |
1907-06-02 |
Dorothy West, US journalist/author (Living is Easy) |
1907-06-16 |
John Hadfield, author/publisher (Love on a Branch Line) |
1907-07-07 |
Robert A[nson] Heinlein, US, sci-fi author (4 Hugos, Red Planet) |
1907-07-23 |
Elspeth Josceline Huxley, English author |
1907-08-21 |
Miguel Torga, [Adolfo Correia da Rocha], Portuguese author |
1907-10-16 |
Roger Vailland, French author (La Novice, Et Mourir de Plasir) |
1907-11-07 |
Maurits Mok, Dutch author/poet (Cheese & Bread Game) |
1907-11-10 |
John Moore, English author (d. 1967) |
1907-11-14 |
Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children book author (Pipi Longstocking) |
1907-11-18 |
Halldis Vesaas-Moren, Norwegian author/poetess |
1907-11-19 |
Jack Schaefer, American author (d. 1991) |
1907-11-21 |
Jim Bishop, author (The Day Lincoln was Shot) |
1907-11-27 |
L[yon] Sprague de Camp, US, sci-fi author (Goblin Tower, Hand of Zei) |
1907-11-28 |
Alberto Moravia, [Pincherle], Italian author (Indifferent Ones) |
1907-11-30 |
Jacques Barzun, France, author (The House of Interlect), (d. 2012) |
1907-12-04 |
Jo Boer, Dutch author (Catharina & the Magnolias) |
1907-12-10 |
Rumer Godden, England, author (Thursday's Children) |
1908-01-09 |
Simone de Beauvoir, France, author (Mandarins, 2nd Sex) |
1908-02-11 |
Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguistic/author/novelist |
1908-02-25 |
Frank G Slaughter, author (Sangaree) |
1908-03-22 |
Louis D L'Amour, Jamestown ND, author (Hondo, Jubal Sackett) |
1908-04-04 |
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, author (Cheaper by the Dozen) |
1908-04-09 |
Victor Vasarely, Hungarian/French painter/author (Op Art) |
1908-04-29 |
Jack [Stewart] Williamson, US, sci-fi author (Cometeers) |
1908-05-28 |
Ian Lancaster Fleming, London, England, author (James Bond) |
1908-06-30 |
Charles Camproux, French linguistic/author (Bestiari) |
1908-08-04 |
Osbert Lancaster, English cartoonist/author (Daily Express) |
1908-09-04 |
Richard Wright, US, author (Native Son, Uncle Tom's Children) |
1908-10-12 |
Ann Lane Petry, US journalist/author (Street) |
1908-11-06 |
Fanny Leys, Flemish author (Ontwijding) |
1908-11-12 |
Hans Werner Richter, German author (Socially Responsible Cinema) |
1908-11-14 |
Harrison E Salisbury, journalist/author (50th Anniv of Soviet Union) |
1908-11-21 |
Elizabeth George Speare, American author (d. 1994) |
1908-11-24 |
Harry Kemelman, US detective author (rabbi-omnibus) |
1908-12-03 |
Nigel M Balchin, [Mark Spade], English author (Business for Pleasure) |
1908-12-07 |
Jacques Gans, Dutch author/journalist |
1908-12-25 |
Quentin Crisp, English author (d. 1999) |
1909-01-06 |
Keith Davis, voice tutor/author |
1909-02-25 |
Edgar Pangborn, US, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy) |
1909-03-31 |
Robert Brasillach, French author/nazi collaborator |
1909-05-29 |
Neil R[onald] Jones, US, sci-fi author (Space War, Twin Worlds) |
1909-06-26 |
Betty Askwith, author |
1909-08-09 |
John Baur, museum director/author (American Paintings in 19th Century) |
1909-11-09 |
Hendrik van Randwijk, Dutch author/founder (Vrij Netherland) |
1909-11-13 |
Paul de Vree, Flemish author (Between Doubt & Tears) |
1909-11-19 |
Moses Josiah Madiba, Seshego, Pietersburg (now Polokwane) district, South African author and first African chancellor of the University of the North |
1909-11-23 |
Nigel Tranter, author/historian (River Realm, Robert the Bruce) |
1909-11-24 |
Hotze de Roos, Dutch youth book author (Chameleon) |
1909-11-27 |
James Agee, American author (African Queen, Death in Family) |
1909-12-11 |
Ronald McKie, Australian author (d. 1991) |
1910-01-20 |
Joy Adamson, (born Friederike Viktoria Gessner) Troppau Austria-Hungary, naturalist/author (Born Free) |
1910-01-28 |
Verda Bryant, American author |
1910-02-06 |
Irmgard Keun, German author (d. 1982) |
1910-02-27 |
Peter De Vries, Chicago, author (Reuben Reuben, Prick of Noon) |
1910-04-12 |
Jorgen Rausch, German philosopher/author (End of the Playboys) |
1910-05-23 |
Margaret Wise Brown, American author (d. 1952) |
1910-08-05 |
Jacquetta Hawkes, English archaeologist/author (A Country), (d. 1996) |
1910-08-19 |
Quentin Bell, artist author/teacher |
1910-12-02 |
Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine (d. 1991) |
1910-12-24 |
Fritz [Reuter] Leiber Jr, US, sci-fi author (Bazaar of the Bizarre) |
1911-01-24 |
C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore, US, sci-fi author (Judgment Night) |
1911-05-10 |
Bel Kaufman, American author |
1911-05-20 |
Gardner Fox, Brooklyn, New York, American sci-fi author (Atom, Hawkman, Zatanna) |
1911-06-17 |
Viktor P Nekrasov, Ukrainian author (Vokopach Stalingrada) |
1911-10-02 |
Jack Finney, American author (d. 1995) |
1911-10-15 |
James H[enry] Schmitz, Germany, sci-fi author (Lion Game) |
1911-11-01 |
Henri Troyat, French author and historian (d. 2007) |
1911-11-12 |
William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian |
1912-01-16 |
Franz Tumler, Austria, author/novelist (Cloak, Aufruf) |
1912-01-30 |
Barbara Tuchman, US, historian/author (Pulitzer, Guns of August) |
1912-02-12 |
R. F. Delderfield, English author (d. 1972) |
1912-02-14 |
Edmund George Love, US, teacher/historian/author (A Small Bequest)= |
1912-02-16 |
Bob Tadema Sporry, Dutch (female) author |
1912-02-17 |
Andre Norton, American author (d. 2005) |
1912-02-20 |
Pierre Boulle, French author (d. 1994) |
1912-03-21 |
Peter Bull, actor/author (Executioner, Tom Jones, Dr Strangelove) |
1912-03-28 |
A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, UK, sci-fi author (Empress of Outer Space) |
1912-04-09 |
Lew Kopelew, Russian author (d. 1997) |
1912-04-26 |
A. E. van Vogt, Canada, sci-fi author (Wizard of Linn) (d. 2000) |
1912-05-08 |
George Woodcock, author |
1912-05-16 |
Studs Terkel, NYC, author/host (Stud's Place, Working) |
1912-06-12 |
Mary Lavin MacDonald Scott, author |
1912-06-20 |
Anthony Buckeridge, English author (d. 2004) |
1912-07-20 |
Andrew Long, Scottish author (Blue Book of Fairy Tales) |
1912-09-24 |
Ian Serraillier, children author |
1912-11-16 |
Anton [Tom] Koolhaas, author (Weird White) |
1912-11-30 |
Gordon Parks, Ft Scott KS, film director/author (Learning Tree) |
1912-12-04 |
John W Pritchard, [Ian Wallace], US, sci-fi author (Megalomania) |
1913-01-19 |
Phyllis Flowerdew, school Reading text author |
1913-02-20 |
Mary Durack, author |
1913-03-18 |
William Hutchinson Murray, mountaineer/author |
1913-04-10 |
Stefan Heym, German/US author (Crusaders, Family Benda) |
1913-05-03 |
Earl Blackwell, Atlanta Ga, author (Celebrity Register) |
1913-06-02 |
Barbara Pym, romantic author (Very Private Eye), (d. 1980) |
1913-06-02 |
Walter Andreas Schwarz, German singer and author (d. 1992) |
1913-06-13 |
Etienne Leroux, major Afrikaans author. |
1913-06-21 |
Irving Shulman, author/screenwriter |
1913-06-23 |
Jacques Rabemananjara, Hungarian author/vice-president (Antsa) |
1913-07-11 |
Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, US, sci-fi author (Space Lords) |
1913-07-15 |
Ralph Hammond Innes, English author |
1913-08-08 |
Daan Wildschut, painter/glazenier/author |
1913-09-28 |
Edith Mary Ellis Peters Pargeter, author |
1913-10-26 |
Stuart J[ames] Byrne, US, sci-fi author (Star Man, God Man) |
1913-11-07 |
Albert Camus, Algeria, author (The Just-Nobel 1957), (d. 1960) |
1913-12-18 |
Alfred Bester, US, science fiction author (Decievers, Starlight) |
1913-12-27 |
Elizabeth Smart, Ottawa Ontario, Canadian author (By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept) |
1913-12-30 |
Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (d. 2002) |
1914-03-29 |
Chapman Pincher, British journalist/author (about secret service) |
1914-04-22 |
Charles Hubert Sisson, author/poet (Christopher Homm) |
1914-05-16 |
Edward T. Hall, American anthropologist and author |
1914-05-22 |
Vance Packard, Granville Summit Pa, author (Hidden Persuaders) |
1914-06-17 |
John R Hersey, author (Hiroshima, Bell for Adano, Wall) |
1914-06-26 |
Laurie Lee, English poet/author (I Can't Stay Long) |
1914-06-27 |
Robert Aickman, English author (d. 1981) |
1914-08-09 |
Tove Jansson, Finnish author (Moomins) (d. 2001) |
1914-09-14 |
Robert McCloskey, American author (d. 2003) |
1914-10-01 |
Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian and author (The Americans: The Democratic Experience - 1974 Pulitzer Prize) |
1914-10-02 |
Jack Parsons, American rocket scientist, author, and occultist (d. 1952) |
1914-10-30 |
Marius Hendrikus Flothuis, Dutch composer/author (Mozart biography) |
1914-11-07 |
R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty, US, sci-fi author (Devil is Dead) |
1914-11-23 |
[Arthur] Wilson "Bob" Tucker, US, sci-fi author (Time Masters) |
1914-12-05 |
Hans Hellmut Kirst, German author (d. 1989) |
1915-01-29 |
Frederic Ramsey Jr, folklorist/author |
1915-02-03 |
Jann Willem Holsbergen, author (Zakenmensen Fair as Gold) |
1915-02-11 |
Patrick Leigh Fermor, author |
1915-02-15 |
Paul Ferris, British author |
1915-02-23 |
Heinrich Schirmbeck, German author (Das Spiegellabyrinth) |
1915-03-18 |
Richard Thomas Condon, author |
1915-04-07 |
Henry Kuttner, US, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were) |
1915-04-12 |
Emil [Theodore] Petaja, US, sci-fi author (Star Mill, Tramontane) |
1915-05-10 |
Monica Dickens, author/founder (US Samaritians) |
1915-05-26 |
Antonia Forest, British children's author (d. 2003) |
1915-06-02 |
Lester del Rey, US, sci-fi author (Moon Trilogy, Marooned on Mars) |
1915-06-10 |
Saul Bellow, Lachine Quebec, Canadian-born American author (Mr Sammler's Planet, Nobel 1976) |
1915-06-26 |
Charlotte Zolotow, American author |
1915-07-22 |
Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani politician, diplomat and author. (d. 2000) |
1915-07-29 |
Bruce R. McConkie, LDS apostle and author (d. 1985) |
1915-08-15 |
Kamiel van Baelen, Flemish author/resistance fighter (Mensch op Weg) |
1915-08-24 |
Alice B[radley] Sheldon, US, sci-fi author (Byte Beautiful) |
1915-12-07 |
Brackett Hamilton Leigh, [Douglass], US, sci-fi author (Ginger Star) |
1915-12-27 |
William Howell Masters, sex author/physician |
1915-12-29 |
Charles L[eonard] Harness, US, sci-fi author (Paradox Men, Wolfhead) |
1916-01-22 |
Harilal Upadhyay, Gujarati Author, Poet, Astrologist (Gujarat is a State of India) (d. 1994) |
1916-03-11 |
Ezra Jack Keats, children's literature author (d. 1983) |
1916-03-14 |
Horton Foote, American author, playwright and screenwriter |
1916-03-19 |
Irving Wallace, author (People's Almanac, The Man) [or Mar 18] |
1916-05-11 |
Camilo Jose Cela, Spain, author (La Colmena-1951) |
1916-05-21 |
Harold Robbins, NYC, author (Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers, Betsy) |
1916-07-14 |
Natalia Ginzburg, Italian author (Family dictionary) |
1916-07-23 |
Ronald Ridout, school textbook author |
1916-08-01 |
Anne Hébert, French Canadian author and poet (d. 2000) |
1916-08-28 |
Jack [Holbrook] Vance, US, sci-fi author (2 Hugo, Dirdir, Pnume), (d. 2013) |
1916-09-04 |
Robert [Augustine] W[ard] Lowndes, US, sci-fi author (Puzzle Planet) |
1916-09-13 |
Roald Dahl, Llandaff, Cardiff, author (Over to You, Taste, 2 Fables), (d. 1990). |
1916-09-17 |
Mary [Florence Elinor] Stewart, UK, sci-fi author (Crystal Cave) |
1916-10-16 |
George Turner, Australian author (d. 1997) |
1916-10-28 |
Jessie Kesson, author |
1916-11-08 |
Peter Weiss, Germany, Swedish author/dramatist/novelist (Marat/Sade) |
1917-03-13 |
Maria Vlamynck, Flemish author |
1917-03-21 |
Frank Hardy, Australian author (d. 1994) |
1917-04-05 |
Robert [Albert] Bloch, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Psycho) |
1917-05-01 |
Louis G "Lo" van Hensbergen, actor/author (Amsterdam Affair) |
1917-07-15 |
Robert Conquest, English author (Back to Life) |
1917-09-10 |
Miguel Serrano, Chilean author and diplomat |
1917-09-11 |
Jessica Lucy Mitford, author (American Way of Death) |
1917-10-08 |
Walter Lord, American author (d. 2002) |
1917-11-01 |
Margaret Taylor Burroughs, US author/house painter (Black Queen) |
1917-11-01 |
Zenna [Chlarson] Henderson, US, sci-fi author (Anything Box) |
1917-11-11 |
[Dallas] Mack/McCord Reynolds, US, sci-fi author (Earth War) |
1917-12-16 |
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, Minehead England, science fiction author (2001, 2010, Childhood's End) |
1918-02-02 |
Hella [S Lelyveld-]Haasse, Dutch author (Cider for Poor People) |
1918-02-06 |
Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author (d. 2007) |
1918-02-26 |
Theodore [Hamilton] Sturgeon, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar) |
1918-04-08 |
Glendon Swarthout, American author (d. 1992) |
1918-08-04 |
Iceberg Slim (a.k.a. Robert Beck), American author (d. 1992) |
1918-08-20 |
Jacqueline Susann, Phila Pa, author (Valley of the Dolls), (d. 1974) |
1918-09-02 |
Allen Drury, author (Advise & Consent-1960 Pulitzer Prize) |
1918-09-24 |
Richard Hoggart, author/warden (Goldsmith's College London) |
1918-10-10 |
Jean Gimpel, author/iconoclast |
1918-11-29 |
Madeleine L'Engle, [Franklin], US, sci-fi author (Ilsa, Love Letters) |
1918-12-09 |
Jerome Beatty Jr., American author |
1919-01-24 |
Nora Beloff, journalist/author |
1919-01-25 |
Edwin Newman, NYC, newscaster/journalist/author (NBC-TV, Comment) |
1919-03-24 |
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, author (Coney Island of the Mind) |
1919-04-20 |
Richard Hillary, Australian Spitfire pilot and author (d. 1943) |
1919-05-16 |
Richard Mason, author |
1919-06-05 |
Richard McClure Scarry, children's author/illustrator |
1919-08-15 |
Benedict Kiely, Irish author |
1919-08-31 |
Amrita Preetam, Indian poet and author (d. 2005) |
1919-09-21 |
Aya Zikken, author (Atlasvlinder, Rameh) |
1919-10-03 |
Boyd Bradfield Upchurch, [John Boyd], US, sci-fi author (IQ Merchant) |
1919-10-31 |
Magnus Wenninger, American priest, author of Polyhedron models |
1919-11-03 |
Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (d. 1995) |
1919-11-08 |
P. L. Deshpande, Indian author (d. 2000) |
1919-11-26 |
Frederik Pohl, US, sci-fi author (3 Hugo, Gateway, Bipohl), (d. 2013) |
1920-01-20 |
Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (d. 2006) |
1920-02-11 |
Daniel F[rancis] Galouye, US, sci-fi author (Dark Universe, Last Leap) |
1920-02-25 |
Gérard Bessette, Canadian author (d. 2005) |
1920-03-16 |
Sid Fleischman, American author |
1920-03-19 |
Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author (d. 2002) |
1920-04-05 |
Rafique Zakaria, Indian author (d. 2005) |
1920-05-09 |
Richard Adams, author (Day Gone By) |
1920-05-09 |
William Tenn, American author |
1920-06-16 |
John Howard Griffin, US, photographer/author (Black Like Me) |
1920-07-12 |
Pierre Berton, Whitehorse Yukon, Canadian author (War of 1812) |
1920-08-22 |
Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury, Ill, sci-fi author (Fahrenheit 451), (d. 2012) |
1920-09-05 |
Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink, Dutch author (Anna & her Father) |
1920-10-08 |
Frank [Patrick] Herbert, US, sci-fi author (Dune) |
1920-10-09 |
Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (d. 1976) |
1920-11-26 |
Paul T B Rodenko, poet/author (Stolen Lover) |
1921-01-25 |
Russell Reading Braddon, Australian author |
1921-02-28 |
John Bouber, [Blom], actor/author (Fool of Heideloo) |
1921-03-11 |
F[rancis] M[arion] Busby Jr, US, sci-fi author (Star Rebel) |
1921-03-24 |
Wilson Harris, Guayanese author |
1921-05-23 |
James [Benjamin] Blish, US/UK, sci-fi author (Hugo, Star Trek Reader) |
1921-05-28 |
Heinz G. Konsalik, German author (d. 1999) |
1921-05-31 |
Robert Arthur Ley, UK, sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X) |
1921-06-12 |
James Houston, Toronto, author/filmmaker (Tikta'Liktak) |
1921-07-02 |
Ben Kapen, Theatre of the Absurd: Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author |
1921-07-14 |
Leon Garfield, English children's author (d. 1996) |
1921-09-06 |
Carmen Laforet, Spanish author (d. 2004) |
1921-09-12 |
Stanislaw Lem, Lwów, Poland, sci-fi author (Solaris, Invincible) |
1921-11-01 |
Ilse Aichinger, Austria, author |
1921-11-26 |
Francoise Gilot, painter, designer, author living legacy award, 1984 |
1922-01-25 |
Raymond Baxter, British TV host/author (Fast Lady) |
1922-01-26 |
Michael Bentine, England, author/comedian (Reluctant Jester) |
1922-02-18 |
Helen Gurley Brown, Portland Maine, US author/publisher and editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, (d. 2012) |
1922-02-18 |
Juhan Smuul, Estonian author (d. 1971) |
1922-02-27 |
Mervyn Jones, author (Nobody's Fault, 5 Hungarian Writers) |
1922-03-14 |
Colin Fletcher, author (Walking Through Time) |
1922-03-27 |
Stefan Wul, French author (d. 2003) |
1922-04-16 |
Christopher Samuel Youd, UK, sci-fi author (Tripods Trilogy), (d. 2012) |
1922-05-23 |
Dennis Compton, author/crickleter |
1922-05-30 |
Harry Clement Stubbs, US, sci-fi author (Needle, Iceworld) |
1922-06-28 |
Terje Stigen, Norwegian author (Det siste paradiset) |
1922-07-12 |
James E[dwin] Gunn, US, sci-fi author (Station in Space, Immortal) |
1922-08-03 |
Robert Sumner, American evangelist and author |
1922-08-16 |
Louis E Lomax, author |
1922-09-19 |
Damon [Francis] Knight, US, sci-fi author (CV, Beyond the Barrier) |
1922-11-11 |
Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Ind, author (Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan) |
1923-01-08 |
Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American author and computer scientist (d. 2008) |
1923-01-23 |
Walter M[ichael] Miller Jr, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, View from Stars) |
1923-02-02 |
Mary Elizabeth "Liz" Smith, Tx, journlist/author (WNBC, NY Daily News) |
1923-02-09 |
Brendan Behan, Dublin Ireland, author/poet (Hostage) |
1923-03-08 |
Sembene Ousmane, Senegalese author/novelist/director (Doctor Noir) |
1923-03-20 |
Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani Author, Journalist and Political Activist (d. 2006) |
1923-04-17 |
Lloyd Biggle Jr, US, sci-fi author (Silence is Deadly) |
1923-04-22 |
Paula Fox, US children's books author (Poor George) |
1923-04-23 |
Avram Davidson, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Peregrine: Primus, Rork!) |
1923-05-04 |
Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer and author |
1923-05-20 |
Samuel Selvon, author |
1923-05-25 |
John Weitz, spy/author/fashion designer (Friends in High Places) |
1923-06-06 |
V. C. Andrews, American author (d. 1986) |
1923-06-08 |
Malcolm Boyd, American Episcopal Priest and author |
1923-07-26 |
Jan Berenstain, American author, (d. 2012) |
1923-08-31 |
Serafina K "Sera" Anstadt, Polish/Dutch actress/author |
1923-09-13 |
Reninca, [Renée Lauwers], Flemish author (Seed in the Wind) |
1923-10-15 |
Italo Calvino, Cuba, author (Winter's Night a Traveler) |
1923-10-23 |
Ned Rorem, Richmond Indiana, composer/author (Sky Music) |
1923-11-01 |
Edward A de Jongh, Antillian author (The Arch) |
1923-11-01 |
