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Author Birthdays for September

  • Scott Spencer  80
    Novelist
    Saturday, September 1st 1945
  • Mustafa Balel  80
    Novelist
    Saturday, September 1st 1945
  • C. J. Cherryh  83
    Novelist
    Tuesday, September 1st 1942
  • Alan Dershowitz  87
    Non-Fiction
    Thursday, September 1st 1938
  • Ron O'Neal  88
    Screenwriter
    Wednesday, September 1st 1937
  • Wyatt Emory Cooper  98
    Playwright, Screenwriter
    Thursday, September 1st 1927
  • Willem Frederik Hermans  104
    Novelist
    Thursday, September 1st 1921
  • Liz Carpenter  105
    Journalist
    Wednesday, September 1st 1920
  • Eleanor Hibbert  119
    Novelist
    Saturday, September 1st 1906
  • Andrei Platonov  126
    Novelist
    Friday, September 1st 1899
  • Blaise Cendrars  138
    Novelist, Poet
    Thursday, September 1st 1887
  • Edgar Rice Burroughs  150
    Novelist
    Wednesday, September 1st 1875
  • Innokenty Annensky  170
    Poet
    Saturday, September 1st 1855
  • Daniel Defoe  365
    Novelist
    Wednesday, September 1st 1660
  • Aimee Osbourne  42
    Columnist
    Friday, September 2nd 1983
  • Chris Kuzneski  56
    Novelist
    Tuesday, September 2nd 1969
  • John S. Hall  65
    Poet
    Friday, September 2nd 1960
  • Walt Simonson  79
    Comic Book Writer
    Monday, September 2nd 1946
  • Cleveland Amory  108
    Non-Fiction
    Sunday, September 2nd 1917
  • Andreas Embirikos  124
    Poet
    Monday, September 2nd 1901
  • Joseph Roth  131
    Journalist, Novelist
    Sunday, September 2nd 1894
  • Ion Dragoumis  147
    Non-Fiction
    Monday, September 2nd 1878
  • Hans Jæger  171
    Non-Fiction
    Saturday, September 2nd 1854
  • Paul Bourget  173
    Novelist
    Thursday, September 2nd 1852
  • Eugene Field  175
    Children's Literature, Essayist
    Monday, September 2nd 1850
  • Lucretia Peabody Hale  205
    Journalist, Novelist
    Saturday, September 2nd 1820
  • Esteban Echeverría  220
    Poet
    Monday, September 2nd 1805
  • William Somervile  350
    Poet
    Monday, September 2nd 1675
  • Kiran Desai  54
    Novelist
    Friday, September 3rd 1971
  • Spike Feresten  61
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, September 3rd 1964
  • Malcolm Gladwell  62
    Journalist
    Tuesday, September 3rd 1963
  • Sergei Dovlatov  84
    Novelist, Journalist
    Wednesday, September 3rd 1941
  • Eduardo Galeano  85
    Novelist, Journalist
    Tuesday, September 3rd 1940
  • Caryl Churchill  87
    Playwright
    Saturday, September 3rd 1938
  • Cherry Wilder  95
    Novelist
    Wednesday, September 3rd 1930
  • Alison Lurie  99
    Novelist
    Friday, September 3rd 1926
  • Mort Walker  102
    Comic Book Writer
    Monday, September 3rd 1923
  • Marguerite Higgins  105
    Journalist
    Friday, September 3rd 1920
  • Sally Benson  128
    Screenwriter, Short Fiction
    Friday, September 3rd 1897
  • Sarah Orne Jewett  176
    Novelist
    Monday, September 3rd 1849
  • Yanka Dyagileva  59
    Poet
    Sunday, September 4th 1966
  • Ferenc Sánta  98
    Novelist, Screenwriter
    Sunday, September 4th 1927
  • Forrest Carter  100
    Novelist
    Friday, September 4th 1925
  • Joan Aiken  101
    Novelist
    Thursday, September 4th 1924
  • Per Olof Sundman  103
    Novelist
    Monday, September 4th 1922
  • Syd Hoff  113
    Children's Literature
    Wednesday, September 4th 1912
  • Richard Wright  117
    Novelist
    Friday, September 4th 1908
  • Mary Renault  120
    Novelist
    Monday, September 4th 1905
  • Antonin Artaud  129
    Playwright
    Friday, September 4th 1896
  • Juliusz Słowacki  216
    Poet, Playwright
    Monday, September 4th 1809
  • Constantijn Huygens  429
    Poet
    Wednesday, September 4th 1596
  • Richard Marsland  49
    Comedy Writer
    Sunday, September 5th 1976
  • Frederick Kempe  71
    Journalist
    Sunday, September 5th 1954
  • Dario Bellezza  81
    Poet, Playwright
    Tuesday, September 5th 1944
  • Jonathan Kozol  89
    Non-Fiction
    Saturday, September 5th 1936
  • Luis Alcoriza  107
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, September 5th 1918
  • Frank Yerby  109
    Novelist
    Tuesday, September 5th 1916
  • Nicanor Parra  111
    Poet
    Saturday, September 5th 1914
  • Leila Mackinlay  115
    Novelist
    Monday, September 5th 1910
  • Josué de Castro  117
    Non-Fiction
    Saturday, September 5th 1908
  • Arthur Koestler  120
    Novelist
    Tuesday, September 5th 1905
  • Victorien Sardou  194
    Playwright
    Monday, September 5th 1831
  • Goffredo Mameli  198
    Poet
    Wednesday, September 5th 1827
  • A. K. Tolstoy  208
    Poet, Novelist, Playwright
    Friday, September 5th 1817
  • Robert Fergusson  275
    Poet
    Saturday, September 5th 1750
  • Tommaso Campanella  457
    Non-Fiction, Poet
    Thursday, September 5th 1568
  • China Miéville  53
    Novelist
    Wednesday, September 6th 1972
  • Christopher Brookmyre  57
    Novelist
    Friday, September 6th 1968
  • Christopher Nolan  60
    Poet, Novelist
    Monday, September 6th 1965
  • Alice Sebold  62
    Novelist
    Friday, September 6th 1963
  • Jennifer Egan  63
    Novelist
    Thursday, September 6th 1962
  • Raymond Benson  70
    Novelist
    Tuesday, September 6th 1955
  • Donna Haraway  81
    Non-Fiction
    Wednesday, September 6th 1944
  • Dan Cragg  86
    Novelist, Essayist
    Wednesday, September 6th 1939
  • Robert M. Pirsig  97
    Novelist
    Thursday, September 6th 1928
  • Carmen Laforet  104
    Novelist
    Tuesday, September 6th 1921
  • Julien Green  125
    Novelist
    Thursday, September 6th 1900
  • Felix Salten  156
    Novelist
    Monday, September 6th 1869
  • William Lane  164
    Journalist
    Friday, September 6th 1861
  • Frances Wright  230
    Non-Fiction
    Sunday, September 6th 1795
  • Diane Farr  52
    Memoirest
    Friday, September 7th 1973
  • Eric Hill  98

