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Author Birthdays for May

  • Wes Anderson  56
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, May 1st 1969
  • Yasmina Reza  66
    Novelist, Playwright
    Friday, May 1st 1959
  • Joel Rosenberg  71
    Novelist
    Saturday, May 1st 1954
  • Sergio Infante  78
    Poet
    Thursday, May 1st 1947
  • Bobbie Ann Mason  85
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 1st 1940
  • Jacques Languirand  94
    Playwright, Essayist, Novelist
    Friday, May 1st 1931
  • Terry Southern  101
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, May 1st 1924
  • Joseph Heller  102
    Novelist
    Tuesday, May 1st 1923
  • Vladimir Colin  104
    Novelist
    Sunday, May 1st 1921
  • Wilfred Watson  114
    Poet, Playwright
    Monday, May 1st 1911
  • Yiannis Ritsos  116
    Poet
    Saturday, May 1st 1909
  • Giovannino Guareschi  117
    Journalist
    Friday, May 1st 1908
  • Sterling Allen Brown  124
    Poet
    Wednesday, May 1st 1901
  • Antal Szerb  124
    Non-Fiction
    Wednesday, May 1st 1901
  • Clément Pansaers  140
    Poet
    Friday, May 1st 1885
  • Harry Leon Wilson  158
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 1st 1867
  • Marcel Prévost  163
    Novelist, Playwright
    Thursday, May 1st 1862
  • Laza Lazarević  174
    Short Fiction, Non-Fiction
    Thursday, May 1st 1851
  • Henry Demarest Lloyd  178
    Journalist
    Saturday, May 1st 1847
  • Guido Gezelle  195
    Poet
    Saturday, May 1st 1830
  • José de Alencar  196
    Novelist, Playwright
    Friday, May 1st 1829
  • James Clarence Mangan  222
    Poet
    Sunday, May 1st 1803
  • Joseph Addison  353
    Essayist, Poet, Playwright
    Sunday, May 1st 1672
  • Jean de Joinville  801
    Biographer
    Wednesday, May 1st 1224
  • Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck  52
    Screenwriter
    Wednesday, May 2nd 1973
  • Maury Allen  93
    Journalist, Columnist
    Monday, May 2nd 1932
  • Jamal Abro  101
    Short Fiction
    Friday, May 2nd 1924
  • A. M. Rosenthal  103
    Columnist
    Tuesday, May 2nd 1922
  • Dr. Spock  122
    Non-Fiction
    Saturday, May 2nd 1903
  • E. E. Smith  135
    Novelist
    Friday, May 2nd 1890
  • Gottfried Benn  139
    Novelist, Poet, Essayist
    Sunday, May 2nd 1886
  • Hedda Hopper  140
    Columnist
    Saturday, May 2nd 1885
  • Jurgis Baltrušaitis  152
    Poet
    Friday, May 2nd 1873
  • Clyde Fitch  160
    Playwright
    Tuesday, May 2nd 1865
  • Theodor Herzl  165
    Journalist
    Wednesday, May 2nd 1860
  • Jerome K. Jerome  166
    Novelist
    Monday, May 2nd 1859
  • Novalis  253
    Novelist, Poet
    Saturday, May 2nd 1772
  • William Inge  112