Gordon R[upert] Dickson, Canada, sci-fi author (Genetic General) |
1923-11-20 |
Nadine Gordimer, South African author (July's people, Nobel 1991) |
1923-12-30 |
Sara A Lidman, Swedish author (Jag Och Min Son, Samtal in Hanoi) |
1924-01-19 |
Jean Francois Revel, French journalist/author (Ni Marx ni Jesus) |
1924-01-30 |
Margaret Beda Nicholson, author (No Medals for the Major) |
1924-01-30 |
Margaret Yorke [Margaret Beda Nicholson], Compton, Surrey, author (Patrick Grant novels), (d. 2012) |
1924-02-01 |
Ben Weider, Quebec businessman and author |
1924-02-06 |
Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Road to Rome) |
1924-02-12 |
Hans Berghuis, Dutch author/poet (3 Women, Adam) |
1924-04-18 |
Raf de Linde, [Raphael van Hecke], author (Vaarwel on Gertrude) |
1924-05-09 |
Bulat S Okudzjava, Russian author (Student!) |
1924-08-02 |
James Baldwin, New York, author (Go Tell it on Mountain, Another Country), (d. 1987) |
1924-08-17 |
Evan Connell, Kansas City, Missouri, author (The Patriot), (d. 2013) |
1924-09-14 |
Abioseh Nicol, Sierra Leonean diplomat and author (d. 1994) |
1924-09-27 |
Bernard Waber, American author, (d. 2013) |
1924-09-30 |
Truman Capote, New Orleans Louisiana, American author (In Cold Blood) |
1924-10-10 |
James Clavell, England, author (Tai Pan, Shogun) [or 1920, 22, 26) |
1924-11-21 |
Christopher Tolkien, British author |
1924-12-15 |
Ida Haendel, Polish violinist/author (Woman with Violin) |
1925-01-17 |
Robert Cormier, American author (d. 2000) |
1925-01-19 |
Nina [Mary] Bawden, English author (Afternoon of a Good Woman), (d. 2012) |
1925-02-04 |
Russell Hoban, US children's book author (Riddley Walker/Pilgermann) |
1925-02-13 |
Jan Arends, Dutch poet/author |
1925-02-20 |
Pramudya Ananta Tur, Javanese author (Anak semua bangsa) |
1925-02-22 |
Edward Gorey, Chicago, author/artist (Curious Sofa) |
1925-03-12 |
Harry [Maxwell] Harrison, UK, sci-fi author (Deathworld Trilogy), (d. 2012) |
1925-04-02 |
George MacDonald Fraser, poet/author (Flashman at the Charge) |
1925-06-09 |
[John] Keith Laumer, [Anthony LeBaron], US, sf author (Retief's War) |
1925-08-12 |
Norris McWhirter, author (Guinness Book of World Records) |
1925-08-12 |
Ross McWhirter, author (Guinness Book of World Records) |
1925-08-18 |
Brian W[ilson] Aldiss, UK, sci-fi author (Helliconia Trilogy) |
1925-08-28 |
Arkadi N Strugazki, USSR, sci-fi author (Tale of the Troika) |
1925-09-04 |
Forrest Carter, American author (d. 1979) |
1925-10-03 |
Gore Vidal, West Point NY, author (Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln), (d. 2012) |
1925-10-20 |
Art Buchwald, Mt Vernon NY, columnist/author (Have I Ever Lied to You) |
1925-10-29 |
Dominick Dunne, American author |
1925-11-03 |
Dieter Wellershoff, German author (Minotaur) |
1925-11-13 |
Inez van Dullemen, Dutch author |
1925-11-24 |
William F. Buckley Jr, New York, American conservative author and commentator (National Review, Firing Line) |
1925-12-08 |
Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author (d. 2000) |
1925-12-25 |
Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born author (d. 1998) |
1926-01-13 |
Carolyn Heilbrun, [Amanda Cross], author (Lady Ottoline's Album) |
1926-01-13 |
Pamela M Cunnington, English architect/author (Change of Use) |
1926-01-19 |
Libera Carlier, Flemish author (Action Station Go!) |
1926-02-20 |
Richard Matheson, American author, (d. 2013) |
1926-02-28 |
Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Josef Stalin/author (My Life) |
1926-03-03 |
James Ingram Merrill, US poet/author (Scripts for the Pageant) |
1926-04-01 |
Anne [Inez] McCaffrey, US, sci-fi author (Dragonflight, Dragondrums) |
1926-04-28 |
Harper Lee, Monroeville Alabama, American author (To Kill a Mockingbird) |
1926-04-30 |
Edmund Cooper, UK, sci-fi author (Seed of Light, All Fool's Day) |
1926-05-13 |
Wallace Breem, British author |
1926-05-19 |
Swami Kriyananda, Indian teacher and author |
1926-05-26 |
Phyllis Gotlieb, Canadian author |
1926-06-25 |
Ingeborg Bachmann, Austria author/poet |
1926-07-08 |
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, author/physician/educator |
1926-07-11 |
Frederick Buechner, American author |
1926-07-15 |
Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan author |
1926-07-26 |
Ana María Matute, Spanish author |
1926-08-06 |
J[anet] O[pal] Jeppson, [nee Janet Asimov], author (2nd Experiment) |
1926-08-14 |
Alice Adams, US author |
1926-09-03 |
John R[obert] Jones, US, sci-fi author (White Regiment, Lizard War) |
1926-09-11 |
Alfred Slote, author (Love & Tennis, Omega Station) |
1926-11-04 |
Reuben Singer, Author! Author! |
1926-11-24 |
Alan Owen, English author (Maggie May, Ronnie Barker Show) |
1926-11-25 |
Poul [William] Anderson, US, sci-fi author (7 Hugos, Mirkheim) |
1926-11-27 |
Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author |
1927-01-29 |
Edward Abbey, US author (Desert Solitaire) |
1927-02-01 |
Galway Kinnell, Providence RI, author (Body Rags, Book of Nightmares) |
1927-02-10 |
Jakov Lind, German/British author (Counting My Footsteps) |
1927-03-27 |
Anthony Lewis, New York USA, American columnist (NY Times) and author (Gideon's Trumpet) |
1927-03-28 |
Marianne Fredriksson, Swedish author (d. 2007) |
1927-05-10 |
Nayantara Sahgal, Indian author |
1927-05-11 |
Zilpha Keatly Snyder, US, sci-fi author (Headless Cupid) |
1927-05-11 |
Gene Savoy, American author, explorer, scholar and cleric (d. 2007) |
1927-05-30 |
Evelyn Wesler Zemel, US, author (American Glass Animals) |
1927-07-16 |
Shirley Hughes, author/illustrator |
1927-08-01 |
Franklyn Perring, London, English Botanist (co-author of Atlas of the British Flora, 1962) |
1927-08-09 |
Daniel Keyes, American author |
1927-08-24 |
David Ireland, Australian author |
1927-09-07 |
Eric Hill, British children's Author |
1927-11-23 |
Guy Davenport, American author, artist, and scholar (d. 2005) |
1927-12-16 |
Peter [Malcolm] Dickinson, Zambia, sci-fi author (Heartsease) |
1928-01-07 |
William Peter Blatty, NYC, author/director (The Exorcist) |
1928-01-09 |
Judith Krantz, NYC, author (Scruples, Princess Daisy, Dazzle) |
1928-01-30 |
Andrew Salkey, author editor/broadcaster |
1928-02-05 |
Andrew M Greeley, author/reverend |
1928-02-14 |
Juan Garcia Hortelano, Spanish author (Tormenta de verano) |
1928-02-24 |
Michael Harrington, St Louis, socialist/author (Fragments of Century) |
1928-03-30 |
Tom Sharpe, English historian/author (Riotous Assembly, Want), (d. 2013) |
1928-04-07 |
James White, UK, sci-fi author (Star Surgeon, Star Healer) |
1928-04-17 |
Cynthia Ozick, US, author (Pagan Rabbi & Other Stories) |
1928-04-30 |
Hugh Hood, Canadian author (d. 2000) |
1928-05-08 |
Theodore Sorenson, presidential advisor (JFK)/author (1000 Days) |
1928-06-08 |
Kat[i]e [Gertrude] Wilhelm, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Hamlet Trap) |
1928-06-10 |
Maurice Sendak, NYC, author/illustrator (Where The Wild Things Are), (d. 2012) |
1928-07-02 |
Pavel Kohout, Czech, director/author (Poor Murderer) |
1928-07-04 |
Patrick Tilley, UK, sci-fi author (1st Family, Blood River) |
1928-07-16 |
Robert Sheckley, US, sci-fi author (10th Victim, Mindswap) |
1928-07-23 |
Hubert Selby Jr., American author (d. 2004) |
1928-09-06 |
Robert M. Pirsig, American author |
1928-09-10 |
Leo P[atrick] Kelley, US, sci-fi author (Dead Moon, Vacation in Space) |
1928-09-29 |
Ankie [Johanna A Hoving-]Peypers, Dutch author/poet |
1928-09-30 |
Elie Wiesel, Romania, author (Souls on Fire)/Nazi hunter (Nobel 1986) |
1928-10-04 |
Alvin Toffler, author (Future Shock, Power Shift, The Third Wave) |
1928-10-05 |
Louise Fitzhugh, American author (d. 1974) |
1928-10-12 |
Thomas Burnett Swann, US, sci-fi author (Day of Minotaur) |
1928-11-11 |
Carlos Fuentes, Panama City, Panama, author (The Death of Artemio Cruz), (d. 2012) |
1928-12-16 |
Philip K[indred] Dick, Chicago Illinois, US, sci-fi author (Hugo-1963, Blade Runner) |
1929-01-26 |
Jules Feiffer, NYC, cartoonist (Passionella)/author (Little Murders) |
1929-02-16 |
Peter NF Porter, Australian/British author/poet (Chair of Babel) |
1929-02-18 |
Leonard Cyril Deighton, English author (Ipcress File, Fighter) |
1929-03-29 |
Sheila Kitzinger, author, anthropologist & child birth educator |
1929-04-26 |
Richard Mitchell, American author and professor (d. 2002) |
1929-06-02 |
Norton Juster, American author and archi |
1929-06-25 |
Eric Carle, American author |
1929-07-08 |
Shirley Ann Grau, author (Keepers of the House) |
1929-07-31 |
Lynne Reid Banks, British author |
1929-08-27 |
Ira Levin, author (Rosemary Baby, Boys From Brazil, This Perfect Day) |
1929-10-07 |
Robert Westall, British author (d. 1993) |
1929-10-12 |
Robert Coles, Milton Mass, author (Anna Freud, Pulitzer 1973) |
1929-10-21 |
Ursula K[roeber] Le Guin, US, sci-fi author (Tombs of Atuan) |
1929-11-16 |
Renate Rubinstein, [Tamar], German/Ned's author/columnist (Tamar) |
1929-11-21 |
Marilyn French, US author (The Women's Room) |
1929-12-24 |
Mary Higgins Clark, Bronx NY, author (Cry in the Night, Stillwatch) |
1930-01-12 |
Jennifer P Johnston, Irish author (Fool's sanctuary) |
1930-01-16 |
Norman Podhoretz, Brooklyn NY, author/editor (NY Post) |
1930-05-18 |
Barbara Goldsmith, New Rochelle, author (Little Gloria Happy At Last) |
1930-05-18 |
Fred[erick Thomas] Saberhagen, US, sci-fi author (Book of Swords) |
1930-06-03 |
Marion [Eleanor] Zimmer Bradley [Breen], sci-fi author (Storm Queen) |
1930-06-09 |
Lin[wood] [Vrooman] Carter, US, sci-fi author (Thongor of Lemuria) |
1930-07-28 |
Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (d. 2006) |
1930-07-30 |
Thomas Sowell, author/activist |
1930-08-19 |
D[avid] G[uy] Compton, UK, sci-fi author (Synthajoy, Radio Plays) |
1930-08-30 |
Warren Burger, US, author (The Midas Touch) |
1930-09-03 |
Cherry Barbara Grimm, [Lockett], NZ, sci-fi author (Nearest Fire) |
1930-09-08 |
Robert W. Firestone, Author, Artist, Clinical Psychologist |
1930-09-25 |
Shel Silverstein, American humorist and author (d. 1999) |
1930-09-29 |
Colin Dexter, author |
1930-11-12 |
Tonke Dragt, Dutch children book author (Towers of February) |
1930-11-14 |
Ornelio Martina, Antillian author/governor of Curacao |
1930-11-15 |
J[ames] G[raham] Ballard, China, sci-fi author (Drowned World) |
1930-11-16 |
Chinua Achebe, Nigerian author (Christmas in Biafra), (d. 2013) |
1930-12-08 |
John Morressy, US, sci-fi author (Starbrat, Greymantle, Kingsbane) |
1931-01-06 |
E. L. Doctorow, American author |
1931-01-09 |
Algi[rda]s [Jonas] Budrys, Prussia, sci-fi author (Man of Earth) |
1931-01-27 |
Mordecai Richler, Montreal author, (Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz) |
1931-01-30 |
Shirley Hazzard, Australian author (Transit of Venus) |
1931-01-30 |
Allan W. Eckert, American historian, naturalist, and author |
1931-02-02 |
Judith Viorst, American author |
1931-02-11 |
Larry Merchant, author/boxing commentator (Showtime) |
1931-02-12 |
Janwillem van de Wetering, Dutch author |
1931-03-02 |
Tom Wolfe, Richmond Va, journalist/author (Right Stuff) |
1931-03-08 |
John McPhee, author (Back to ——) |
1931-03-10 |
Georges Dor, Quebec author, playwright, singer and songwriter (d. 2001) |
1931-03-22 |
Leslie Thomas, author |
1931-04-09 |
Bill Gilbert, Wash DC, sports author (They Also Served, Big E) |
1931-05-07 |
Gene [Rodman] Wolfe, US, sci-fi author (Soldier of Arete) |
1931-05-28 |
Stephen Birmingham, Hartford, author (Real Lace: America's Irish Rich) |
1931-06-26 |
Colin Wilson, author (Afterlife, Book of Great Mysteries), (d. 2013) |
1931-07-03 |
Andres Burnier, [Catharina Dessaur], criminologist/author (Jongensuur) |
1931-07-07 |
David Eddings, US, sci-fi author (Belgariad, Malloreon) |
1931-07-10 |
Alice Munro, author (Dance of the Happy Shades) |
1931-07-10 |
Julian May, US, sci-fi author (Golden Torc, Magnificat) |
1931-07-23 |
Guy Fournier, French Canadian author and screenwriter |
1931-08-07 |
Charles E. Rice, American legal scholar and author |
1931-08-12 |
William Goldman, author |
1931-09-12 |
Kristin Hunter, [Eggleston], US author (God Bless the Child) |
1931-09-24 |
Brian Glanville, author/journalist |
1931-11-15 |
Jan Terlouw, Dutch MP (D-66)/author (Winters in Wartime) |
1931-11-28 |
Dervla Murphy, travel author (Full Tilt, In Ethiopia with a Mule) |
1931-11-28 |
Rinus Ferdinandusse, editor/author (Nude on Fence) |
1931-12-03 |
Franz Josef Degenhardt, German author |
1931-12-31 |
Bob Shaw, Belfast, Northern Ireland, sci-fi author (Light of Other Days, The Ragged Astronauts) |
1932-01-05 |
Umberto Eco, Italian author (Name of the Rose) |
1932-01-18 |
Robert Anton Wilson, US, sci-fi author (Trick Top Hat) |
1932-01-26 |
Ronald Allison, British author/broadcaster |
1932-02-07 |
Gay Talese, author (Honor Thy Father) |
1932-02-12 |
Axel Jensen, Norwegian author (d. 2003) |
1932-05-09 |
Gavin Lyall, author (Conduct of Major Maxim) |
1932-05-19 |
Paul Erdman, American economist and author (d. 2007) |
1932-05-29 |
Paul R. Ehrlich, American biologist and author who founded the group Zero Population Growth |
1932-08-14 |
Lee Hoffman, American author (d. 2007) |
1932-08-15 |
Robert L[ull] Forward, US, sci-fi author (Dragon's Egg, Starquake) |
1932-08-28 |
Carlene Polite, US dancer/activist/author (Sister X) |
1932-08-31 |
Robert [Franklin] Adams, US, sci-fi author (Castaways in Time) |
1932-09-19 |
Mike Royko, Chicago, journalist (Chic Daily News)/author (Boss) |
1932-09-28 |
Michael G[reatrex] Coney, Canada, sci-fi author (Cat Karina) |
1932-09-30 |
Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author and politician (Governor of Tokyo) |
1932-10-06 |
Gloria Lane, educator/author/founder (Women's International Center) |
1932-10-23 |
Vasily Belov, Northern Krai, USSR, author (Business as Usual, Everything's Ahead), (d. 2012) |
1932-11-08 |
Ben[jamin William] Bova, US, sci-fi author (Exiled from Earth) |
1932-11-09 |
Marian Christy, Ridgefield Ct, author (Invasions of Privacy) |
1933-01-09 |
Sonia Garmers, [Justina], Curacao, author (Dear Queen) |
1933-01-13 |
Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart, US, sci-fi author (Deadwalk, Plunder) |
1933-01-15 |
Ernest J. Gaines, American author |
1933-01-16 |
Susan Sontag, NYC, author/film director (Benefactor, 1966 Pol Award) |
1933-02-12 |
Juanita [Ruth] Coulson, sci-fi author (Web of Wizardry, Space Trap) |
1933-03-06 |
William Davis, author/broadcaster (Battle at Bull Run) |
1933-04-10 |
Rokusuke Ei, Japanese lyricist and author |
1933-04-15 |
Boris Strugatski, USSR, sci-fi author (Tale of Troika) |
1933-05-10 |
Barbara Taylor Bradford, author |
1933-07-12 |
Donald E. Westlake, American author |
1933-07-20 |
Cormac McCarthy, American author |
1933-08-07 |
Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle, US, sci-fi author (Mercenary, Red Dragon) |
1933-08-09 |
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Japanese television personality and children's author |
1933-09-11 |
William Luther Pierce, American author and activist (d. 2002) |
1933-10-10 |
Gerald Masters, South African/British author (Pan Book of Dates) |
1933-11-29 |
David Reuben, author (Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex) |
1933-12-11 |
Earnest P van Altena, author/interpreter (Chansons van Earnest) |
1933-12-31 |
Edward Bunker, American author and actor (d. 2005) |
1934-02-27 |
[Navarre] Scott Momaday, US author (House Made of Dawn, Pulitzer 1969) |
1934-03-13 |
Barry Hughart, American author |
1934-03-20 |
David Malouf, Australian author |
1934-05-19 |
Ruskin Bond, Indian author |
1934-05-27 |
Harlan [Jay] Ellison, US, sci-fi author (7 Hugos, Doomsman, Babylon 5) |
1934-08-06 |
Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob, UK, sci-fi author (Chthon, Phthor) |
1934-08-16 |
Diana Wynne Jones, UK, sci-fi author (Drowned Ammet, Witch Week) |
1934-08-18 |
Vincent Bugliosi, attorney/author (Helter-Skelter) |
1934-09-14 |
Kate Millett, St Paul Minn, feminist/author (Sexual Politics) |
1934-09-24 |
John Brunner, [Kilian Houston], UK, sci-fi author (100th Millennium) |
1934-09-27 |
Dick Schaap, sportscaster/author (Bo Knows Bo, Instant Replay) |
1934-10-09 |
Jill Ker Conway, Australian-American author |
1934-11-04 |
Judith Herzberg, Dutch poetess/author (Charlotte Life or Theater) |
1934-11-09 |
Carl Sagan, Bkln, astronomer/author/professor (Cosmos, Broca's Brain) |
1935-01-15 |
Robert Silverberg, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Regan's Planet) |
1935-01-17 |
Paul O[sborne] Williams, US, sci-fi author (Ends of the Circle) |
1935-01-18 |
Raymond Briggs, English author (Fungus the Bogeyman) |
1935-02-15 |
Susan Brownmiller, Brooklyn, feminist author (Against Our Wills) |
1935-03-01 |
Judith Rossner, author (Looking for Mr Goodbar) |
1935-03-12 |
John Gross, author (Age of Kipling, Dickens & 20th Century) |
1935-05-07 |
Isobel Warren, Canadian author |
1935-07-05 |
John Gilmore, American true crime author |
1935-07-31 |
Yvon Deschamps, French-Canadian author and humorist |
1935-08-22 |
E. Annie Proulx, American author |
1935-08-27 |
Michael Holroyd, author |
1935-09-09 |
Gopal Baratham, Singaporean author |
1935-09-17 |
Ken Kesey, author (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) |
1935-11-18 |
Rodney Hall, Australian author |
1935-11-28 |
Randolph Stow, author/poet (Suburbs of Hell) |
1935-12-05 |
Calvin Trillin, author (New Yorker) |
1936-01-03 |
Betty Rollin, actress (Crossing Delancey)/author (Last Wish) |
1936-01-10 |
Burnum Burnum, Australian Aboriginal activist, actor, author and dreamer (d. 1997) |
1936-01-23 |
Jerry Kramer, Green Bay Packer, author (Instant Replay) |
1936-01-27 |
Ismail Kadare, Albanian author/poet (Dimri i Madh) |
1936-03-22 |
Alan Bleasdale, author/playwright (Are You Lonesome Tonight) |
1936-03-31 |
Marge Piercy, author (Small Changes, Gone for Soldiers) |
1936-04-03 |
Reginald Hill, British crime author (Andrew Dalziel and Peter Pascoe novels) |
1936-05-15 |
Donald [Anthony] Moffitt, US, sci-fi author (Jupiter Theft) |
1936-07-22 |
Tom Robbins, American author |
1936-08-07 |
Richard L[ouis] Tierney, US, sci-fi author (Winds of Zarr) |
1936-09-27 |
Gordon Honeycombe, broadcaster/author |
1936-11-06 |
K Schippers, [Gerard Stigter], Dutch author |
1936-11-20 |
Don DeLillo, American author |
1936-11-30 |
Abbie Hoffman, aka Free, Yippie/activist/author (Steal this Book) |
1937-01-01 |
Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg, Polish author (d. 1995) |
1937-02-15 |
Gregory Mcdonald, American author |
1937-02-22 |
Joanna Russ, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Female Man, Alyx) |
1937-04-09 |
Barrington J[ohn] Bayley, UK, sci-fi author (Collision Course) |
1937-04-23 |
Victoria Glendinning, author (Edith Sitwell A Unicorn Among Lions) |
1937-05-13 |
Roger [Joseph] Zelazny, sci-fi author (6 Hugos, Chronicles of Amber) |
1937-06-01 |
Colleen McCullough, Wellington, Australian author (Tim, Indecent Obsession) |
1937-06-04 |
Robert Fulghum, American author |
1937-06-16 |
Erich Segal, Brooklyn NY, author (Love Story, Oliver's Story) |
1937-06-18 |
