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Author Birthdays for August

  • James St. James  59
    Novelist
    Monday, August 1st 1966
  • Madison Smartt Bell  68
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 1st 1957
  • Howard Kurtz  72
    Journalist
    Saturday, August 1st 1953
  • Jim Carroll  75
    Poet, Novelist
    Tuesday, August 1st 1950
  • Mark Alan Stamaty  78
    Children's Literature
    Friday, August 1st 1947
  • Étienne Roda-Gil  84
    Screenwriter
    Friday, August 1st 1941
  • Ram Loevy  85
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, August 1st 1940
  • Ernst Jandl  100
    Poet
    Saturday, August 1st 1925
  • Anne Hébert  109
    Novelist, Poet
    Tuesday, August 1st 1916
  • Herman Melville  206
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 1st 1819
  • Richard Henry Dana Jr.  210
    Novelist
    Tuesday, August 1st 1815
  • Luis Vélez de Guevara  446
    Playwright, Novelist
    Wednesday, August 1st 1579
  • Caleb Carr  70

    Tuesday, August 2nd 1955
  • Isabel Allende  83

    Sunday, August 2nd 1942
  • James Baldwin  101

    Saturday, August 2nd 1924
  • Aino Kallas  147

    Friday, August 2nd 1878
  • Steven Millhauser  82

    Tuesday, August 3rd 1943
  • Leon Uris  101

    Sunday, August 3rd 1924
  • P. D. James  105

    Tuesday, August 3rd 1920
  • Clifford D. Simak  121

    Wednesday, August 3rd 1904
  • Rupert Brooke  138

    Wednesday, August 3rd 1887
  • John August  55
    Screenwriter
    Tuesday, August 4th 1970
  • Dennis Lehane  60
    Novelist
    Wednesday, August 4th 1965
  • Tim Winton   65
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 4th 1960
  • Allison Hedge Coke  67
    Poet
    Monday, August 4th 1958
  • Billy Bob Thornton  70
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, August 4th 1955
  • Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi  102
    Humorist
    Saturday, August 4th 1923
  • Helen Thomas   105
    Journalist, Columnist
    Wednesday, August 4th 1920
  • Iceberg Slim  107
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 4th 1918
  • Robert Hayden  112
    Poet
    Monday, August 4th 1913
  • Witold Gombrowicz  121
    Novelist, Playwright
    Thursday, August 4th 1904
  • Knut Hamsun  166
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 4th 1859
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley  233
    Poet
    Saturday, August 4th 1792
  • François Hédelin  421
    Playwright
    Wednesday, August 4th 1604
  • Ron Silliman  79
    Poet
    Monday, August 5th 1946
  • Wendell Berry  91
    Novelist, Poet
    Sunday, August 5th 1934
  • Conrad Potter Aiken  136
    Novelist, Poet
    Monday, August 5th 1889
  • Guy de Maupassant  175
    Short Fiction
    Monday, August 5th 1850
  • Ivar Aasen  212
    Poet, Playwright
    Thursday, August 5th 1813
  • Karenna Gore Schiff  52
    Journalist
    Monday, August 6th 1973
  • Diane di Prima  91
    Poet
    Monday, August 6th 1934
  • Piers Anthony  91
    Novelist
    Monday, August 6th 1934
  • Chalmers Johnson  94
    Non-Fiction
    Thursday, August 6th 1931
  • Elisabeth Beresford  99
    Children's Literature
    Friday, August 6th 1926
  • Norman Wexler  99
    Screenwriter
    Friday, August 6th 1926
  • Constance Heaven  114
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 6th 1911
  • John Middleton Murry  136
    Novelist, Poet, Essayist
    Tuesday, August 6th 1889
  • Scott Nearing  142
    Non-Fiction
    Monday, August 6th 1883
  • Louella Parsons  144
    Columnist
    Saturday, August 6th 1881
  • Charles Fort  151
    Novelist, Non-Fiction
    Thursday, August 6th 1874
  • Paul Claudel  157
    Poet, Playwright
    Thursday, August 6th 1868
  • Thomas Alexander Browne  199
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 6th 1826
  • Alfred Lord Tennyson  216
    Poet
    Sunday, August 6th 1809
  • Luc de Clapiers  310
    Essayist
    Tuesday, August 6th 1715
  • John Birmingham  61
    Novelist
    Friday, August 7th 1964
  • Vladimir Sorokin  70
    Novelist, Playwright
    Sunday, August 7th 1955
  • Anne Fadiman  72
    Novelist
    Friday, August 7th 1953
  • Marty Appel  77
    Biographer
    Saturday, August 7th 1948
  • Garrison Keillor  83
    Humorist
    Friday, August 7th 1942
  • Charles E. Rice  94
    Non-Fiction
    Friday, August 7th 1931
  • Romeo Muller  97
    Screenwriter
    Tuesday, August 7th 1928
  • Sue Kaufman  99
    Novelist
    Saturday, August 7th 1926
  • Georg Stiernhielm  427
    Poet
    Friday, August 7th 1598
  • Alonso de Ercilla  492
    Poet
    Monday, August 7th 1533
  • Jostein Gaarder  73