    Saturday, May 3rd 1913
  • Norman Corwin  115

    Tuesday, May 3rd 1910
  • Niccolo Machiavelli  556

    Monday, May 3rd 1469
  • David Guterson  69

    Friday, May 4th 1956
  • Graham Swift  76

    Wednesday, May 4th 1949
  • Josh Weinstein  59
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, May 5th 1966
  • Scott Westerfeld  62
    Novelist
    Sunday, May 5th 1963
  • Michael Palin  82
    Screenwriter, Children's Literature
    Wednesday, May 5th 1943
  • Ignacio Ramonet  82
    Journalist
    Wednesday, May 5th 1943
  • Ervin Lázár  89
    Children's Literature
    Tuesday, May 5th 1936
  • Bernard Pivot  90
    Journalist
    Sunday, May 5th 1935
  • Douglas Marland  91
    Screenwriter
    Saturday, May 5th 1934
  • Greg  94
    Comic Book Writer
    Tuesday, May 5th 1931
  • Miklós Radnóti  116
    Poet
    Wednesday, May 5th 1909
  • Charles Exbrayat  119
    Novelist
    Saturday, May 5th 1906
  • James Beard  122
    Non-Fiction
    Tuesday, May 5th 1903
  • Christopher Morley  135
    Novelist, Poet, Essayist, Journalist
    Monday, May 5th 1890
  • Nellie Bly  161
    Journalist
    Thursday, May 5th 1864
  • Henryk Sienkiewicz  179
    Journalist, Novelist
    Tuesday, May 5th 1846
  • Soren Kierkegaard  212

    Wednesday, May 5th 1813
  • Jeffery Deaver  75

    Saturday, May 6th 1950
  • Randall Jarrell  111

    Wednesday, May 6th 1914
  • Gaston Leroux  157

    Wednesday, May 6th 1868
  • Sigmund Freud  169

    Tuesday, May 6th 1856
  • Elizabeth Drew Stoddard  202

    Tuesday, May 6th 1823
  • Peter Carey  82

    Friday, May 7th 1943
  • Angela Carter  85

    Tuesday, May 7th 1940
  • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala  98

    Saturday, May 7th 1927
  • Archibald MacLeish  133

    Saturday, May 7th 1892
  • Robert Browning  213

    Thursday, May 7th 1812
  • Pat Barker  82

    Saturday, May 8th 1943
  • Thomas Pynchon  88

    Saturday, May 8th 1937
  • Gary Snyder  95

    Thursday, May 8th 1930
  • Romain Gary  111

    Friday, May 8th 1914
  • Edmund Wilson  130

    Wednesday, May 8th 1895
  • Augusta Jane Evans  190
    Novelist
    Friday, May 8th 1835
  • Audrey Schulman  62