Gail Godwin, US, author (Perfectionists, Odd Woman) |
1937-06-25 |
Mirabel Morgan, author (Total Woman) |
1937-07-05 |
Brooke Hayward, Los Angeles California, author (Haywire) |
1937-07-18 |
Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas) (d. 2005) |
1937-08-12 |
Walter Dean Myers, African-American author |
1937-08-16 |
Andrew J[efferson V] Offutt, US, sci-fi author (Undying Wizard) |
1937-08-18 |
William George Rushton, London, actor/author/cartoonist (TW3) |
1937-09-10 |
Jared Diamond, American biologist and author |
1937-09-17 |
Albertine Sarrazin, French author (L'astragale, La Cavale) |
1937-10-04 |
Jackie Collins, London, British author (The Stud, Lucky) |
1937-11-27 |
Gail Sheehy, author (Hustling) |
1937-12-02 |
Brian Lumley, England, sci-fi author (Compleat Crow, Psychomech) |
1937-12-15 |
John [Thomas] Sladek, US, sci-fi author (Tik-Tok, Bugs) |
1938-01-02 |
Hans Herbjørnsrud, Norwegian author |
1938-01-16 |
Jô Soares, Brazilian author, musician and TV personality |
1938-01-17 |
John Bellairs, US, sci-fi author (Chessmen of Doom) |
1938-01-25 |
Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese manga author (d. 1998) |
1938-02-12 |
Judy Blume, author (Wifey) |
1938-02-22 |
Ishmael Reed, US, author (Last Days of Louisiana Red) |
1938-03-01 |
Michael J[oseph] Kurland, US, sci-fi author (Infernal Device) |
1938-04-22 |
Adam Raphael, English journalist and author |
1938-04-30 |
Larry [Van Cott] Niven, US, sci-fi author (5 Hugo, Neutron Star) |
1938-06-02 |
Kevin Brownlow, English film historian and author |
1938-08-25 |
Frederick Forsyth, author (Day of the Jackal, Deceiver, Odessa File) |
1938-09-13 |
Judith Martin, author/journalist/columnist (Miss Manners) |
1938-11-09 |
Ti-Grace Atkinson, American feminist author |
1938-12-28 |
Janet Hough Bryant, author/performing artist/educator |
1939-01-10 |
David Horowitz, American author and political commentator |
1939-01-29 |
Germaine Greer, Melbourne Australia, feminist/author (Female Eunich) |
1939-02-02 |
Rachel English, London, author (My 1st 500) |
1939-02-11 |
Jane [Hyatt] Yolen, US, sci-fi author (Spider Jane, Heart's Blood) |
1939-02-15 |
Jo Clayton, US, sci-fi author (Irsud, Maeve, Star Hunters) |
1939-03-08 |
Jim Bouton, Newark NJ, pitcher (NY Yankees)/author (Ball Four) |
1939-03-15 |
Jack Whyte, Scottish-Canadian author |
1939-04-20 |
Peter S. Beagle, American author |
1939-05-04 |
Amos Oz, Jerusalem, Israel, author (My Michael) |
1939-05-17 |
Gary Paulsen, American author |
1939-06-05 |
Margaret Drabble, British author (Needle's Eye) |
1939-06-09 |
Charles Webb, author |
1939-06-11 |
Christina Crawford, author, Joan's daughter (Mommie Dearest) |
1939-06-15 |
Brian Jacques, British author |
1939-07-02 |
M[ichael] A[nthony] Foster, US, sci-fi author (Gameplayers of Zan) |
1939-07-24 |
Barry [Norman] Malzberg, sci-fi author (Revelations, Beyond Apollo) |
1939-09-06 |
Dan Cragg, American soldier and author |
1939-10-05 |
Marie-Claire Blais, French Canadian author and playwright |
1939-10-08 |
Harvey Pekar, American author |
1939-11-17 |
Auberon Waugh, British author (d. 2001) |
1939-11-18 |
Margaret Atwood, Ottawa Ontario, Canadian author/poet |
1939-12-18 |
Michael J Moorcock, England, sci-fi author (Alien Heat, Bull & Spear) |
1939-12-30 |
Glenda Adams, Australian author (d. 2007) |
1940-01-13 |
Edmund White, American author |
1940-02-02 |
Thomas M[ichael] Disch, US, sci-fi author (Genocides, 102 H-Bombs) |
1940-04-15 |
Jeffrey Archer, England, (Tory-Commons)/author (Matter of Honor) |
1940-04-23 |
Richard Monaco, US, sci-fi author (Grail War, Final Quest) |
1940-04-24 |
Sue Grafton, American author |
1940-05-10 |
Wayne Dyer, American psychologist and author (Universe Within You) |
1940-05-24 |
Joseph Brodsky, USSR, author (Less than 1, Nobel 1987) |
1940-06-22 |
Abbas Kiarostami, author/director (Under the Olive Trees, Close Up) |
1940-07-14 |
Susan Howatch, English author |
1940-09-15 |
Norman [Richard] Spinrad, US, sci-fi author (Child of Fortune) |
1940-09-25 |
Timothy Severin, author/explorer |
1940-09-28 |
George Greenstein, author (Secret of a Jewish Baker) |
1940-10-21 |
Frances FitzGerald, NYC, journalist/author (Fire in the Lake) |
1940-10-27 |
Maxine Hong Kingston, US, author |
1940-11-21 |
Richard Marcinko, American author |
1940-11-22 |
Terry Gilliam, Minneapolis, comedy author-animator (Monty Python) |
1940-11-24 |
Eric Wilson, Canadian children's author. |
1941-01-30 |
Gregory Benford, American author and scientist |
1941-02-01 |
Jerry Spinelli, children's author |
1941-02-19 |
Stephen Dobyns, US author/poet (Cold Dog Soup) |
1941-02-28 |
Alice May Brock, American author |
1941-03-23 |
Jim Trelease, American educator and children's literature author |
1941-04-27 |
Jennings Michael Burch, American author |
1941-05-27 |
Adriaan Venema, Dutch journalist/author (Mussert) |
1941-06-23 |
Roger McDonald, Australian author |
1941-06-27 |
James P[atrick] Hogan, UK, sci-fi author (Giants' Star) |
1941-07-14 |
Maulana Karenga, American author and activist |
1941-08-20 |
Jo Ramirez, Mexican motor racing team manager and author |
1941-10-04 |
Anne Rice, New Orleans LA, author (Interview with a Vampire) |
1941-11-15 |
Daniel Manus Pinkwater, US, sci-fi author (Magic Moscow) |
1941-11-25 |
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Indian Muslim Sufi, author, spiritual leader (d. 2001) |
1941-12-25 |
Lex Hixon, religious teacher/author |
1942-02-26 |
Adriaan van Dis, author/TV-host (Nathan Sid, In Africa) |
1942-03-05 |
Michael D[iamond] Resnick, sci-fi author (Sideshow, Eros Ascending) |
1942-03-07 |
Paul Preuss, US, sci-fi author (Medusa Encounter, Starfire) |
1942-03-25 |
Jacqueline Lichtenberg, US, sci-fi author (Star Trek Lives!, Dreamspy) |
1942-03-26 |
Erica Jong, [Mann], NYC, author (Fear of Flying) |
1942-04-01 |
Samuel R[ay] Delany Jr, US, sci-fi author (Towers of Toron, Neveryona) |
1942-04-04 |
Kitty Kelley, author (Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra) |
1942-05-12 |
Barry B[rookes] Longyear, US, sci-fi author (City of Baraboo) |
1942-05-19 |
James Topping, author of CP/M |
1942-06-30 |
Robert Ballard, explorer/geologist/author/discoverer (Titanic in 1985) |
1942-08-02 |
Isabel Allende, Chilean author |
1942-09-01 |
C[arolyn] J[anice] Cherryh, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Faded Sun Trilogy) |
1942-09-08 |
Nancy Ann Dibble, Netherlands, sci-fi author (Summerfair) |
1942-09-15 |
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, US, sci-fi author (Hotel Transylvania) |
1942-10-04 |
Norman Pearlstine, Norman Pearlstine, Editor and Author |
1942-10-19 |
Andrew Vachss, American author and attorney |
1942-11-01 |
Shere Hite, author/sex therapist |
1942-12-01 |
John Crowley, US, sci-fi author (Deep, Beasts, Novelty) |
1942-12-09 |
Joe McGinniss, Rye NY, author (Selling of President 1968) |
1942-12-30 |
Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian author and dissident |
1943-01-09 |
Robert Drewe, Australian author |
1943-02-13 |
Leo Frankowski, US, sci-fi author (High Tech Knight, Flying Warlord) |
1943-02-19 |
Homer Hickam, American author and retired NASA engineer |
1943-03-02 |
Peter Straub, American author |
1943-04-16 |
Ewald Vanvugt, author (Kiss of Delight, Seed of Love) |
1943-04-20 |
Ian Watson, UK, sci-fi author (Book of Being, Whores of Babylon) |
1943-05-07 |
Peter Carey, Australian author |
1943-06-05 |
Matthew Lesko, American author |
1943-06-09 |
Joe [William] Haldeman, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Nebula, Worlds Apart) |
1943-06-15 |
Xaviera Hollander, Dutch author |
1943-09-03 |
Mick Farren, UK, sci-fi author (Synaptic Manhunt, Citizen Phaid) |
1943-09-10 |
Neale Donald Walsch, American author |
1943-10-10 |
Frederick Barthelme, American author |
1943-10-21 |
Tariq Ali, Pakistani author and historian |
1943-11-29 |
Sue Miller, American author |
1944-01-06 |
Henry Kravis, author (The Money Machine) |
1944-01-08 |
Terry Brooks, US, sci-fi author (Sword of Shannara) |
1944-01-24 |
David Gerrold, [Jerrold David Friedman], author (World of Star Trek) |
1944-02-16 |
Richard Ford, US author (Sportswriter) |
1944-03-17 |
Pattie Boyd, English photographer and author (Mrs George Harrison/Mrs Eric Clapton) |
1944-04-05 |
Ann [Elizabeth] Maxwell, US, sci-fi author (Jaws of Menx) |
1944-05-13 |
Betsy Finley Ashton, broadcast journalist/author/lecturer |
1944-05-13 |
Armistead Maupin, American author |
1944-05-21 |
Janet Dailey, US, author |
1944-05-26 |
Sam Posey, American race car driver, TV commentator and author |
1944-06-14 |
Laurie Colwin, American author (d. 1992) |
1944-07-09 |
Glen [Charles] Cook, US, sci-fi author (Shadowline, Star's End) |
1944-10-02 |
Vernor [Steffen] Vinge, US, sci-fi author (Witling, True Names) |
1944-10-18 |
Katherine Kurtz, UK, sci-fi author (Deryni Rising, Saint Camber) |
1944-11-24 |
Claudia Dreifus, interviewer/author (7 Stories) |
1944-12-02 |
Botho Strauß, German author |
1944-12-17 |
Jack L[aurence] Chalker, US, sci-fi author (Saga of Well World) |
1945-01-06 |
Barry Holstein Lopez, US author (Of Wolves & Men) |
1945-01-13 |
[Eileen] Joy[ce] Chant [Rutter], UK, sci-fi author (High Kings) |
1945-03-15 |
Mark J Green, Brooklyn New York, American lawyer/author (Closed Enterprise System) |
1945-03-20 |
Jay Ingram, Canadian television host and author |
1945-06-13 |
Whitley Strieber, American author |
1945-07-09 |
Dean R[ay] Koontz, US, sci-fi author (Star Quest, Beastchild) |
1945-08-14 |
Cheryl Waltz, author/film producer |
1945-09-24 |
David A[llen] Drake, US, sci-fi author (Cross the Stars, Rolling Hot) |
1945-10-26 |
Demetris Th. Gotsis, Greek poet and author |
1945-11-12 |
Michael Bishop, US, sci-fi author (Nebula, Stolen Faces) |
1945-11-12 |
Tracy Kidder, American journalist and author |
1945-11-20 |
Rachid Mimouni, author |
1945-12-12 |
Karl Edward Wagner, US, sci-fi author (Bloodstone, Night Winds) |
1945-12-15 |
Michael King, Wellington, New Zealand historian and author (Penguin History of New Zealand) |
1945-12-17 |
Jacqueline Wilson, English author |
1946-02-26 |
Phyllis Eisenstein, US, sci-fi author (Sorcerer's Son, Born to Exile) |
1946-03-12 |
Peter Whalley, British television writer and author |
1946-03-22 |
Rudy/Rudolf [von Bittner] Rucker, US, sci-fi author (Wetware) |
1946-05-12 |
L. Neil Smith, American science fiction author |
1946-05-25 |
Janet E[llen] Morris, US, sci-fi author (Golden Sword, Tempus) |
1946-06-08 |
Elizabeth A Lynn, US, sci-fi author (Watchtower, Red Hawk) |
1946-06-12 |
John Steinbeck IV, New York NY, American journalist, author and son of John Steinbeck |
1946-06-18 |
Russell Ash, British author |
1946-06-21 |
Trond Kirkvaag, Norwegian comedian and author |
1946-07-13 |
Michael Shea, US, sci-fi author (Fat Face, Polyphemus), (d. 2014) |
1946-08-25 |
Charles Ghigna (Father Goose), American poet and Children's Author |
1946-09-09 |
Christopher Francis Palmer, orchestrator/Author |
1946-09-15 |
Howard Waldrop, American science fiction author |
1946-11-18 |
Alan Dean Foster, US, sci-fi author (Midworld, Flinx in Flux) |
1946-12-19 |
Rosemary Conley, English businesswoman, author and broadcaster |
1947-01-08 |
Don Bendell, American author & karate master |
1947-01-10 |
George Alec Effinger, US, sci-fi author (Nick of Time) |
1947-01-16 |
Magdalen Nabb, British author (d. 2007) |
1947-02-03 |
Paul Auster, US author/poet/director (Mr Vertigo, Smoke) |
1947-03-06 |
Teru Miyamoto, Japanese author |
1947-03-10 |
Laurie Langenbach, Dutch author |
1947-03-17 |
James Morrow, American author |
1947-04-02 |
Camille Paglia, Endicott NY, author and social critic |
1947-04-12 |
Tom Clancy, Baltmore Maryland, American author |
1947-04-18 |
Kathy Acker, American author (d. 1997) |
1947-04-20 |
Andrew Tobias, American journalist and author |
1947-05-10 |
Caroline Cooney, American author |
1947-05-10 |
Thomas Tessier, American author |
1947-05-13 |
Stephen R Donaldson, US, sci-fi author (Lord Foul's Bane) |
1947-06-22 |
Octavia E[stelle] Butler, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Wild Seed) |
1947-07-03 |
Dave Barry, American humorist and author |
1947-07-07 |
Howard Rheingold, American author |
1947-08-14 |
Daniele Steel, NYC, author (Rememberance, Zoya, Star, Daddy) |
1947-08-23 |
Willy Russell, author/playwright (Shirley Valentine, Educating Rita) |
1947-08-24 |
Paulo Coelho, Brazilian author |
1947-09-19 |
Tanith Lee, UK, sci-fi author (Don't Bite the Sun) |
1947-09-21 |
Stephen King, Portland, Maine, sci-fi/horror author (Carrie, Shining, Kujo) |
1947-10-09 |
Tony Zappone, American broadcaster, journalist, author, photographer |
1947-11-22 |
Valerie Wilson Wesley, American author |
1947-12-22 |
Brian C Daley, US, sci-fi author (Exploits of Han Solo, Tron) |
1948-02-03 |
Henning Mankell, Swedish author |
1948-02-12 |
Raymond Kurzweil, American inventor and author |
1948-02-16 |
Eckhart Tolle, Author and spiritual teacher |
1948-02-29 |
Patricia [Anne] McKillip, US, sci-fi author (Fool's Run) |
1948-03-04 |
Lindy Chamberlain, Australian author |
1948-03-15 |
Kate Bornstein, American author |
1948-03-16 |
Margaret [Edith] Weis, US, sci-fi author (Dragons of Spring Dawning) |
1948-03-17 |
William [Ford] Gibson, Canada, sci-fi author (Neuromancer, Count Zero) |
1948-03-20 |
Pamela Sargent, US, sci-fi author (Venus of Dreams, Cloned Lives) |
1948-04-02 |
Joan [Carol] D[ennison] Vinge, US, sci-fi author (2 Hugos, Dune) |
1948-04-23 |
Pascal Quignard, French author |
1948-04-28 |
Terry Pratchett, English author |
1948-06-23 |
Darhyl S. Ramsey, American author |
1948-07-22 |
S. E. Hinton, American author |
1948-07-25 |
Brian M[ichael] Stableford, UK, sci-fi author (Day of Wrath) |
1948-08-02 |
Robert P Holdstock, UK, sci-fi author (Ghost Dance, Labyrinth) |
1948-08-07 |
Marty Appel, American public relations executive and author |
1948-08-28 |
Vonda N[eel] McIntyre, US, sci-fi author (Star Trek II, III, IV) |
1948-09-08 |
Lynn/Marilyn [Lorraine] Abbey, US, sci-fi author (Black Flame) |
1948-09-20 |
George R. R. Martin, Bayonne, New Jersey, American fantasy and sci-fi author (A Song of Ice and Fire) |
1948-09-20 |
George R.R. Martin, Bayonne New Jersey, American author (A Song of Ice and Fire) |
1948-10-18 |
Ntozake Shange, American author |
1948-11-24 |
Spider Robinson, Canada, sci-fi author (3 Hugo, Callahan's Secret) |
1949-01-26 |
Jonathan Carroll, American author |
1949-01-27 |
Ethan Mordden, American author |
1949-03-14 |
Michael Stedman, British World War I Historian and Author |
1949-04-13 |
Christopher Hitchens, Portsmouth England, author and columnist (Vanity Fair, New Statesman) |
1949-05-04 |
Graham Swift, British author |
1949-06-05 |
Ken Follett, Cardiff, Wales, spy author (Eye of the Needle, Lie Down with Lions) |
1949-06-14 |
Harry Turtledove, American author |
1949-06-18 |
Chris Van Allsburg, American author and illustrator |
1949-08-03 |
Reed Waller, American comic book author |
1949-09-22 |
Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist and author (d. 1999) |
1949-10-01 |
Isaac Bonewits, American author |
1949-11-23 |
Gayl Jones, US author/poet (Corregidora, Song for Anninho) |
1949-12-08 |
Mary Gordon, US, author |
1949-12-13 |
R[oberta] A[nn] MacAvoy, US, sci-fi author (Damiano's Lute, Raphael) |
1950-01-16 |
Brian Castro, Australian author |
1950-01-25 |
Gloria Naylor, US author (Women of Brewster Place) |
1950-03-12 |
Wheeler Winston Dixon, American filmmaker, critic and author |
1950-04-10 |
Barry M. Riemer, American author |
1950-06-05 |
J. J. Bittenbinder, American television host and author |
1950-06-24 |
Mercedes R Lackey, US, sci-fi author (Arrow's Fall, Magic's Pawn) |
1950-07-06 |
John Byrne, American comic book author & artist |
1950-07-15 |
Arianna Huffington, Athens, Greek-born author, syndicated columnist and creator of The Huffington Post |
1950-09-07 |
Peggy Noonan, author (What I Saw at the Revolution) |
1950-09-17 |
Lawrence Anthony, Johannesberg, South Africa, conservationist and author, (d. 2012) |
1950-09-18 |
Helene Weijel, author (In the Street Without a Coat) |
1950-09-20 |
James P[aul] Blaylock, US, sci-fi author (Elfin Ship, Homunculus) |
1950-10-06 |
David Brin, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Nebula, Sundiver, Postman) |
1950-10-27 |
Fran Lebowitz, author/actress (Resident Alien) |
1950-11-04 |
Charles Frazier, American author |
1950-11-25 |
Alexis Wright, Australian author |
1950-11-29 |
Kevin O'Donnell Jr, US, sci-fi author (Caverns, Reefs, Lava) |
1950-12-23 |
Ilchi Lee, Korean educator and author |
1950-12-30 |
Lewis Shiner, American sci-fi/fantasy author |
1951-01-01 |
Frans Kellendonk, author (Ruin, The Good for Nothing) |
1951-02-10 |
Roxanne Pulitzer, Glendale California, author (Prize Pulitzer) |
1951-03-20 |
Curt Smith, American author and media host |
1951-04-11 |
James Patrick Kelly, American author |
1951-06-04 |
Charles Dickinson, American author |
1951-07-16 |
Esther M Friesner[-Stutzman], US, sci-fi author (Witchwood Cradle) |
1951-08-08 |
Randy Shilts, American journalist and author (d. 1994) |
1951-08-20 |
Greg[ory Dale] Bear, US, sci-fi author (2 Hugos, Eon, Eternity) |
1951-08-24 |
Orson Scott Card, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Nebula, Ender's War) |
1951-08-24 |
Oscar Hijuelos, American author, (d. 2013) |
1951-09-01 |
Timothy Zahn, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Cobra Strike) |
1951-09-20 |
Javier Marías, Spanish author, translator and academic |
1951-09-30 |
Nicholas Yermakov, US, sci-fi author (Epiphany, Jehad, Clique) |
1951-10-18 |
Terry McMillan, American author |
1951-11-18 |
Justin Raimondo, American author |
1951-12-08 |
Bill Bryson, American author |
1951-12-22 |
Charles de Lint, Neth, sci-fi author (Moonhear, Mulengro, Yarrow) |
1952-01-12 |
Charles Faulkner, American motivational speaker and author |
1952-01-12 |
Walter Mosley, American author |
1952-02-29 |
Tim[othy] Powers, Buffalo, New York, American sci-fi author (Last Call, Declare) |
1952-03-11 |
Douglas Adams, England, author (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy) |
1952-03-23 |
Kim Stanley Robinson, American author |
1952-05-18 |
Diane E[lizabeth] Duane, US, sci-fi author (Door into Fire) |
1952-05-29 |
Louise Cooper, UK, sci-fi author (Nemesis, Inferno, Infanta, Nocturne) |
1952-07-17 |
Robert R[ick] McCammon, US, sci-fi author (Baal, Mystery Walk) |
1952-08-03 |
Frank Schaeffer, American author |
1952-08-08 |
Jostein Gaarder, Norwegian author |
1952-10-05 |
Clive Barker, English author and film director (Hellraiser, Lord of Illusions) |
1952-12-03 |
Mel Smith, author, actor, and comedian (Morons From Outer Space), (d. 2013) |
1952-12-30 |
Somtow Sucharitkul, [SP Somtow], Thailand, sf author (Utopia Hunters) |
1953-01-09 |
Morris Gleitzman, British-Australian children's author |
1953-02-10 |
John Shirley, US, sci-fi author (Eclipse Penumbra, Eclipse Corona) |
1953-03-06 |
Jan Kjærstad, Norwegian author |
1953-03-12 |
Carl Hiaasen, American journalist and author |
1953-04-28 |
Roberto Bolano, Latin American author and poet |
