2014 Event French author Patrick Modiano receives the Nobel Prize in Literature, winning the award over noted poet Adonis and writers Haruki Murakami, Svetlana Alexievich, and Ngugi wa Thiong'o Maya Angelou, American author of 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings' and many other works, dies of natural causes at age 86 2013 Event Author J.K. Rowling announces she is producing a play based on the life of her character Harry Potter; the play tells the previously untold story of life before the boy wizard goes to Hogwarts; the play will premiere in London's West End within the next two years Best-selling American author Tom Clancy dies at the age of 66; the author's debut book, 'The Hunt for Red October' has been cited as one of the greatest genre novels ever written In Lagos, a funeral processional greets the body of Nigerian Chinua Achebe, author of the novel, 'Things Fall Apart' Harper Lee, author of 'To Kill a Mockingbird', faces a court battle in a lawsuit claiming a literary agent tricket her into giving up the copyright to her world-famous book 2012 Event An early work by noted childhood fairytale author Hans Christian Andersen, titled, 'The Tallow Candle", is found at the bottom of a filing box at the National Archives of Funen The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to Chinese author Mo Yan, famous for the hallucinatory realism writing style The brother of Columbian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1982 Nobel Prize of Literature recipient, announces he suffers from Dementia and can no longer write At the London Book Fair, Ma Jian, Chinese author of the banned novel 'Beijing Coma,' puts red paint over his face and calls Chinese publishers, 'the mouthpiece of the Chinese communist party' Author JK Rowling announces that the Pottermore website, her version of the Harry Potter universe will launch in early April, 2012 2011 Event Famed 'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling leaves her agent, Christopher Little, ending their 15-year working relationship 2010 Death J.D. Salinger, 'Catcher in the Rye' author, dies at the age of 91 2009 Death Frank McCourt, author, teacher, wrote Pulitzer-Prize winning book, 'Angela's Ashes', a memoir of his impoverished life in Ireland, dies at age 78 in Manhattan, New York 2007 Death Louis W. Ballard, Native American composer, author, artist, wrote 'Incident at Wounded Knee', dies of cancer in Santa Fe, New Mexico, at age 75 2006 Death Eileen Caddy, new age author, spiritual teacher, founded Findhorn Foundation commune, an international New Age community, dubbed 'Vatican of the New Age', today home to 400 residents from more than 40 countries, dies at age 89 in Findhorn, Scotland John M. Ford, author, science fiction and fantasy, poet, game designer, wrote, 'The Final Reflection', 'How Much Just for the Planet?', dies of natural causes, at age 49 Karin Struck, author, wrote women's literature, politically liberal, openly opposes abortion, converted to Catholicism, 1996 dies 2005 Death Robert Sheckley, American Author Vine Deloria, Jr., Sioux Author Shelby Foote, American Author Humphrey Carpenter, English Author 2004 Death Alistair Cooke, radio commentator/author, Masterpiece Theater, dies at 95 2003 Death Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, author and feminist, 'In the Last Analysis' and 'Writing a Woman's Life', committed suicide Carol Shields, Canadian Author Carol Shields, author, The Stone Diaries, dies at 68 Kathleen Winsor, American Author Paul Zindel, playwright/YA author, The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, dies at 66 Adam Osborne, author, computer designer, book and software publisher, founded and wrote memoir about Osborne Computer Corporation 2002 Death Walter Lord, American Author Jack Henry Abbott, American Author 2001 Death Ken Kesey, author, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, dies at 66 Anthony Storr, English author and psychiatrist, wrote 'Art of Psychotherapy' and 'Human Aggression', dies Auberon Waugh, British Author 2000 Death Edward Gorey, author, Amphigorey, dies at 75 Craig Claiborne, food author, New York Times, dies at 79 Patrick O'Brian, author of sea-faring novels, Aubrey-Maturin series, dies at 85 1999 Death Sarah Delany, author/teacher, Having Our Say, dies at 109 1998 Death Allen Drury, author/journalist, Advise and Consent, dies at 80 Kay Thompson, American Author Marjory Stoneman Douglas, environmentalist/author, dies at 108 Mya Than Tint, Myanmarese author, dies of brain hemorrhage at 69 Jo Clayton, author, Cancer Died, Drums of Chaos, dies at 58 Jo Clayton, author, Drums of Chaos, dies at 58 1998 Event Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed agreement to purchase Minnesota Vikings for slightly more than $200 million, an NFL franchise record 1997 Death Brendan Gill, writer, film critic, author, wrote film critiques for Film Comment, wrote articles for The New Yorker, and a book about his time at The New Yorker magazine, dies at 83 Tom Blackburn, writer, author, screenwriter, lyricist, worked for Walt Disney's story department, dies at 71 James Mitchner, author (Hawaii), dies of kidney failure at 90 Ruth Picardie, journalist, editor, The Guardian, The Independent newspapers, author of Before I Say Goodbye, memoir of living with breast cancer, dies in Lambeth, London, of breast cancer, at age 33 William S. Burroughs, author, Naked Lunch, dies at 83 Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator, influential theorist of critical pedagogy, educator, author, studied philosophy, phe, nomenology, psychology of language, embraced a non-orthodox form of liberation theology, wrote 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed', dies from heart failure Helene Hanff, author, 84 Charing Cross Road, dies at 80 Jurek Becker, writer, film author, German Democratic Republic dissident, survived ghetto in Lodz, wrote 'Jacob the Liar', dies in Sieseby, Germany 1996 Death William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian, dies at 85 Margaret E Rey, author of children's books, dies at 90 Quentin Bell, artist author/teacher, dies at 86 William George Rushton, actor (TW3)/author/cartoonist, dies at 59 Michael Bentine, British author/comedian (Reluctant Jester), dies at 74 Idries Shah, Indian Author James Leo Herlihy, author (Midnight Cowboy), commits suicide at 66 Ray Coleman, born in Britain, journalist, author, wrote biographies of The Beatles while editor-in-chief, Melody Maker, music magazine, dies at 59 Og Mandino, author, professional salesman, inspirational, best-selling author, wrote, 'The Greatest Salesman in the World', books have sold over 50 million copies in 25 different languages, president of Success Unlimited magazine Jessica Lucy Mitford, author, dies at 78 Jean Gimpel, author/iconoclast, dies at 77 Richard Thomas Condon, author, dies at 81 Dario Bellezza, born in Rome, Italy, poet, author, playwright, associate director of Nuovi argomenti, published texts by Alberto Moravia, won the Viareggio prize in 1976 for Morte segreta, the Gatto prize in 1991, dies at 51 Claude Mauriac, writer, journalist, author, personal secretary to Charles de Gaulle1944 - 1949, co-scripted his father's novel titled Therese Desqueyroux, wrote study of Marcel Proust, dies at 81 William Hutchinson Murray, mountaineer/author, dies at 83 1995 Death Ross Thomas, author, dies at 69 Robertson Davies (author), dies at 82 Jack Finney, author (Body Snatchers), dies at 84 Jack Finney, author (Body Snatchers), dies of pneumonia at 84 Lex Hixon, religious teacher/author, dies at 53 Kingsley Amis, author, dies of injuries from a fall at 73 Edith Pargeter, author (Brother Cadfael), dies of a stroke at 82 Ellis Peters, British Author Elleston Trevor, author, dies Aziz Nesin, writer, humorist, author of over 100 books, dies at 79 Tristan Jones, sailor, author, Welsh story teller, dies at 71 Stanley Elkin, American Author Andrew Salkey, author editor/broadcaster, dies at 67 Harvey Penick, premier golf instructor/author, dies at 90 Cheryl Waltz, author/film producer, dies at 50 Irving Shulman, author/screenwriter, dies at 81 Russell Reading Braddon, author, dies at 74 Daan Wildschut, Dutch painter/author, dies at 81 Frederic Ramsey, Jr., folklorist/author, dies at 80 Helene Weijel, author (In Two Worlds), dies at 44 James Herriot, Scottish author (All Creatures Great and Small), dies at 78 Rachid Mimouni, author, teacher at Ecole superieure du commerce, Algiers, wrote 'La Malediction', dies of hepatitis in Paris, France, at age 49 Arthur S Taylor, Jr., U.S. drummer/author (Notes on notes), dies at 65 Gerald M Durrell, British zoologist/author (Mockery Bird), dies at 70 George Woodcock, author, dies at 82 Jean Tardieu, author, dies at 91 Christopher Francis Palmer, orchestrator/Author, dies at 48 Rose Kennedy, American Author 1994 Death Hans Berghuis, author and poet (Kleitabletten), dies at 70 Sadi de Gorter, Dutch author/diplomat (Abscess), dies at 82 Johannes J "Joop" Klant, Netherlands/South African economist/author, dies Mary Durack, poet, author, historian, dies at 81 Ronald Ridout, school textbook author, dies at 78 Lesley Peacock, jazz photogrpaher/author, dies David Feinberg, AIDS activist/author, dies at 37 Nyanaponika, Siegmund Feniger, German scholar/author, dies at 93 Juliette Lady Huxley Baillot, author, dies at 96 Warwick Hutton, illustrator, artist, author, created illustrations for children's books, worked with texts by Hans Christian Andersen, dies at 55 of cancer in Cambridge, England Jessie Kesson, author, novelist, radio producer, and playwright, dies at 77 Otto F Walther, Swiss publisher/author (Der Stumme), dies at 66 Henk Figee, author/publisher (Shoes of the Sea), dies at 46 Keith Davis, voice Tutor/Author, dies at 85 James Clavell, author (Shogun, Tai-Pan), dies at 69 James Clavell, author/director (King Rat, Shogun), dies at 69 Pieter C "Piet" Author, sailor/corrector, dies at 71 Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Machina Mondiale), dies at 70 Earnest Pawel, Polish/US author (Nightmare of Reason), dies at 74 Elias Canetti, Bulgaria/British author (Nobel 1981), dies at 89 Elias Canetti, Swiss Author Aartje W. "Mien" van It Sant-van Bommel, author, dies at 93 Rosa Chacel, Spanish author, dies at 96 James Topping, author of CP/M, dies at 52 Johanna Ader-Appels, resistance fighter/author, dies A "Bob" den Doolaard, author (Inn with the horseshoe), dies at 93 Kitty Rosalind Muggeridge, author, dies at 90 John Barrington Wain, author, dies at 69 Phyllis Flowerdew, school Reading text author, dies at 81 Richard Scarry, author/illustrator of children's books, dies at 74 Cassidy Clinton Cremer, author (John Cremer), murdered at 30 Samuel Selvon, author, writer-in-residence, University of Calgary, Canada, dies at 70 Ralph Ellison, American Author Sandra Paretti, German/Swiss author (Drums of Winter), dies at 59 Robert Shea, author, dies of cancer Charles Bukowski, author and poet, dies of leukemia at 73 Christopher Lasch, author (Culture of Narcissism), dies at 61 1993 Death Margaret Landon, U.S. author (Anna and the King of Siam), dies at 90 Erich Leinsdorf, Austria/US conductor/author (Cadenza), dies at 81 Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, Egyptian philosopher/author/diplomat, dies at 88 Lea Verschuuren-Smulders, Dut author (Kleutertje Luister), dies at 72 Edwin "Rick" Bakker, author (Rick's Report/AIDS Diary), dies at 31 Masugi Ibuse, Japanese author (Kuroi ame (Black rain)), dies at 95 Ruth Krauss, author (Carrot Seed), dies at 91 William Golding, author (Lord of the Flies, Nobel 1983), dies at 81 Freya Stark, English author (Sunday Bloody Sunday), dies at 61 Penelope Gilliatt [Conner], British author Jo Boer, Dutch painter/writer/author, Heir, dies at 85 John Hersey, Pulitzer prize author (Hiroshima), dies at 78 Fletcher Knebel, author (7 Days in May), commits suicide at 81 Agatha Hagtingius-Seger, Dutch author (Sparkles Chain), dies at 91 Maria Vlamynck, Flemish author, dies at 75 Lacey Fosburgh, author (Closing Time), dies of breast cancer at 50 1992 Death Monica Dickens, English/US journalist/author, dies at 77 Audre Lorde, St. Croix' feminist author (Black Unicorn), dies William Hillcourt, author (Boy Scout