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Author Birthdays for June

  • Khawar Rizvi  87
    Poet
    Wednesday, June 1st 1938
  • Colleen McCullough  88
    Novelist
    Tuesday, June 1st 1937
  • Bill Deedes  112
    Journalist
    Sunday, June 1st 1913
  • John Van Druten  124
    Playwright
    Saturday, June 1st 1901
  • Charles Kay Ogden  136
    Non-Fiction
    Saturday, June 1st 1889
  • John Masefield  147
    Poet, Children's Literature
    Saturday, June 1st 1878
  • Ferdinand Raimund  235
    Playwright
    Tuesday, June 1st 1790
  • Dante Alighieri  760
    Poet
    Monday, June 1st 1265
  • Carol Shields  90

    Sunday, June 2nd 1935
  • Lester del Rey  110

    Wednesday, June 2nd 1915
  • Barbara Rym  112

    Monday, June 2nd 1913
  • Karl Adolph Gjellerup  168
    Poet, Novelist
    Tuesday, June 2nd 1857
  • Thomas Hardy  185

    Tuesday, June 2nd 1840
  • Marquis de Sade  285

    Thursday, June 2nd 1740
  • Larry McMurtry  89

    Wednesday, June 3rd 1936
  • Marion Zimmer Bradley  95

    Tuesday, June 3rd 1930
  • Allen Ginsberg  99

    Thursday, June 3rd 1926
  • Buddy Wakefield  51
    Poet
    Tuesday, June 4th 1974
  • Joe Hill  53
    Novelist
    Sunday, June 4th 1972
  • John Hockenberry  69
    Journalist
    Monday, June 4th 1956
  • Val McDermid  70
    Novelist
    Saturday, June 4th 1955
  • Wendy Pini  74
    Comic Book Writer
    Monday, June 4th 1951
  • Kenneth G. Ross  84
    Playwright, Screenwriter
    Wednesday, June 4th 1941
  • Robert Fulghum  88
    Essayist, Novelist
    Friday, June 4th 1937
  • Maurice Shadbolt  93
    Novelist
    Saturday, June 4th 1932
  • Ruth Westheimer  97
    Non-Fiction
    Monday, June 4th 1928
  • Elizabeth Jolley  102
    Novelist
    Monday, June 4th 1923
  • Jacques Roumain  118
    Novelist, Poet
    Tuesday, June 4th 1907
  • Patience Strong  118
    Poet
    Tuesday, June 4th 1907
  • Mabel Lucie Attwell  146
    Children's Literature
    Wednesday, June 4th 1879
  • Apollon Maykov  204
    Poet
    Monday, June 4th 1821
  • Ken Follett  76

    Sunday, June 5th 1949
  • Margaret Drabble  86

    Monday, June 5th 1939
  • Alfred Kazin  110

    Saturday, June 5th 1915
  • Federico Garcia Lorca  127

    Sunday, June 5th 1898
  • Geraldine McCaughrean  74
    Novelist
    Wednesday, June 6th 1951
  • Stephen Dixon  89

    Saturday, June 6th 1936
  • Harry Crews  90

    Thursday, June 6th 1935
  • Maxine Kumine  100

    Saturday, June 6th 1925
  • Thomas Mann  150

    Sunday, June 6th 1875
  • Alexander Pushkin  226

    Thursday, June 6th 1799
  • Louise Erdrich  71

    Monday, June 7th 1954
  • Orhan Pamuk  73

    Saturday, June 7th 1952
  • Elizabeth Bowen  126

    Wednesday, June 7th 1899
  • Sara Paretsky  78

    Sunday, June 8th 1947
  • John W. Campbell  115

    Wednesday, June 8th 1910
  • David Koepp  62
    Screenwriter
    Sunday, June 9th 1963
  • Aaron Sorkin  64
    Playwright, Screenwriter
    Friday, June 9th 1961
  • Patricia Cornwell  69
    Novelist
    Saturday, June 9th 1956
  • Gregory Maguire  71
    Novelist
    Wednesday, June 9th 1954
  • James Kelman  79
    Novelist
    Sunday, June 9th 1946
  • Deyda Hydara  79
    Journalist
    Sunday, June 9th 1946
  • Joe Haldeman  82
    Novelist
    Wednesday, June 9th 1943
  • Charles Webb  86
    Novelist
    Friday, June 9th 1939
  • Keith Laumer  100
    Novelist
    Tuesday, June 9th 1925
  • George Axelrod  103
    Playwright, Screenwriter
    Friday, June 9th 1922
  • John Gillespie Magee, Jr.  103
    Poet
    Friday, June 9th 1922
  • Jurij Brězan  109
    Novelist
    Friday, June 9th 1916
  • Bertha von Suttner  182
    Novelist
    Friday, June 9th 1843
  • Maurice Sendak  97
    Children's Literature
    Sunday, June 10th 1928
  • Saul Bellow  110

    Thursday, June 10th 1915
  • Athol Fugard  93

    Saturday, June 11th 1932
  • William Styron  100

    Thursday, June 11th 1925
  • Sonia Manzano  75

    Monday, June 12th 1950
  • Brigid Brophy  96

    Wednesday, June 12th 1929
  • Anne Frank  96
    Diarist
    Wednesday, June 12th 1929
  • Djuna Barnes  133
    Novelist
    Sunday, June 12th 1892
  • Audrey Niffenegger  62