    Friday, August 8th 1952
  • Randy Shilts  74

    Wednesday, August 8th 1951
  • Terry Nation  95

    Friday, August 8th 1930
  • Nina Berberova  124

    Thursday, August 8th 1901
  • Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings  129

    Saturday, August 8th 1896
  • Sara Teasdale  141

    Friday, August 8th 1884
  • Emilie Flygare-Carlén  218

    Saturday, August 8th 1807
  • Jonathan Kellerman  76

    Tuesday, August 9th 1949
  • Graeme C. Gibson  91

    Thursday, August 9th 1934
  • Tetsuko Kuroyanagi  92

    Wednesday, August 9th 1933
  • Daniel Keyes  98

    Tuesday, August 9th 1927
  • Frank M. Robinson  99

    Monday, August 9th 1926
  • Philip Larkin  103

    Wednesday, August 9th 1922
  • Tove Jansson  111

    Sunday, August 9th 1914
  • P. L. Travers  126

    Wednesday, August 9th 1899
  • Leonid Andreyev  154

    Wednesday, August 9th 1871
  • John Dryden  394

    Saturday, August 9th 1631
  • Mark Doty  72

    Monday, August 10th 1953
  • Barry Unsworth  95

    Sunday, August 10th 1930
  • Jorge Amado  113

    Saturday, August 10th 1912
  • Ward Moore  122

    Monday, August 10th 1903
  • Curt Siodmak  123

    Sunday, August 10th 1902
  • Panait Istrati  141

    Sunday, August 10th 1884
  • Alfred Döblin  147

    Saturday, August 10th 1878
  • David Brooks  64
    Journalist
    Friday, August 11th 1961
  • Tom Miller  78
    Travel Writer
    Monday, August 11th 1947
  • Marilyn vos Savant  79
    Columnist
    Sunday, August 11th 1946
  • Andre Dubus  89
    Short Fiction
    Tuesday, August 11th 1936
  • Fernando Arrabal  93
    Playwright, Screenwriter
    Thursday, August 11th 1932
  • Alex Haley  104
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 11th 1921
  • Angus Wilson  112
    Novelist
    Monday, August 11th 1913
  • Louise Bogan  128
    Poet
    Wednesday, August 11th 1897
  • Enid Blyton  128
    Children's Literature
    Wednesday, August 11th 1897
  • Eiji Yoshikawa  133
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 11th 1892
  • Hugh MacDiarmid  133
    Poet
    Thursday, August 11th 1892
  • Oliver W. F. Lodge  147
    Poet
    Sunday, August 11th 1878
  • Anthony Swofford  55
    Novelist
    Wednesday, August 12th 1970
  • Ann M. Martin  70
    Children's Literature
    Friday, August 12th 1955
  • Jim Beaver  75
    Playwright, Screenwriter
    Saturday, August 12th 1950
  • Réjean Ducharme  84
    Novelist, Playwright
    Tuesday, August 12th 1941
  • Walter Dean Myers  88
    Children's Literature
    Thursday, August 12th 1937
  • William Goldman  94
    Novelist, Playwright,Screenwriter
    Wednesday, August 12th 1931
  • Wallace Markfield  99
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 12th 1926
  • Zerna Sharp  136
    Children's Literature
    Monday, August 12th 1889
  • Keith Murdoch  140
    Journalist
    Wednesday, August 12th 1885
  • Radclyffe Hall  145
    Poet, Novelist
    Thursday, August 12th 1880
  • Mary Roberts Rinehart  149
    Novelist
    Saturday, August 12th 1876
  • Jacinto Benavente  159
    Playwright
    Sunday, August 12th 1866
  • Katharine Lee Bates  166
    Poet, Children's Literature
    Friday, August 12th 1859
  • Robert Southey  251
    Poet
    Friday, August 12th 1774
  • Piper Reese  25
    Journalist
    Sunday, August 13th 2000
  • Will Clarke  55
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 13th 1970
  • Amélie Nothomb  58
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 13th 1967
  • Sean Hood  59
    Screenwriter
    Saturday, August 13th 1966
  • Tom Perrotta  64
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 13th 1961