    Thursday, May 9th 1963
  • Alan Bennett  91

    Wednesday, May 9th 1934
  • Jose Ortega y Gasset  142

    Wednesday, May 9th 1883
  • J. M. Barrie  165

    Wednesday, May 9th 1860
  • John Scalzi  56
    Novelist
    Saturday, May 10th 1969
  • Jon Ronson  58
    Journalist
    Wednesday, May 10th 1967
  • Jonathan Roberts  69
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, May 10th 1956
  • John Diamond  72
    Journalist
    Sunday, May 10th 1953
  • Caroline B. Cooney  78
    Novelist
    Saturday, May 10th 1947
  • Thomas Tessier  78
    Novelist
    Saturday, May 10th 1947
  • Barbara Taylor Bradford  92
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 10th 1933
  • Ettore Scola  94
    Screenwriter
    Sunday, May 10th 1931
  • Antonine Maillet  96
    Novelist, Playwright
    Friday, May 10th 1929
  • Nayantara Sahgal  98
    Novelist
    Tuesday, May 10th 1927
  • Monica Dickens  110
    Novelist
    Monday, May 10th 1915
  • Bel Kaufman  114
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 10th 1911
  • Olaf Stapledon  139
    Novelist
    Monday, May 10th 1886
  • Ivan Cankar  149
    Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Essayist
    Wednesday, May 10th 1876
  • Upendrakishore Ray  162
    Children's Literature
    Sunday, May 10th 1863
  • Benito Pérez Galdós  182
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 10th 1843
  • Johann Peter Hebel  265
    Short Fiction, Poet
    Saturday, May 10th 1760
  • Jean Mairet  421
    Playwright
    Monday, May 10th 1604
  • Dusán Mukics  44
    Journalist
    Monday, May 11th 1981
  • Theresa Burke  69
    Journalist
    Friday, May 11th 1956
  • Mike Lupica  73
    Columnist
    Sunday, May 11th 1952
  • Jeremy Paxman  75
    Journalist
    Thursday, May 11th 1950
  • Rachel Billington  83
    Novelist
    Monday, May 11th 1942
  • Francisco Umbral  93
    Journalist, Novelist, Essayist
    Wednesday, May 11th 1932
  • Stanley Elkin  95
    Novelist, Short Fiction, Essayist
    Sunday, May 11th 1930
  • Marco Ferreri  97
    Screenwriter
    Friday, May 11th 1928
  • Richard Feynman  107
    Non-Fiction
    Saturday, May 11th 1918
  • Camilo Jose Cela  109
    Novelist
    Thursday, May 11th 1916
  • Saadat Hasan Manto  113
    Short Fiction
    Saturday, May 11th 1912
  • Rose Ausländer  124
    Poet
    Saturday, May 11th 1901
  • Paulino Masip  126
    Playwright, Novelist
    Thursday, May 11th 1899
  • János Batsányi  262
    Poet
    Wednesday, May 11th 1763
  • L. Neil Smith  79
    Novelist
    Sunday, May 12th 1946
  • George Carlin  88
    Comedy Writer
    Wednesday, May 12th 1937
  • Andrei Voznesensky  92
    Poet
    Friday, May 12th 1933
  • Marco Denevi  103
    Novelist
    Friday, May 12th 1922
  • Farley Mowat  104
    Novelist
    Thursday, May 12th 1921
  • Albert Murray  109
    Novelist
    Friday, May 12th 1916
  • Bertus Aafjes  111
    Poet
    Tuesday, May 12th 1914
  • Howard K. Smith  111
    Journalist
    Tuesday, May 12th 1914
  • James Bacon  111
    Columnist
    Tuesday, May 12th 1914
  • Leslie Charteris  118
    Novelist
    Sunday, May 12th 1907
  • Benjamin Farjeon  187
    Novelist, Playwright
    Saturday, May 12th 1838
  • Edward Lear  213
    Poet
    Tuesday, May 12th 1812
  • Armistead Maupin  81
    Novelist
    Saturday, May 13th 1944
  • Eve Babitz  82
    Novelist
    Thursday, May 13th 1943
  • Bruce Chatwin  85
    Novelist, Travel Writer
    Monday, May 13th 1940
  • Roger Zelazny  88
    Novelist
    Thursday, May 13th 1937
  • Daphne du Maurier  118
    Novelist, Playwright
    Monday, May 13th 1907
  • Arthur Sullivan  183
    Playwright
    Friday, May 13th 1842
  • Alphonse Daudet  185
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 13th 1840
  • Eoin Colfer  60
    Novelist
    Friday, May 14th 1965
  • David Quantick  64
    Journalist
    Sunday, May 14th 1961
  • Christine Brennan  67
    Columnist
    Wednesday, May 14th 1958
  • Rudi Šeligo  90
    Novelist, Playwright, Essayist
    Tuesday, May 14th 1935
  • Barbara Branden  96
    Non-Fiction
    Tuesday, May 14th 1929
  • Herbert W. Franke  98
    Novelist
    Saturday, May 14th 1927
  • Solange Chaput-Rolland  106
    Journalist
    Wednesday, May 14th 1919
  • Hal Borland  125
    Novelist, Journalist
    Monday, May 14th 1900
  • Louis Verneuil  132
    Playwright
    Sunday, May 14th 1893
  • Alexander Kaufmann  208
    Poet
    Wednesday, May 14th 1817
  • Lauren Myracle  56

    Thursday, May 15th 1969
  • Paul Zindel  89

    Friday, May 15th 1936
  • Clifton Fadiman  121
    Essayist
    Sunday, May 15th 1904
  • Katherine Anne Porter  135