    Thursday, June 13th 1963
  • Maurice G. Dantec  66

    Saturday, June 13th 1959
  • Whitley Strieber  80

    Wednesday, June 13th 1945
  • Dorothy L. Sayers  132

    Tuesday, June 13th 1893
  • William Butler Yeats  160

    Tuesday, June 13th 1865
  • John Edgar Wideman  84

    Saturday, June 14th 1941
  • Jerzy Kosinski  92

    Wednesday, June 14th 1933
  • Yasunari Kawabata  126

    Wednesday, June 14th 1899
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe  214

    Friday, June 14th 1811
  • Chris Morris  63
    Satirist, Screenwriter
    Friday, June 15th 1962
  • Ana Castillo  72

    Monday, June 15th 1953
  • Amy Clampitt  105

    Tuesday, June 15th 1920
  • Joyce Carol Oates  87

    Thursday, June 16th 1938
  • Ron Padgett  83

    Wednesday, June 17th 1942
  • John Hersey  111

    Wednesday, June 17th 1914
  • Richard Powers  68

    Tuesday, June 18th 1957
  • Amy Bloom  72

    Thursday, June 18th 1953
  • Chris Van Allsburg  76

    Saturday, June 18th 1949
  • Gail Godwin  88

    Friday, June 18th 1937
  • Salman Rushdie  78

    Thursday, June 19th 1947
  • Tobias Wolff  80

    Tuesday, June 19th 1945
  • E. Lynn Harris  70

    Monday, June 20th 1955
  • Vikram Seth  73

    Friday, June 20th 1952
  • Lillian Hellman  120

    Tuesday, June 20th 1905
  • Ian McEwan  77

    Monday, June 21st 1948
  • Francoise Sagan  90

    Friday, June 21st 1935
  • Mary McCarthy  113

    Friday, June 21st 1912
  • Jean-Paul Sartre  120

    Wednesday, June 21st 1905
  • Dan Brown  61

    Monday, June 22nd 1964
  • Joanna Scott  65

    Wednesday, June 22nd 1960
  • Octavia Butler  78

    Sunday, June 22nd 1947
  • Erich Maria Remarque  127

    Wednesday, June 22nd 1898
  • Julian Hawthorne  179

    Monday, June 22nd 1846
  • David Leavitt  64

    Friday, June 23rd 1961
  • Alexandru Odobescu  191

    Monday, June 23rd 1834
  • Lawrence Block  87

    Friday, June 24th 1938
  • Anita Desai  88

    Thursday, June 24th 1937
  • Ambrose Bierce  183

    Friday, June 24th 1842
  • Rebecca Harding Davis  194

    Friday, June 24th 1831
  • Nicholas Mosley  102

    Monday, June 25th 1923
  • George Orwell  122
    Novelist
    Thursday, June 25th 1903
  • Moses Hadas  125
    Literary Translator
    Monday, June 25th 1900
  • Robert Erskine Childers  155

    Saturday, June 25th 1870
  • Pearl S. Buck  133
    Novelist
    Sunday, June 26th 1892
  • J. J. Abrams  59
    Screenwriter
    Monday, June 27th 1966
  • Dan Jurgens  66
    Comic Book Writer
    Saturday, June 27th 1959
  • Anita Diamant  74
    Novelist
    Wednesday, June 27th 1951
  • James P. Hogan  84
    Novelist
    Friday, June 27th 1941
  • Ivan Doig  86
    Novelist
    Tuesday, June 27th 1939
  • Kirkpatrick Sale  88
    Non-Fiction
    Sunday, June 27th 1937
  • Lucille Clifton  89
    Poet, Children's Literature
    Saturday, June 27th 1936
  • Frank O'Hara  99
    Poet
    Sunday, June 27th 1926
  • Robert Aickman  111
    Novelist
    Saturday, June 27th 1914
  • João Guimarães Rosa  117
    Novelist
    Saturday, June 27th 1908
  • Catherine Cookson  119
    Novelist
    Wednesday, June 27th 1906
  • Lafcadio Hearn  175
    Journalist, Novelist
    Thursday, June 27th 1850
  • Louise von François  208
    Novelist
    Friday, June 27th 1817
  • Mark Helprin  78
    novelist, journalist
    Saturday, June 28th 1947
  • Eric Ambler  116
    Novelist
    Monday, June 28th 1909
  • Floyd Dell  138
    novelist, playwright, poet
    Tuesday, June 28th 1887
  • Luigi Pirandello  158
    playwright, novelist, poet
    Friday, June 28th 1867
  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery  125
    novelist, poet, journalist
    Friday, June 29th 1900
  • Czeslaw Milosz  114

    Friday, June 30th 1911
  • William Hamilton Maxwell  233
    Novelist
    Saturday, June 30th 1792
  • John Gay  340

    Saturday, June 30th 1685

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    1. Jessica Maciag

      Thank you for compiling such an extraordinarily comprehensive site. I work at a library and I only wished I’d found you before. Thanks again!

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