  • Goldwin Smith  202
    Journalist
    Wednesday, August 13th 1823
  • Vladimir Odoevsky  222
    Short Fiction, Children's Literature
    Saturday, August 13th 1803
  • William Wotton  359
    Non-Fiction
    Friday, August 13th 1666
  • Brannon Braga  60
    Screenwriter
    Saturday, August 14th 1965
  • Danielle Steel  78
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 14th 1947
  • Lee Hoffman  93
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 14th 1932
  • Alice Adams  99
    Novelist
    Saturday, August 14th 1926
  • René Goscinny  99
    Comic Book Writer
    Saturday, August 14th 1926
  • Russell Baker  100
    Journalist, Essayist
    Friday, August 14th 1925
  • B. A. Santamaria  110
    Journalist
    Saturday, August 14th 1915
  • Alice Rivaz  124
    Novelist
    Wednesday, August 14th 1901
  • John Galsworthy  158
    Novelist, Playwright
    Wednesday, August 14th 1867
  • Ernest Thayer  162
    Poet
    Friday, August 14th 1863
  • Robert Hayman  450
    Poet
    Thursday, August 14th 1575
  • Rob Thomas  60
    Novelist, Screenwriter
    Sunday, August 15th 1965
  • Simon Baron-Cohen  67
    Non-Fiction
    Friday, August 15th 1958
  • Victor Shenderovich  67
    Playwright, Screenwriter
    Friday, August 15th 1958
  • Stieg Larsson  71
    Novelist, Journalist
    Sunday, August 15th 1954
  • Mary Jo Salter  71
    Poet
    Sunday, August 15th 1954
  • Garry Disher  76
    Novelist, Children's Literature
    Monday, August 15th 1949
  • Linda Ellerbee  81
    Journalist
    Tuesday, August 15th 1944
  • Janusz Zajdel  87
    Novelist
    Monday, August 15th 1938
  • Sami Michael  99
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 15th 1926
  • Robert Bolt  101
    Playwright, Screenwriter
    Friday, August 15th 1924
  • Benedict Kiely  106
    Novelist
    Friday, August 15th 1919
  • Aleks Çaçi  109
    Essayist
    Tuesday, August 15th 1916
  • Jan Brzechwa  127
    Poet, Children's Literature
    Monday, August 15th 1898
  • Edna Ferber  140
    Novelist
    Saturday, August 15th 1885
  • Sri Aurobindo  153
    Poet
    Thursday, August 15th 1872
  • E. Nesbit  167
    Poet, Children's Literature
    Sunday, August 15th 1858
  • Thomas-Alfred Bernier  181
    Journalist
    Thursday, August 15th 1844
  • Thomas de Quincey  240
    Novelist
    Monday, August 15th 1785
  • Sir Walter Scott  254
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 15th 1771
  • Matthias Claudius  285
    Poet
    Monday, August 15th 1740
  • Luigi Pulci  593
    Poet
    Wednesday, August 15th 1432
  • Diana Wynne Jones  91
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 16th 1934
  • Charles Bukowski  105
    Poet, Novelist
    Monday, August 16th 1920
  • William Keepers Maxwell, Jr.  117
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 16th 1908
  • Georgette Heyer  123
    Novelist
    Saturday, August 16th 1902
  • Albert Cohen  130
    Novelist
    Friday, August 16th 1895
  • Nicola Kraus  51

    Saturday, August 17th 1974
  • Jonathan Franzen  66

    Monday, August 17th 1959
  • Eric Schlosser  66

    Monday, August 17th 1959
  • Alexander Theroux  86

    Thursday, August 17th 1939
  • V. S. Naipaul  93

    Wednesday, August 17th 1932
  • Ted Hughes  95

    Sunday, August 17th 1930
  • John Hawkes  100

    Monday, August 17th 1925
  • Evan Connell  101

    Sunday, August 17th 1924
  • Gene Stratton-Porter  162

    Monday, August 17th 1863
  • Brian Aldiss  100

    Tuesday, August 18th 1925
  • Alain Robbe-Grillet  103

    Friday, August 18th 1922
  • Nettie Palmer  140
    Poet
    Tuesday, August 18th 1885
  • Jami  611