    Thursday, May 15th 1890
  • Arthur Schnitzler  163

    Thursday, May 15th 1862
  • L. Frank Baum  169

    Thursday, May 15th 1856
  • Eduard von Keyserling  170
    Novelist, Playwright
    Tuesday, May 15th 1855
  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu  336
    Poet
    Sunday, May 15th 1689
  • Omar Khayyám  977
    Poet
    Monday, May 15th 1048
  • Adrienne Rich  96

    Thursday, May 16th 1929
  • Louis "Studs" Terkel  113

    Thursday, May 16th 1912
  • Jane Moore  63
    Journalist
    Thursday, May 17th 1962
  • F. Paul Wilson  79

    Friday, May 17th 1946
  • David Cope  84
    Non-Fiction
    Saturday, May 17th 1941
  • Gary Paulsen  86
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 17th 1939
  • Dennis Potter  90

    Friday, May 17th 1935
  • Merle Miller  106
    Novelist
    Saturday, May 17th 1919
  • Henri Barbusse  152
    Novelist
    Saturday, May 17th 1873
  • Dorothy Richardson  152
    Novelist, Journalist
    Saturday, May 17th 1873
  • Jacint Verdaguer  180
    Poet
    Saturday, May 17th 1845
  • Virginie Loveling  189
    Poet, Novelist
    Tuesday, May 17th 1836
  • Tina Fey  55
    Screenwriter
    Monday, May 18th 1970
  • Nina Björk  58
    Journalist
    Thursday, May 18th 1967
  • Diane Duane  73
    Novelist
    Sunday, May 18th 1952
  • Yi Munyol  77
    Novelist
    Tuesday, May 18th 1948
  • W. G. Sebald  81
    Novelist
    Thursday, May 18th 1944
  • Jeanie MacPherson  138
    Screenwriter
    Wednesday, May 18th 1887
  • Bertrand Russell  153
    Non-Fiction
    Saturday, May 18th 1872
  • Francis Bellamy  170
    Novelist
    Friday, May 18th 1855
  • John Wilson  240
    Poet
    Wednesday, May 18th 1785
  • Jodi Picoult  59
    Novelist
    Thursday, May 19th 1966
  • Gregory Poirier  64
    Screenwriter
    Friday, May 19th 1961
  • Nora Ephron  84
    Screenwriter, Novelist, Playwright
    Monday, May 19th 1941
  • Ruskin Bond  91
    Novelist, Short Fiction, Children's Literature
    Saturday, May 19th 1934
  • Paul Erdman  93
    Novelist, Non-Fiction
    Thursday, May 19th 1932
  • Lorraine Hansberry  95

    Monday, May 19th 1930
  • Karel van het Reve  104
    Essayist
    Thursday, May 19th 1921
  • Merriam Modell  117
    Novelist
    Tuesday, May 19th 1908
  • Anna Brownell Jameson  231
    Non-Fiction
    Monday, May 19th 1794
  • Ingvar Ambjørnsen  69
    Novelist
    Sunday, May 20th 1956
  • William Michaelian  69
    Novelist
    Sunday, May 20th 1956
  • Michel Vastel  85
    Journalist
    Monday, May 20th 1940
  • John Lucarotti  99
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, May 20th 1926
  • Wolfgang Borchert  104
    Playwright
    Friday, May 20th 1921
  • Gardner Fox  114
    Comic Book Writer
    Saturday, May 20th 1911
  • Annie M. G. Schmidt  114
    Children's Literature
    Saturday, May 20th 1911
  • Dorita Fairlie Bruce  140

    Wednesday, May 20th 1885
  • Sigrid Undset  143

    Saturday, May 20th 1882
  • Hector Malot  195
    Novelist
    Thursday, May 20th 1830
  • Honore de Balzac  226