Handbook), dies at 92 James Marshall, illustrator/author (The Stupids), dies at 50 Allan Bloom, author (Closing of the American Mind), dies at 62 Mary Norton, children book author (Borrowers), dies at 88 Vernon Howard, spiritual teacher, speaker, philosopher, author, wrote humor books, children's books, spoke and wrote about self-development, self-awareness, spiritual, psychological growth, dies Evelyn Wesler Zemel, U.S. author (American Glass Animals), dies 1992 Event U.S. actress Bobbie Eakes marries author David Stone M F K Fisher, cook book author, dies of Parkinson Disease at 83 Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink, author (Fear on Java), dies Isaac Asimov, Sci-Fi author (I Robot), dies from kidney failure at 72 Anita Colby, U.S. model/actress/author (Pepsi Coke), dies at 77 Jacob "Bob" de Uyl, journalist/author (Restless Travel), dies at 61 1991 Death Francois Billetdoux, French author (Word Awake), dies in Philadelphia Patrick Hamilton, author (Gaslight, Rope, Angel Street), dies at 45 Theodore Geisel, author (Dr. Seuss), dies of cancer at 87 Gerome Ragal, author (Hair), dies of cancer at 48 Sylvia Porter, economist/author (Money Book), dies at 77 Jersy Kosinski, author (Being There), dies at 57 Yvonne Waegemans, Flemish author (Gnome Patjoepelke), dies at 81 1990 Event Salman Rushdie, author, ordered to death by Iran for blasphemy, appears in public for 1st time in 2 years 1990 Death Horst Bienek, German author, dies Renate Rubinstein, author/columnist (Tamar), dies Roald Dahl, Br short story author (Sweet Mystery of Life), dies at 74 K L Poll, journalist/author, dies Hugh MacLennan, Canadian Author Anya Seton, U.S. author, dies Lawrence Durrell, Indian/English author (Mount Olive), dies at 78 Norman Maclean, American Author Irving Wallace, author (Book of Lists, Peoples Almanac), dies at 74 Irmtraud Morgner, writer, freelance author, used magical realism to address the role of gender in East German society, dies of cancer in Berlin, East Germany Laurence J Peter, author (Peter Princible), dies of a stroke at 70 Robert F Adams, U.S., sci-fi author (Castaways in Time), dies at 57 1989 Death Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English journalist/author, dies at 87 Mary McCarthy, author (Group), dies, at 77 1989 Event Burma government puts author Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest Isidore Feinstein Stone, author (I F Stone's Weekly), dies at 81 Earl Nightingale, author, motivational speaker, his radio program, 'Our Changing World', most highly syndicated radio program ever, recorded over 7,000 radio programs, dies Edward Abbey (environmental author), dies after surgery at 62 U.S. authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman Rushdee, author of "Satanic Rituals" Thomas Bernhard, most prominent German-speaking postwar era author, writer, playwright, novelist, dies at 58 of tuberculosis in Ohlsdorf, Upper Austria 1988 Death Joachim Prinz, author/Rabbi of Berlin (1926-37), dies at 86 Max Shulman, author (Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap), dies at 69 Eleanor Estes, author (Ginger Pye, Moffats), dies at 82 Clifford D[onald] Simak, sci-fi author (Hugo, Way Station), dies at 83 Marghanita Laski, English author (Victorian chaise-lounge), dies 1987 Death [Gordon] Randall [P D] Garrett, author (Lord Darcy), dies at 60 Rewi Alley, New Zealand author, pro Chinese communist, dies at 90 in Beijing Marguerite Yourcenard, author (Memoirs of Hadrien), dies at 84 James A. Baldwin, American Author Jean Helion, artist/author (Museum of Living Art), dies at 83 Theodore Brameld, author (Use of Explosive Ideas), dies at 83 Alfred Bester, sci-fi author (Dark Side of Earth), dies at 73 Bob Tadema Sporry, author, dies at 75 Viktor P Nekrasov, Ukraine architect/author (Soldiers), dies at 76 Alice B[radley] Sheldon, sci-fi author (Byte Beautiful), dies at 71 C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore, author (Judgment Night), dies at 76 Margaret Laurence, Canadian author, dies at 60 Peggy Bacon, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads), dies at 91 1986 Death Gardner F[rancis] Fox, author (Kothar-Barbarian Swordsman), dies at 75 Virginia C. Andrews, American Author Paul Tournier, author, physician, famous Christian physician, pioneer of person-centered psychotherapy, wrote 'Medecine de la Personne', advocating we are more than our body, we are spiritual beings, dies from carcinoma, Troinex, Switzerland Jorge Luis Borges, Arg author (Book of Sand), dies in Geneva at 86 Robert E Howard, sci-fi author (Conan the Conqueror), dies at 80 Simone de Beauvoir, French author (Deuxieme Sexe), dies at 86 Manly Wade Wellman, sci-fi author (Devil's Planet), dies at 82 Frank [Patrick] Herbert, sci-fi author (Dune), dies at 65 L[aFayette] Ron[ald] Hubbard, author (Death Quest), dies at 74 Marcel Arland, French author (L'ordre, Lumiere du Soir), dies at 86 1985 Death Stanley G[rauman] Weinbaum, U.S., sci-fi author (Red Peri), dies at 85 1985 Event French author Claude Simon won the Nobel Prize in literature Charlotte White, U.S. author (New Yorker, Charlotte's Web), dies at 86 Italo Calvino, sci-fi author (T-Zero, Mr. Palomar), dies at 61 Theodore Sturgeon, sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar), dies at 67 Elizabeth Julesberg, author (Dick and Jane), dies 1984 Death Norman Krasna, author (Dear Ruth), dies of a heart attack at 74 Laurie Langenbach, author, dies at 37 Truman Capote, author (In Cold Blood), dies at 59 Rudolf Hagelstange, German author (Zeit fur ein Lacheln), dies at 72 A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, author (Empress of Outer Space), dies at 72 1983 Death Mignon McLaughlin, journalist, author, contributed to Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Vogue magazines, Managing Editor, Glamour magazine, famous quote, 'Anything you lose automatically doubles in value', dies in Coral Gables, Florida Mary Renault [Challans], British author (Funeral games), dies at 78 Benjamin V Cohen, U.S. author of New Deal-legislation, dies at 88 Zenna [Chlarson] Henderson, author (Anything Box), dies at 65 Rebecca West, Irish Author [Dallas] Mack/McCord Reynolds, sci-fi author (Earth War), dies at 65 1982 Death Burton Turkus, lawyer/author/TV host (Mr Arsenic), dies at 80 Hermine Heijermans, author (Snikken en Smartlapjes), dies at 80 John Cheever, Pulitzer prize winning author, dies at 70 in Ossining Mario Praz, Italian author (Casa della vita), dies at 85 Philip K[indred] Dick, author (Hugo-1963, Dr. Futurity), dies at 53 1981 Death Will Durant, U.S. author (story of civilization), dies at 96 Ariel Durant, U.S. author (Story of Civilization), dies at 83 1981 Birthday Nicole Richie, actress, socialite, known for television series, 'The Simple Life' with Paris Hilton, author of 'The Truth About Diamonds' Anita Loos, U.S. (stage)author (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), dies at 88 D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones, sci-fi author (Colossus), dies at 65 A[rchibald] J[oseph] Cronin, physician/author (Citadel), dies at 84 1980 Death Dorothy Day, author (Stump the Authors), dies at 83 Katherine A Porter, U.S. author (Ship of Fools, Pulit-66), dies at 90 Henry Miller, American Author Anna van Wageningen-Salomons, Dut author (Unspoilt Dream), dies at 94 Joy Adamson, author (Born Free), killed by her servant at 69 1979 Death Arno Schmidt, German writer, author, translator, individualist, solipsist, admired for colloquial language style and theory of etyms he developed in magnum opus, titled Zettels Traum, dies at 65 Jean Stafford, U.S. author (Boston Adventure), dies at 63 1978 Death Ignazio Silone, Italian author (Fontamara, Pane e vino), dies at 78 Nicolas Bentley, British Author Brackett Hamilton Leigh, Douglass, author (Ginger Star), dies at 62 Faith Baldwin, U.S. author (They Who Love), dies at 84 Eric Frank Russell, sci-fi author (Hugo, Deep Space), dies at 73 Vitorino Nemesio, Portuguese author (Presenea), dies at 76 1977 Death Harriet Freezer, Dutch journalist/author, dies at 66 HA Rey, author of popular constellation book, dies at 78 Henry Williamson, English author (Tarka the Otter), dies 1977 Event Alex Haley, author of "Roots," awarded Pulitzer Prize William E. Vaughan, pseudonym Burton Hills, columnist, author, wrote for Kansas City Star newspaper 1946 - 1977, published articles in Better Homes and Gardens, Reader's Digest, often quoted and best-remembered for writing style employing folksy aphorisms, died age 61 from lung cancer Edmond [Moore] Hamilton, U.S., sci-fi author (Danger Planet), dies at 72 1976 Death Andre Malraux, Berger, author (Conquerors)/Minister of Culture, dies Eyvind Johnson, Swedish author (Nobel-1974), dies at 76 Karel M J F Cruysberghs, Flemish author (On the Pulpit), dies at 85 Thomas Burnett Swann, sci-fi author (Day of Minotaur), dies at 47 Edgar Pangborn, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy), dies at 66 1975 Death Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet/author/director, murdered at 53 James Blish, American Author James [Benjamin] Blish, sci-fi author (Star Trek Reader), dies at 54 William F Jenkins, author (Time Tunnel, Land of Giants), dies at 78 Maxwell Maltz, cosmetic surgeon, author, self-help pioneer, invented Psycho-Cybernetics, system to improve one's self-image, lead a better life, wrote, 'Psycho-Cybernetics', believes positive self-view key to achieving goals, dies Ruth Schaumann, German author/painter/sculptor, dies at 75 Laszlo Nemeth, Hungarian physician/author (Galilei/Iszony), dies at 73 Robert Neumann, Austrian/British author (False Flag), dies at 77 1975 Birthday Danica McKellar, born in LaJolla, California, actress, author, mathematician, appeared on 'The Wonder Years' television show, wrote, 'Math Doesn't Suck' and 'Kiss My Math' 1974 Death Amy Vanderbilt, U.S. author (Complete book of etiquette), dies at 66 Hugues Panassie, French jazz saxophonist/author, dies at 62 Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian/US author (Angry Angel), dies at 83 Jacqueline Susann, author (Valley of the Dolls), dies of cancer at 53 Baldur von Schirach, German author/nazi politician, dies at 67 Par Lagerkvist, Swedish author (Dwarf, Nobel 1951), dies at 83 Jan Arends, Dutch poet/author, dies at 48 1973 Death Karl H Waggerl, Austria author (Green Friends), dies at 75 Trijntje "Nine" van de Schaaf, author (Fries dorpsleven), dies at 91 M Revis, Willem Fisherman, author 'People that Mutiny', dies at 68 Pearl S[ydenstricker] Buck, author (Good Earth-Nobel 1938), dies at 80 Vera Fjodorova Panova, Russian author (Sputniki), dies at 67 1972 Death Adrian J Zoetmulder, author (God's Hour), dies at 91 Henry M de Montherlant, French author (Port Royal), dies at 76 Jacques Gans, Dutch author/journalist, dies at 63 Raymond Brulez, Flemish author (Schoone slaapster), dies at 76 1972 Birthday Geri Halliwell, born in Watford, England, author, philanthropist, known as 'Ginger Spice' from band, the Spice Girls, representative for the United Nations Population Fund Adriaan J. Zoetmulder, author/director, Eindhovens Newspaper Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese author (Nobel 1968), dies at 72 Fredric [William] Brown, sci-fi author (Martians Go Home), dies at 65 Edgar P Snow, U.S. author/journalist (Battle for Asia), dies at 66 Natalie Clifford Barney, American Author 1971 Death Walter Van Tilburg Clark, U.S. author (Ox-Bow Incident), dies at 62 Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author and poet (Brass Garden), dies at 72 Jan Greshoff, Dutch poet/author/journalist (Last Things), dies at 82 Mary Dorna, Dutch author, dies at 79 1970 Death Cyril M Scott, English composer/author (Alchemist), dies at 91 1970 Event French author Regis Debray freed in Bolivia Jan Drda, Czechoslovakian author (Nema Barikada), dies at 55 Yukio Mishima, Japanese author/nationalist (Harakiri), dies at 45 Napolean Hill, American Author Unica Zurn, author, painter, dies at 54 Soviet author Alexander I Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature 1970 Birthday Aisha Tyler, born in San Francisco, California, actress, writer, author, appeared on 'Ghost Whisperer', 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation', 