    Thursday, August 18th 1414
  • Jonathan Coe  64

    Saturday, August 19th 1961
  • Bodil Malmsten  81

    Saturday, August 19th 1944
  • Frank McCourt  95

    Tuesday, August 19th 1930
  • Quentin Bell  115

    Friday, August 19th 1910
  • James Gould Cozzens  122

    Wednesday, August 19th 1903
  • Ogden Nash  123

    Tuesday, August 19th 1902
  • Samuel Richardson  336

    Friday, August 19th 1689
  • Íñigo López de Mendoza  627

    Sunday, August 19th 1398
  • Marcus Mastin  50

    Wednesday, August 20th 1975
  • Greg Egan  64

    Sunday, August 20th 1961
  • Greg Bear  74

    Monday, August 20th 1951
  • Vasily Aksyonov  93

    Saturday, August 20th 1932
  • Jacqueline Susann  104

    Saturday, August 20th 1921
  • William Lindsay Gresham  116

    Friday, August 20th 1909
  • Vilhelm Moberg  127

    Saturday, August 20th 1898
  • Tarjei Vesaas  128

    Friday, August 20th 1897
  • H. P. Lovecraft  135

    Wednesday, August 20th 1890
  • Edgar Guest  144

    Saturday, August 20th 1881
  • Boleslaw Prus  178

    Friday, August 20th 1847
  • Ivan Stang  72

    Friday, August 21st 1953
  • Robert Stone  88

    Saturday, August 21st 1937
  • Christopher Robin Milne  105

    Saturday, August 21st 1920
  • M. M. Kaye  117

    Friday, August 21st 1908
  • Aubrey Beardsley  153

    Wednesday, August 21st 1872
  • Emilio Salgari  163

    Thursday, August 21st 1862
  • Diane Setterfield  61

    Saturday, August 22nd 1964
  • Diane Setterfield  61

    Saturday, August 22nd 1964
  • Will Shetterly  70

    Monday, August 22nd 1955
  • Þórarinn Eldjárn  76

    Monday, August 22nd 1949
  • E. Annie Proulx  90

    Thursday, August 22nd 1935
  • James Kirkwood, Jr.  101

    Friday, August 22nd 1924
  • Ray Bradbury  105
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 22nd 1920
  • Dorothy Parker  132

    Tuesday, August 22nd 1893
  • James Kirke Paulding  247

    Saturday, August 22nd 1778
  • Georges de Scudéry  424

    Wednesday, August 22nd 1601
  • Nelson DeMille  82

    Monday, August 23rd 1943
  • Lewis Nordan  86
    Novelist
    Wednesday, August 23rd 1939
  • Will Cuppy  141

    Saturday, August 23rd 1884
  • Alexander Grin  145

    Monday, August 23rd 1880
  • Edgar Lee Masters  156

    Monday, August 23rd 1869
  • John Green  48

    Wednesday, August 24th 1977
  • Chris Offutt  67

    Sunday, August 24th 1958
  • Oscar Hijuelos  74

    Friday, August 24th 1951
  • Orson Scott Card  74

    Friday, August 24th 1951
  • Paulo Coelho  78

    Sunday, August 24th 1947
  • Howard Jacobson  83

    Monday, August 24th 1942
  • A. S. Byatt  89

    Monday, August 24th 1936
  • David Ireland  98

    Wednesday, August 24th 1927
  • James Tiptree, Jr.  110

    Tuesday, August 24th 1915
  • Jorge Luis Borges  126

    Thursday, August 24th 1899
  • Jean Rhys  135

    Sunday, August 24th 1890
  • Earl Derr Biggers  141

    Sunday, August 24th 1884
  • Max Beerbohm  153

    Saturday, August 24th 1872
  • Tim Burton  67
    Screenwriter
    Monday, August 25th 1958
  • Martin Amis  76