    Monday, May 20th 1799
  • James Phelan  46

    Monday, May 21st 1979
  • Georgiy Gongadze  56
    Journalist
    Wednesday, May 21st 1969
  • Richard Appel  62
    Screenwriter
    Tuesday, May 21st 1963
  • Jeffrey Toobin  65
    Non-Fiction
    Saturday, May 21st 1960
  • Elizabeth Buchan  77
    Novelist
    Friday, May 21st 1948
  • Robert Creeley  99

    Friday, May 21st 1926
  • Harold Robbins  109
    Novelist
    Sunday, May 21st 1916
  • Manly Wade Wellman  122
    Novelist
    Thursday, May 21st 1903
  • Suzanne Lilar  124
    Essayist, Novelist, Playwright
    Tuesday, May 21st 1901
  • Manuel Pérez y Curis  141
    Poet
    Wednesday, May 21st 1884
  • Alexander Pope  337

    Friday, May 21st 1688
  • Graham Linehan  57
    Screenwriter
    Wednesday, May 22nd 1968
  • Peter Matthiessen  98
    Novelist
    Sunday, May 22nd 1927
  • Jean-Louis Curtis  108
    Novelist
    Tuesday, May 22nd 1917
  • Vance Packard  111
    Journalist
    Friday, May 22nd 1914
  • Hergé  118
    Comic Book Writer
    Wednesday, May 22nd 1907
  • Paul Viiding  121
    Poet
    Sunday, May 22nd 1904
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  166

    Sunday, May 22nd 1859
  • Tsubouchi Shōyō  166
    Playwright
    Sunday, May 22nd 1859
  • Catulle Mendès  184
    Poet
    Saturday, May 22nd 1841
  • Gérard de Nerval  217
    Poet
    Sunday, May 22nd 1808
  • Mitchell Albom  67
    Novelist
    Friday, May 23rd 1958
  • Jane Kenyon  78
    Poet
    Friday, May 23rd 1947
  • Jack McCarthy  86
    Poet
    Tuesday, May 23rd 1939
  • Peter Preston  87
    Journalist
    Monday, May 23rd 1938
  • M. Scott Peck  89
    Non-Fiction
    Saturday, May 23rd 1936
  • Friedrich Achleitner  95
    Poet
    Friday, May 23rd 1930
  • Karlheinz Deschner  101
    Non-Fiction
    Friday, May 23rd 1924
  • James Blish  104
    Novelist
    Monday, May 23rd 1921
  • Robert Bernstein  106
    Comic Book Writer, Playwright
    Friday, May 23rd 1919
  • Celestine Sibley  111
    Columnist
    Saturday, May 23rd 1914
  • Margaret Wise Brown  115
    Children's Literature
    Monday, May 23rd 1910
  • Scott O'Dell  127
    Novelist, Children's Literature
    Monday, May 23rd 1898
  • Pär Lagerkvist  134
    Poet, Playwright, Novelist
    Saturday, May 23rd 1891
  • Margaret Fuller  215
    Journalist
    Wednesday, May 23rd 1810
  • Giuseppe Parini  296
    Satirist, Poet
    Monday, May 23rd 1729
  • Michael Chabon  62