    Wednesday, September 7th 1927
  • Edith Sitwell  138

    Wednesday, September 7th 1887
  • Elinor Wylie  140

    Monday, September 7th 1885
  • C. J. Dennis  149

    Thursday, September 7th 1876
  • Aleksandr Kuprin  155

    Wednesday, September 7th 1870
  • Tristan Bernard  159

    Friday, September 7th 1866
  • Angela Rawlings  47
    Poet
    Friday, September 8th 1978
  • Christopher Klim  63
    Novelist
    Saturday, September 8th 1962
  • Terry Tempest Williams  70
    Non-Fiction
    Thursday, September 8th 1955
  • Jon Scieszka  71
    Children's Literature
    Wednesday, September 8th 1954
  • Michael Shermer  71
    Non-Fiction
    Wednesday, September 8th 1954
  • Ann Beattie  78
    Novelist
    Monday, September 8th 1947
  • Jack Prelutsky  85
    Children's Literature
    Sunday, September 8th 1940
  • Michael Frayn  92
    Playwright, Novelist
    Friday, September 8th 1933
  • Robert W. Firestone  95
    Non-Fiction
    Monday, September 8th 1930
  • Grace Metalious  101
    Novelist
    Monday, September 8th 1924
  • Rasul Gamzatov  102
    Poet
    Saturday, September 8th 1923
  • Gianni Brera  106
    Novelist, Journalist
    Monday, September 8th 1919
  • Jane Arbor  122
    Novelist
    Tuesday, September 8th 1903
  • Siegfried Sassoon  139
    Poet
    Wednesday, September 8th 1886
  • Alfred Jarry  152
    Playwright
    Monday, September 8th 1873
  • Wilhelm Raabe  194
    Novelist
    Thursday, September 8th 1831
  • Frédéric Mistral  195
    Poet
    Wednesday, September 8th 1830
  • Clarence Cook  197
    Non-Fiction
    Monday, September 8th 1828
  • Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg  211
    Non-Fiction
    Thursday, September 8th 1814
  • Eduard Mörike  221
    Poet
    Saturday, September 8th 1804
  • N. F. S. Grundtvig  242
    Non-Fiction
    Monday, September 8th 1783
  • August Wilhelm Schlegel  258
    Poet
    Tuesday, September 8th 1767
  • John Sheffield  378
    Poet
    Sunday, September 8th 1647
  • Ludovico Ariosto  551
    Poet
    Tuesday, September 8th 1474
  • Paul Goodman  114