1953-05-17 |
Yoko Shimada, Kumamota Japan, author (Kir Royal)/actress (Shogun) |
1953-07-09 |
Thomas Ligotti, American author |
1953-08-14 |
Cliff Johnson, American computer game author |
1953-08-31 |
György Károly, Hungarian author |
1953-09-22 |
Geoff Gilpin, American author |
1953-09-30 |
S.M. Stirling, Canadian-born author |
1953-10-26 |
Jennifer Roberson, US, sci-fi author (Shapechangers, Sword-Maker) |
1953-12-29 |
Stanley Tookie Williams, American author/murderer (executed 2005) |
1954-01-28 |
Rick Warren, American pastor and author |
1954-02-02 |
Ina Garten, American author and TV personality |
1954-02-16 |
Iain [Menzies] Banks, UK, sci-fi author (Wasp Factory), (d. 2013) |
1954-03-04 |
Mark Chorvinsky, American author and editor (d. 2005) |
1954-04-14 |
Bruce Sterling, US, sci-fi author (Involution Ocean, Schismatrix) |
1954-05-01 |
Joel Rosenberg, science fiction author |
1954-06-06 |
Cynthia Rylant, American author |
1954-06-07 |
Louise Erdrich, American author |
1954-07-17 |
J. Michael Straczynski, American author |
1954-07-26 |
Lawrence Watt-Evans, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Sword of Bheleu) |
1954-08-15 |
Stieg Larsson [Karl Stig-Erland Larsson], Skelleftehamn, Swedish author (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) |
1954-08-29 |
Michael P[aul] Kube-McDowell, US, sci-fi author (Enigma, Empery) |
1954-09-05 |
Frederick Kempe, American author, journalist, and executive |
1954-11-06 |
Catherine Crier, Dallas, Texas, American journalist and author (The Case Against Lawyers, A Deadly Game) |
1954-11-08 |
Kazuo Ishiguro, British author |
1954-11-16 |
Andrea Barrett, American author |
1954-12-03 |
Grace Andreacchi, American author |
1954-12-13 |
Tamora Pierce, American author |
1954-12-15 |
Mike Ratledge, author (2DAY & NEWDAY)/ratledgm@spawar.navy.mil |
1955-01-13 |
Jay McInerney, author (Bright Lights, Big City) |
1955-01-27 |
Alexander Stuart, British author |
1955-01-30 |
Judith Tarr, US, sci-fi author (Isle of Glass, Ars Magica) |
1955-04-28 |
Nicky Gumbel, British author and priest |
1955-06-17 |
Gail Jones, Australian author |
1955-07-14 |
L. Brent Bozell, American author and activist |
1955-08-12 |
Ann M. Martin, American author |
1955-11-23 |
Steven Brust, [Karl Zoltan], US, sci-fi author (Yendi, Jhereg) |
1955-11-26 |
Tracy [Raye] Hickman, US, sci-fi author (Dragons of Spring Dawning) |
1956-03-09 |
Shashi Tharoor, Indian author & United Nations Under-Secretary General |
1956-03-11 |
D. J. MacHale, American author and television writer |
1956-05-04 |
David Guterson, American author |
1956-05-14 |
Gillian [Marucha] Bradshaw, US, sci-fi author (Hawk of May) |
1956-05-20 |
Ingvar Ambjørnsen, Norwegian author |
1956-06-09 |
Patricia Cornwell, American author |
1956-06-25 |
Anthony Bourdain, Chef and author |
1956-07-21 |
Michael Connelly, American author |
1956-08-02 |
Fulvio Melia, Italian-American physicist/astrophysicist and author |
1956-09-18 |
Chris Hedges, American journalist and author |
1956-10-24 |
Dale Maharidge, American author |
1956-10-27 |
Jaq D. Hawkins, British author, occultist and lecturer |
1957-03-14 |
Andrew Robinson, British author |
1957-03-14 |
Tad Williams, American author |
1957-04-10 |
John M. Ford, American science fiction author and poet (d. 2006) |
1957-04-17 |
Nick Hornby, English author |
1957-07-03 |
Faye Resnick, author (Nicole Brown Simpson-Private Diary) |
1957-10-19 |
Doug Kirby, American author and travel guide |
1957-11-13 |
Ronald Shusett, Hamburg Germany, author (Project Mankind) |
1957-11-30 |
Joël Champetier, French Canadian author |
1957-12-14 |
Gary Ferris, American author |
1957-12-22 |
Susan Powter, diet guru/author/talk show host (Susan Powter Show) |
1958-04-21 |
Michael Zarnock, American author and columnist |
1958-05-25 |
Dorothy Straight, 4 year old author (How World Begun) |
1958-07-05 |
Meredith Ann Pierce, US, sci-fi author (Darkangel) |
1958-08-24 |
Chris Offutt, American author |
1958-08-27 |
Tom Lanoye, Belgian author |
1958-10-20 |
Lynn Flewelling, American fantasy author |
1958-10-23 |
Michael Eric Dyson, American activist, professor, author |
1959-01-12 |
Lasana M. Sekou, Saint Martin, Caribbean, poet/author (The Salt Reaper |
1959-01-24 |
David Mills, American author |
1959-04-30 |
W. Thomas Smith, Jr, American author and columnist |
1959-08-17 |
Jonathan Franzen, American author |
1959-10-31 |
Neal Stephenson, American author |
1959-12-27 |
Gerina Dunwich, American author |
1960-01-02 |
Naoki Urasawa, Japanese manga author |
1960-01-31 |
Grant Morrison, British comic book author |
1960-02-04 |
Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish author (d. 2007) |
1960-03-28 |
Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, French author and dramatist |
1960-06-05 |
Margo Lanagan, Australian author |
1960-08-04 |
Tim Winton, Australian author |
1960-10-23 |
Randy Pausch, American computer science professor, author |
1961-01-11 |
Jasper Fforde, British author |
1961-02-04 |
Stewart O'Nan, American author |
1961-02-14 |
Phillip Hamilton, American author |
1961-04-25 |
Dinesh D'Souza, American author |
1961-06-03 |
Lawrence Lessig, American lawyer and author |
1961-06-12 |
Jim Goad, American author |
1961-07-23 |
André Ducharme, Canadian (Québécois) humorist (Rock et Belles Oreilles) and author |
1961-08-20 |
Greg Egan, Australian author |
1961-09-26 |
Will Self, English author |
1961-10-04 |
Kazuki Takahashi, Japanese author |
1961-11-13 |
Edwin "Rick" Bakker, Dutch author: Rick's Report, AIDS Diary |
1961-11-23 |
Keith Ablow, American psychiatrist and author |
1961-12-08 |
Ann Coulter, American author, political commentator, and attorney |
1961-12-30 |
Douglas Coupland, Canadian author |
1962-01-03 |
Francesca Lia Block, American author |
1962-01-17 |
Sebastian Junger, American journalist and author |
1962-02-20 |
Kenn Nesbitt, American children's author |
1962-04-02 |
Mark Shulman, American children's author |
1962-09-02 |
Jon Berkeley, author and illustrator |
1962-09-13 |
Tõnu Õnnepalu, Estonian poet and author |
1962-10-19 |
Tracy Chevalier, American author |
1962-11-12 |
Naomi Wolf, American author and feminist |
1962-11-12 |
Neal Shusterman, American author |
1963-03-04 |
Janey Lee Grace, English singer, author, television presenter and radio disc jockey |
1963-05-24 |
Michael Chabon, American author |
1963-06-09 |
Gilad Atzmon, Israeli jazz musician and author |
1963-06-25 |
Yann Martel, Canadian author |
1963-07-19 |
Garth Nix, Australian author |
1963-09-17 |
Wendy Northcutt, Author of the Darwin Awards |
1963-10-04 |
Koji Ishikawa (children's book author and illustrator)Japanese children's author |
1963-12-23 |
Donna Tartt, American author |
1963-12-30 |
Chandler Burr, American author |
1964-06-22 |
Dan Brown, Exeter, New Hampshire, American author of thriller fiction (The Da Vinci Code) |
1964-07-03 |
Joanne Harris, British author |
1964-07-24 |
Banana Yoshimoto, Japanese author |
1964-07-26 |
Anne Provoost, Belgian author (In the Shadow of the Ark) |
1964-08-07 |
John Birmingham, Australian author |
1964-10-01 |
Jonathan Sarfati, Australian-born chess player, scientist, and author |
1964-10-07 |
Dan Savage, American sex-columnist and author |
1964-11-29 |
Cork Graham, American journalist, actor and author |
1964-12-26 |
Elizabeth Kostova, American author |
1965-03-04 |
Khaled Hosseini, Afghan author and physician |
1965-07-29 |
Chang-Rae Lee, Korean-born author |
1965-09-28 |
Joel Rane, author (Step on Up) |
1965-11-28 |
Erwin Mortier, Belgian author |
1965-12-31 |
Nicholas Sparks, American author |
1966-03-04 |
Dav Pilkey, American author |
1966-03-30 |
Efstratios Grivas, Greek chess grandmaster and author |
1966-07-14 |
Brian Selznick, American author and illustrator |
1966-08-01 |
James St. James, American author and nightlife personality |
1966-09-24 |
Michael J. Varhola, American author |
1966-10-12 |
Brian Kennedy, Northern Irish musician and author |
1966-11-30 |
Wil Mara, American author |
1967-02-01 |
Meg Cabot, American author |
1967-05-10 |
Jon Ronson, British journalist and author |
1967-05-25 |
Poppy Z. Brite, American author |
1968-02-11 |
Mo Willems, American author and screenwriter |
1968-03-10 |
Felice Arena, Australian children's author |
1968-03-28 |
Iris Chang, American author (d. 2004) |
1968-04-11 |
Sergey Lukyanenko, Russian author |
1968-07-09 |
Lars Gyllenhaal, Swedish author |
1968-10-01 |
Jon Guenther, American author |
1969-01-19 |
Edwidge Danticat, Haitian-born American author |
1969-04-18 |
Keith R.A. DeCandido, American author |
1969-06-14 |
Michael Gerber, American parody author |
1969-06-18 |
Christopher Largen, American author |
1969-09-02 |
Chris Kuzneski, American bestselling author |
1969-09-28 |
Ben Greenman, American author |
1969-11-13 |
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dutch author |
1969-12-27 |
Sarah Vowell, American author and journalist |
1970-01-16 |
Garth Ennis, Irish comic book author |
1970-05-05 |
Naomi Klein, Canadian author and activist |
1970-05-23 |
Blake Schwendiman, American author |
1970-06-06 |
Sarah Dessen, American author |
1970-06-25 |
Ariel Gore, American journalist and author |
1970-07-09 |
Masami Tsuda, Japanese manga author |
1970-09-06 |
Paul Miller, American composer and author |
1970-10-20 |
Michelle Malkin, American political commentator and author |
1970-11-11 |
Lee Battersby, Australian author |
1970-12-18 |
Miles Marshall Lewis, American author |
1971-01-09 |
Hal Niedzviecki, Canadian author |
1971-03-03 |
Tyler Florence, chef, Food Network personality, & cookbook author |
1971-03-05 |
Yuri Lowenthal, American actor/author/painter |
1971-03-13 |
Robert Lanham, American author and satirist |
1971-03-29 |
Lennart van Reen, son of author Ton v R/publisher Corrie Zelen |
1971-05-27 |
Kaur Kender, Estonian author |
1971-07-02 |
Evelyn Lau, Canadian author |
1971-07-17 |
Cory Doctorow, Canadian author and activist |
1971-09-11 |
Markos Moulitsas, American blogger and author |
1971-12-01 |
John Schlimm, American author |
1972-03-23 |
Judith Godrèche, French actress and author |
1972-07-02 |
Darren Shan, Irish children's author |
1972-07-19 |
Adriaan J Zoetmulder, author/director (Eindhovens Newspaper) |
1972-09-30 |
Ari Behn, Norwegian author |
1972-12-26 |
Robert Muchamore, English children's author |
1973-03-18 |
Max Barry, Australian author |
1973-07-16 |
Graham Robertson, American filmmaker and author |
1973-12-24 |
Stephenie Meyer, Hartford, Connecticut, Author (Twilight) |
1974-01-26 |
Shannon Hale, American author |
1974-10-23 |
Derek Landy, Lusk, Ireland, author (Skulduggery Pleasant series) |
1974-11-08 |
Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author |
1974-11-08 |
Seishi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author |
1975-04-04 |
Pamela Ribon, American author, actress |
1975-04-11 |
Walid Soliman, Tunisian author |
1975-08-20 |
Marcus Mastin, American author |
1976-03-23 |
Jayson Blair, American journalist and author |
1976-06-24 |
Louisa Leaman, English author |
1976-11-16 |
Danny Wallace, British author |
1976-12-20 |
Ramon Stoppelenburg, world traveler and Dutch author |
1977-08-01 |
Damien Saez, French musician, songwriter, and author |
1977-08-24 |
John Green, American author/Nerdfighter |
1978-03-11 |
Christopher Rice, American author |
1978-05-07 |
Brian Clevinger, American author |
1979-08-10 |
Ted Geoghegan, American filmmaker and author |
1980-11-21 |
Alec Brownstein, American author, director |
1981-04-28 |
Nancy Redd, Filmmaker & Author Tonya Lee Lewis Live |
1983-06-12 |
Josh Dies, American author and musician (Showbread) |
1984-04-16 |
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, American author |
1984-09-23 |
Nathan Jendrick, American author |
1984-10-17 |
Randall Munroe, American webcomic author |
1985-03-15 |
F.V.A. Morriello, Canadian author |
1985-04-16 |
Mark Baker, Welsh author and historian |
1989-02-16 |
Carole Catanzaro, The Author |
1990-08-29 |
Sam Stern, British chef and author |
1991-05-23 |
Sarah Jarosz, Christina Ricci; author Ian Rankin. |
Author - Notable Weddings
Author - Weddings
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1656-11-12 |
English Poet and author of epic "Paradise Lost" John Milton (47) marries 2nd wife Katherine Woodcock |
1662-02-24 |
English Poet and author of "Paradise Lost" John Milton marries 3rd wife Elizabeth Mynshull, 31 years his junior. |
1735-07-09 |
Author, poet, critic and lexicographer and writer of the first English dictionary Dr. Samuel Johnson (25) marries the widow Elizabeth "Tetty" Porter, 21 years his senior. |
1822-10-12 |
"The Hunchback of Notre Dame" author Victor Hugo (20) weds Adele Fourcher |
1825-05-15 |
Author Wilhelm Grimm (39) weds Henriette Dorothea |
1836-01-06 |
Author Harriet Beecher (24) weds educator Calvin Ellis Stowe (33) in Cincinnati, Ohio |
1838-11-11 |
Emma Wedgwood accepts Charles Darwin's marriage proposal (English Naturalist later author of Origin of the Species) |
1839-01-29 |
English Naturalist and author of Origin of the Species Charles Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood |
1843-12-10 |
Author and religious leader Mary Baker Eddy (22) weds building contractor George Washington Glover (32) in Tilton, New Hampshire |
1847-08-04 |
Author of Moby Dick, American novelist Herman Melville (28) marries Elizabeth Shaw, daughter of Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court |
1854-06-29 |
English Novelist and author of "Jane Eyre" Charlotte Bronte marries curate Arthur Bell Nicholls |
1884-05-01 |
"Poems of Passion" author Ella Wheeler Wilcox (33) weds Robert M. Wilcox in Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
1885-05-05 |
Author Gerhart Hauptmann (22) weds Marie Thienemann |
1885-08-05 |
Author Arthur Conan Doyle (26) weds Louisa Hawkins |
1885-08-25 |
"Little House On The Prairie" author Laura Ingalls Wilder (18) weds Almonzo James Wilder (28) |
1885-08-29 |
Pulitzer Prize-winning American author (Age of Innocence) Edith Jones (23), marries Edward "Teddy" Wharton (36) |
1901-05-25 |
Russian physician, dramatist and author Anton Chekhov marries actress Olga Knipper |
1907-09-18 |
Author Arthur Conan Doyle (48) weds Jean Elizabeth Leckie |
1908-06-09 |
Poet Joyce Kilmer (21) weds author Aline Murray (19) |
1911-07-05 |
"Anne of Green Gables" author Lucy Maud Montgomery (36) weds Ewen MacDonald in Prince Edward Island, Canada |
1912-08-10 |
British literary figure (author of "To the Lighthouse") Virginia Woolf (30) weds political theorist Leonard Woolf (31) |
1912-12-19 |
Author Colette (39) weds "Le Matin" newspaper editor Henri de Jouvenel |
1913-04-12 |
Author Upton Sinclair (34) weds writer Mary Craig (31) |
1913-06-04 |
Author A.A. Milne (31) weds Dorothy Daphne de Selincourt |
1913-10-15 |
Author Beatrix Potter (47) weds solicitor William Heelis at St Mary Abbots in Kensington, London |
1914-01-14 |
Danish "Out of Africa" author Karen Blixen (28), pen name Isak Dinesen marries her 2nd cousin Baron Hans von Blixen-Finecke |
1914-12-24 |
Agatha Miller (later best selling detective author) marries aviator Archibald Christie |
1915-06-26 |
Author T. S. Eliot (26) weds governess Vivienne Haigh-Wood (27) at Hampstead Register Office in London |
1919-02-15 |
Author Maurice Maeterlinck (56) weds actress Renée Dahon in Nice, France |
1919-07-10 |
Author Aldous Huxley (25) weds epidemiologist Maria Nys in Bellem, Belgium |
1920-04-03 |
Author F. Scott Fitzgerald (23) weds novelist Zelda Fitzgerald (19) at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York |
1921-09-03 |
American author and journalist Ernest Hemingway (22) marries 1st wife Hadley Richardson (29) |
1922-09-02 |
"Gone With The Wind" author Margaret Mitchell (21) weds Red Berrien Upshaw |
1923-10-14 |
"All Quiet on the Western Front" author Erich Maria Remarque (25) weds Ilse Jutta Zambona |
1927-04-23 |
Mary Barbara Hamilton (25,)best-selling British romantic author, marries 1st husband Alexander McQorquodale |
1927-11-29 |
Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) (23) marries first wife fellow author and editor Helen Palmer (28) |
1929-05-27 |
Aviator Charles Lindbergh (27) weds author Anne Morrow (22) in Englewood, New Jersey |
1929-06-20 |
Author William Faulkner (31) weds Estelle Oldham at College Hill Presbyterian Church outside Oxford, Mississippi |
1930-01-14 |
Author John Steinbeck (27) weds Carol Henning in Los Angeles, California |
1930-08-27 |
Journalist H. L. Mencken (49) weds author Sara Haardt (32) at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church |
1932-07-07 |
Author Damon Runyon (51) weds Patrice Amati del Grande |
1932-07-19 |
"Rebecca" author Daphne DuMaurier (25) weds commander of the I Airborne Corps Lt. Gen. Frederick Browning (35) |
1932-10-04 |
Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov marries Yelena Sergeyevna |
1936-12-28 |
British best-selling romantic author Barbara Cartland (35) marries 2nd husband Hugh McCorquodale |
1937-09-03 |
Author Muriel Spark (19) weds teacher Sidney Oswald Spark in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia |
1937-09-17 |
Economist John Kenneth Galbraith (29) weds author Catherine Atwater (24) at the Reformed Church of North Hempstead in New York |
1939-04-02 |
Author Jacqueline Susann (20) weds Irving Mansfield at Har Zion Temple in Philadelphia |
1939-09-30 |
Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding (28) weds analytic chemist Ann Brookfield |
1940-11-05 |
American author and journalist "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway marries journalist Martha Gellhorn |
1940-12-03 |
Nobel Prize winning author Albert Camus (27) weds pianist and mathematician Francine Faure (25) in Lyon, France |
1941-06-03 |
Author Irving Wallace marries writer Sylvia Kahn |
1942-07-26 |
Science fiction author Isaac Asimov (22) weds Gertrude Blugerman in Brooklyn, New York |
1943-03-29 |
Author John Steinbeck (41) weds Gwyndolyn Conger |
1944-08-22 |
Writer Jack Kerouac (22) weds author Edie Kerouac Parker |
1945-09-01 |
Author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (23) weds childhood sweetheart Jane Marie Cox |
1946-03-14 |
American author and journalist "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway marries Mary Welsh |
1946-08-10 |
Pulp fiction author and Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard (35) weds Sara Northrup Hollister |
1948-10-21 |
Science fiction pioneering author "Stranger in a Strange Land" Robert A. Heinlein marries 3rd wife Virginia "Ginny" Gerstenfeld |
1950-12-28 |
Author John Steinbeck (48) weds actress Elaine Anderson (36) |
1951-02-27 |
Activist W.E.B. Du Bois (83) weds award-winning author Shirley Graham (54) in Queens, New York |
1951-12-23 |
MLB centerfielder Mickey Mantle (20) weds author Merlyn Mantle (19) in Commerce, Oklahoma |
1952-03-24 |
Author of 'James Bond' novels, journalist and secret intelligence agent Ian Fleming marries Anne Geraldine Charteris |
1953-06-15 |
Sci-Fi author Arthur C. Clarke (35) weds Marilyn Torgenson in New York |