'Friends' television shows Ralph W. Sockman, Protestant pastor, author, successful radio show, National Radio Pulpit, considered by Time magazine as the best Protestant preacher in the U.S., dies at age 80 John Gunther, author/host (John Gunther's High Road), dies at 68 Emmy van Lokhorst, author, dies at 78 Nigel M Balchin, English author (My Executioner), dies at 61 Tarjei Vesaas, Nowegian author/novelist/writer (Isslottet), dies at 72 1969 Birthday Sarah Vowell, American Author 1969 Death Louise L de Vilmorin, French poet/author (History d'aimer), dies at 67 1969 Event Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union Bryant H. McGill, born in Mobile, Alabama, editor, author, celebrity publicist, creator, celebrity verification group, books include the 'McGill English Dictionary of Rhyme' Itih Walracen, Sudanese widow of author William Walraven, dies Erika Mann, German/US author/daughter of Thomas Mann, dies Leonard Woolf, British Author Witold Gombrowicz, Polish author (Ferdydurke, Dziennik), dies at 64 Gabriel M-E-R Chevallier, French author (La Peur), dies at 73 Romulo Gallegos, Venezuela author/president (1947-48), dies at 84 Max Eastman, American Author Rudolf Pannwitz, German author/philosopher (Urblik), dies at 87 John Wyndham, Parkes Lucas B Harris, author (Chrysalids), dies at 65 Franz T Csokor, Austria author (Gottes General), dies at 83 1968 Death John Steinbeck, author (Grapes of Wrath, Nobel 1940, 62), dies at 66 Enid Mary Blyton, author (Before I Go To Sleep), dies at 70 Arnold Zweig, German antifascist/author (Junge frau 1914), dies at 81 Upton B Sinclair, U.S. author (Jungle), dies at 90 Willem A Wagenaar, Dutch journalist/author (3,000 meter), dies Paul JM Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author, dies at 78 Robert Arthur Ley, sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X), dies at 47 Ernest Claes, Belgium, author (The White), dies at 82 Giovanni Guareschi, Italian author: Don Camillo/Peppone, dies at 60 Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian sailor/author, dies at 76 Helen Keller, blind and deaf/author (Let us Have Faith), dies at 87 Harold G Nicolson, English author (English sense of humor), dies at 71 Edna Ferber, author (American Beauty), dies at 78 Edna Ferber, U.S. author (Giant, Showboat), dies at 80 Fannie Hurst, U.S. author (Anatomy of Me), dies at 78 1968 Birthday Warren Ellis, British Author 1967 Death Manuel A Fraai, Curaeaos author (Silly Aguero), dies at 70 1967 Event French author Regis Debray sentenced to 30 years in Bolivia Carson McCullers, U.S. author (Heart is a Lonely Hunter), dies at 50 Esther Forbes, American Author Albertine Sarrazin, French author (La Traversiere), dies at 29 Bruce Barton, American Author Arthur Mitchell Ransome, critic/children's book author, dies 1967 Birthday Poppy Z. Brite, American Author J Langston Hughes, U.S. author (Tambourines to Glory), dies at 65 French author Regis Debray caught in Bolivia Yugoslav author Mihaljo Mihaljov sentenced 4 years Michael Easton, born in Long Beach, California, actor, appeared on television shows, Ally McBeal and The Practice, poet, author, wrote Soul Stealer Meg Cabot, American Author 1966 Death Ina Boudier-Baker, Dutch author (Poverty), dies at 88 1966 Birthday Sarah Zettel, American Author Matt Drudge, American Celebrity, author of "The Drudge Report" Watze Cuperus, Frisian author (Struggle and Blessing), dies at 75 Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, sci-fi author (Space Lords), dies at 53 Maurice Roelants, Belgian author (Prayer for a Good End), dies at 70 Cecil Scott Forester, English author (Horatio Hornblower), dies at 66 Mari Sandoz, U.S. author (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 64 1966 Event Author Valery Tarsis banished in U.S.S.R. Kathleen Norris, U.S. author, dies at 85 1965 Birthday Nicholas Sparks, born in Omaha, Nebraska, bestselling author, writer, novelist, wrote, 'A Walk to Remember', author of novels including, 'Nights in Rodanthe', 'The Last Song', 'The Notebook' 1965 Death William Somerset Maugham, English author (Razor's Edge), dies at 91 Alexander King, author (Jack Paar Show), dies at 66 E[dward] E[lmer] "Doc" Smith, sci-fi author (Triplanetary), dies at 75 Shirley Hardie Jackson, U.S. author (Road Through the Wall), dies at 45 J. K. Rowling, born in Yate, England, author, 'Harry Potter' series of fantasy novels, listed as the 12th richest woman in Britain, 2008, with a net worth of $798 million Chris A. Bridges, American Author Roger Vailland, French author, dies at 57 Howard Spring, British author (Heaven Lies About Us), dies at 76 Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian/poet/author, dies at 70 Quentin Reynolds, newscaster (Its News to Me)/author (FBI), dies at 62 Kevin Williamson, American Author George Calinescu, Romanian author (Lauda Lucrorilor), dies at 65 Alan Cumming, born in Aberfeldy, Scotland, actor, director, author, played Boris Ivanovich Grishenko in 'GoldenEye' James Bond film 1964 Death Edith L Sitwell, English poet/author (Wheels), dies at 77 1964 Birthday Don Cheadle, born in Kansas City, Missouri, actor, producer, author, appeared in film, 'Boogie Nights' and Academy Award-nominated 'Hotel Rwanda' Anne de Vries, Dutch teacher/author (Bartje), dies at 60 H[enry] Beam Piper, U.S., sci-fi author (4 Day Planet), dies at 60 1964 Event French philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize Tavis Smiley, American Author Dan Brown, American Author Ruth Picardie, born in Reading, England, journalist, editor, The Guardian, The Independent newspapers, author of Before I Say Goodbye, memoir of living with breast cancer Margaret Haddix, American Author Rachel L Carson, U.S. biologist/author (Silent spring), dies at 56 A Marja, Dutch author (Man of Day and Night), dies at 46 Edgar Maass, German/US author (Verdun), dies at 67 1963 Death Aldous L Huxley, English author (Devils of Loudon), dies at 69 C[live] S[taples] Lewis, Hamilton, author (Silver Chair), dies at 64 William R Titterton, English author (Candle of the Stars), dies at 87 C. S. Lewis, English Author Elsa Maxwell, author (Jack Paar Show), dies at 80 Jean Cocteau, French author (La Voie Humaine), dies at 73 Eugene Baie, Belgian author (Le siecle of Gueux), dies at 89 William Edward Burghardt du Bois, educational editor/author, dies Pola Gojawiczynska, Polish author (Stolica), dies at 64 1963 Birthday Joel Osteen, born in Houston, Texas, pastor, Lakewood Church, ministry reaches over seven million viewers per week in the U.S., author of 'Your Best Life Now' 1962 Death Herman J Friedericy, Dutch author (Last General), dies at 62 1962 Event American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature 1962 Birthday Taslima Nasrin, born in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, doctor turned author, fled Bangladesh to live in exile since 1994, radical feminist and critic of Islam, works for New York University Tammy Bruce, American Author Hermann Hesse, German/Swiss poet/author (Nobel 1946), dies at 85 Herman Hesse, German Author Leon Kruczkowski, Polish author (Niemcy), dies at 62 Gina Gershon, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, film roles include, 'Cocktail', 'Bound', 'Showgirls', author of children's book, 'Camp Creepy Time' Will Vesper, German author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 79 David Foster Wallace, born in New York, author, novelist, short story and literary fiction writer 1961 Birthday Ann Coulter, born in New York City, New York, conservative political commentator, author, 'Godless: The Church of Liberalism', 'How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)' Edwin "Rick" Bakker, Dutch author: Rick's Report, AIDS Diary 1961 Death Antonius F "Anton" Coolen, author (Peelwerkers), dies at 64 Alexander Cohen, Dutch anarchist/author, dies at 97 Elmer R Diktonius, Finnish musicologist/author (Stenkol), dies at 65 Tom Holt, born in London, author, British novelist, writes mythopoeic novels that parody mythology, history, literature Greg Egan, born in Perth, Western Australia, author, science fiction, books include, 'Permutation City', 'Diaspora', 'Incandescence' Clarke Ashton Smith, sci-fi author (Lost Worlds), dies at 68 J H F Gronloh, Nescio, author (Above the Vale), dies at 80 David Leavitt, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, writer, gay literature, professor at Princeton, author of, 'The Lost Language of Cranes', 'The Body of Jonah Boyd', 'The Indian Clerk' Jim Goad, Australian Author Daniel Clowes, born in Chicago, Illinois, author, cartoonist, creator of 'Eightball', published graphic novels including, 'Ghost World' Dashiell Hammett, author (Sam Spade, Maltese Falcon), dies at 66 1960 Death Richard N Wright, U.S. author (Native son), dies at 52 in Paris France 1960 Birthday Neil Gaiman, born in Portchester, Hampshire, author, science fiction, wrote, 'Good Omens', 'The Sandman' comic book series Fjodor I Panfjorov, Russian author (Volga - matushka-reka), dies at 63 Chuck D, born in Roosevelt, New York, rapper, author, leader, Public Enemy, created politically, socially conscious rap music, focused on hip hop genre, albums include, 'Yo! Bum Rush the Show', 'Fear of a Black Planet' Pierre Reverdy, French author and poet (North-South), dies at 70 Jaron Lanier, born in New York City, New York, visual artist, author, computer scientist, popularized the term, 'virtual reality' Ernest Holmes, author, teacher, spiritualist, founded Religious Science movement, considered 'Science of Mind', part of New Thought movement, wrote metaphysical books, including 'The Science of Mind', founded 'Science of Mind' magazine, dies Tony Robbins, born in North Hollywood, California, self-help author, motivational speaker, books include, 'Awaken the Giant Within', founder, 'Anthony Robbins Foundation' Nevil Shute [Norway], Eng/Australia author (Town like Alice), dies at 60 Albert Camus, French author (Stranger), dies in an auto accident at 46 Chris van Abkoude, author (Pietje Bell, Kruimeltje), dies at about 79 1959 Birthday Neal Stephenson, born in Fort Meade, Maryland, author books include, 'The System of the World', ''Anathem', 'Quicksilver', 'The Confusion' 1959 Death Abdul Mouse, Indonesian nationalist foreman/author, dies at about 68 Ben Okri, born in London, of Nigerian descent, poet, author, won Booker Prize 1991, for book 'The Famished Road', described as a magic realist 1958 Death Fjodor W. Gladkow, Russian author (Cement), dies at 75 1958 Birthday Cornelia Funke, German Author Warner Fabian, S Adams, U.S. author (Great American Fraud), dies at 87 Theodore Krieger, German author (Forgotten Village), dies at 61 Anneka Rice, born in Cowbridge, Wales, born Anne Rice, television hostess, ITV's cooking show, 'Sunday Feast', author, star in 'The Vagina Monologues' Marie Carmichael Stopes, Scottish Author Michail M Zosjtsjenko, Russian author, dies at 62 Meredith Ann Pierce, U.S., sci-fi author, Darkangel Martinus Ballings, Flemish jesuit/author (Vocation), dies at 93 Francis Carco(pino), French author/critic (L'homme traque), dies at 71 Dorothy Straight, 4 year old author, How World Begun Mitch Albom, born in Passaic, New Jersey, author, screenwriter, sold over 26 million books worldwide, works include, 'Tuesdays with Morrie', 'The Five People You Meet in Heaven' Magdalene Szekely-Lulofs, author (Our Italian Employees), dies at 58 Ice-T, born in Newark, New Jersey, Tracy Marrow, musician, pioneer of gangsta rap, songwriter, actor, Grammy Award winner, author Henry Kuttner, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were), dies at 42 1957 Birthday Susan Powter, diet guru/author/talk show host, Susan Powter Show 1957 Death Dorothy Sayers, Atherton Fleming, author (Whose body), dies at 64 Dorothy L. Sayers, British Author Eric S. Raymond, American Author Margot SE Scharten-Antink, author (Catherina/Sprotje), dies at 88 Aleksei M Remizov, Russian author (Iveren), dies Ronald Shusett, Hamburg Germany, author, Project Mankind Lord Dunsany, Edward J M D Plunkett, author (Jorkens), dies at 79 1957 Event French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature Curzio Malaparte, Kurt E Suckert, Italian author (Kaputt), dies at 59 Marie C of Zeggelen, author (Dessajongen), dies at 87 Faye