    Saturday, September 9th 1911
  • Cesare Pavese  117

    Wednesday, September 9th 1908
  • Phyllis A. Whitney  122

    Wednesday, September 9th 1903
  • James Hilton  125

    Sunday, September 9th 1900
  • Brassai  126

    Saturday, September 9th 1899
  • Mary Hunter Austin  157

    Wednesday, September 9th 1868
  • Joseph Henry Shorthouse  191

    Tuesday, September 9th 1834
  • Leo Tolstoy  197

    Tuesday, September 9th 1828
  • Zhang Chengzhi  77

    Friday, September 10th 1948
  • Stephen Jay Gould  84

    Wednesday, September 10th 1941
  • Mary Oliver  90

    Tuesday, September 10th 1935
  • Miguel Serrano  108

    Monday, September 10th 1917
  • Cyril Connolly  122

    Thursday, September 10th 1903
  • Georges Bataille  128

    Friday, September 10th 1897
  • Franz Werfel  135

    Wednesday, September 10th 1890
  • H.D.  139

    Friday, September 10th 1886
  • Jeppe Aakjær  159

    Monday, September 10th 1866
  • Hannah Webster Foster  267

    Sunday, September 10th 1758
  • Philip Ardagh  64

    Monday, September 11th 1961
  • Andrew Macdonald  92

    Monday, September 11th 1933
  • Jessica Mitford  108

    Tuesday, September 11th 1917
  • William Thomas Walsh  134

    Friday, September 11th 1891
  • D. H. Lawrence  140

    Friday, September 11th 1885
  • O. Henry  163

    Thursday, September 11th 1862
  • Vjenceslav Novak  166

    Sunday, September 11th 1859
  • Fitz Hugh Ludlow  189

    Sunday, September 11th 1836
  • James Frey  56

    Friday, September 12th 1969
  • Jon Clinch  71
    Novelist
    Sunday, September 12th 1954
  • Michael Ondaatje  82

    Sunday, September 12th 1943
  • Stanislaw Lem  104

    Monday, September 12th 1921
  • H. L. Mencken  145

    Sunday, September 12th 1880
  • Tõnu Õnnepalu  63

    Thursday, September 13th 1962
  • Roald Dahl  109

    Wednesday, September 13th 1916
  • J. B. Priestley  131

    Thursday, September 13th 1894
  • Frances Newman  142

    Thursday, September 13th 1883
  • Sherwood Anderson  149

    Wednesday, September 13th 1876
  • Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach  195

    Monday, September 13th 1830
  • Bernard MacLaverty  83

    Monday, September 14th 1942
  • Kate Millett  91

    Friday, September 14th 1934
  • Ivan Klima  94

    Monday, September 14th 1931
  • Larry Collins  96

    Saturday, September 14th 1929
  • Martin Caidin  98

    Wednesday, September 14th 1927
  • Michel Butor  99

    Tuesday, September 14th 1926
  • Abioseh Nicol  101

    Sunday, September 14th 1924
  • Mario Benedetti  105

    Tuesday, September 14th 1920
  • Hamlin Garland  165

    Friday, September 14th 1860
  • Howard Waldrop  79

    Sunday, September 15th 1946
  • Chelsea Quinn Yarbro  83

    Tuesday, September 15th 1942
  • Robert McCloskey  111

    Tuesday, September 15th 1914
  • Adolfo Bioy Casares  111

    Tuesday, September 15th 1914
  • Betty Neels  115

    Thursday, September 15th 1910
  • Gunnar Ekelof  118

    Sunday, September 15th 1907
  • J. Slauerhoff  127

    Thursday, September 15th 1898
  • Agatha Christie  135

    Monday, September 15th 1890
  • Robert Benchley  136

    Sunday, September 15th 1889
  • Sharat Chandra Chatterji  149

    Friday, September 15th 1876
  • James Fenimore Cooper  236

    Tuesday, September 15th 1789
  • Justin Haythe  52

    Sunday, September 16th 1973
  • Nick Sagan  55

    Wednesday, September 16th 1970
  • Walt Becker  57

    Monday, September 16th 1968
  • Nancy Huston  72

    Wednesday, September 16th 1953
  • Henry Louis Gates, Jr.  75

    Saturday, September 16th 1950
  • James Alan McPherson  82

    Thursday, September 16th 1943
  • Breyten Breytenbach  86

    Saturday, September 16th 1939
  • John Knowles  99

    Thursday, September 16th 1926
  • Laurence J. Peter  106

    Tuesday, September 16th 1919
  • H. A. Rey  127

    Friday, September 16th 1898
  • T. E. Hulme  142

    Sunday, September 16th 1883
  • Wendy Northcutt  62

    Tuesday, September 17th 1963
  • Lawrence Anthony  75
    Non-Fiction
    Sunday, September 17th 1950
  • Ken Kesey  90