1953-07-02 |
Author Roald Dahl (36) weds stage actress Patricia Neal (27) at Trinity Church in New York |
1956-03-19 |
Author Aldous Huxley (62) weds musician and author Laura Archera (45) |
1961-10-14 |
Howard Allen Frances (Anne) O'Brien (20) best-selling author (The Vampire Chronicles) marries poet and painter Stan Rice (21) |
1961-10-14 |
Author Anne Rice (20) weds poet/artist Stan Rice (18) in Denton, Texas |
1961-10-14 |
Author Upton Sinclair (83) weds Mary Elizabeth Willis |
1964-09-19 |
Author Peter Benchley (24) weds Winifred B. Wesson |
1968-08-06 |
Children's author Theodor Geisel [Dr. Seuss] (64) weds Audrey Stone Dimond |
1968-09-05 |
Author Ken Follett (19) weds Mary Emma Ruth Elson |
1970-06-21 |
"The Doors" lead singer Jim Morrison (26) weds author Patricia Kennealy (24) in a celtic pagan hand fasting ceremony |
1970-06-29 |
Medical researcher Jonas Salk (55) weds painter and author Françoise Gilot (48) in Paris |
1971-01-07 |
American horror, sci-fi and fantasy author Stephen King marries Tabitha Spruce, author and activist |
1971-03-04 |
Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau (51) weds author/actress Margaret Joan Sinclair (23) at a private ceremony in North Vancouver, Canada |
1972-01-01 |
Politician Aung San Suu Kyi (26) weds author Michael Aris (25) |
1972-02-11 |
Playwright Tom Stoppard (34) weds doctor/author Miriam Moore-Robinson (34) |
1973-11-30 |
Science fiction author Issac Asimov marries 2nd wife psychoanalyst and science fiction author Janet Jeppson |
1973-11-30 |
Sci-fi author Isaac Asimov (53) weds author Janet Jeppson (47) |
1975-12-30 |
Director Martin Scorsese (33) weds teacher and author Julia Cameron (27) in Libertyville, Illinois |
1977-09-30 |
"Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom" author John Updike (45) weds Martha Bernhard |
1978-12-31 |
Best-selling author Michael Crichton (36) weds lawyer Kathleen St. Johns |
1979-11-24 |
Author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (57) weds photographer Jill Krementz (39) |
1980-09-05 |
Lawyer Kathleen St. Johns divorces best-selling author Michael Crichton (37) after nearly 2 years of marriage |
1981-05-08 |
Author John Grisham (26) weds Renee Jones |
1981-10-22 |
Best-selling author Michael Crichton (39) weds broadcast journalist Suzanne Childs |
1983-12-15 |
Author Roald Dahl (36) weds Liccy Crosland (45) at Brixton Town Hall in South London |
1985-07-31 |
Bee Gees member Robin Gibb (35) weds author and artist Dwina Murphy |
1985-11-08 |
Author Ken Follett (36) weds politician Barbara Hubbard (42) |
1986-04-12 |
Author Arianna Huffington (35) weds politician Michael Huffington (38) |
1986-04-26 |
Writer Jorge Luis Borges (86) weds author Maria Kodama (49) in Paraguay |
1991-11-25 |
Author Douglas Adams (39) weds Jane Belson |
1992-07-04 |
US actress Bobbie Eakes marries author David Stone |
1992-10-16 |
Author J. K. Rowling (27) weds Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes |
1997-10-04 |
MTV news anchor Tabitha Soren (30) weds "Liars Poker" author Michael Lewis (37) in Garrison, New York |
2001-12-26 |
"Harry Potter" author J. K. Rowling (36) weds anesthesiologist Neil Murray (30) in Aberfeldy, Scotland |
2002-05-24 |
Princess Martha Louise of Norway (30) weds author Ari Behn (29) in Trondheim |
2006-02-03 |
"The Science Guy" Bill Nye (50) weds author/oboist Blair Tindall at Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles |
2011-01-02 |
Dresden Dolls singer Amanda Palmer (34) weds author Neil Gaiman (50) in Berkley, California |
2013-09-06 |
Actor Josh Charles (41) weds ballet dancer and author Sophie Flack at a private residence in Manhattan, New York City |
Author - Notable Divorces
Author - Divorces
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1927-03-10 |
American author and journalist "The Old man and the Sea" Enerest Hemingway divorces 1st wife Elizabeth Hadley Richardson |
1940-11-04 |
American author and journalist "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway divorces 2nd wife Pauline Pfeiffer |
1945-12-21 |
American author and journalist "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway and journalist Martha Gellhorn divorce after 5 years of marriage. |
1973-11-16 |
Sci-fi author Isaac Asimov (53) divorces Gertrude Blugerman after 31 years of marriage |
Author - Notable Deaths
Author - Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
833-07-20 |
Ansegis/Ansegius, French abbot of Fontenelle/author, dies at about 63 |
967-11-20 |
Aboe al-Faradj al-Isfahani, Arabic author (Book of Liederen), dies |
1171-11-02 |
Dionysius bar Salibi, author (Diarbekir), dies |
1272-11-19 |
David of Augsburg, Franciscan minister/author, dies |
1321-09-13 |
Dante Alighieri, author (Divine Comedy), dies |
1400-10-25 |
Geofrey Chaucer, author (Canterbury Tales), dies in London |
1471-03-24 |
Thomas Malory, author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55 |
1501-01-03 |
Ali Sjir Neva'i [Fani], Turkish poet/author, dies at 59 |
1527-06-21 |
Niccolo Machiavelli, Florentine statesman/author, dies at 57 |
1535-07-06 |
Sir Thomas More, philosopher, author (Utopia) and statesman, executed (beheaded) for treason at 57 |
1542-10-27 |
Abraham ben Avigdor, rabbi/author (commentary on Tur), dies |
1547-01-11 |
Pietro Bembo, Italian author, literary theorist, and Catholic cardinal (b. 1470) |
1553-04-09 |
Francois Rabelais, French author (Gargantua/Pantagruel), dies at 49 |
1563-02-02 |
Hans Neusiedler, Hungarian/German luitist/author, dies at approx 54 |
1573-11-07 |
Solomon Luria (Maharshal), talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo), dies |
1587-04-18 |
John Foxe, author (Book of Martyrs), dies |
1594-07-16 |
Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy (b. 1558) |
1596-12-08 |
Luis de Carabajal, 1st Jewish author in America, executed in Mexico |
1625-03-27 |
James VI and I, Scottish born King of Scotland )1657-1625) and King of England and Ireland (1603-25), poet and author, dies at 58 |
1632-11-27 |
John Eliot, English parliament leader/author (In Jail), dies at 40 |
1640-01-25 |
Robert Burton, author (Anatomy of Melancholy), dies |
1645-09-08 |
Francisco Gomez Quevedo y Villegas, Spanish author/poet, dies at 64 |
1648-03-12 |
Tirso de Molina, Spanish author, dies at about 63 |
1649-06-20 |
Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, author, dies |
1654-08-19 |
Yom Tov Lipmann Heller, rabbi/author (Tosefot Yom Tov), dies |
1666-08-24 |
Francisco M the Melo, Portuguese author (Obras Morales), dies at 57 |
1667-02-20 |
David ben Samuel Halevi, rabbi/author (Shulchan Aruch), dies |
1667-08-13 |
Jeremy Taylor, Irish author and bishop (b. 1613) |
1672-04-22 |
Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish scholar/author/poet (Hercules), dies at 73 |
1684-09-05 |
John Uytenhage van Lacks, lawyer/author, drowned at 48 |
1688-08-31 |
John Bunyan, preacher/novelist/author (Pilgrim's Progress), dies |
1701-04-04 |
Joseph Haines, entertainer and author |
1703-05-16 |
Charles Perrault, French author/fairy tale writer, dies at 75 |
1726-05-14 |
Moshe Darshan, Rabbi/author (Torat Ahsam), dies |
1747-11-17 |
Alain R Lesage, French author (Le diable boiteux), dies at 79 |
1754-07-04 |
Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist and author (b. 1680) |
1754-10-08 |
Henry Fielding, English lawyer/author (Tom Jones), dies at 47 |
1771-01-11 |
Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, marquis d'Argens, French author, dies at 66 |
1777-12-12 |
Albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician/biologist/author, dies at 69 |
1781-11-02 |
Jose F de Isla, Spanish Jesuit/author, dies at 78 |
1789-09-28 |
Thomas Day, author, killed by fall from a horse at Wargrave Berkshire |
1793-02-06 |
Carlo Goldoni, Italian author (L'avaro), dies at 85 |
1793-12-23 |
Antoine François Prévost, French author and novelist (b. 1697) |
1797-07-09 |
Edmund Burke, British author/parliament leader (Reflections), dies at 68 |
1797-09-10 |
Mary Wollstonecraft, English author (b. 1759) |
1802-06-28 |
Johann J Angel, German author/director, dies at 60 |
1807-12-03 |
Clara Reeve, English author (old English baron), dies |
1809-09-07 |
Caroline Schelling, [Michaelis], German author and academic dies at 46 |
1811-12-08 |
Eliza Poe, English-born American actress and the mother of the American author Edgar Allan Poe(b. 1787) |
1814-12-13 |
Charles Joseph Prince of Ligne, Belgium fieldmarshal/author, dies at 79 |
1816-07-23 |
Elizabeth Hamilton, author (Cats: A Celebration), dies at 68 |
1817-04-02 |
Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (b. 1740) |
1817-07-14 |
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Swiss author (b. 1766) |
1818-10-22 |
Joachim H Campe, German theory/author, dies at 72 |
1820-04-20 |
Arthur Young, author (Annals of Agriculture), dies |
1821-08-01 |
Elizabeth Inchbald (Simpson), actress/author (Lady Abbess), dies at 68 |
1823-02-07 |
Ann Radcliffe (Ward), English poet/author of horror novels, dies at 58 |
1827-11-28 |
Dov Baer Schneersohn, Lubavitch leader/author (Imirei Binah), dies |
1831-03-09 |
Friedrich M Klinger, German (stage)author (Plimplamplasko), dies at 79 |
1833-03-07 |
Rahel Varnhagen von Ense-Levin, German author, dies at 61 |
1835-06-18 |
William Cobbett, English journalist and author (b. 1763) |
1836-06-26 |
Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, author/composer (Marseillaise), dies |
1839-05-17 |
Archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757) |
1839-11-06 |
Hayim Rapoport, Rabbi of Ostrowiec/author (Maxim Chayyim), dies |
1841-04-30 |
Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist (b. 1758) |
1841-08-24 |
Theodore Edward Hook, English author (b. 1788) |
1842-03-23 |
Stendhal, [Marie-Henri Beyle], French author (Lamiel), dies at 59 |
1842-08-10 |
Captain William Hobson, first British Governor of New Zealand and co-author of the Treaty of Waitangi dies of a stroke aged 49 |
1842-10-30 |
Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet and author (b. 1784) |
1843-01-04 |
Petronella Moens, Frisian author/poetess, dies at 80 |
1843-07-09 |
Washington Allston, US painter/author, dies at 63 |
1845-07-12 |
Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian author (b. 1808) |
1847-01-11 |
Caroline von Wolzogen [von Lengefeld], German author, dies at 83 |
1848-08-09 |
Frederick Marryat, English captain/author (Mr Midshipman Easy), dies |
1851-09-14 |
James Fenimore Cooper, American author (Last of Mohicans), dies of dropsy at 61 |
1855-03-31 |
Charlotte Bronte, English author (Jane Eyre), dies at 38 |
1856-01-12 |
Ľudovít Štúr, Slovak politician, author of Slovak language, (b. 1815) |
1856-07-15 |
Margaretha J de Neufville, author (The Kidnap), dies at 81 |
1857-03-11 |
Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author/poet (A la paz), dies at 84 |
1858-03-03 |
Jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author/poet/critic, dies at 54 |
1858-10-10 |
Karl A Varnhagen von Ense, German author/poet/diplomat, dies at 73 |
1859-11-28 |
Washington Irving, American author (Legend of Sleepy Hollow), dies of a heart attack at 76 |
1859-12-08 |
Thomas de Quincey, English author (b. 1785) |
1860-05-23 |
Albert Richard Smith, author/lecturer, dies |
1862-02-24 |
Bernard S Ingemann, Danish author (Holger Danske), dies at 72 |
1864-09-17 |
Walter Savage Landor, author, dies |
1866-09-26 |
Carl Almqvist, Swedish author (Amorina), dies at 72 |
1868-01-28 |
Adalbert Stifter, Austrian author (Witiko), commits suicide at 62 |
1868-08-25 |
Costache Negruzzi, Romanian author/poet, dies at about 60 |
1869-02-04 |
Johan M Dautzenberg, Flemish author/novelist (Future), dies at 60 |
1869-11-12 |
Gheorghe Asachi, author/humanist (1st newspaper in Moldavia), dies |
1869-12-06 |
Jan de Liefde II, Dutch vicar/author (People's Welfare), dies at 54 |
1870-09-12 |
Fitz Hugh Ludlow, American author (b. 1836) |
1870-09-23 |
Prosper Mérimée, French author (b. 1803) |
1871-04-29 |
John Gelinde van Blom, Fries notary/author, dies at 75 |
1872-04-27 |
Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romanian politician/author, dies at 70 |
1873-01-18 |
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English author (b. 1803) |
1873-04-25 |
Walter de la Mare, Engl poet/author (Behold the Dreamer), dies at 43 |
1873-10-29 |
Ernest Feydeau, French author, dies at 52 |
1874-04-14 |
Hermanus J Abbring, Dutch author/engineer on Curacao, dies at 86 |
1875-11-17 |
Hilario Ascasubi, Argentina author (pampa, gauchos & indians), dies |
1876-03-05 |
Marie d'Agoult, [pen name Daniel Stern], French author and mother of composer Franz Liszt's children, dies at 70 |
1876-05-07 |
William Buell Sprague, American clergyman and author (b. 1795) |
1876-06-08 |
George Sand, French author (Indiana, Consuelo), dies at 71 |
1877-03-09 |
Mark Prager Lindo, English/Dutch author (Neth Spectator), dies at 58 |
1878-04-25 |
Anna Sewell, English author (b. 1820) |
1878-12-19 |
Bayard Taylor, American author and poet (b. 1825) |
1879-02-11 |
Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch author/novelist/writer, dies at 67 |
1879-03-30 |
Thomas Couture, French painter/author, dies at 63 |
1879-10-31 |
Jacob Abbott, American author (b. 1803) |
1880-06-05 |
Jacobus J Cremer, painter/author (Betuwsche Novellen), dies at 52 |
1881-04-11 |
Kristian Mandrup Elster, Norwegian author (Torn Trondal), dies at 40 |
1881-08-02 |
Marcus Andrews Hislop Clarke, author (His Natural Life) at 35 |
1883-02-01 |
Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author, dies |
1883-05-20 |
William Chambers, author/publisher, dies |
1885-05-13 |
Juliana Horatia [Gatty] Ewing, author (Lob Lie-by-the-Fire), dies |
1885-11-08 |
Johannes Kneppelhout, [Klikspaan], Dutch humorist/author, dies at 71 |
1886-07-16 |
Ned Buntline, [Edward Zane Carroll Judson], author, dies |
1886-07-29 |
Solomon Gazfried, rabbi/author (Kitzur Shulchan Aruch), dies |
1886-08-22 |
Jose da Silva Mendes Leal, Portuguese author (Indiana), dies at 67 |
1887-02-10 |
Ellen Wood, English author (Pomeroy Abbey), dies at 73 |
1888-01-29 |
Edward Lear, poet/author, dies at 75 |
1888-03-06 |
Louisa May Alcott, American author (Little Women), dies of a stroke at 55 |
1888-03-24 |
Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855) |
1888-07-04 |
Theodor Storm, German judge/author (Schimmelreiter), dies at 70 |
1889-01-17 |
Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian author (Siete Tratados), dies at 56 |
1889-07-11 |
Gyula Reviczky, Hungarian author/poet, dies at 34 |
1889-08-02 |
Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian author (b. 1851) |
1889-12-31 |
Ion Creanga, Romanian (fairy tales) author, dies at 52 |
1890-08-03 |
Louise Ackermann-Choquet, French author (Journal), dies at 76 |
1890-09-22 |
Johanna D Courtmans-Berchmans, Flemish author, dies at 79 |
1891-08-22 |
Jan Neruda, Czech author (b. 1834) |
1891-09-27 |
Ivan Goncharov, Russian author (b. 1812) |
1893-01-15 |
Fanny Kemble, British actress and author (b. 1809) |
1893-02-13 |
Ignacio M Altamirano, Mexican author (El Zarco), dies at 58 |
1893-07-06 |
Guy de Maupassant, French author (b. 1850) |
1894-02-25 |
James Morrison Steele Mackaye, US actor/author/director, dies at 51 |
1895-11-27 |
French writer and playwright Alexandre Dumas (b. 1824), son of the French author of the same name |
1896-02-22 |
Thomas Hughes, politican/author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, Brighton |
1896-07-01 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author (Uncle Tom's Cabin), dies at 85 |
1896-07-16 |
William Hamilton Gibson, illustrator/author/novelist, dies |
1898-03-01 |
George Bruce Malleson, English officer in India, author (b. 1825) |
1898-05-22 |
Edward Bellamy, American author/socialist, dies of tuberculosis at 48 |
1898-09-20 |
Theodor Fontane, German author (Der Stechlin), dies at 78 |
1899-07-18 |
Horatio Alger Jr, American clergyman/author (Disagreeeable Woman), dies |
1900-06-05 |
Stephen Crane, author (Red Badge of Courage), dies at 28 |
1900-11-30 |
Oscar Wilde, Irish author, dies in Paris at 46 |
1901-01-14 |
Victor Balaguer, Catalaans historian/politician/author, dies at 76 |
1901-07-07 |
Johanna Spyri, Swiss author children's classic "Heidi"(b. 1827) |
1902-08-31 |
Mathilde Wesendonk, German author/poetess, dies at 73 |
1903-11-13 |
Wilhelm von Polenz, German author (Country of Zukunft), dies |
1904-09-26 |
Lafcadio Hearn, author (Soul of the Great Ball), dies at 54 |
1904-11-18 |
Justus van Maurik, cigar manufacturer/author/head of Red Guard, dies |
1905-03-15 |
B Amalie Skram-Alver, Norwegian author (Paa St Jorgen), dies at 58 |
1905-03-24 |
Jules Verne, sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 77 |
1905-09-18 |
George MacDonald, sci-fi author (Princess & Curdie), dies at 80 |
1906-11-14 |
Hendrik J Schimmel, author/dramatist, dies |
1907-07-19 |
Hector H Malot, French lawyer/author (Alone in the World), dies at 77 |
1908-04-11 |
Henry Bird, English Chess player and author (b. 1829) |
1908-07-05 |
Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (b. 1833) |
1908-07-20 |
Demetrius Vikelas, Greek author, president of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1835) |
1908-11-08 |
Victorien Sardou, French opera author (Madame Sans-Gene), dies at 77 |
1909-06-10 |
Edward Everett Hale, American author (b. 1822) |
1910-04-21 |
Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens], American author (Huckleberry Finn), dies at 74 |
1910-06-05 |
O. Henry, American author (b. 1862) |
1910-11-15 |
Wilhelm Raabe, [Jakob Corvinus], German author, dies at 79 |
1910-11-20 |
Leo Tolstoy, Russian author (Anna Karenina), dies at 82 [NS] |
1911-01-03 |
Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (b. 1851) |
1911-11-09 |
Howard Pyle, American author (b. 1853) |
1912-04-13 |
Ishikawa Takuboku, Japanese author (b. 1886) |
1912-04-15 |
William T. Stead American author and journalist. (b. 1849) |
1912-10-24 |
Louis van Haecke, Flemish chaplain/author (Zeesterre), dies at 83 |
1913-01-13 |
Thomas P Krag, Norw author/novelist (Jon Graeff, Ulf Ran), dies at 44 |
1914-01-04 |
Silas Weir Mitchell, US physician/author (Free Quaker), dies at 84 |
1915-01-15 |
Fannie Farmer, American culinary figure and author dies aged 57 |
1915-11-28 |
Luigi Capuana, Sicilian author/critic (C'era una Volta), dies at 76 |
1916-07-18 |
Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author |
1916-07-22 |
James Whitcomb Riley, American author and poet (b. 1849) |
1916-11-15 |
Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author, Nobel laureate (b. 1846) |
1916-11-22 |
Jack London, author, dies at 40 |
1918-09-04 |
Max Dauthendy, German painter/author (Raubmenschen), dies at 51) |
1918-11-13 |
Marten Baersma, [MH Bottema], Fries author, dies at 28 |
1918-12-11 |
Ivan Cankar, Slavic author (Hlapec Jernej), dies at 42 |
1918-12-22 |
Albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author/mayor/painter, dies at 83 |