    Friday, May 24th 1963
  • Walter Moers  68

    Friday, May 24th 1957
  • Bob Dylan  84

    Saturday, May 24th 1941
  • Joseph Brodsky  85

    Friday, May 24th 1940
  • William Trevor  97

    Thursday, May 24th 1928
  • Luc Sante  71

    Tuesday, May 25th 1954
  • Jamaica Kincaid  76
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 25th 1949
  • Raymond Carver  87
    Short Fiction, Poet
    Wednesday, May 25th 1938
  • John Gregory Dunne  93
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 25th 1932
  • Robert Ludlum  98
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 25th 1927
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson  222
    Poet
    Wednesday, May 25th 1803
  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton  222
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 25th 1803
  • Caitlín R. Kiernan  61
    Novelist
    Tuesday, May 26th 1964
  • Alan Hollinghurst  71
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 26th 1954
  • Lyudmila Petrushevskaya  87
    Novelist, Playwright
    Thursday, May 26th 1938
  • Phyllis Gotlieb  99
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 26th 1926
  • Henriette Roosenburg  109
    Journalist
    Friday, May 26th 1916
  • Moondog  109
    Poet
    Friday, May 26th 1916
  • Antonia Forest  110
    Children's Literature
    Wednesday, May 26th 1915
  • Pierre Daninos  112
    Humorist
    Monday, May 26th 1913
  • Henry Ephron  113
    Playwright, Screenwriter
    Sunday, May 26th 1912
  • Maxwell Bodenheim  133
    Poet, Novelist
    Thursday, May 26th 1892
  • Edmond de Goncourt  203

    Sunday, May 26th 1822
  • Harlan Ellison  91

    Sunday, May 27th 1934
  • John Barth  95

    Tuesday, May 27th 1930
  • Marijane Meaker  98

    Friday, May 27th 1927
  • Tony Hillerman  100

    Wednesday, May 27th 1925
  • Herman Wouk  110

    Thursday, May 27th 1915
  • John Cheever  113

    Monday, May 27th 1912
  • Dashiell Hammett  131

    Sunday, May 27th 1894
  • Arnold Bennett  158

    Monday, May 27th 1867
  • Barney Rosset  103

    Sunday, May 28th 1922
  • Walker Percy  109

    Sunday, May 28th 1916
  • Patrick White  113

    Tuesday, May 28th 1912
  • Ian Fleming  117

    Thursday, May 28th 1908
  • Andrew Clements  76
    Children's Literature
    Sunday, May 29th 1949
  • Andre Brink  90
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 29th 1935
  • Paul R. Ehrlich  93
    Non-Fiction
    Sunday, May 29th 1932
  • Lars Bo  101
    Novelist
    Thursday, May 29th 1924
  • Bernard Clavel  102
    Novelist
    Tuesday, May 29th 1923
  • T.H. White  119
    Novelist
    Tuesday, May 29th 1906
  • Alfonsina Storni  133
    Poet
    Sunday, May 29th 1892
  • Max Brand  133
    Novelist
    Sunday, May 29th 1892
  • G. K. Chesterton  151
    Novelist
    Friday, May 29th 1874
  • Michael Piller  77
    Screenwriter
    Sunday, May 30th 1948
  • Hal Clement  103
    Novelist
    Tuesday, May 30th 1922
  • Pita Amor  107
    Poet
    Thursday, May 30th 1918
  • Joseph Stein  113
    Playwright
    Thursday, May 30th 1912
  • Harry Bernstein  115
    Memoirest
    Monday, May 30th 1910
  • Countee Cullen  122
    Poet
    Saturday, May 30th 1903
  • Cornelia Otis Skinner  126
    Playwright
    Tuesday, May 30th 1899
  • Randolph Bourne  139
    Essayist
    Sunday, May 30th 1886
  • Félix Arnaudin  181
    Poet
    Thursday, May 30th 1844
  • Robin Wasserman  47
    Children's Literature
    Wednesday, May 31st 1978
  • John Connolly  57
    Novelist
    Friday, May 31st 1968
  • Lynne Truss  70
    Non-Fiction, Journalist, Essayist
    Tuesday, May 31st 1955
  • Bernard Goldberg  80
    Journalist
    Thursday, May 31st 1945
  • Al Young  86
    Novelist, Poet
    Wednesday, May 31st 1939
  • Robie Macauley  106
    Novelist
    Saturday, May 31st 1919
  • George R. Stewart  130
    Novelist
    Friday, May 31st 1895
  • Konstantin Paustovsky  133
    Novelist, Poet
    Tuesday, May 31st 1892
  • Walt Whitman  206
    Poet
    Monday, May 31st 1819
  • Ludwig Tieck  252
    Poet
    Monday, May 31st 1773

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