    Thursday, August 25th 1949
  • Charles Ghigna - "Father Goose"  79

    Sunday, August 25th 1946
  • Frederick Forsyth  87

    Thursday, August 25th 1938
  • Thea Astley  100

    Tuesday, August 25th 1925
  • Brian Moore  104

    Thursday, August 25th 1921
  • Bret Harte  189

    Thursday, August 25th 1836
  • Naïm Kattan  97

    Sunday, August 26th 1928
  • Julio Cortazar  111

    Wednesday, August 26th 1914
  • Christopher Isherwood  121

    Friday, August 26th 1904
  • Jules Romains  140

    Wednesday, August 26th 1885
  • Guillaume Apollinaire  145

    Thursday, August 26th 1880
  • John Buchan  150

    Thursday, August 26th 1875
  • Zona Gale  151

    Wednesday, August 26th 1874
  • Jeanette Winterson  66

    Thursday, August 27th 1959
  • Tom Lanoye  67

    Wednesday, August 27th 1958
  • Antonia Fraser  93

    Saturday, August 27th 1932
  • Ira Levin  96

    Tuesday, August 27th 1929
  • Norah Lofts  121

    Saturday, August 27th 1904
  • C. S. Forester  126

    Sunday, August 27th 1899
  • Lloyd C. Douglas  148

    Monday, August 27th 1877
  • Theodore Dreiser  154

    Sunday, August 27th 1871
  • Ivan Franko  169
    Poet
    Wednesday, August 27th 1856
  • Rita Dove  73
    Poet
    Thursday, August 28th 1952
  • Janet Frame  101
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 28th 1924
  • Fernando Fernán Gómez  104
    Novelist, Playwright
    Sunday, August 28th 1921
  • Jack Kirby  108
    Comic Book Writer
    Tuesday, August 28th 1917
  • Jack Vance  109
    Novelist
    Monday, August 28th 1916
  • Robertson Davies  112
    Novelist, Playwright
    Thursday, August 28th 1913
  • Boris Pahor  112
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 28th 1913
  • John Betjeman  119
    Poet
    Tuesday, August 28th 1906
  • Andrei Platonov  126
    Novelist
    Monday, August 28th 1899
  • Vance Palmer  140
    Novelist
    Friday, August 28th 1885
  • Sheridan Le Fanu  211
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 28th 1814
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  276
    Poet, Novelist
    Thursday, August 28th 1749
  • Michael P. Kube-McDowell  71
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 29th 1954
  • Karen Hesse  73
    Children's Literature
    Friday, August 29th 1952
  • Temple Grandin  78
    Non-Fiction, Essayist
    Friday, August 29th 1947
  • Lise Payette  94
    Columnist
    Saturday, August 29th 1931
  • Thom Gunn  96
    Poet
    Thursday, August 29th 1929
  • Luther Davis  109
    Playwright, Screenwriter
    Tuesday, August 29th 1916
  • Maurice Maeterlinck  163
    Poet, Playwright, Essayist
    Friday, August 29th 1862
  • Edward Carpenter  181
    Poet
    Thursday, August 29th 1844
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.  216
    Poet
    Tuesday, August 29th 1809
  • Anna Politkovskaya  67
    Journalist
    Saturday, August 30th 1958
  • Molly Ivins  81
    Columnist
    Wednesday, August 30th 1944
  • R. Crumb  82
    Comicbook Writer
    Monday, August 30th 1943
  • Laurent de Brunhoff  100
    Children's Literature
    Sunday, August 30th 1925
  • Charmian Clift  102
    Essayist
    Thursday, August 30th 1923
  • John Gunther  124
    Journalist
    Friday, August 30th 1901
  • Marcelo H. del Pilar  175
    Journalist
    Friday, August 30th 1850
  • Agoston Haraszthy  213
    Non-Fiction
    Sunday, August 30th 1812
  • Mary Shelly  228
    Novelist
    Wednesday, August 30th 1797
  • Joseph Dennie  257
    Journalist, Essayist
    Tuesday, August 30th 1768
  • Raymond P. Hammond  61
    Poet
    Monday, August 31st 1964
  • Julie Brown  67
    Screenwriter
    Sunday, August 31st 1958
  • Gary Webb  70
    Journalist
    Wednesday, August 31st 1955
  • György Károly  72
    Poet
    Monday, August 31st 1953
  • Lowell Ganz  77
    Screenwriter
    Tuesday, August 31st 1948
  • Jerome Corsi  79
    Non-Fiction
    Saturday, August 31st 1946
  • Martin Bell  87
    Journalist
    Wednesday, August 31st 1938
  • Amrita Pritam  106
    Poet, Novelist
    Sunday, August 31st 1919
  • Daniel Schorr  109
    Journalist
    Thursday, August 31st 1916
  • Edward Brongersma  114
    Journalist
    Thursday, August 31st 1911
  • Ferenc Fejtő  116
    Journalist
    Tuesday, August 31st 1909
  • William Saroyan  117
    Novelist, Playwright
    Monday, August 31st 1908
  • William Shawn  118
    Journalist, Editor
    Saturday, August 31st 1907
  • Félix-Antoine Savard  129
    Poet, Novelist
    Monday, August 31st 1896
  • Albert Facey  131
    Memoirist
    Friday, August 31st 1894
  • DuBose Heyward  140
    Novelist
    Monday, August 31st 1885
  • Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin  183
    Journalist
    Wednesday, August 31st 1842
  • Théophile Gautier  214
    Poet, Novelist
    Saturday, August 31st 1811

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    2 thoughts on “Author Birthdays for August”

    1. Linda DeLia

      Your work is fabulous! My friend and I are creating a Booklovers’ Calendar for 2012, and I’m using your sites for a last check for some of the dates for which we didn’t have our own authors (I was an English professor, though we are including popular authors as well as more classical ones.) Great sites!

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