1919-05-06 |
Frank Lyman Baum, author (Wizard of Oz), dies at 62 |
1919-05-17 |
Guido von List, German occult author (b. 1848) |
1919-10-22 |
Bruce F Cummings, English author (Enjoying Life), dies at 30 |
1920-05-11 |
William D Howells, US author (A Woman's Reason), dies at 83 |
1920-06-05 |
Rhoda Broughton, Welsh author (b. 1840) |
1920-11-08 |
Salomon Anski, Russian/Polish yiddish author (Dibboek), dies at 57 |
1922-08-02 |
[Wilhel]Mina JPR Kruseman, Dutch author/feminist, dies at 82 |
1922-11-18 |
Marcel Proust, French author (Recherche du Temps Perdu), dies at 51 |
1923-01-23 |
Max Nordau, Austrian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader (b. 1849) |
1923-06-29 |
Fritz Mauthner, German author/philosopher (skepticism), dies at 73 |
1923-08-24 |
Kate Douglas Wiggin, author (US kindergarten movement), dies at 66 |
1923-11-19 |
French Netscher, author/journalist (In 3rd Chamber), dies at 59 |
1924-03-19 |
Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer/author, dies at 71 |
1924-05-01 |
August Cuppens, Flemish author (Limburgs Driemanschap), dies at 62 |
1924-11-22 |
Herman Heijermans Jr, author (On Hope, Heap of Blessing), dies |
1924-12-06 |
Gene Stratton-Porter, American author, screenwriter and naturalist (b. 1863) |
1925-02-22 |
Nina David, [Mrs Radcliffe N Salomon], poet/author, dies |
1926-04-23 |
Joseph Pennell, artist/author, dies |
1926-04-25 |
Ellen K S Key, Swedish author/feminist (Century of the Child), dies at 76 |
1927-06-14 |
Jerome K. Jerome, British author (b. 1859) |
1927-11-17 |
Adolf A Joffe, Russian author/diplomat, commits suicide at 44 |
1928-05-16 |
Edmund William Grosse, poet/author, dies |
1928-11-17 |
Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author, politician, & freedom fighter (b. 1865) |
1928-11-21 |
Hermann Sudermann, German author (Frau Sorge), dies |
1930-09-23 |
Jonkvrouw Catharina AM de Savornin Lohman, author, dies at 62 |
1930-10-03 |
Charles LP "Philip" Zilcken, painter/etcher/author (Bauer), dies at 73 |
1931-01-11 |
James Milton Carroll, American Baptist pastor, leader, historian, and author (b. 1852) |
1931-08-27 |
Frank Harris, Irish author and editor (b. 1856) |
1931-10-13 |
Ernst Didring, Swedish author (b. 1868) |
1931-12-10 |
Max Elskamp, Belgian author/poet (Six Chansons), dies at 69 |
1932-04-10 |
Andre Baillon, Belgian/French author (& sabots), dies at 56 |
1932-07-06 |
Kenneth Grahame, English author (b. 1859) |
1932-11-16 |
Carry van Bruggen, [de Haan], Dutch author (Eva), dies at 51 |
1932-11-22 |
William Walker Atkinson, American author (b. 1862) |
1933-05-21 |
John Henry Mackay, Scottish/German author (Der Schwimmer), dies at 69 |
1933-07-08 |
Anthony Hope, British author (b. 1863) |
1934-06-21 |
[James] Thorne Smith, US, sci-fi author (Stray Lamb, Turnabout) |
1934-08-18 |
Delilah L Beasley, US author/columnist (Oakland Tribune), dies at 61 |
1935-02-13 |
Violet Paget, British author (Gospels of Anarchy), dies at 78 |
1935-08-31 |
Abraham Isaac Kook, rabbi/author (Hokhmat Ha-kodesh), dies |
1935-10-11 |
Steele Rudd, Australian author (b. 1868) |
1936-01-17 |
Mateiu Caragiale, Romanian author (b. 1885) |
1936-01-18 |
Rudyard Kipling, author (Gunga Din, Nobel 1907), dies at 70 |
1936-06-11 |
Robert E. Howard, American author (b. 1906) |
1936-08-15 |
Grazia Deledda, Sardina/Italian author (Nobel 1926), dies at 64 |
1936-08-22 |
Juliette Adam-Lamber, French author (Salon/Nouvelle Revue), dies at 99 |
1936-10-25 |
Jaime de Magalhes Lima, Portuguese author/poet, dies at 76 |
1937-02-05 |
Lou [Andreas-]Salome, Russian/German author (Eroticism), dies at 75 |
1937-03-19 |
Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan author/poet, commits suicide at 58 |
1937-08-11 |
Edith Wharton [-Jones], US Pulitzer prize-winning author (House of Mirth), dies at 75 |
1937-12-29 |
Don Marquis, American author (b. 1878) |
1938-02-16 |
Otto zur Linde, German author (Lieder of the Leids), dies at 64 |
1938-04-12 |
Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author (Man & Mark), dies at 65 |
1938-04-19 |
Henry John Newbolt, poet/author (Studies Green & Gray), dies at 75 |
1938-07-21 |
Owen Wister, American author (b. 1860) |
1938-08-25 |
Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author (Jama), dies at 67 |
1938-12-25 |
Karel Čapek, Czech author (b. 1890) |
1939-03-27 |
Constance Lindsay Skinner, Quesnel British Columbia, Canadian author (Rivers of America), dies at 57 |
1939-04-10 |
Alfredo Panzini, Ital author (Il Bacio de Lesba), dies at 75 |
1939-05-22 |
Jiri Mahen, Czech author (b. 1882) |
1940-03-01 |
Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (b. 1878) |
1940-05-10 |
Euphemia "Phemia" Molkenboer, Dutch author/poster artist, dies at 56 |
1940-05-14 |
Emma Goldman, US anarchists/feminist/author (Living My Life), dies |
1940-11-28 |
Nicolae Iorga, author/president of Romania, murdered by fascist |
1940-12-21 |
F Scott Fitzgerald, author (Zelda), dies of a heart attack at 44 |
1941-02-05 |
Banjo Paterson, Australian poet, author of "Walzing Matilda" (b. 1864) |
1941-03-28 |
Virginia Woolf-Stephen [Adeline], author (To Lighthouse), dies from suicide at 59 |
1941-04-27 |
Penelope Delta, Greek author (b. 1874) |
1941-06-20 |
Stephanie H (Lapidoth-)Swarth, author (Lonely flowers, dies |
1941-11-07 |
Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet/author (Das Gewitter), dies at 46 |
1942-02-18 |
Albert Payson Terhune, American author (b. 1872) |
1942-04-24 |
Karin Boye, Swedish author (b. 1900) |
1942-04-24 |
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (Anne of Green Gables), dies at 67 |
1942-05-19 |
[Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll, Norwegian author (Enken), dies at 69 |
1943-01-08 |
Richard Hillary, Australian Spitfire pilot and author (b. 1919) |
1943-03-13 |
Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (b. 1898) |
1943-08-30 |
A[braham] [P] Merritt, author (Moon Pool, Creep Shadow!), dies at 58 |
1943-09-23 |
Elinor Glyn, English author (b. 1864) |
1943-10-07 |
Radclyffe Hall, British author (b. 1880) |
1943-11-24 |
Martin Raschke, German author/war correspondent, dies at 38 |
1943-12-07 |
John Bouber, [Blom], actor/author (Bluejackets), dies at 22 |
1944-03-10 |
David Vogel, Ukrainian author, dies in Auschwitz at 52 |
1944-05-12 |
Arthur T Quiller-Couch [Q], British author/critic, dies at 80 |
1944-05-16 |
Max Brand, [Frederick Schiller Faust], western author, dies |
1944-05-16 |
George Ade, American author (b. 1866) |
1944-11-28 |
Lode Zielens, Flemish author/journalist, dies at 43 |
1945-07-20 |
Paul Valéry, French author and poet (b. 1871) |
1945-10-08 |
Felix Salten, Austrian author (b. 1869) |
1945-12-23 |
Mogens Klitgaard, Danish author (Brunkul), dies at 39 |
1946-01-08 |
Dion Fortune, British occultist and author dies at 55 |
1946-07-27 |
Gertrude Stein, US/Fren author/poet (Ida, Tender Buttons), dies at 72 |
1946-08-13 |
H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, sci-fi author (Time Machine), dies at 79 |
1946-11-14 |
Herman de Man, [Salomon H Hamburger], author/Radio Orange, dies |
1947-01-04 |
Forrest Reid, Irish author/critic (Young Tom, Apostate), dies at 71 |
1947-11-06 |
Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Paradisets Have), dies at 66 |
1947-11-12 |
Emmuska Orczy, British author (Scarlet Pimpernel), dies at 82 |
1947-12-15 |
Arthur Machen, Welsh author (b. 1863) |
1948-02-06 |
Robert Brasillach, French author/nazi collaborator, dies at 38 |
1948-05-22 |
Claude McKaye, Jamaican/US author (Banjo, Home to Harlem), dies at 57 |
1949-01-22 |
William Thomas Walsh, American author (b. 1891) |
1950-01-21 |
George Orwell, author (Animal Farm, 1984), dies in London at 46 |
1950-02-13 |
Rafael Sabatini, Italian author (b. 1875) |
1950-02-18 |
Voranc Prezikov, [Lovro Kuhar], Slavic author (Jamnica), dies at 56 |
1950-03-02 |
M Joseph V d'Arbaud, French poet/author (Li cant palustre), dies at 76 |
1950-03-19 |
Edgar Rice Burroughs, sci-fi author (Tarzan of the Apes), dies at 74 |
1950-11-02 |
George Bernard Shaw, Irish author (Pygmalion), dies at 94 |
1950-11-26 |
Hedwig Courts-Mahler, German author, dies at 83 |
1951-01-05 |
Andrei P Platonov, Russian author (Prok, Kotlovan), dies at 51 |
1951-01-07 |
René Guénon, French-Egyptian author (b. 1886) |
1951-02-13 |
Lloyd C. Douglas, American author (b. 1877) |
1951-05-13 |
Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips, author (Issue Beukennoot), dies at 65 |
1951-12-18 |
Augusta Anderson, Rosa and the Author |
1952-02-13 |
Josephine Tey, English author (b. 1896) |
1952-11-21 |
Henriette Roland Holst-de Schalk, marxist author, dies at 82 |
1953-01-09 |
Hans Aanrud, Norwegian author (Storken), dies at 89 |
1953-03-20 |
Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian author (Vidas Secas), dies at 60 |
1953-04-04 |
Rachilde, [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery], French author, dies at 93 |
1953-06-30 |
Elsa Beskow, (Maartman), Swedish author (children's book), dies at 79 |
1953-07-16 |
Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc, author (Path to Rome), dies at 82 |
1953-07-20 |
Jan Struther, British author (b. 1901) |
1953-11-09 |
Dylan Thomas, author-poet (Adv in skin trade), dies in NY at 39 |
1954-05-30 |
Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian/author, dies at 67 |
1954-11-04 |
Stig H Dagerman, Swedish author (Burned Child), dies at 31 |
1954-12-20 |
James Hilton, English author (Lost Horizon), dies at 54 |
1955-11-01 |
W H van Eemlandt, [Haasse], author (Treasure Hunter of Amstel), dies |
1956-01-31 |
A.A. Milne, English author of the Winnie-the-Pooh books, dies at 74 |
1956-05-13 |
Aleksandr A Fadejev, Russ author (Young Guard), commits suicide at 54 |
1956-07-08 |
Giovanni Papini, Italian author/poet (Un Uomo Finito), dies at 75 |
1956-10-30 |
Pío Baroja y Nessi, Spanish Basque writer, author of over 100 novels (The Struggle for Life, Zalacain the Adventurer), dies at 83 |
1956-11-23 |
Jeanne Cappe, Belgian author (Tres Grand Cardinal), dies at about 61 |
1957-02-10 |
Laura Ingalls Wilder, US author (Little House on Praries), dies at 90 |
1957-02-18 |
Henry N Russell, co-author (temperature-luminosity graph), dies |
1957-03-07 |
Wyndham Lewis, British author (b. 1882) |
1957-07-15 |
Marie C of Zeggelen, author (Dessajongen), dies at 87 |
1957-07-19 |
Curzio Malaparte, [Kurt E Suckert], Ital author (Kaputt), dies at 59 |
1957-07-28 |
Edith Abbott, American social worker, educator, and author (b. 1876) |
1957-10-25 |
Lord Dunsany, [Edward J M D Plunkett], author (Jorkens), dies at 79 |
1957-11-26 |
Aleksei M Remizov, Russian author (Iveren), dies |
1957-11-27 |
Margot SE Scharten-Antink, author (Catherina/Sprotje), dies at 88 |
1957-12-17 |
Dorothy Sayers, [Atherton Fleming], author (Whose body), dies at 64 |
1958-02-03 |
Henry Kuttner, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were), dies at 42 |
1958-04-08 |
Ethel Turner, Australian author (b. 1872) |
1958-06-26 |
Martinus Ballings, Flemish jesuit/author (Vocation), dies at 93 |
1958-07-22 |
Michail M Zosjtsjenko, Russian author, dies at 62 |
1958-10-08 |
Ran Bosilek, Bulgarian author (b. 1886) |
1958-11-16 |
Warner Fabian, [S Adams], US author (Great American Fraud), dies at 87 |
1958-12-22 |
Fjodor W Gladkow, Russian author (Cement), dies at 75 |
1959-06-01 |
Sax Rohmer, English author (b. 1883) |
1959-06-17 |
Abdul Mouse, Indonesian nationalist foreman/author, dies at about 68 |
1959-07-15 |
Vance Palmer, Australian author (b. 1885) |
1960-01-02 |
Chris van Abkoude, author (Pietje Bell, Kruimeltje), dies at about 79 |
1960-01-04 |
Albert Camus, French author (Stranger), dies in an auto accident at 46 |
1960-01-09 |
Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (b. 1880) |
1960-01-12 |
Nevil Shute [Norway], Eng/Aust author (Town like Alice), dies at 60 |
1960-01-28 |
Zora Neale Hurston, American author (b. 1891) |
1960-06-17 |
Pierre Reverdy, French author/poet (North-South), dies at 70 |
1960-09-10 |
Fjodor I Panfjorov, Russian author (Volga - matushka-reka), dies at 63 |
1960-09-14 |
M. Karagatsis, Greek author (b. 1908) |
1960-11-28 |
Richard N Wright, US author (Native son), dies at 52 in Paris France |
1961-07-02 |
Ernest Hemingway, American author and Nobel laureate, dies from suicide at 61 |
1961-07-12 |
Mazo de la Roche, Canadian author (b. 1879) |
1961-08-14 |
Clarke Ashton Smith, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds), dies at 68 |
1961-09-23 |
Elmer R Diktonius, Finnish musicologist/author (Stenkol), dies at 65 |
1961-11-01 |
Alexander Cohen, Dutch anarchist/author, dies at 97 |
1961-11-07 |
Antonius F "Anton" Coolen, author (Peelwerkers), dies at 64 |
1962-03-11 |
Will Vesper, German author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 79 |
1962-05-12 |
Dick Calkins, co-author (Buck Rogers), dies at 67 |
1962-07-06 |
William Faulkner, US author (Nobel 1949), dies at 64 |
1962-08-01 |
Leon Kruczkowski, Polish author (Niemcy), dies at 62 |
1962-08-09 |
Hermann Hesse, German/Swiss poet/author (Nobel 1946), dies at 85 |
1962-09-07 |
Isak Dinesen, Danish author (b. 1885) |
1962-11-23 |
Herman J Friedericy, Dutch author (Last General), dies at 62 |
1963-03-29 |
Pola Gojawiczynska, Polish author (Stolica), dies at 64 |
1963-10-11 |
Jean Cocteau, French author (La Voie Humaine), dies at 73 |
1963-11-01 |
Elsa Maxwell, author (Jack Paar Show), dies at 80 |
1963-11-22 |
Aldous Huxley, English author (Devils of Loudon), dies at 69 |
1963-11-22 |
C. S. Lewis [Clive Staples], Irish author (Silver Chair), dies at 64 |
1963-11-22 |
William R Titterton, English author (Candle of the Stars), dies at 87 |
1964-01-06 |
Edgar Maass, German/US author (Verdun), dies at 67 |
1964-01-10 |
A Marja, Dutch author (Man of Day & Night), dies at 46 |
1964-01-17 |
T.H. White, English author of the King Arthur novels, dies of heart failure at 57 |
1964-04-14 |
Rachel Carson, American biologist/author (Silent spring), dies at 56 |
1964-09-03 |
Stewart Holbrook, American author (b. 1893) |
1964-11-11 |
H[enry] Beam Piper, US, sci-fi author (4 Day Planet), dies at 60 |
1964-11-29 |
Anne de Vries, Dutch teacher/author (Bartje), dies at 60 |
1964-12-09 |
Edith L Sitwell, English poet/author (Wheels), dies at 77 |
1965-03-13 |
George Calinescu, Romanian author (Lauda Lucrorilor), dies at 65 |
1965-03-17 |
Quentin Reynolds, newscaster (Its News to Me)/author (FBI), dies at 62 |
1965-04-08 |
Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian/poet/author, dies at 70 |
1965-05-03 |
Howard Spring, British author (Heaven Lies About Us), dies at 76 |
1965-05-11 |
Roger Vailland, French author, dies at 57 |
1965-07-28 |
Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author (b. 1894) |
1965-08-08 |
Shirley Jackson, US author (Road Through the Wall), dies at 45 |
1965-09-30 |
E[dward] E[lmer] "Doc" Smith, sci-fi author (Triplanetary), dies at 75 |
1965-11-16 |
Alexander King, author (Jack Paar Show), dies at 66 |
1965-12-16 |
William Somerset Maugham, English author (Razor's Edge), dies at 91 |
1966-01-18 |
Kathleen Norris, US author, dies at 85 |
1966-03-10 |
Mari Sandoz, US author (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 64 |
1966-04-02 |
Cecil Scott Forester, English author (Horatio Hornblower), dies at 66 |
1966-04-25 |
Maurice Roelants, Belgian author (Prayer for a Good End), dies at 70 |
1966-08-06 |
Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, sci-fi author (Space Lords), dies at 53 |
1966-08-18 |
Watze Cuperus, Frisian author (Struggle & Blessing), dies at 75 |
1966-12-26 |
Ina Boudier-Baker, Dutch author (Poverty), dies at 88 |
1967-06-03 |
Arthur Mitchell Ransome, critic/children's book author, dies |
1967-09-29 |
Carson McCullers, US author (Heart is a Lonely Hunter), dies at 50 |
1968-02-23 |
Fannie Hurst, US author (Anatomy of Me), dies at 78 |
1968-04-16 |
Edna Ferber, American author (American Beauty), dies at 82 |
1968-05-01 |
Harold G Nicolson, English author (English sense of humor), dies at 71 |
1968-06-01 |
Helen Keller, blind & deaf/author (Let us Have Faith), dies at 87 |
1968-06-09 |
Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (b. 1884) |
1968-07-14 |
Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian sailor/author, dies at 76 |
1968-07-22 |
Giovanni Guareschi, Italian author: Don Camillo/Peppone, dies at 60 |
1968-09-02 |
Ernest Claes, Belgium, author (The White), dies at 82 |
1968-09-24 |
Robert Arthur Ley, sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X), dies at 47 |
1968-11-04 |
Paul JM Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author, dies at 78 |
1968-11-07 |
Willem A Wagenaar, Dutch journalist/author (3,000 meter), dies |
1968-11-25 |
Upton Beall Sinclair, US author (Jungle), dies at 90 |
1968-11-26 |
Arnold Zweig, German antifascist/author (Junge frau 1914), dies at 81 |
1968-11-28 |
Enid Mary Blyton, author (Before I Go To Sleep), dies at 70 |
1968-12-20 |
John Steinbeck, author (Grapes of Wrath, Nobel Prize 1940, 1962), dies at 66 |
1969-01-05 |
Franz T Csokor, Austria author (Gottes General), dies at 83 |
1969-01-11 |
Richmal Crompton, British author (b. 1890) |
1969-03-11 |
John Wyndham, [Parkes Lucas B Harris], author (Chrysalids), dies at 65 |
1969-03-23 |
Rudolf Pannwitz, German author/philosopher (Urblik), dies at 87 |
1969-04-05 |
Gabriel M-E-R Chevallier, French author (La Peur), dies at 73 |
1969-04-05 |
Romulo Gallegos, Venezuela author/president (1947-48), dies at 84 |
1969-07-24 |
Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author (Ferdydurke, Dziennik), dies at 64 |
1969-08-27 |
Erika Mann, German/US author/daughter of Thomas Mann, dies |
1969-11-05 |
Itih Walracen, Sudanese widow of author William Walraven, dies |
1969-12-26 |
Louise L de Vilmorin, French poet/author (History d'aimer), dies at 67 |
1970-03-15 |
Tarjei Vesaas, Nowegian author/novelist/writer (Isslottet), dies at 72 |
1970-05-17 |
Nigel M Balchin, English author (My Executioner), dies at 61 |
1970-05-27 |
Emmy van Lokhorst, author, dies at 78 |
1970-05-29 |
John Gunther, author/host (John Gunther's High Road), dies at 68 |
1970-06-07 |
E. M. Forster, English author (b. 1879) |
1970-11-25 |
Yukio Mishima, Japanese author/nationalist (Harakiri), dies at 45 |
1970-11-28 |
Jan Drda, Czech author (Nema Barikada), dies at 55 |
1970-12-31 |
Cyril M Scott, English composer/author (Alchemist), dies at 91 |
1971-03-19 |
Jan Greshoff, Dutch poet/author/journalist (Last Things), dies at 82 |
1971-03-19 |
Mary Dorna, Dutch author, dies at 79 |
1971-03-23 |
Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author/poet (Brass Garden), dies at 72 |
1971-04-13 |
Juhan Smuul, Estonian author (b. 1921) |
1971-11-10 |
Walter Van Tilburg Clark, US author (Ox-Bow Incident), dies at 62 |
1972-02-15 |
Edgar P Snow, US author/journalist (Battle for Asia), dies at 66 |
1972-03-11 |
Fredric [William] Brown, sci-fi author (Martians Go Home), dies at 65 |
1972-04-16 |
Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese author (Nobel 1968), dies at 72 |