Resnick, author, Nicole Brown Simpson-Private Diary Alfred Doblin, German/French author/co-founder (Sturm), dies at 78 Richard Powers, born in Evanston, Illinois, author, wrote novel, 'The Time of Our Singing', 'Plowing the Dark', 'The Echo Maker', 'Generosity: An Enhancement' Jeff Hawkins, born in Huntington, New York, founder of Palm Computing, inventor of the Palm Pilot, founder of Handspring, inventor of Trio, author of, 'On Intelligence' Duncan Goodhew, born in England, Olympic gold medalist, most famous swimmer in the UK, author, motivational speaker Amy Goodman, born in Bay Shore, New York, journalist, author, host of 'Democracy Now!' public radio news program, focusing on peace, human rights movements John M. Ford, born in East Chicago, Indiana, author, science fiction and fantasy, poet, game designer, wrote, 'The Final Reflection', 'How Much Just for the Planet?' Christopher Morley, American Author Wyndham Lewis, English Author Laura Ingalls Wilder, U.S. author (Little House on Praries), dies at 90 Valery Larbaud, French author/novelist/writer (Amants), dies at 75 1956 Death Jeanne Cappe, Belgian author (Tres Grand Cardinal), dies at about 61 1956 Birthday Michael Connelly, American Author Giovanni Papini, Italian author and poet (Un Uomo Finito), dies at 75 Anthony Bourdain, born in New York City, New York, chef, author, 'Kitchen Confidential', host of television show, 'Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations' Gillian [Marucha] Bradshaw, U.S., sci-fi author, Hawk of May Aleksandr A Fadejev, Russian author (Young Guard), commits suicide at 54 David Guterson, American Author A. A. Milne, English Author Lynda Barry, born in Richland Center, Wisconsin, cartoonist, author, known for comic strip, 'Ernie Pook's Comeek', wrote 'The Good Times are Killing Me', 'What It Is' 1955 Birthday Tracy [Raye] Hickman, U.S., sci-fi author, Dragons of Spring Dawning Connie Palmen, Dutch author/widow of Ischa Meoer Steven Brust, Karl Zoltan, U.S., sci-fi author, Yendi, Jhereg 1955 Death W H van Eemlandt, Haasse, author (Treasure Hunter of Amstel), dies Ann Bancroft, born in Mendota Heights, Minnesota, author, teacher, adventurer, Arctic and Antarctic explorer, National Women's Hall of Fame inductee Caleb Carr, born in Manhattan, New York City, author, military historian, wrote, 'The Italian Secretary', 'Casing the Promised Land', 'The Alienist' Timothy Garton Ash, British Author Michael Pollan, born in Long Island, New York, professor of journalism, U of C, Berkeley, author, columnist, activist, wrote, 'The Omnivore's Dilemma', 'The Botany of Desire', 'In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto' Judith Tarr, U.S., sci-fi author, Isle of Glass, Ars Magica Jay McInerney, author, Bright Lights, Big City 1954 Death James Hilton, English author (Lost Horizon), dies at 54 1954 Birthday Sandra Cisneros, born in Chicago, Illinois, author, wrote, 'The House on Mango Street', 'Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories', a figure in Chicana literature Alex Cox, born in Bebington, Mereyside, England, screenwriter, film director, independent film producer, actor, author, directed film 'Repo Man', wrote book '10,000 Ways to Die' Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese Author Stig H Dagerman, Swedish author (Burned Child), dies at 31 Marika Stiernstedt, Swedish author (Froken Liwin), dies at 78 Michael P[aul] Kube-McDowell, U.S., sci-fi author, Enigma, Empery Lawrence Watt-Evans, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Sword of Bheleu Louise Erdrich, born in Little Falls, Minnesota, author, short story writer, wrote, 'Love Medicine, 'The Plague of Doves' Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian/author, dies at 67 Bruce Sterling, U.S., sci-fi author, Involution Ocean, Schismatrix Anne Lamott, born in San Fransisco, California, author and activist, wrote 'Grace: Thoughts on Faith' and 'Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith' Dean Inge, English Author Iain [Menzies] Banks, UK, sci-fi author, Wasp Factory Michael Bergdahl, American Author 1953 Birthday Tina Brown, born in Maidenhead, United Kingdom, journalist, magazine editor, talk-show host, columnist, author of The Diana Chronicles Alex Grey, born in Columbus, Ohio, sacred, visionary, psychedelic artist, co-founder, Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, author of 'Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics' Alan Moore, born in Northampton, England, author, wrote comic book series, 'Watchmen', 'From Hell' and 'V for Vendetta', wrote novel, 'Voice of Fire' Jennifer Roberson, U.S., sci-fi author, Shapechangers, Sword-Maker Michael Stean, born in London, England, professional chess player, author, winner, International Master and International Grandmaster titles in 1975 and 1977 1953 Death Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc, author (Path to Rome), dies at 82 Anna Quindlen, American author, journalist, and New York Times columnist Elsa Beskow, (Maartman), Swedish author (children's book), dies at 79 Yoko Shimada, Kumamota Japan, author, Kir Royal, actress, Shogun Rachilde, Marguerite Vallette-Eymery, French author, dies at 93 Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian author (Vidas Secas), dies at 60 Paul Krugman, born in New York, economist, liberal, political columnist, author, op-ed columnist for 'The New York Times', wrote, 'The Conscience of a Liberal' John Shirley, U.S., sci-fi author, Eclipse Penumbra, Eclipse Corona Debbie Steinbach, born in Fullerton, California, professional golfer, author, instructor, twelve-year LPGA Tour veteran, founder of Venus Golf, wrote, 'Venus on the Fairway', has provided over 5,000 individual golf lessons Hans Aanrud, Norwegian author (Storken), dies at 89 1952 Birthday Somtow Sucharitkul, SP Somtow, Thailand, science fiction author, Utopia Hunters Mel Smith, author, Morons From Outer Space 1952 Death Henriette Roland Holst-de Schalk, marxist author, dies at 82 Gloria Jean Watkins, born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, born Gloria Jean Watkins, author, feminist, focus on race, class, gender, wrote, 'Ain't I a Woman? : Black Women and Feminism' Rita Dove, born in Akron, Ohio, author, poet, won Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, Library of Congress 1993 Alexei Sayle, born in Anfield, England, actor, comedian, author, films include, 'Gorky Park', 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade', wrote, 'Mister Roberts' Gus Van Sant, born in Louisville, Kentucky, film director, musician, author, Academy-Award winning director of film, 'Good Will Hunting', other movies include, 'Milk', 'Elephant' Robert R[ick] McCammon, U.S., sci-fi author, Baal, Mystery Walk Marianne Williamson, born in Houston, Texas, spiritual activist, author, speaker, lecturer, wrote, 'A Course in Miracles', a program about choosing love over fear, 'A Return to Love', breakthrough success attributed to appearance on Oprah Winfrey Louise Cooper, UK, sci-fi author, Nemesis, Inferno, Infanta, Nocturne Diane E[lizabeth] Duane, U.S., sci-fi author, Door into Fire Alice Hoffman, born in New York City, New York, author, known for novel, 'Practical Magic', adapted for film Douglas Adams, born in England, author, Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy Tim[othy] Powers, U.S., sci-fi author, Epitaph in Rust, Night Moves Amy Tan, born in Oakland, California, author, wrote, 'The Bonesetter's Daughter', 'Saving Fish From Drowning', novel, 'The Joy Luck Club', became successful film 1951 Birthday Charles de Lint, Netherlands, sci-fi author, Moonhear, Mulengro, Yarrow 1951 Death Louis Pierard, Belgian journalist/author (London sketches), dies at 65 Terry McMillan, American Author Nicholas Yermakov, U.S., sci-fi author, Epiphany, Jehad, Clique Timothy Zahn, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Cobra Strike Orson Scott Card, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Nebula, Ender's War Greg[ory Dale] Bear, U.S., sci-fi author, 2 Hugos, Eon, Eternity Emmet Fox, American Author James Norman Hall, American Author Suze Orman, born in Chicago, Illinois, television host, financial advisor, author, host of 'The Suzie Orman Show' on CNBC, books include, 'The Road to Wealth' Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips, author (Issue Beukennoot), dies at 65 Roxanne Pulitzer, born in Glendale California, author, Prize Pulitzer Andrei P Platonov, Russian author (Prok, Kotlovan), dies at 51 Frans Kellendonk, author, Ruin, The Good for Nothing 1950 Birthday Karl Rove, born in Denver, Colorado, Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush, author, 'Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight' Kevin O'Donnell, Jr., U.S., sci-fi author, Caverns, Reefs, Lava 1950 Death Hedwig Courts-Mahler, German author, dies at 83 Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish Author George Bernard Shaw, Irish author (Pygmalion), dies at 94 Fran Lebowitz, author/actress, Resident Alien Edna St. Vincent Millay, American Author Wally Lamb, born in America, author, novelist, featured in Oprah's Book Club, books include 'The Hour I First Believed' 'I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison', 'She's Come Undone', 'I Know This Much is True' Nora Roberts, born in Silver Spring, Maryland, author, wrote 165 romance novels, Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame inductee, sold over 280 million books David Brin, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Nebula, Sundiver, Postman Carel P de Haseth, Curaeaos author/publisher, Bida after kolo James P[aul] Blaylock, U.S., sci-fi author, Elfin Ship, Homunculus Helene Weijel, author, In the Street Without a Coat Peggy Noonan, author, What I Saw at the Revolution Robyn Davidson, born in Miles, Australia, author, travel writer, wrote 'Tracks' Mercedes R. Lackey, U.S., sci-fi author, Arrow's Fall, Magic's Pawn Mercedes Lackey, American Author Tim Russert, born in New York, American television journalist, author, lawyer, 'Meet the Press' moderator Edgar Rice Burroughs, sci-fi author (Tarzan of the Apes), dies at 74 M Joseph V d'Arbaud, French poet/author (Li cant palustre), dies at 76 Voranc Prezikov, Lovro Kuhar, Slavic author (Jamnica), dies at 56 Harry Blomberg, Swedish author (Jacobs Drom), dies at 56 Glyn Ford, born in Gloucester, England, politician, author, Labor Party, member of Gibraltar Socialist Labor Party, Member of European Parliament for South West England, expert on Asia, wrote, 'North Korea on the Brink: Struggle for Survival' Gloria Naylor, U.S. author, Women of Brewster Place George Orwell, author (Animal Farm, 1984), dies in London at 46 1949 Death Hervey Allen, American Author 1949 Birthday R[oberta] A[nn] MacAvoy, U.S., sci-fi author, Damiano's Lute, Raphael Mary Gordon, U.S., author Gayl Jones, U.S. author and poet, Corregidora, Song for Anninho Peter Ackroyd, British Author Martin Amis, British Author Chris Van Allsburg, American Author Sigrid Undset, Norse author (Olav Audunsson, Nobel 1928), dies at 67 Ken Follet, born in Cardiff, Wales, author, sold over 100 million copies of books including 'The Key to Rebecca', 'World Without End' Graham Swift, British Author Christopher Hitchens, American Author Larry Wall, Canadian Author Elizabeth George, American Author Jonathan Carroll, American Author 1948 Birthday Dick Morris, American Author Spider Robinson, Canada, sci-fi author, 3 Hugo, Callahan's Secret 1948 Death Bokke RS Pollema journalist/author (Lock of hair and loen), dies at 65 Diane Ackerman, born in Waukegan, Illinois, American poet, author and naturalist, wrote 'Wife of Light' and 'A Natural History of Love' Shakti Gawain, author, personal development expert, environmentalist, wrote series of successful books, including 'Creative Visualization' and 'Creating True Prosperity', books have sold over 10 million copies, co-founder, New World Library Publishing Company George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, U.S., sci-fi author, Wild Cards Lynn/Marilyn [Lorraine] Abbey, U.S., sci-fi author, Black Flame Vonda N[eel] McIntyre, U.S., sci-fi author, Star Trek II, III, IV Robert P Holdstock, UK, sci-fi author, Ghost Dance, Labyrinth Brian M[ichael] Stableford, UK, sci-fi author, Day