Short biography of famous writers birthdays
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Literally what it says on the tin: a big list of author birthdays. I tracked down the birthday of every author I could think of, and put them all into one big list, just for you! If you can think of any author of note I’ve missed, let me know in the comments and I’ll see if I can add them in.
Author Birthdays in January
1 January: E.M. Forster – Read my full review of A Passage To India here.
1 January: J.D. Salinger – Read my full review of The Catcher In The Rye here.
2 January: Andre Aciman – Read my full review of Call Me By Your Name here.
3 January: J.R.R. Tolkien
7 January: Zora Neale Hurston – Read my full review of Their Eyes Were Watching God here.
9 January: Simone de Beauvoir – Read my full review of She Came To Stay here.
9 January: Philippa Gregory – Read my full review of The Other Boleyn Girl here.
9 January: Wilbur Smith
9 January: Judith Krantz
11 January: Jasper Fforde ̵
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What Famous Authors Celebrate Birthdays in August?
Do you share a birthday with your favorite author? Here, we take a look at novelists, poets, journalists, and other writers born during the month of August. Click here to find titles from these authors in our collection.
August 1
Herman Melville (1819) Moby Dick
August 2
James Baldwin (1924) Go Tell it on the Mountain, Giovanni’s Room, Notes of a Native Son
Isabelle Allende (1942) The House of the Spirits, Daughter of Fortune
August 3
P.D. James (1920) Adam Dalgliesh mystery series, Death Comes to Pemberley
Leon Uris (1924) Exodus, QBVII
August 4
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792) Poet, Prometheus Unbound, To a Skylark
Sapphire (1950) Push, The Kid
Barack Obama (1961) The Audacity of Home, Dreams from My Father
Dennis Lehane (1965) Mystic River, Shutter Island
August 5
Guy de Maupassant (1850) The Necklace, Bel Ami
Conrad Aiken (1889) Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner
Richard Preston (1954) The Hot Zo
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Famous Authors Who Celebrate Birthdays in October
Contributed by: Mark Woodard
Do you share a birthday with your favorite author? Here, we take a look at novelists, poets, journalists, and other writers born during the month of October. Click here to find titles from these authors in our collection.
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Jimmy Carter (1924) An Hour Before Daylight, Christmas in Plains
Tim O’Brien (1946) The Things They Carried, In the Lake of the Woods
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Wallace Stevens (1879) Poet, The Snow Man, The kejsare of Ice-Cream
Graham Greene (1904) The End of the Affair, Brighton Rock, Travels with My Aunt
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Thomas Wolfe (1900) Look Homeward, Angel, You Can’t Go Home Again
James Herriot (1916) All Things Great and Small, All Things Bright and Beautiful
Gore Vidal (1925) Myra Breckinridge, The City and the Pillar, Lincoln, Empire
Alvin Toffler (1928) Future Shock, The Third Wave
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Damon Runyon (1880) Guys and Dolls, Bloodhounds of Broadwa