1972-08-17 |
Raymond Brulez, Flemish author (Schoone slaapster), dies at 76 |
1972-08-26 |
Jacques Gans, Dutch author/journalist, dies at 63 |
1972-09-21 |
Henry M de Montherlant, French author (Port Royal), dies at 76 |
1972-12-07 |
Adrian J Zoetmulder, author (God's Hour), dies at 91 |
1973-03-06 |
Pearl S[ydenstricker] Buck, American author (Good Earth - Nobel Prize 1938), dies at 80 |
1973-03-06 |
Vera Fjodorova Panova, Russian author (Sputniki), dies at 67 |
1973-03-16 |
M Revis, [Willem Fisherman), author (People that Mutiny), dies at 68 |
1973-05-14 |
Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (b. 1905) |
1973-07-16 |
Trijntje "Nine" van de Schaaf, author (Fries dorpsleven), dies at 91 |
1973-08-08 |
Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish author and historian (b. 1898) |
1973-09-30 |
Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer and author (b. 1902) |
1973-11-04 |
Karl H Waggerl, Austria author (Green Friends), dies at 75 |
1973-12-13 |
Henry Green, English author (b. 1905) |
1974-01-21 |
Jan Arends, Dutch poet/author, dies at 48 |
1974-07-29 |
Erich Kästner, German author (b. 1899) |
1974-08-08 |
Baldur von Schirach, German author/nazi politician, dies at 67 |
1974-09-21 |
Jacqueline Susann, author (Valley of the Dolls), dies of cancer at 53 |
1974-11-07 |
Eric Linklater, British author (b. 1899) |
1974-12-01 |
Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian/US author (Angry Angel), dies at 83 |
1975-01-03 |
Robert Neumann, Austrian/British author (False Flag), dies at 77 |
1975-03-13 |
Ivo Andric, Yugoslavian author (Nemiri-Nobel 1961), dies at 82 |
1975-03-13 |
Ruth Schaumann, German author/painter/sculptor, dies at 75 |
1975-06-08 |
William F Jenkins, author (Time Tunnel, Land of Giants), dies at 78 |
1975-07-04 |
Georgette Heyer, English author (b. 1902) |
1975-07-29 |
James [Benjamin] Blish, sci-fi author (Star Trek Reader), dies at 54 |
1975-11-01 |
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet/author/director, murdered at 53 |
1976-02-01 |
Edgar Pangborn, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy), dies at 66 |
1976-05-05 |
Thomas Burnett Swann, sci-fi author (Day of Minotaur), dies at 47 |
1976-05-06 |
Karel M J F Cruysberghs, Flemish author (On the Pulpit), dies at 85 |
1976-05-09 |
Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (b. 1920) |
1976-08-25 |
Eyvind Johnson, Swedish author (Nobel-1974), dies at 76 |
1976-10-11 |
Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (b. 1897) |
1976-11-23 |
Andre Malraux, [Berger], author (Conquerors)/min of Culture, dies at 75 |
1977-01-14 |
Anaïs Nin, French author (b. 1903) |
1977-02-01 |
Edmond [Moore] Hamilton, US, sci-fi author (Danger Planet), dies at 72 |
1977-02-27 |
John Dickson Carr, American author (b. 1905) |
1977-08-13 |
Henry Williamson, English author (Tarka the Otter), dies |
1977-08-26 |
HA Rey, author of popular constellation book, dies at 78 |
1977-10-11 |
MacKinlay Kantor, American author (b. 1904) |
1978-01-21 |
Freda Utley, British scholar and author. (b. 1898) |
1978-02-28 |
Eric Frank Russell, sci-fi author (Hugo, Deep Space), dies at 73 |
1978-03-18 |
Faith Baldwin, US author (They Who Love), dies at 84 |
1978-03-24 |
Brackett Hamilton Leigh, [Douglass], author (Ginger Star), dies at 62 |
1978-08-22 |
Ignazio Silone, Italian author (Fontamara, Pane e vino), dies at 78 |
1979-03-26 |
Jean Stafford, US author (Boston Adventure), dies at 63 |
1979-04-29 |
Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator (b. 1907) |
1979-06-07 |
Forrest Carter, American author (b. 1925) |
1979-08-26 |
Mika Waltari, Finnish author (b. 1908) |
1979-10-16 |
Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (b. 1903) |
1980-01-03 |
Joy Adamson, Czech conservationist and author (Born Free), killed by her servant at 69 |
1980-01-14 |
Robert Ardrey, American author (b. 1908) |
1980-01-16 |
Anna van Wageningen-Salomons, Dut author (Unspoilt Dream), dies at 94 |
1980-06-07 |
Henry Miller, American artist/author, dies at 88 |
1980-09-17 |
Katherine A Porter, US author (Ship of Fools, Pulit-66), dies at 90 |
1980-09-25 |
Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (b. 1883) |
1980-09-25 |
Earl Curry, American religious author (b. 1890) |
1980-10-27 |
Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician, author and broadcaster (b. 1924) |
1981-01-06 |
A[rchibald] J[oseph] Cronin, physician/author (Citadel), dies at 84 |
1981-04-01 |
D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones, sci-fi author (Colossus), dies at 65 |
1981-05-25 |
Fredric Warburg, British publisher and author (b. 1898) |
1981-08-18 |
Anita Loos, US (stage)author (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), dies at 88 |
1981-09-06 |
Christy Brown, Irish author (b. 1932) |
1981-10-17 |
Albert Cohen, Swiss author (b. 1895) |
1981-10-25 |
Ariel Durant, US author (Story of Civilization), dies at 83 |
1981-11-07 |
Will Durant, US author (story of civilization), dies at 96 |
1982-03-02 |
Philip K[indred] Dick, US Sci-fi author (Hugo-1963, Dr Futurity), dies at 53 |
1982-03-06 |
Ayn Rand, Russian-born American author-philosopher (Atlas Shrugged), dies of heart failure at 77 |
1982-03-23 |
Mario Praz, Italian author (Casa della vita), dies at 85 |
1982-04-30 |
Lester Bangs, American music journalist, author, and musician (b. 1949) |
1982-06-18 |
John Cheever, Pulitzer prize winning author, dies at 70 in Ossining |
1982-08-08 |
Hermine Heijermans, author (Snikken en Smartlapjes), dies at 80 |
1982-11-22 |
Burton Turkus, lawyer/author/TV host (Mr Arsenic), dies at 80 |
1983-01-30 |
[Dallas] Mack/McCord Reynolds, sci-fi author (Earth War), dies at 65 |
1983-04-15 |
Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (b. 1892) |
1983-05-11 |
Zenna [Chlarson] Henderson, author (Anything Box), dies at 65 |
1983-07-13 |
Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author (b. 1909) |
1983-08-15 |
Benjamin V Cohen, US author of New Deal-legislation, dies at 88 |
1983-09-09 |
Reuben Singer, Author! Author! |
1983-10-14 |
Willard Price, Canadian author and naturalist |
1983-10-20 |
Yves Thériault, French Canadian author (b. 1915) |
1983-12-13 |
Mary Renault [Challans], British author (Funeral games), dies at 78 |
1984-06-06 |
A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, author (Empress of Outer Space), dies at 72 |
1984-08-08 |
Ellen Raskin, American author(b.1928) |
1984-08-25 |
Truman Capote, American author (In Cold Blood), dies of liver cancer at 59 |
1984-10-26 |
Laurie Langenbach, author, dies at 37 |
1984-11-01 |
Norman Krasna, author (Dear Ruth), dies of a heart attack at 74 |
1984-11-10 |
Xavier Herbert, Australian author (b. 1901) |
1984-11-12 |
Chester Himes, American author (b. 1909) |
1984-12-23 |
Joan Lindsay, Australian author (b. 1896) |
1985-01-02 |
Moses Josiah Madiba, South African author and first African chancellor of the University of the North, dies at 76 |
1985-01-21 |
James Beard, American chef and author (b. 1903) |
1985-02-19 |
Elizabeth Julesberg, author (Dick & Jane), dies |
1985-08-05 |
Theodore Sturgeon, sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar), dies at 67 |
1985-08-30 |
Taylor Caldwell, English-born author (b. 1900) |
1985-09-19 |
Italo Calvino, sci-fi author (T-Zero, Mr Palomar), dies at 61 |
1985-10-01 |
E. B. White, US author (New Yorker, Charlotte's Web), dies at 86 |
1985-12-14 |
Stanley G[rauman] Weinbaum, US, sci-fi author (Red Peri), dies at 85 |
1986-01-12 |
Marcel Arland, French author (L'ordre, Lumière du Soir), dies at 86 |
1986-01-16 |
Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist, author, and publisher (b. 1892) |
1986-01-24 |
L[aFayette] Ron[ald] Hubbard, author (Death Quest), dies at 74 |
1986-02-11 |
Frank [Patrick] Herbert, sci-fi author (Dune), dies at 65 |
1986-03-04 |
Elizabeth Smart, Canadian author (By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept), dies of a heart attack at 72 |
1986-04-05 |
Manly Wade Wellman, sci-fi author (Devil's Planet), dies at 82 |
1986-04-14 |
Simone de Beauvoir, French author (She Came to Stay), dies of pneumonia at 78 |
1986-06-11 |
Robert E Howard, sci-fi author (Conan the Conqueror), dies at 80 |
1986-06-14 |
Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine author (Book of Sand), dies in Geneva at 86 |
1986-06-21 |
Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer and author (b. 1923) |
1986-12-19 |
V. C. Andrews, American author (b. 1923) |
1986-12-24 |
Gardner Fox, American author (Zatanna), dies at 75 |
1987-01-04 |
Peggy Bacon, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads), dies at 91 |
1987-01-05 |
Margaret Laurence, Canadian author, dies at 60 |
1987-04-04 |
C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore, author (Judgment Night), dies at 76 |
1987-05-19 |
Alice B[radley] Sheldon, sci-fi author (Byte Beautiful), dies at 71 |
1987-05-19 |
James Tiptree, Jr, American author (b. 1915) |
1987-07-29 |
Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Bengali author (b. 1894) |
1987-09-03 |
Viktor P Nekrasov, Ukraine architect/author (Soldiers), dies at 76 |
1987-09-15 |
Bob Tadema Sporry, author, dies at 75 |
1987-09-30 |
Alfred Bester, sci-fi author (Dark Side of Earth), dies at 73 |
1987-10-18 |
Theodore Brameld, author (Use of Explosive Ideas), dies at 83 |
1987-11-24 |
Jehane Benoît, French Canadian culinary author (b. 1904) |
1987-12-17 |
Marguerite Yourcenard, author (Memoirs of Hadrien), dies at 84 |
1987-12-27 |
Rewi Alley, NZ author, pro Chinese communist, dies at 90 in Beijing |
1987-12-31 |
[Gordon] Randall [P D] Garrett, author (Lord Darcy), dies at 60 |
1988-01-27 |
Massa Makan Diabaté, Malian author (b. 1938) |
1988-02-06 |
Marghanita Laski, English author (Victorian chaise-lounge), dies |
1988-04-25 |
Clifford D[onald] Simak, sci-fi author (Hugo, Way Station), dies at 83 |
1988-05-05 |
Michael Shaara, American author (b. 1928) |
1988-07-15 |
Eleanor Estes, author (Ginger Pye, Moffats), dies at 82 |
1988-08-24 |
Max Shulman, author (Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap), dies at 69 |
1988-09-30 |
Joachim Prinz, author/Rabbi of Berlin (1926-37), dies at 86 |
1988-10-12 |
Ruth Manning-Sanders, author of children's books (b. 1895) |
1989-03-14 |
Edward Abbey (environmental author), dies after surgery at 62 |
1989-06-19 |
Isidore Feinstein Stone, author (I F Stone's Weekly), dies at 81 |
1989-07-23 |
Donald Barthelme, American author (b. 1931) |
1989-10-09 |
Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (b. 1940) |
1989-10-25 |
Mary McCarthy, author (Group), dies, at 77 |
1989-12-19 |
Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English journalist/author, dies at 87 |
1990-01-04 |
Robert F Adams, US, sci-fi author (Castaways in Time), dies at 57 |
1990-01-12 |
Laurence J Peter, author (Peter Princible), dies of a stroke at 70 |
1990-03-12 |
Wallace Breem, British author (b. 1926) |
1990-06-29 |
Irving Wallace, author (Book of Lists, Peoples Almanac), dies at 74 |
1990-11-07 |
Lawrence Durrell, Indian/English author (Alexandria Quartet, Mount Olive), dies at 78 |
1990-11-08 |
Anya Seton, US author, dies |
1990-11-14 |
K L Poll, journalist/author, dies |
1990-11-23 |
Renate Rubinstein, author/columnist (Tamar), dies |
1990-11-23 |
Roald Dahl, British short story author (Sweet Mystery of Life), dies at 74 |
1990-11-30 |
Horst Bienek, German author, dies |
1990-12-24 |
Thorbjørn Egner, Norwegian author (b. 1922) |
1991-01-01 |
Yvonne Waegemans, Flemish author (Gnome Patjoepelke), dies at 81 |
1991-02-07 |
John Steinbeck IV, American author and journalist |
1991-03-14 |
Margery Sharp, children's author (b. 1905) |
1991-05-02 |
Ronald McKie, Australian author (b. 1909) |
1991-05-03 |
Jersy Kosinski, author (Being There), dies at 57 |
1991-06-06 |
Sylvia Porter, economist/author (Money Book), dies at 77 |
1991-07-10 |
Gerome Ragal, author (Hair), dies of cancer at 48 |
1991-09-24 |
Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss), children's author, dies of cancer at 87 |
1991-11-08 |
Patrick Hamilton, author (Gaslight, Rope, Angel Street), dies at 45 |
1991-11-26 |
Francois Billetdoux, French author (Word Awake), dies in Phila |
1992-02-14 |
Jacob "Bob" de Uyl, journalist/author (Restless Travel), dies at 61 |
1992-03-27 |
Anita Colby, US model/actress/author (Pepsi Coke), dies at 77 |
1992-04-06 |
Isaac Asimov, Sci-Fi author (I Robot), dies from kidney failure at 72 |
1992-05-02 |
Lee Salk, baby doctor/author, dies of cardiac arrest at 65 |
1992-05-08 |
Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink, author (Fear on Java), dies |
1992-06-22 |
M F K Fisher, cook book author, dies of Parkinson Disease at 83 |
1992-08-15 |
Evelyn Wesler Zemel, US author (American Glass Animals), dies |
1992-08-29 |
Mary Norton, children book author (Borrowers), dies at 88 |
1992-10-07 |
Allan Bloom, author (Closing of the American Mind), dies at 62 |
1992-10-13 |
James Marshall, illustrator/author (The Stupids), dies at 50 |
1992-11-09 |
William Hillcourt, author (Boy Scout Handbook), dies at 92 |
1992-11-17 |
Audre Lorde, St Croix' feminist author (Black Unicorn), dies |
1992-12-25 |
Monica Dickens, English/US journalist/author, dies at 77 |
1993-01-11 |
Lacey Fosburgh, author (Closing Time), dies of breast cancer at 50 |
1993-01-18 |
Eleanor Hibbert, British author (b. 1906) |
1993-01-22 |
Maria Vlamynck, Flemish author, dies at 75 |
1993-02-13 |
Agatha Hagtingius-Seger, Dutch author (Sparkles Chain), dies at 91 |
1993-02-26 |
Fletcher Knebel, author (7 Days in May), commits suicide at 81 |
1993-03-24 |
John Hersey, Pulitzer prize author (Hiroshima), dies at 78 |
1993-03-28 |
Scott Cunningham, Occult author (b. 1956) |
1993-04-14 |
Jo Boer, Dutch painter/writer/author (Heir, dies at 85 |
1993-05-09 |
Freya Stark, English author (Sunday Bloody Sunday), dies at 61 |
1993-05-09 |
Penelope Gilliatt [Conner], British author |
1993-06-19 |
William Golding, author (Lord of the Flies, Nobel 1983), dies at 81 |
1993-07-10 |
Masugi Ibuse, Japanese author (Kuroi ame (Black rain)), dies at 95 |
1993-07-10 |
Ruth Krauss, author (Carrot Seed), dies at 91 |
1993-07-13 |
Edwin "Rick" Bakker, author (Rick's Report/AIDS Diary), dies at 31 |
1993-08-01 |
Lea Verschuuren-Smulders, Dut author (Kleutertje Luister), dies at 72 |
1993-09-08 |
Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, Egyptian philosopher/author/diplomat, dies at 88 |
1993-09-11 |
Erich Leinsdorf, Austria/US conductor/author (Cadenza), dies at 81 |
1993-12-04 |
Margaret Landon, US author (Anna & the King of Siam), dies at 90 |
1994-02-14 |
Christopher Lasch, author (Culture of Narcissism), dies at 61 |
1994-03-09 |
Charles Bukowski, author/poet, dies of leukemia at 73 |
1994-03-10 |
Robert Shea, author, dies of cancer |
1994-03-12 |
Sandra Paretti, German/Swiss author (Drums of Winter), dies at 59 |
1994-04-16 |
Samuel Selvon, author, dies at 70 |
1994-04-23 |
Cassidy Clinton Cremer, author (John Cremer), murdered at 30 |
1994-05-03 |
Richard Scarry, author/illustrator of children's books, dies at 74 |
1994-05-10 |
Phyllis Flowerdew, school Reading text author, dies at 81 |
1994-05-24 |
John Barrington Wain, author, dies at 69 |
1994-06-11 |
Kitty Rosalind Muggeridge, author, dies at 90 |
1994-06-26 |
A "Bob" den Doolaard, author (Inn with the horseshoe), dies at 93 |
1994-07-01 |
Johanna Ader-Appels, resistance fighter/author, dies |
1994-07-11 |
James Topping, author of CP/M, dies at 52 |
1994-07-27 |
Rosa Chacel, Spanish author, dies at 96 |
1994-08-09 |
Aartje W "Mien" van It Sant-van Bommel, author, dies at 93 |
1994-08-14 |
Elias Canetti, Bulgaria/British author (Nobel 1981), dies at 89 |
1994-08-16 |
Earnest Pawel, Polish/US author (Nightmare of Reason), dies at 74 |
1994-08-23 |
Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Machina Mondiale), dies at 70 |
1994-09-01 |
Pieter C "Piet" Author, sailor/corrector, dies at 71 |
1994-09-06 |
James Clavell, author/director (King Rat, Shogun), dies at 69 |
1994-09-07 |
James Clavell, author (Shogun, Tai-Pan), dies at 69 |
1994-09-09 |
Keith Davis, voice Tutor/Author, dies at 85 |
1994-09-17 |
Henk Figee, author/publisher (Shoes of the Sea), dies at 46 |
1994-09-24 |
Otto F Walther, Swiss publisher/author (Der Stumme), dies at 66 |
1994-09-26 |
Jessie Kesson, author, dies at 77 |
1994-09-28 |
Juliette Lady Huxley Baillot, author, dies at 96 |
1994-10-30 |
Nyanaponika, [Siegmund Feniger), German scholar/author, dies at 93 |
1994-11-02 |
David Feinberg, AIDS activist/author, dies at 37 |
1994-11-15 |
Elizabeth George Speare, American author (b. 1908) |
1994-12-03 |
Lesley Peacock, jazz photogrpaher/author, dies |
1994-12-05 |
Ronald Ridout, school textbook author, dies at 78 |
1994-12-16 |
Mary Durack, author dies at 81 |
1994-12-26 |
Johannes J "Joop" Klant, Neth/South African economist/author, dies |
1994-12-27 |
Hans Berghuis, author/poet (Kleitabletten), dies at 70 |
1994-12-27 |
Sadi de Gorter, Dutch author/diplomat (Abscess), dies at 82 |
1995-01-22 |
Christopher Francis Palmer, orchestrator/Author, dies at 48 |
1995-01-27 |
Jean Tardieu, author, dies at 91 |
1995-01-28 |
George Woodcock, author, dies at 82 |
1995-01-30 |
Gerald M Durrell, British zoologist/author (Mockery Bird), dies at 70 |
1995-02-06 |
Arthur S Taylor Jr, US drummer/author (Notes on notes), dies at 65 |
1995-02-12 |
Rachid Mimouni, Algerian author (L'Honneur de la Tribu), dies at 49 |
1995-02-23 |
James Herriot [Alfred Wight], Scottish author (All Creatures Great & Small), dies at 78 |
1995-03-06 |
Helene Weijel, author (In Two Worlds), dies at 44 |
1995-03-18 |
Frederic Ramsey Jr, folklorist/author, dies at 80 |
1995-03-21 |
Daan Wildschut, Dutch painter/author, dies at 81 |
1995-03-23 |
Irving Shulman, author/screenwriter, dies at 81 |
1995-03-23 |
Russell Reading Braddon, author, dies at 74 |
1995-04-01 |
Cheryl Waltz, author/film producer, dies at 50 |
1995-04-02 |
Harvey Penick, premier golf instructor/author, dies at 90 |
1995-04-28 |
Andrew Salkey, author editor/broadcaster, dies at 67 |
1995-07-21 |
Elleston Trevor, author, dies |
1995-10-14 |
Edith Pargeter, author (Brother Cadfael), dies of a stroke at 82 |
1995-10-22 |
Kingsley Amis, author, dies of injuries from a fall at 73 |
1995-11-01 |
Lex Hixon, religious teacher/author, dies at 53 |
1995-11-14 |
Jack Finney, author (Body Snatchers), dies of pneumonia at 84 |
1995-11-16 |
Jack Finney, author (Body Snatchers), dies at 84 |
1995-12-03 |
Robertson Davies (author), dies at 82 |
1995-12-18 |
Ross Thomas, author, dies at 69 |
1996-01-16 |
Marcia Davenport, American author and music critic (b. 1903) |
1996-03-19 |
William Hutchinson Murray, mountaineer/author, dies at 83 |
1996-04-09 |
Richard Thomas Condon, author, dies at 81 |
1996-06-15 |
Jean Gimpel, author/iconoclast, dies at 77 |
1996-07-23 |
Jessica Lucy Mitford, author, dies at 78 |
1996-10-29 |
James Leo Herlihy, author (Midnight Cowboy), commits suicide at 66 |
1996-11-26 |
Michael Bentine, Brit author/comedian (Reluctant Jester), dies at 74 |