    Tuesday, September 17th 1935
  • Robert B. Parker  93

    Saturday, September 17th 1932
  • Frank O'Connor  122

    Thursday, September 17th 1903
  • William Carlos Williams  142

    Monday, September 17th 1883
  • Chris Hedges  69

    Tuesday, September 18th 1956
  • Francis Parker Yockey  108

    Tuesday, September 18th 1917
  • William March  132

    Monday, September 18th 1893
  • Samuel Johnson  316

    Wednesday, September 18th 1709
  • Susan Compo  70

    Monday, September 19th 1955
  • James Lipton  99

    Sunday, September 19th 1926
  • Damon Knight  103

    Tuesday, September 19th 1922
  • William Golding  114

    Tuesday, September 19th 1911
  • Mika Waltari  117

    Saturday, September 19th 1908
  • James Blaylock  75

    Wednesday, September 20th 1950
  • George R. R. Martin  77

    Monday, September 20th 1948
  • Keith Roberts  90

    Friday, September 20th 1935
  • Donald Hall  97

    Thursday, September 20th 1928
  • Geraldine Clinton Little  102

    Thursday, September 20th 1923
  • Stevie Smith  123

    Saturday, September 20th 1902
  • Charles Williams  139

    Monday, September 20th 1886
  • Maxwell Perkins  141

    Saturday, September 20th 1884
  • Upton Sinclair  147

    Friday, September 20th 1878
  • Kate Harrington  194

    Tuesday, September 20th 1831
  • Heather Brewer  52

    Friday, September 21st 1973
  • Ethan Coen  68

    Saturday, September 21st 1957
  • Stephen King  78

    Sunday, September 21st 1947
  • Fannie Flagg  81

    Thursday, September 21st 1944
  • Leonard Cohen  91

    Friday, September 21st 1934
  • H. G. Wells  159

    Friday, September 21st 1866
  • Rosamunde Pilcher  101

    Monday, September 22nd 1924
  • Dannie Abse  102

    Saturday, September 22nd 1923
  • Theodore Hook  237

    Monday, September 22nd 1788
  • John Home  303

    Tuesday, September 22nd 1722
  • Ana Marie Cox  53

    Saturday, September 23rd 1972
  • Peter David  69

    Sunday, September 23rd 1956
  • Anne Desclos - Pauline Réage  118

    Monday, September 23rd 1907
  • Jaroslav Seifert  124

    Monday, September 23rd 1901
  • Emma Orczy  160

    Saturday, September 23rd 1865
  • Mary Church Terrell  162

    Wednesday, September 23rd 1863
  • Szilvia Molnar  41

    Monday, September 24th 1984
  • Shamim Sarif  56

    Wednesday, September 24th 1969
  • Yves Navarre  85

    Tuesday, September 24th 1940
  • John Brunner  91

    Monday, September 24th 1934
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald  129

    Thursday, September 24th 1896
  • A. P. Herbert  135

    Wednesday, September 24th 1890
  • Charles Ferdinand Ramuz  147

    Tuesday, September 24th 1878
  • Horace Walpole  308

    Friday, September 24th 1717
  • William Faulkner  128

    Saturday, September 25th 1897
  • Mark Haddon  63

    Wednesday, September 26th 1962
  • Jane Smiley  76

    Monday, September 26th 1949
  • Minette Walters  76

    Monday, September 26th 1949
  • Andrea Dworkin  79

    Thursday, September 26th 1946
  • T. S. Eliot  137

    Wednesday, September 26th 1888
  • Joyce Johnson  90

    Friday, September 27th 1935
  • Jim Thompson  119

    Thursday, September 27th 1906
  • Grazia Deledda  154

    Wednesday, September 27th 1871
  • Stuart M. Kaminsky  91

    Saturday, September 29th 1934
  • Stan Berenstain  102

    Saturday, September 29th 1923
  • Miguel de Cervantes  478
    Novelist, Poet, Playwright
    Monday, September 29th 1547
  • W. S. Merwin  98

    Friday, September 30th 1927
  • Truman Capote  101

    Tuesday, September 30th 1924
  • Gertrude Atherton  168

    Wednesday, September 30th 1857
  • Ferdinand von Saar  192

    Monday, September 30th 1833

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