of Wrath Ian Mcewan, British Author Claude McKaye, Jamaican/US author (Banjo, Home to Harlem), dies at 57 Terry Pratchett, English Author Terry Prachett, English Author Dan Simmons, American Author Joan [Carol] D[ennison] Vinge, U.S., sci-fi author, 2 Hugos, Dune Pamela Sargent, U.S., sci-fi author, Venus of Dreams, Cloned Lives William Gibson, born in Canada, sci-fi author, Neuromancer, Count Zero Margaret [Edith] Weis, U.S., sci-fi author, Dragons of Spring Dawning Patricia [Anne] McKillip, U.S., sci-fi author, Fool's Run Robert Brasillach, French author/nazi collaborator, dies at 38 Lynn Abbey, American Author 1947 Birthday Brian C Daley, U.S., sci-fi author, Exploits of Han Solo, Tron 1947 Death St-Georges de Bouchelier, French author (Children's Carnival), dies at 71 Arthur Machen, Welsh Author, dies Wolfgang Borchert, German author (Draussen vor of the Tur), dies at 26 Emmuska Orczy, British author (Scarlet Pimpernel), dies at 82 Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Paradisets Have), dies at 66 Stephen King, U.S., sci-fi author, Carrie, Shining, Kujo Tanith Lee, UK, sci-fi author, Don't Bite the Sun Willy Russell, author/playwright, Shirley Valentine, Educating Rita Daniele Steel, New York City, author, Rememberance, Zoya, Star, Daddy Dave Barry, born in Armonk, New York, humorist, author, Pulitzer-prize winner for Commentary 1988, wrote columns for the Miami Herald, books include 'Big Trouble', 'Dave Barry Turns 40', Dave Barry's Greatest Hits', 'Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys', style capitalizes on absurdities Octavia E[stelle] Butler, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Wild Seed Linda Chavez, American Author Sara Paretsky, American Author Karin Struck, born in Germany, author, wrote women's literature, politically liberal, openly opposes abortion, converted to Catholicism, 1996 Stephen R. Donaldson, U.S., sci-fi author, Lord Foul's Bane Willa Cather, American Author Robert Kiyosaki, American Author James Patterson, American Author Laurie Langenbach, Dutch author John C. Maxwell, born in Garden City, Michigan, evangelical Christian, author, pastor, speaker, leadership expert, wrote over 50 books on leadership, sold over 13 million copies including 'Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow' Paul Auster, U.S. author, poet and director, Mr Vertigo, Smoke George Alec Effinger, U.S., sci-fi author, Nick of Time Forrest Reid, Irish author/critic (Young Tom, Apostate), dies at 71 1946 Birthday Alan Dean Foster, U.S., sci-fi author, Midworld, Flinx in Flux 1946 Death Herman de Man, Salomon H Hamburger, author/Radio Orange, dies Deepak Chopra, born in Punjab, British India, author, speaker, physician, co-founded the Chopra Center, made cameo appearance in movie, 'The Love Guru', 2008 Christopher Francis Palmer, orchestrator/Author Jerome Corsi, American Author Humphrey Carpenter, English Author H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, sci-fi author (Time Machine), dies at 79 H. G. Wells, English Author Gertrude Stein, American Author Gertrude Stein, U.S./French author and poet (Ida, Tender Buttons), dies at 72 Michael Shea, U.S., sci-fi author, Fat Face, Polyphemus Robert Asprin, American Author Elizabeth A. Lynn, U.S., sci-fi author, Watchtower, Red Hawk Janet E[llen] Morris, U.S., sci-fi author, Golden Sword, Tempus Mike Murdock, born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, author, televangelist, pastor, Wisdom Center ministry, Fort Worth, Texas, hosts Wisdom Keys with Mick Murdock television program, mentored with Jimmie Swaggart, preached with Tammy Faye Bakker Rudy/Rudolf [von Bittner] Rucker, U.S., sci-fi author, Wetware Phyllis Eisenstein, U.S., sci-fi author, Sorcerer's Son, Born to Exile Dan Millman, born in America, author, wrote, published 14 self-help books focusing on human potential, wrote 'The Life You Were Born to Live' 1945 Death Mogens Klitgaard, Danish author (Brunkul), dies at 39 1945 Birthday Karl Edward Wagner, U.S., sci-fi author, Bloodstone, Night Winds Tracy Kidder, American Author Rachid Mimouni, born in Boudouaou, Algeria, author, teacher at Ecole superieure du commerce, Algiers, wrote 'La Malediction' Michael Bishop, U.S., sci-fi author, Nebula, Stolen Faces 1945 Event Dutch author A M de Jong's murderer Ton van Gog escapes David A[llen] Drake, U.S., sci-fi author, Cross the Stars, Rolling Hot Cheryl Waltz, author/film producer Margot Asquith, English Author Dean Koontz, U.S., sci-fi author, Star Quest, Beastchild Mark J. Green, born in Brooklyn, New York, lawyer and author, Closed Enterprise System Elizabeth Moon, American Author Thomas Brasch, born in Germany, writer, author, poet, film director, Best Director, 1981 Bavarian Film Awards Douglas R Hofstadter, New York City, author, Godel, Escher, Bach Clarissa Pinkola Estes, born in Indiana, writer, psychologist, certified Jungian psychoanalyst, poet, author, wrote bestseller, 'Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype' [Eileen] Joy[ce] Chant [Rutter], UK, sci-fi author, High Kings Ada Negri, Italian poet/author (Fatalit ), dies at 74 Barry Holstein Lopez, U.S. author, Of Wolves and Men Barry Lopez, American Author 1944 Birthday Jack L[aurence] Chalker, U.S., sci-fi author, Saga of Well World 1944 Death Lode Zielens, Flemish author/journalist, dies at 43 Claudia Dreifus, interviewer/author, 7 Stories Katherine Kurtz, UK, sci-fi author, Deryni Rising, Saint Camber Vernor [Steffen] Vinge, U.S., sci-fi author, Witling, True Names Dario Bellezza, born in Rome, Italy, poet, author, playwright, associate director of Nuovi argomenti, published texts by Alberto Moravia, won the Viareggio prize in 1976 for Morte segreta, the Gatto prize in 1991 Molly Ivins, born in California, newspaper columnist, author, political commentator Glen [Charles] Cook, U.S., sci-fi author, Shadowline, Star's End Janet Dailey, U.S., author Max Brand, Frederick Schiller Faust, western author, dies Betsy Finley Ashton, broadcast journalist/author/lecturer Arthur T Quiller-Couch [Q], British author/critic, dies at 80 Christoph Hein, born in Bad Duben, Germany, writer, prize-winning author, translator, studied philosophy, wrote 1982 novella The Distant Lover Ann [Elizabeth] Maxwell, U.S., sci-fi author, Jaws of Menx Benjamin Cremieux, French author (In Buchenwald), dies at 55 David Vogel, Ukrainian author, dies in Auschwitz at 52 Richard Ford, U.S. author, Sportswriter 1944 Event Belgium resistance fighter/author Kamiel van Baelen arrested David Gerrold, Jerrold David Friedman, author, World of Star Trek Jack Henry Abbott, American Author Terry Brooks, U.S., sci-fi author, Sword of Shannara Henry Kravis, author, The Money Machine 1943 Death John Bouber, Blom, actor/author (Bluejackets), dies at 22 Martin Raschke, German author/war correspondent, dies at 38 1943 Birthday Michael Ondaatje, Canadian Author Neale Donald Walsch, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, author, wrote series of books titled, 'Conversations With God', which include, 'What God Wants', 'Happier than God', 'Friendship with God', ' Communion with God' Mick Farren, UK, sci-fi author, Synaptic Manhunt, Citizen Phaid A[braham] [P] Merritt, author (Moon Pool, Creep Shadow!), dies at 58 Nelson DeMille, American Author Edward Cowie, born in Birmingham, England, composer, orchestral, chamber, choral works, conductor, painter, author Joe [William] Haldeman, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Nebula, Worlds Apart Joe Haldeman, American Author Ian Watson, born in UK, sci-fi author, Book of Being, Whores of Babylon Ewald Vanvugt, author, Kiss of Delight, Seed of Love Leo Frankowski, U.S., sci-fi author, High Tech Knight, Flying Warlord 1942 Birthday Joe McGinniss, Rye, New York, author, Selling of President 1968 John Crowley, U.S., sci-fi author, Deep, Beasts, Novelty Tom Peters, born in Baltimore, Maryland, writer, author, speaker, consultant, business management practices expert, co-wrote, 'In Search of Excellence', believes the least amount of overhead business processes can produce empowering decision-makers within an entire company organization Shere Hite, author/sex therapist Donna Leon, American Author Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, U.S., sci-fi author, Hotel Transylvania Nancy Ann Dibble, Netherlands, sci-fi author, Summerfair C[arolyn] J[anice] Cherry, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Faded Sun Trilogy Robert Ballard, explorer/geologist/author/discoverer, Titanic in 1985 James Topping, author of CP/M 1942 Death [Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll, Norwegian author (Enken), dies at 69 Barry B[rookes] Longyear, U.S., sci-fi author, City of Baraboo Kitty Kelley, author, Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra Samuel Ray Delany, Jr., U.S., sci-fi author, Towers of Toron, Neveryona Erica Jong, born in New York City, author, Fear of Flying Jacqueline Lichtenberg, U.S., sci-fi author, Star Trek Lives!, Dreamspy Ama Ata Aidoo, born in Saltpond, Ghana, Ghanaian author and playwright, wrote 'The Dilemma of a Ghost' Paul Preuss, U.S., sci-fi author, Medusa Encounter, Starfire Michael D[iamond] Resnick, sci-fi author, Sideshow, Eros Ascending Adriaan van Dis, author/TV-host, Nathan Sid, In Africa 1941 Birthday Lex Hixon, religious teacher/author Daniel Pinkwater, born in Memphis, Tennessee, author, children's books, critic, commentator, National Public Radio, Weekend Edition Saturday 1941 Death Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet/author (Das Gewitter), dies at 46 Anne Rice, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, author, Interview with a Vampire James P[atrick] Hogan, UK, sci-fi author, Giants' Star Stephanie H (Lapidoth-)Swarth, author (Lonely flowers, dies Michael Pennington, actor/author, Return of Sherlock Holmes 1941 Event Author Irving Wallace marries writer Sylvia Kahn Adriaan Venema, Dutch journalist/author, Mussert George Will, born in Champaign, Illinois, journalist, author, wrote, editor, National Review magazine 1972 - 1978, awarded Pulitzer Prize for Commentary Virginia [Adeline] Woolf-Stephen, author (To Lighthouse), suicide 59 Virginia Woolf, British Author Stephen Dobyns, U.S. author and poet, Cold Dog Soup 1940 Death F Scott Fitzgerald, author (Zelda), dies of a heart attack at 44 Nicolae Iorga, author/president of Romania, murdered by fascist Alfonso Hernandez Cata, Cuban author (El parage), dies 1940 Birthday Maxine Hong Kingston, U.S., author Frances FitzGerald, New York City, journalist/author, Fire in the Lake George Greenstein, author, Secret of a Jewish Baker Timothy Severin, author/explorer Norman [Richard] Spinrad, U.S., sci-fi author, Child of Fortune Norman Spinrad, American Author Marie Bregendahl, Danish author (& dodsnat), dies at 72 Abbas Kiarostami, author/director, Under the Olive Trees, Close Up Joseph Brodsky, U.S.S.R., author, Less than 1, Nobel 1987 Emma Goldman, U.S. anarchists/feminist/author (Living My Life), dies Euphemia "Phemia" Molkenboer, Dutch author/poster artist, dies at 56 Richard Monaco, U.S., sci-fi author, Grail War, Final Quest Jeffrey Archer, born in England, Tory-Commons, author, Matter of Honor Russell Banks, American Author Selma O Lagerlof, Swed author (Nils Holgersson, Nobel-09), dies at 81 Thomas M[ichael] Disch, U.S., sci-fi author, Genocides, 102 H-Bombs 1939 Birthday Michael J Moorcock, England, sci-fi author, Alien Heat, Bull and Spear Margaret E Atwood, author and poet Auberon Waugh, British Author Barry [Norman] Malzberg, sci-fi author, Revelations, Beyond Apollo Warwick Hutton, born in Britain, illustrator, artist, author, created illustrations for children's books, worked with texts by Hans Christian Andersen M[ichael] A[nthony] Foster, U.S., sci-fi author, Gameplayers of Zan Christina Crawford, author, Joan's daughter, Mommie Dearest Margaret Drabble, British author, Needle's Eye Patrick Cormack, born in Grimsby, England, politician, journalist, author, historian, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for South Staffordshire Ken Blanchard, born in Orange, New Jersey, author, professional speaker, management expert, co-wrote, 'The One Minute Manager' with Spencer Johnson, sold over 13 million copies in 37 languages, wrote more than 30 