1996-12-11 |
William George Rushton, actor (TW3)/author/cartoonist, dies at 59 |
1996-12-16 |
Quentin Bell, artist author/teacher, dies at 86 |
1996-12-21 |
Margaret E Rey, author of children's books, dies at 90 |
1996-12-29 |
William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian, dies at 85 |
1997-03-05 |
Samm Sinclair Baker, American diet author (b. 1909) |
1997-04-09 |
Helene Hanff, author (84 Charing Cross Road), dies at 80 |
1997-04-13 |
Dorothy Frooks, American author and military figure (b. 1896) |
1997-06-08 |
George Turner, Australian author (b. 1916) |
1997-06-16 |
Dal Stivens, Australian author (b. 1911) |
1997-08-02 |
William S Burroughs, author (Naked Lunch), dies at 83 |
1997-09-06 |
P. H. Newby, British author and BBC radio director (b. 1918) |
1997-10-16 |
James Mitchner, author (Hawaii), dies of kidney failure at 90 |
1998-02-07 |
Lawrence Sanders, American author (b. 1920) |
1998-02-08 |
Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist and author (b. 1932) |
1998-02-13 |
Jo Clayton, author, Cancer Died, Drums of Chaos, dies at 58 |
1998-02-18 |
Mya Than Tint, Myanmarese author, dies of brain hemorrhage at 69 |
1998-06-10 |
Hammond Innes, English author (b. 1914) |
1998-09-02 |
Allen Drury, American author (b. 1918) |
1998-12-14 |
Aloyisus Leon Higginbotham, Jr., American civil rights activist and author (b. 1928) |
1998-12-20 |
Chester P. Lyons, Canadian naturalist and author (b. 1915) |
1999-01-02 |
Sebastian Haffner, German journalist and author (b. 1907) |
1999-01-25 |
Sarah "Sadie" Delany, American author (b. 1889) |
1999-02-07 |
José Silva, author of Silva Method and the Silva UltraMind ESP System (b. 1914) |
1999-02-08 |
Iris Murdoch, Irish author (b. 1919) |
1999-06-20 |
Clifton Fadiman, American author (b. 1902) |
1999-07-02 |
Mario Puzo, American author, dies at 78 |
1999-09-09 |
Chan Parker, American author; wife of Charlie Parker and Phil Woods (b. 1925) |
1999-11-27 |
Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and author (b. 1925) |
1999-12-12 |
Joseph Heller, American author (b. 1923) |
2000-01-09 |
Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (b. 1909) |
2000-01-22 |
Anne Hébert, French Canadian author and poet (Kamouraska) (b. 1916) |
2000-01-26 |
Kathleen Hale, British author (b. 1898) |
2000-01-26 |
A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-born author (b. 1912) |
2000-02-13 |
James Cooke Brown, American author and inventor (b. 1921) |
2000-03-26 |
Alex Comfort, American author (b. 1920) |
2000-05-21 |
Barbara Cartland, English author (b. 1901) |
2000-07-22 |
Carmen Martín Gaite, Spanish author (b. 1925) |
2000-09-02 |
Curt Siodmak, German-born author (b. 1907) |
2000-10-30 |
Steve Allen, American comedian, author, and composer (b. 1921) |
2000-12-11 |
Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani politician, diplomat and author (b. 1915) |
2001-01-16 |
Auberon Waugh, British author and journalist (b. 1939) |
2001-02-07 |
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator, dies of a stroke at 94 |
2001-03-12 |
Robert Ludlum, American author (b. 1927) |
2001-05-11 |
Douglas Adams, English author (b. 1952) |
2001-06-27 |
Tove Jansson, Finnish author (b. 1914) |
2001-07-03 |
Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (b. 1931) |
2001-07-18 |
James Hatfield, American author (b. 1958) |
2001-07-23 |
Eudora Welty, American author (b. 1909) |
2001-07-24 |
Georges Dor, Canadian author, composer, singer and playwright (b. 1931) |
2001-07-31 |
Poul Anderson, American author (b. 1926) |
2001-09-11 |
Alice Stewart Trillin, American author (b. 1938) |
2001-11-10 |
Ken Kesey, American author (b. 1935) |
2001-11-25 |
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Muslim Sufi, author, spiritual leader (b. 1941) |
2001-11-28 |
William Kienzle, American author (b. 1928) |
2001-11-29 |
John Knowles, American author (b. 1926) |
2001-12-15 |
Christopher Hitchens, author and journaist (Vanity Fair, New Statesman) dies of oesophageal cancer aged 62. |
2001-12-16 |
Stefan Heym, German author (b. 1913) |
2002-01-28 |
Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author (b. 1907) |
2002-03-04 |
Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (b. 1913) |
2002-03-14 |
Cherry Wilder, New Zealand-born author (b. 1930) |
2002-04-15 |
Damon Knight, American author (b. 1922) |
2002-04-27 |
George Alec Effinger, American author (b. 1947) |
2002-07-23 |
William Luther Pierce, American author and activist (b. 1933) |
2002-09-05 |
David Todd Wilkinson, American astronomer, author of the first study of the Cosmic microwave background radiation (b. 1935) |
2002-11-02 |
Charles Sheffield, American author and physicist (b. 1935) |
2002-12-12 |
Dee Brown, American author (b. 1908) |
2002-12-24 |
Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author (b. 1920) |
2003-01-05 |
Jean Kerr, American author (b. 1923) |
2003-02-07 |
Augusto Monterroso, Guatemalan author (b. 1921) |
2003-02-13 |
Axel Jensen, Norwegian author (b. 1932) |
2003-02-20 |
Maurice Blanchot, French author (b. 1907) |
2003-03-04 |
Sébastien Japrisot, French author, screenwriter and film director (b. 1931) |
2003-03-06 |
John Sanford, American author (b. 1904) |
2003-03-11 |
Brian Cleeve, Irish author (b. 1921) |
2003-03-12 |
Howard Fast, American author (b. 1914) |
2003-04-16 |
Graham Stuart Thomas, English author and garden designer (b. 1909) |
2003-07-16 |
Carol Shields, Canadian author (b. 1935) |
2003-10-03 |
William Steig, American cartoonist and children's author (b. 1907) |
2003-11-28 |
Antonia Forest, British children's author (b. 1915) |
2003-12-02 |
Alan Davidson, British author (b. 1924) |
2004-01-04 |
Joan Aiken, English author (b. 1924) |
2004-01-10 |
Alexandra Ripley, American author (b. 1934) |
2004-04-26 |
Hubert Selby Jr., American author (b. 1928) |
2004-05-24 |
Milton Shulman, Canadian author and critic (b. 1913) |
2004-06-28 |
Anthony Buckeridge, English author (b. 1912) |
2004-07-08 |
Paula Danziger, American author (b. 1944) |
2004-09-27 |
John E. Mack, American psychiatrist and author (b. 1929) |
2004-11-09 |
Iris Chang, Asian author (b. 1968) |
2004-11-09 |
Stieg Larsson, Swedish author (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), dies of a heart attack at 50 |
2004-11-24 |
Arthur Hailey, British-born author (b. 1920) |
2004-11-30 |
Pierre Berton, Canadian author, dies of heart failure at 84 |
2005-01-04 |
Guy Davenport, American author, artist, and scholar (b. 1927) |
2005-01-04 |
Humphrey Carpenter, English author (b. 1946) |
2005-01-15 |
Elizabeth Janeway, American author (b. 1913) |
2005-01-15 |
Walter Ernsting, German author (b. 1920) |
2005-01-20 |
Miriam Louisa Rothschild, British zoologist, entomologist, and author (b. 1908) |
2005-02-11 |
Jack L. Chalker, American author (b. 1944) |
2005-02-20 |
Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (b. 1937) |
2005-03-30 |
O. V. Vijayan, Indian author and cartoonist (b. 1930) |
2005-04-26 |
Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan author (b. 1917) |
2005-06-27 |
Shelby Foote, American author and historian (b. 1917) |
2005-08-23 |
Ninjalicious, Canadian author and urban explorer (b. 1973) |
2005-09-26 |
Helen Cresswell, British author |
2005-11-13 |
Vine Deloria, Jr., Native American author, theologian, historian, and activist (b. 1933) |
2005-11-26 |
Stan Berenstain, children's author, (d. 2005) |
2005-12-04 |
Errol Brathwaite, New Zealand author (b. 1924) |
2005-12-08 |
Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and author (b. 1915) |
2005-12-09 |
Robert Sheckley, American author (b. 1928) |
2005-12-14 |
Trevanian, American author (b. 1931) |
2005-12-16 |
Kenneth Bulmer, English author (b. 1921) |
2005-12-30 |
Rona Jaffe, American author (b. 1932) |
2006-02-11 |
Peter Benchley, American author, dies at 65 |
2006-02-24 |
Octavia Butler, American author and MacArthur Foundation Fellow (b. 1947) |
2006-02-27 |
Robert Lee Scott, Jr., U.S. General, Flying Tiger, and author (b. 1908) |
2006-03-01 |
Harry Browne, American politician and author (b. 1933) |
2006-03-16 |
David Feintuch, American sci-fi author (b. 1944) |
2006-03-22 |
Kurt von Trojan, Australian science fiction author (b. 1937) |
2006-04-13 |
Muriel Spark, Scottish author, dies at 88 |
2006-05-01 |
Rob Lacey, Christian Author. (b. 1962) |
2006-05-28 |
Thorleif Schjelderup, Norwegian author and ski jumper (b. 1920) |
2006-06-11 |
Michael Bartosh, computer expert and author (b. 1977) |
2006-06-14 |
Jean Roba, Belgian comics author (b. 1930) |
2006-06-28 |
Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, English barrister, politician and author (b. 1919) |
2006-07-06 |
Tom Weir, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster (b. 1914) |
2006-07-17 |
Mickey Spillane, American author (b. 1918) |
2006-08-09 |
Philip E. High, science fiction author (b. 1914) |
2006-08-16 |
Alex Buzo, Australian playwright and author (b. 1944) |
2006-09-04 |
Colin Thiele, Australian author and educator (b. 1920) |
2006-09-08 |
Hilda Bernstein, English-born South African author, artist, and activist (b. 1915) |
2006-09-11 |
Joachim Fest, German journalist and author (b. 1926) |
2006-09-25 |
John M. Ford, American author and poet (b. 1957) |
2006-11-01 |
William Styron, American author (b. 1925) |
2006-11-03 |
Marie Rudisill, American author and "Fruitcake Lady" (b. 1911) |
2006-11-27 |
Bebe Moore Campbell, American author (b. 1950) |
2006-12-18 |
Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani author, journalist and political activist (b. 1923) |
2006-12-21 |
Ben Kapen, Theatre of the Absurd: Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author |
2007-01-11 |
Robert Anton Wilson, American author (b. 1932) |
2007-01-30 |
Sidney Sheldon, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1917) |
2007-01-31 |
Molly Ivins, American political columnist and author (b. 1944) |
2007-02-03 |
Ralph de Toledano, Moroccan-born American political columnist and author (b. 1916) |
2007-02-06 |
Lee Hoffman, American author (b. 1932) |
2007-02-11 |
Marianne Fredriksson, Swedish author (b. 1927) |
2007-04-11 |
Kurt Vonnegut Jr, American author, dies from head trauma at 84 |
2007-04-14 |
June Callwood, Canadian journalist, author and social activist (b. 1924) |
2007-04-23 |
Paul Erdman, American economist and author (b. 1932) |
2007-04-23 |
David Halberstam, American journalist, historian and author (b. 1934) |
2007-05-11 |
Bernard Gordon, blacklisted American author (b. 1918) |
2007-05-17 |
Lloyd Alexander, author (b. 1924) |
2007-05-30 |
Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and author (b. 1933) |
2007-07-11 |
Glenda Adams, Australian author (b. 1939) |
2007-08-03 |
John Gardner, British author (b. 1926) |
2007-08-30 |
Michael Jackson, British beer and whiskey author/expert. (b. 1942) |
2007-09-06 |
Madeleine L'Engle, American author (b. 1918) |
2007-09-11 |
Gene Savoy, American author and cleric (b. 1927) |
2007-09-16 |
Robert Jordan, author of the Wheel of Time series (b. 1948) |
2007-10-01 |
Ned Sherrin, English broadcaster, author and stage director (b. 1931) |
2007-11-04 |
Peter Viertel, German-American author and screenwriter (b. 1920) |
2007-11-16 |
Trond Kirkvaag, Norwegian comedian and author (b. 1946) |
2008-01-02 |
George MacDonald Fraser, British author (b. 1925) |
2008-02-09 |
Christopher Hyatt Occultist, Philosopher and Author. |
2008-02-27 |
William F. Buckley, Jr., American conservative author and commentator (b. 1925) |
2008-03-04 |
Gary Gygax, Fantasy author and role-playing games creator. (b. 1938) |
2008-03-18 |
Andrew Britton, Author (b. 1981) |
2008-03-19 |
Sir Arthur C. Clarke, English science fiction author and inventor (b. 1917) |
2008-05-22 |
Robert Asprin, American author (b. 1946) |
2008-07-04 |
Thomas M. Disch, American science fiction author (b. 1940) |
2008-08-23 |
John Russell, British-born American art critic and author |
2008-09-12 |
David Foster Wallace, American author and essayist (b. 1962) |
2008-11-04 |
Michael Crichton, American author, dies at 66 |
2008-12-31 |
Donald E. Westlake, American author (b. 1933) |
2009-01-09 |
T. Llew Jones, Welsh author (b. 1915) |
2009-01-16 |
John Mortimer, British barrister, screenwriter and author. (b. 1923) |
2009-03-13 |
James Purdy, American author, dies at 94 |
2009-07-03 |
John A. Keel, American Fortean, television scriptwriter, author of The Mothman Prophecies (b. 1930) |
2009-07-19 |
Frank McCourt, Irish-American author. (b. 1930) |
2009-07-24 |
E. Lynn Harris, American Author (b. 1955) |
2009-08-21 |
Rex Shelley, Singaporean author (b. 1930) |
2009-11-20 |
Max Robertson, British sports commentator, radio and television presenter and author (b. 1915) |
2009-11-29 |
Robert Holdstock, English author (b. 1948) |
2009-12-15 |
Oral Roberts, American television evangelist and author (b. 1918) |
2010-04-15 |
Jack Herer, American author and cannabis activist (b. 1939) |
2010-07-02 |
Beryl Bainbridge, Author (b. 1932) |
2010-11-20 |
Chalmers Johnson, American political scholar and author (b. 1931) |
2010-11-23 |
James Tyler, American musicologist and author (b. 1940) |
2010-12-24 |
Elisabeth Beresford, British author and creator of The Wombles (b. 1926) |
2011-01-04 |
Dick King-Smith English Author (b. 1922) |
2011-02-05 |
Brian Jacques, English author, author of the Redwall series (b. 1939) |
2011-05-26 |
Arisen Ahubudu, Sri Lankan scholar, author and playwright (b. 1920) |
2011-05-27 |
Gil Scott-Heron, American poet, musician and author (b. 1949) |
2011-06-04 |
Andreas P. Nielsen, Danish author and composer (b. 1953) |
2011-06-21 |
Robert Kroetsch, Canadian author (b. 1927) |
2011-11-21 |
Anne McCaffrey, sci-fi author, dies at 85 |
2011-11-25 |
Tom Wicker, American journalist and author, dies at 85 |
2011-12-13 |
Russell Hoban, American author (creator of the 'Frances' series), dies at 86 |
2012-01-07 |
Ibrahim Aslan, Egyptian author, dies from heart failure at 77 |
2012-01-12 |
Reginald Hill, British crime author, dies of brain cancer at 75 |
2012-02-10 |
Jeffrey Zaslow, American author and columnist, dies in a car accident at 53 |
2012-02-24 |
Jan Berenstain, American author dies from a stroke at 88 |
2012-03-02 |
Lawrence Anthony, South African conservationist and author, dies from heart attack at 61 |
2012-05-08 |
Maurice Sendak, American author/illustrator, dies at 83 |
2012-05-15 |
Carlos Fuentes, Mexican author, dies from a haemorrhage at 83 |
2012-06-05 |
Ray Bradbury, American author, dies at 91 |
2012-06-26 |
Nora Ephron, American author/screenwriter, dies from pneumonia at 71 |
2012-07-31 |
Gore Vidal, American author, dies from pneumonia at 86 |
2012-08-13 |
Helen Gurley Brown, American author/publisher, dies at 90 |
2012-08-15 |
Harry [Maxwell] Harrison, American author, dies at 87 |
2012-08-22 |
Nina Bawden, English author, dies at 87 |
2012-10-25 |
Jacques Barzun, French author, dies at 104 |
2012-12-04 |
Vasily Belov, Russian author, dies at 80 |
2012-12-09 |
Sir Patrick Moore, English amateur astronomer and author, dies from an infection at 89 |
2013-01-10 |
Evan Connell, American author, dies at 88 |
2013-03-25 |
Anthony Lewis, American journalist (Pulitzer Prize 195,1963) & author, dies from kidney and heart failure at 85 |
2013-05-16 |
Bernard Waber, American children's book author, dies from kidney failure at 88 |
2013-05-26 |
Jack Vance, American science fiction author, dies at 96 |
2013-06-06 |
Tom Sharpe, British satirist and author, dies from complications from diabetes at 85 |
2013-06-09 |
Iain Banks, Scottish author, dies from gallbladder cancer at 59 |
2013-06-23 |
Richard Matheson, American author and screen writer, dies at 87 |
2013-07-19 |
Mel Smith, English comedian and author, dies from a heart attack at 60 |
2013-08-20 |
Elmore Leonard, American author, dies from complications from a stroke at 87 |
2013-09-02 |
Frederik Pohl, American science fiction author, dies at 93 |
2013-10-01 |
US Author Tom Clancy 'The Hunt for Red October' dies aged 66 |
2013-10-12 |
Oscar Hijuelos, American author, dies from a heart attack at 62 |
2014-02-16 |
Michael Shea, American sci-fi author, dies at 67 |
2016-02-19 |
Umberto Eco, Author of 'The Name of the Rose,' Dead at 84 |
2016-02-19 |
Harper Lee, 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Author, Dies at 89 |
2016-02-29 |
Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging author Louise Rennison dies aged 64 |
2016-03-01 |
Angus, Thongs author, Louise Rennison, dies aged 63 |
2016-03-05 |
Prince Of Tides Author Pat Conroy Dies Aged 70 |
2016-03-15 |
Hotel Du Lac Author Anita Brookner Dies Aged 87 |
2016-03-21 |
Author Barry Hines, whose book inspired the film Kes, dies aged 76 |
2016-03-28 |
Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall, dies aged 78 |
2016-03-29 |
Marxist blogger and author Max Edwards dies of cancer aged 16 |
2016-04-11 |
Howard Marks, former drug smuggler, and author of bestselling autobiography 'Mr Nice', dies aged 70 |
2016-04-26 |
Warsaw Ghetto author Martin Gray dies aged 93 in Belgium |
2016-06-21 |
Author and former Mail deputy editor Nicholas Gordon dies aged 68 |
2016-06-25 |
Michael Herr, author of Dispatches, dies aged 76 |
2016-06-30 |
Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, dies aged 87 |
2016-07-02 |
The Concubine Author, Elechi Amadi Dies Aged 82 |
2016-07-12 |
Destiny author Sally Beauman dies aged 71 |
2016-07-13 |
Destiny author Sally Beauman dies aged 71 |
2016-07-16 |
Hungarian author Peter Esterhazy dies aged 66 |
2016-08-04 |
Publisher, author and political agitator Mel Hurtig dies at 84 |
2016-12-30 |
Richard Adams, author of Watership Down, dies aged 96 |
2017-01-03 |
John Berger, author of 'Ways of Seeing', dies aged 90 |
2017-01-04 |
John Berger, art critic and Ways of Seeing author, dies aged 90 |
2017-01-15 |
'The Exorcist' Author And Filmmaker William Blatty Dies Aged 89 |
2017-03-22 |
British author Colin Dexter, creator of Inspector Morse, dies aged 86 |
2017-03-31 |
Anarchist Cookbook author William Powell dies aged 66 |
2017-04-25 |
Robert Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance author dies aged 88 |
2017-05-02 |
Best-Selling Author Jean Stein Jumps to Her Death in New York |
2017-05-27 |
Tree of Smoke author Denis Johnson dies aged 67 |
2017-06-06 |
Poet and author Helen Dunmore dies aged 64 |
2017-09-08 |
Kate Millett, feminist activist, artist and author of Sexual Politics, dies aged 82 |
2017-09-14 |
Acclaimed author JP Donleavy dies aged 91 |
2017-11-09 |
Antonio Carluccio, celebrity chef and author, dies aged 80 |
2017-12-30 |
Best-selling mystery author Sue Grafton dies aged 77 |
2018-01-19 |
Peter Mayle, A Year in Provence author, dies in France age 78 |
2018-01-24 |
Ursula K Le Guin, best-selling fantasy author, dies aged 88 |
2018-04-11 |
Jean Marzollo, Children's Book Author, Dies at Age 75 |
2018-05-23 |
Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Philip Roth Dies at 85 |
2018-06-09 |
Anthony Bourdain, Chef, Author And TV Host Dies At 61 |