successful books Amos Oz, Jerusalem Israel, author, My Michael 1939 Death Alfredo Panzini, Italian author (Il Bacio de Lesba), dies at 75 Constance Lindsay Skinner, author (Rivers of America), dies at 57 Jim Bouton, born in Newark, New Jersey, pitcher, New York Yankees, author of Ball Four Adam Osborne, born in Thailand, author, computer designer, book and software publisher, founded and wrote memoir about Osborne Computer Corporation Jo Clayton, U.S., sci-fi author, Irsud, Maeve, Star Hunters Jane [Hyatt] Yolen, U.S., sci-fi author, Spider Jane, Heart's Blood Rachel English, London, author, My 1st 500 Germaine Greer, born in Melbourne, Australia, feminist/author, Female Eunich Charles Alexander Eastman, American Author Charles Eastman, Sioux Author 1938 Birthday Janet Hough Bryant, author/performing artist/educator 1938 Death Karel Capek, Czechoslovakian author/antifascist (Bila Nemoc), dies at 48 Stewart Brand, American Author Yuji Takahashi, born in Japan, composer, author, pianist, performer, grant recipient, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Judith Martin, author/journalist/columnist, Miss Manners Frederick Forsyth, author, Day of the Jackal, Deceiver, Odessa File Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author (Jama), dies at 67 Carmen Callil, born in Melbourne, Australia, publisher, author, founder, Virago Press, publisher of Chatto & Windus, Hogarth Press 1938 Event Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal, kid books author Margaret Forster, British Author Larry Niven, U.S., sci-fi author, 5 Hugo, Neutron Star Henry John Newbolt, poet/author (Studies Green and Gray), dies at 75 Henry Newbolt, English Author Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author (Man and Mark), dies at 65 David Irving, British Author Michael J[oseph] Kurland, U.S., sci-fi author, Infernal Device Ishmael Reed, U.S., author, Last Days of Louisiana Red Otto zur Linde, German author (Lieder of the Leids), dies at 64 Judy Blume, author, Wifey John Bellairs, U.S., sci-fi author, Chessmen of Doom 1937 Birthday John [Thomas] Sladek, U.S., sci-fi author, Tik-Tok, Bugs Brian Lumley, England, sci-fi author, Compleat Crow, Psychomech Gail Sheehy, author, Hustling Jackie Collins, London, author, Bitch, Stud Jurek Becker, born in Lodz, Poland, writer, film author, German Democratic Republic dissident, survived ghetto in Lodz, wrote 'Jacob the Liar' Albertine Sarrazin, French author, L'astragale, La Cavale Andrew J[efferson V] Offutt, U.S., sci-fi author, Undying Wizard Jared Diamond, American Author William George Rushton, London, actor/author/cartoonist, TW3 1937 Death Edith Wharton, American Author Brooke Hayward, born in Los Angeles, California, author, Haywire Mirabel Morgan, author, Total Woman Gail Godwin, U.S., author, Perfectionists, Odd Woman Erich Segal, born in Brooklyn, New York, author, Love Story, Oliver's Story Ray Coleman, born in Britain, journalist, author, wrote biographies of The Beatles while editor-in-chief, Melody Maker, music magazine Robert Fulghum, American Author Roger [Joseph] Zelazny, sci-fi author, 6 Hugos, Chronicles of Amber George Carlin, born in New York, American comedian, actor, author, Grammy Award winner Victoria Glendinning, author, Edith Sitwell A Unicorn Among Lions Barrington J[ohn] Bayley, born in UK, sci-fi author, Collision Course Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan author and poet, commits suicide at 58 Christopher Tugendhat, born in England, born Christopher Samuel Tugendhat, Baron Tugendhat of Widdington in the County of Essex, politician, Conservative Party, journalist, author, businessman Joanna Russ, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Female Man, Alyx Jilly Cooper, British Author Lou [Andreas-]Salome, Russian/German author (Eroticism), dies at 75 1936 Birthday Abbie Hoffman, aka Free, Yippie/activist/author, Steal this Book K Schippers, Gerard Stigter, Dutch author 1936 Death Jaime de Magalhes Lima, Portuguese author and poet, dies at 76 Lu Xun, Chinese Author Gordon Honeycombe, broadcaster/author Juliette Adam-Lamber, French author (Salon/Nouvelle Revue), dies at 99 Grazia Deledda, Sardina/Italian author (Nobel 1926), dies at 64 Richard L[ouis] Tierney, U.S., sci-fi author, Winds of Zarr Tom Robbins, American Author Richard Bach, born in Oak Park, Illinois, writer, author, best-sellers include, 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull', 'Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah', genres include aviation, fantasy, philosophy Lars Gustafsson, born in Vasteras, Sweden, professor, University of Texas at Austin, author, wrote 'The Death of a Beekeeper' Donald [Anthony] Moffitt, U.S., sci-fi author, Jupiter Theft Marge Piercy, author, Small Changes, Gone for Soldiers Alan Bleasdale, author/playwright, Are You Lonesome Tonight Margaret Mahy, New Zealander Author Ismail Kadare, Albanian author and poet, Dimri i Madh Jerry Kramer, Green Bay Packer, author, Instant Replay Rudyard Kipling, author (Gunga Din, Nobel 1907), dies at 70 Betty Rollin, actress, Crossing Delancey, author, Last Wish 1935 Birthday Calvin Trillin, author, New Yorker 1935 Death Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese Author Randolph Stow, author and poet, Suburbs of Hell Gloria Steinem, Toledo Ohio, femnist/author, Ms Elisabeth Forster-Nietzsche, German author, dies at 89 Ken Kesey, author, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Abraham Isaac Kook, rabbi/author (Hokhmat Ha-kodesh), dies Michael Holroyd, born in London, England, author, biographer, wrote biographies of George Bernard Shaw, Augustus John Christoph Meckel, born in Berlin, Germany, graphic artist, writer, author, works include 'Georg Heym: Gedichte' Carol Shields, Canadian Author Erich von Daniken, author, Chariots of the Gods Anna Katharine Green, American Author John Gross, author, Age of Kipling, Dickens and 20th Century Judith Rossner, author, Looking for Mr. Goodbar Tony Campolo, born in America, pastor, speaker, author, promotes evangelical reform, leader, 'Red Letter Christian' movement, focusing on Christ's teachings, wrote, 'A Reasonable Faith', known for famous sermon, 'It's Friday, But Sunday's Coming!' Susan Brownmiller, Brooklyn, feminist author, Against Our Wills Violet Paget, British author (Gospels of Anarchy), dies at 78 David Lodge, British Author Raymond Briggs, English author, Fungus the Bogeyman Paul O[sborne] Williams, U.S., sci-fi author, Ends of the Circle Robert Silverberg, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Regan's Planet 1934 Birthday Carl Sagan, Brooklyn, astronomer/author/professor, Cosmos, Broca's Brain Judith Herzberg, Dutch poet and author, Charlotte Life or Theater Dick Schaap, sportscaster/author, Bo Knows Bo, Instant Replay John Brunner, Kilian Houston, UK, sci-fi author, 100th Millennium Kate Millett, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, feminist/author, Sexual Politics Vincent Bugliosi, attorney/author, Helter-Skelter 1934 Death Delilah L Beasley, U.S. author/columnist (Oakland Tribune), dies at 61 Diana Wynne Jones, UK, sci-fi author, Drowned Ammet, Witch Week Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob, UK, sci-fi author, Chthon, Phthor [James] Thorne Smith, U.S., sci-fi author (Stray Lamb, Turnabout) Harlan [Jay] Ellison, U.S., sci-fi author, 7 Hugos, Doomsman, Babylon 5 Jan Klusak, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, composer, author of incidental music, and music for television, film David Halberstam, born in New York City, journalist, author, Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote about the Vietnam War [Navarre] Scott Momaday, U.S. author, House Made of Dawn, Pulitzer 1969 1933 Birthday Earnest P van Altena, author/interpreter, Chansons van Earnest David Reuben, author, Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex 1933 Death Augustine Birrell, English Author Gerald Masters, South African/British author, Pan Book of Dates Eric Salzman, born in America, author, composer, record producer, music critic, wrote for the New York Times, New York Herald Tribune Nancy Friday, American Author Irmtraud Morgner, born in Chemnitz, Germany, writer, freelance author, used magical realism to address the role of gender in East German society Jerry [Eugene] Pournelle, U.S., sci-fi author, Mercenary, Red Dragon John Bradshaw, born in Houston, Texas, educator, speaker, author, popularized dysfunctional family, wrote 'Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child' John Henry Mackay, Scottish/German author (Der Schwimmer), dies at 69 Edward de Bono, physician, inventor, consultant, author, invented term lateral thinking, promoted deliberate teaching of thinking as a subject in public schools, advanced applied psychology, making theories about creativity, perception into usable tools Barbara Taylor Bradford, author Boris Strugatski, U.S.S.R., sci-fi author, Tale of Troika Henry Van Dyke, clergyman, educator, author, wrote poetry, hymns, essays, co-wrote first Presbyterian printed liturgy, 'The Common Book of Worship of 1906', served as U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and Luxembourg, dies Vine Deloria, Jr., Sioux Author William Davis, author/broadcaster, Battle at Bull Run Juanita [Ruth] Coulson, sci-fi author, Web of Wizardry, Space Trap Richard Schickel, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, documentary filmmaker, film critic, author, journalist, historian, received Guggenheim Fellowship, published in Time, and Life, magazines, books include, 'Woody Allen: A Life in Film', 'Elia Kazan: A Biography' Sara Teasdale, American Author Susan Sontag, born in New York City, Susan Rosenblatt, New York, writer, author, filmmaker, philosopher, political activist, 'Against Interpretation' established reputation as 'the Dark Lady of American Letters' Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart, U.S., sci-fi author, Deadwalk, Plunder Sonia Garmers, Justina, Curaeao, author, Dear Queen 1932 Birthday Ben[jamin William] Bova, U.S., sci-fi author, Exiled from Earth 1932 Death Carry van Bruggen, de Haan, Dutch author (Eva), dies at 51 Marian Christy, Ridgefield, Connecticut, author, Invasions of Privacy Adrian Mitchell, born in North London, English playwright, poet, children's author, voice for British anti-authoritarian Left Gloria Lane, educator/author/founder, Women's International Center 1932 Event Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov marries Yelena Sergeyevna Michael G[reatrex] Coney, Canada, sci-fi author, Cat Karina Mike Royko, born in Chicago, journalist, Symphony Daily News, author, Boss Robert [Franklin] Adams, U.S., sci-fi author, Castaways in Time Carlene Polite, U.S. dancer/activist/author, Sister X Robert L[ull] Forward, U.S., sci-fi author, Dragon's Egg, Starquake Kenneth Grahame, Scottish Author Gavin Lyall, author, Conduct of Major Maxim Andre Baillon, Belgian/French author (& sabots), dies at 56 Aharon Appelfeld, born near Czernowitz, Romania, now Ukraine, Israeli novelist, Holocaust survivor, Hebrew-language author with modernistic, metaphorical writing style Alexander Kluge, born in Halberstadt, Germany, film director, author, work 'Butalitat im Stein' or 'Brutality in Stone', helped launch New German Cinema Gay Talese, author, Honor Thy Father Ronald Allison, British author/broadcaster Robert Anton Wilson, U.S., sci-fi author, Trick Top Hat Umberto Eco, author, Name of the Rose 1931 Birthday Bob Shaw, UK, sci-fi author, Orbitsville, Ragged Astronauts, Vertigo 1931 Death Max Elskamp, Belgian author and poet (Six Chansons), dies at 69 Dervla Murphy, travel author, Full Tilt, In Ethiopia with a Mule Rinus Ferdinandusse, editor/author, Nude on Fence Jan Terlouw, Dutch MP, D-66, author, Winters in Wartime John Le Carre, English Author Brian Glanville, author/journalist Kristin Hunter, Eggleston, U.S. author, God Bless the Child Frank Harris, Irish Author Alice Munro, author, Dance of the Happy Shades Julian May, U.S., sci-fi author, Golden Torc, Magnificat Louis W. Ballard, born in Cherokee, Quapaw, Native American composer, author, artist, wrote 'Incident at Wounded Knee' David Eddings, U.S., sci-fi author, Belgariad, Malloreon Andres Burnier, criminologist/author, Jongensuur Colin Wilson, author, Afterlife, Book of Great Mysteries Stephen Birmingham, Hartford, author, Real Lace: America's Irish Rich Gene [Rodman] Wolfe, U.S., sci-fi author, Soldier of Arete Bill Gilbert, born in Washington D.C., sports author, They Also Served, Big E Jane Rule, Canadian Author Leslie Thomas, born in Newport, Wales, author, published 'In My Wildest Dreams', recounting childhood in South Wales, in early life, wrote columns for London Evening News newspaper John McPhee, author, Back to ---- Tom Wolfe, Richmond Virginia, journalist and author, wrote The Right Stuff Larry Merchant, author/boxing commentator, Showtime Thomas Bernhard, born in Heerlen, Netherlands, most prominent German-speaking postwar era author, writer, playwright, novelist Shirley Hazzard, Australian author, Transit of Venus Mordecai Richler, Montreal author, Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Algi[rda]s [Jonas] Budrys, Prussia, sci-fi author, Man of Earth E. L. Doctorow, American Author 1930 Birthday John Morressy, U.S., sci-fi author, Starbrat, Greymantle, Kingsbane J. G. Ballard, British Author Chinua Achebe, Nigerian author, Christmas in Biafra J[ames] G[raham] Ballard, China, sci-fi author, Drowned World Ornelio Martina, Antillian author/governor of Curaeao Tonke Dragt, Dutch children book author, Towers of February 1930 Death Charles LP "Philip" Zilcken, painter/etcher/author (Bauer), dies at 73 Colin Dexter, born in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, author, crime writer of 13 detective novels and 33 episode television series featuring fictional character Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse, portrayed by John Thaw Jonkvrouw Catharina AM de Savornin Lohman, author, dies at 62 Jim Rohn, born in Idaho, entrepreneur, author, motivational speaker, joined direct sales organization of John Earl Shoaff, became millionaire by age 31, shared rags to riches story and personal development philosophy with over 4 million people worldwide, authored 17 books, audio, video programs Cherry Barbara Grimm, Lockett, New Zealand, sci-fi author, Nearest Fire Warren Burger, U.S., author, The Midas Touch D[avid] G[uy] Compton, UK, sci-fi author, Synthajoy, Radio Plays Frank McCourt, born in Brooklyn, New York, author, teacher, wrote Pulitzer-Prize winning book, 'Angela's Ashes', a memoir of his impoverished life in Ireland Thomas Sowell, author/activist Lin[wood] [Vrooman] Carter, U.S., sci-fi author, Thongor of Lemuria Marion [Eleanor] Zimmer Bradley [Breen], sci-fi author, Storm Queen Barbara Goldsmith, New Rochelle, author, Little Gloria Happy At Last Fred[erick Thomas] Saberhagen, U.S., sci-fi author, Book of Swords Fred Saberhagen, American Author Herbert Croly, American Author Stanley Elkin, American Author Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish journalist, author and poet (Rugens sange), dies at 63 Bryan Magee, born in Hoxton, England, broadcaster, author, politician, presented current affairs television show This Week, made philosophy accessible with his 'Men of Ideas' television series Erica Pedretti, born in Sternberk, Czech Republic, author, writer, artist, painter, sculptress, awarded, Ingeborg Bachmann Prize Harry Mathews, American Author Kenneth Anger, American Author Norman Podhoretz, born in Brooklyn, New York, author/editor, New York Post Jennifer P Johnston, Irish author, Fool's sanctuary 1929 Birthday Mary Higgins Clark, born in Bronx, New York, author, Cry in the Night, Stillwatch Marilyn French, U.S. author, The Women's Room Renate Rubinstein, Tamar, German/Ned's author/columnist, Tamar Carlos Fuentes, Mexican author, Death of Artemio Cruz Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German author, Verhor von Habana Ursula K. Le Guin, U.S., sci-fi author, Tombs of Atuan Ursula K. LeGuin, American Author Robert Coles, Milton Massachusetts, author, Anna Freud, Pulitzer 1973 Ira Levin, author, Rosemary Baby, Boys From Brazil, This Perfect Day 1929 Death Mary MacLane, author, individualistic style included feminist rhetoric, raw admissions, first book, 'The Story of Mary Mac Lane' published in 1902, sold 100,000 copies in the first month, dies at age 48, in Chicago, Illinois Shirley Ann Grau, author, Keepers of the House Eric Carle, American Author Tristan Jones, born in Liverpool, England, sailor, author, Welsh story teller, wrote about sailing in books and articles Sheila Kitzinger, author, anthropologist and child birth educator Leonard Cyril Deighton, English author, Ipcress File, Fighter Peter NF Porter, Australian/British author and poet, Chair of Babel Jules Feiffer, New York City, cartoonist, Passionella, author, Little Murders John Naisbitt, born in Salt Lake City, Utah, author, public speaker, futures studies, wrote, 'Megatrends', 1982, sold over 9 million copies in 57 countries, special assistant to Lyndon B. Johnson 1928 Birthday Philip K[indred] Dick, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo-1963, Blade Runner 1928 Death Hermann Sudermann, German author (Frau Sorge), dies 1928 Event 1st celebration of Author's Day Thomas Burnett Swann, U.S., sci-fi author, Day of Minotaur Alvin Toffler, author, Future Shock, Power Shift, The Third Wave Elie Wiesel, Romania, author, Souls on Fire, Nazi hunter, Nobel 1986 Ankie [Johanna A Hoving-]Peypers, Dutch author and poet Leo P[atrick] Kelley, U.S., sci-fi author, Dead Moon, Vacation in Space Robert Sheckley, American Author Patrick Tilley, UK, sci-fi author, 1st Family, Blood River Pavel Kohout, born in Czechoslovakia, director/author, Poor Murderer Maurice Sendak, New York City, author/illustrator, Where The Wild Things Are Kat[i]e [Gertrude] Wilhelm, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Hamlet Trap Edmund William Grosse, poet/author, dies Theodore Sorenson, presidential advisor, John F. Kennedy, author, 1000 Days Cynthia Ozick, U.S., author, Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories James White, sci-fi author, Star Surgeon, Star Healer Tom Sharpe, English historian/author, Riotous Assembly, Want Michael Harrington, St. Louis, socialist/author, Fragments of Century Juan Garcia Hortelano, Spanish author, Tormenta de verano Andrew M Greeley, author/reverend Andrew Salkey, author editor/broadcaster Judith Krantz, born in New York City, author, Scruples, Princess Daisy, Dazzle William Peter Blatty, New York City, author/director, The Exorcist 1927 Birthday Peter [Malcolm] Dickinson, Zambia, sci-fi author, Heartsease 1927 Death Adolf A Joffe, Russian author/diplomat, commits suicide at 44 Gunther Grass, German Author Shirley Hughes, author/illustrator James Goldman, author/playwright, Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid Jerome K. Jerome, English Author Evelyn Wesler Zemel, U.S., author, American Glass Animals Zilpha Keatly Snyder, U.S., sci-fi author, Headless Cupid Anthony Lewis, columnist New York Times and author, Gideon's Trumpet Robert Orben, magician, comedy writer, author, specializes in observational comedy, wrote, 'Encyclopedia of Patter', 'Speaker's Handbook of Humor', speechwriter for Vice President Gerald R. Ford, became Director, White House Speechwriting Department Jakov Lind, German/British author, Counting My Footsteps Galway Kinnell, born in Providence, Rhode Island, author, Body Rags, Book of Nightmares Edward Abbey, U.S. author, Desert Solitaire 1926 Birthday Poul [William] Anderson, U.S., sci-fi author, 7 Hugos, Mirkheim Alan Owen, English author, Maggie May, Ronnie Barker Show Zig Ziglar, American Author Louise L. Hay, born in Los Angeles, California, motivational author, professional speaker, self-help and motivational writer, 'You Can Heal Your Life', 1984, on the New York Times Bestseller list, sold 35 million copies in 30 languages, made into movie of the same title, founder, Hay House Publishing Alfred Slote, author, Love and Tennis, Omega Station John R[obert] Jones, U.S., sci-fi author, White Regiment, Lizard War Alice Adams, U.S. author J[anet] O[pal] Jeppson, nee Janet Asimov, author, 2nd Experiment Ingeborg Bachmann, Austria author and poet Edmund Cooper, UK, sci-fi author, Seed of Light, All Fool's Day Harper Lee, author, To Kill a Mockingbird 1926 Death Ellen K S Key, Swed author/feminist (Century of the Child), dies at 76 Joseph Pennell, artist/author, dies Anne McCaffrey, U.S., sci-fi author, Dragonflight, Dragondrums Richard DeVos, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, World War II veteran, businessman, author, billionaire, co-founder Amway - now Alticor, owner Orlando Magic, wrote 'Hope from My Heart: Ten Lessons For Life' James Merrill, U.S. poet and author, Scripts for the Pageant Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Josef Stalin/author, My Life Libera Carlier, Flemish author, Action Station Go! Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, born in East Orange, New Jersey, author and feminist, 'In the Last Analysis' and 'Writing a Woman's Life' Pamela M Cunnington, English architect/author, Change of Use 1925 Birthday William F. Buckley, Jr., born in New York City, conservative author, commentator, founded 'The National Review' Inez van Dullemen, Dutch author Dieter Wellershoff, German author, Minotaur Gore Vidal, born in West Point, New York, author, Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln Arkadi N Strugazki, U.S.S.R., sci-fi author, Tale of the Troika Brian Aldiss, born in East Dereham, England, science fiction author, 'The Helliconia Trilogy' and 'Hothouse' Norris McWhirter, author, Guinness Book of World Records Ross McWhirter, author, Guinness Book of World Records 1925 Death A. C. Benson, British Author John Keith Laumer, Anthony LeBaron, U.S., science fiction author, Retief's War Tony Hillerman, American Author George MacDonald Fraser, poet and author, Flashman at the Charge Harry [Maxwell] Harrison, UK, sci-fi author, Deathworld Trilogy Harry Harrison, American Author Warren G. Bennis, born in New York City, New York, scholar, author, Leadership Studies pioneer, studied group behavior at MIT, prompting interest in the then-nonexistent field of leadership, published 'Revisionist Theory of Leadership', 1961, stating that humanistic, democratic-style leaders can best manage change in the leadership environment Edward Gorey, Chicago, author/artist, Curious Sofa Nina David, Mrs Radcliffe N Salomon, poet/author, dies Pramudya Ananta Tur, Javanese author, Anak semua bangsa Jan Arends, Dutch poet/author Russell Hoban, U.S. children's book author, Riddley Walker/Pilgermann Nina [Mary] Bawden, English author, Afternoon of a Good Woman 1924 Birthday Ida Haendel, Polish violinist and author, Woman with Violin 1924 Death Herman Heijermans, Jr., author (On Hope, Heap of Blessing), dies Truman Capote, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, author, In Cold Blood James A. Baldwin, American Author Idries Shah, Indian Author Bulat S Okudzjava, Russian author, Student! August Cuppens, Flemish author (Limburgs Driemanschap), dies at 62 Raf de Linde, Raphael van Hecke, author, Vaarwel on Gertrude Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer/author, dies at 71 Renos Apostolidis, Greek author and poet, Katigoro Hans Berghuis, Dutch author and poet, 3 Women, Adam Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author, Road to Rome Margaret Beda Nicholson, author, No Medals for the Major Lloyd Alexander, born in Pennsylvania, American author, wrote children's fantasy novels, 'Cricket' magazine creator Jean Francois Revel, French journalist/author, Ni Marx ni Jesus 1923 Birthday Sara A. Lidman, Swedish author, Jag Och Min Son, Samtal in Hanoi Og Mandino, born in Italy, author, professional salesman, inspirational, best-selling author, wrote, 'The Greatest Salesman in the World', books have sold over 50 million copies in 25 different languages, president of Success Unlimited magazine Nadine Gordimer, South African author, July's people, Nobel 1991 1923 Death French Netscher, author/journalist (In 3rd Chamber), dies at 59 Edward A de Jongh, Antillian author, The Arch Gordon R[upert] Dickson, Canada, sci-fi author, Genetic General Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian Author Ned Rorem, Richmond Indiana, composer/author, Sky Music Italo Calvino, born in Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba, author, Winter's Night a Traveler Reninca, Renee Lauwers, Flemish author, Seed in the Wind Serafina K "Sera" Anstadt, Polish/Dutch actress/author Kate Douglas Wiggin, author (US kindergarten movement), dies at 66 Erik Aalbaek Jensen, Danish vicar/author, Perleporten Fritz Mauthner, German author/philosopher (skepticism), dies at 73 Tom Blackburn, born in Raton, New Mexico, writer, author, screenwriter, lyricist, worked for Walt Disney's story department, wrote lyrics to The Ballad of Davy Crockett Virginia C. Andrews, American Author John Weitz, spy/author/fashion designer, Friends in High Places Samuel Selvon, born in Trinidad, author, writer-in-residence, University of Calgary, Canada, wrote 'The Lonely Londoners', focusing on West Indians' immigration to Britain, cultural differences Avram Davidson, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Peregrine: Primus, Rork! Paula Fox, U.S. children's books author, Poor George Lloyd Biggle, Jr., U.S., sci-fi author, Silence is Deadly Sembene Ousmane, Senegalese author/novelist/director, Doctor Noir Brendan Behan, born in Dublin, Ireland, author and poet, Hostage Mary Elizabeth "Liz" Smith, Texas, journlist/author, WNBC, New York Daily News Walter M[ichael] Miller, Jr., U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, View from Stars 1922 Death Marcel Proust, French author (Recherche du Temps Perdu), dies at 51 Lyman Abbott, American Author 1922 Birthday Damon [Francis] Knight, U.S., sci-fi author, CV, Beyond the Barrier William Henry Hudson, British Author Mavis Gallant, Canadian Author [Wilhel]Mina JPR Kruseman, Dutch author/feminist, dies at 82 Leo Kraft, born in Brooklyn, New York, composer, author, educator, recorded on CRI label, studied composition with Karol Rathaus, Randall Thompson, Nadio Boulander James E. Gunn, U.S., sci-fi author, Station in Space, Immortal Terje Stigen, Norwegian author, Det siste paradiset Harry Clement Stubbs, U.S., sci-fi author, Needle, Iceworld Dennis Compton, author/crickleter Christopher Samuel Youd, UK, sci-fi author, Tripods Trilogy Colin Fletcher, author, Walking Through Time Mervyn Jones, author, Nobody's Fault, 5 Hungarian Writers Helen Gurley Brown, Portland Me, author/publisher, Cosmopolitan Michael Bentine, England, author/comedian, Reluctant Jester Raymond Baxter, British TV host/author, Fast Lady 1922 Event Irish author Liam O'Flaherty and others occupy Rotunda in Dublin 1921 Birthday Francoise Gilot, painter, designer, author living legacy award, 1984 Ilse Aichinger, Austria, author Paulo Freire, born in Recife, Brazil, Brazilian educator, influential theorist of critical pedagogy, educator, author, studied philosophy, phenomenology, psychology of language, embraced a non-orthodox form of liberation theology, wrote 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed' Stanislaw Lem, born in Poland, sci-fi author, Solaris, Invincible Jacqueline Susann, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, author, Valley of the Dolls James Houston, born in Toronto, author/filmmaker, Tikta'Liktak Robert Arthur Ley, UK, sci-fi author, Telepath, Power of X James [Benjamin] Blish, US/UK, sci-fi author, Hugo, Star Trek Reader James Blish, American Author Wilson Harris, Guayanese author Earl Nightingale, born in Los Angeles, California, author, motivational speaker, his radio program, 'Our Changing World', most highly syndicated radio program ever, recorded over 7,000 radio programs F[rancis] M[arion] Busby, Jr., U.S., sci-fi author, Star Rebel John Bouber, Blom, actor/author, Fool of Heideloo Russell Reading Braddon, Australian author 1920 Birthday Vaino Linna, born in Urjala, Finland, author, wrote Finnish books, Under the North Star translated into English by Richard Impola Paul T B Rodenko, poet and author, Stolen Lover 1920 Death Salomon Anski, Russian/Polish yiddish author (Dibboek), dies at 57 Frank [Patrick] Herbert, U.S., sci-fi author, Dune Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink, Dutch author, Anna and her Father Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury, Illinois, sci-fi author, Fahrenheit 451 Pierre Berton, Canadian Author John Howard Griffin, U.S., photographer/author, Black Like Me Amy Clampitt, born in New Providence, Iowa, poet, author, professor at Amherst College, College of William and Mary, Smith College, received Guggenheim, MacArthur Fellowship Ruth Graham, born in China, wife of evangelist Billy Graham, author, poet, writer, philanthropist Anthony Storr, born in London, England, English author and psychiatrist, wrote 'Art of Psychotherapy' and 'Human Aggression' William D Howells, U.S. author (A Woman's Reason), dies at 83 Richard Adams, author, Day Gone By Daniel F[rancis] Galouye, U.S., sci-fi author, Dark Universe, Last Leap 1919 Birthday Frederik Pohl, U.S., sci-fi author, 3 Hugo, Gateway, Bipohl 1919 Death Bruce F Cummings, English author (Enjoying Life), dies at 30 Kathleen Winsor, American Author Boyd Bradfield Upchurch, John Boyd, U.S., sci-fi author, IQ Merchant Aya Zikken, author, Atlasvlinder, Rameh Richard McClure Scarry, children's author/illustrator Richard Mason, born near Manchester, England, author, learned Japanese in World War II, interrogated prisoners of war, wrote 'The Wind Cannot Read', 'The Fever Tree', 'The World of Suzie Wong' Frank Lyman Baum, author (Wizard of Oz), dies at 62 Lawrence Ferlinghetti, author, Coney Island of the Mind Edwin Newman, New York City, newscaster/journalist/author, NBC-TV, Comment Nora Beloff, journalist/author Richard Englander, Peter Altenberg, Austrian author, dies at 59 1918 Death Albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author/mayor/painter, dies at 83 Ivan Cankar, Slavic author (Hlapec Jernej), dies at 42 Jon Trausti, Gudmundur Magnusson, Iceland author (Godir), dies Marten Baersma, MH Bottema, Fries author, dies at 28 1918 Birthday Jean Gimpel, author/iconoclast E. Howard Hunt, born in New York, American author, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) spy, involved in Watergate Richard Hoggart, author/warden, Goldsmith's College London Max Dauthendy, German painter/author (Raubmenschen), dies at 51) Allen Drury, author, Advise and Consent-1960 Pulitzer Prize Georgi Valentinovich Plechanow, pseudonym, Volgin, writer, author, organized Russia's first political demonstration, dies in Geneva, Switzerland, at age 60 Vernon Howard, born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, spiritual teacher, speaker, philosopher, author, wrote humor books, children's books, spoke and wrote about self-development, self-awareness, spiritual, psychological growth Theodore Sturgeon, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, It, Caviar Hella [S Lelyveld-]Haasse, Dutch author, Cider for Poor People 1917 Birthday Arthur C. Clarke, sci-fi author, 2001, 2010, Childhood's End Arthur C. Clarke, born in Somerset, England, science fiction author, inventor, wrote '2001: A Space Odyssey' 1917 Death Oswald Chambers, Scottish Protestant Christian minister, teacher, author, wrote, 'My Utmost for His Highest', established local society dedicated to his favorite poet, Robert Browning, dies from a ruptured appendix [Dallas] Mack/McCord Reynolds, U.S., sci-fi author, Earth War Conor Cruise O'Brien, born in Dublin, politician, writer, academic, author, civil servant, Irish government minister Margaret Taylor Burroughs, U.S. author/house painter, Black Queen Zenna [Chlarson] Henderson, U.S., sci-fi author, Anything Box Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., born in Ohio, American historian, author, democratic activist, Pulitzer prize recipient Walter Lord, American Author Magda Szabo, Hungary, author, Az oz, Abigel Jessica Mitford, author, American Way of Death Eileen Caddy, born in Alexandria, Egypt, new age author, spiritual teacher, founded Findhorn Foundation commune, an international New Age community, dubbed 'Vatican of the New Age', today home to 400 residents from more than 40 countries Robert Conquest, English author, Back to Life Robert Anderson, author, Tea and Sympathy Louis G "Lo" van Hensbergen, actor/author, Amsterdam Affair Robert [Albert] Bloch, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Psycho Maria Vlamynck, Flemish author 1916 Death Jack London, author, dies at 40 1916 Birthday Shelby Foote, American Author Peter Weiss, Germany, Swedish author/dramatist/novelist, Marat/Sade Jessie Kesson, born in Scotland, Jessie Grant McDonald, author, novelist, radio producer, and playwright Mary [Florence Elinor] Stewart, UK, sci-fi author, Crystal Cave Roald Dahl, Norway, sci-fi author, Over to You, Taste, 2 Fables Robert [Augustine] W[ard] Lowndes, U.S., sci-fi author, Puzzle Planet Jack Vance, U.S., sci-fi author, 2 Hugo, Dirdir, Pnume Elizabeth Hardwick, American literary critic, novelist, author, co-founded The New York Review of Books Ronald Ridout, school textbook author Natalia Ginzburg, Italian author, Family dictionary Unica Zurn, born in Berlin, Germany, author, painter, wrote anagram poems and held automatic drawing exhibitions Odilon Redon, French painter/author (A soi-mame), dies at 76 Harold Robbins, New York City, author, Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers, Betsy Camilo Jose Cela, Spain, author, La Colmena-1951 Beverly Cleary, American Author Irving Wallace, Author 1915 Birthday Charles L[eonard] Harness, U.S., sci-fi author, Paradox Men, Wolfhead William Howell Masters, sex author/physician Aziz Nesin, born in Heybeliada, Istanbul, writer, humorist, author of over 100 books, political activist, championed free speech and human rights in Turkey Brackett Hamilton Leigh, Douglass, U.S., sci-fi author, Ginger Star 1915 Death Luigi Capuana, Sicilian author/critic (C'era una Volta), dies at 76 William E. Vaughan, born in St. Louis, Missouri, pseudonym Burton Hills, columnist, author, wrote for Kansas City Star newspaper 1946 - 1977, published articles in Better Homes and Gardens, Reader's Digest, often quoted and best-remembered for writing style employing folksy aphorisms Alice B[radley] Sheldon, U.S., sci-fi author, Byte Beautiful Kamiel van Baelen, Flemish author/resistance fighter, Mensch op Weg Saul Bellow, born in Lachine, Quebec, author, Mr Sammler's Planet, Nobel 1976 Lester del Rey, U.S., sci-fi author, Moon Trilogy, Marooned on Mars Monica Dickens, author/founder, US Samaritians Emil [Theodore] Petaja, U.S., sci-fi author, Star Mill, Tramontane Henry Kuttner, U.S., sci-fi author, Dark World, As You Were Richard Thomas Condon, author Heinrich Schirmbeck, German author, Das Spiegellabyrinth Paul Ferris, British author Patrick Leigh Fermor, author Jann Willem Holsbergen, author, Zakenmensen Fair as Gold Frederic Ramsey, Jr., folklorist/author 1914 Birthday [Arthur] Wilson "Bob" Tucker, U.S., sci-fi author, Time Masters R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty, U.S., sci-fi author, Devil is Dead Marius Hendrikus Flothuis, Dutch composer/author, Mozart biography Brendan Gill, born in Hartford, Connecticut, writer, film critic, author, wrote film critiques for Film Comment, wrote articles for The New Yorker, and a book about his time at The New Yorker magazine Daniel Joseph Boorstin, author, Empire of Czar, 1974 Pulitzer Prize Laurie Lee, male poet and author, I Can't Stay Long Vance Packard, Granville Summit, Pennsylvania, author, Hidden Persuaders Claude Mauriac, born in France, writer, journalist, author, personal secretary to Charles de Gaulle1944 - 1949, co-scripted his father's novel titled Therese Desqueyroux, wrote study of Marcel Proust Charles Hubert Sisson, author and poet, Christopher Homm 1914 Death Jakub Arbes, Czechoslovakian author (Andel Miru), dies at 73 Chapman Pincher, British journalist/author, about secret service Ralph Ellison, American Author Arno Schmidt, born in Hamburg, Germany, German writer, author, translator, individualist, solipsist, admired for colloquial language style and theory of etyms he developed in magnum opus, titled Zettels Traum Silas Weir Mitchell, U.S. physician/author (Free Quaker), dies at 84 1913 Birthday Alfred Bester, U.S., science fiction author, Decievers, Starlight Stuart J[ames] Byrne, U.S., sci-fi author, Star Man, God Man Claude Simon, born in Antananarivo, Madagascar, writer, prize-winning author, 1985 Nobel Laureate in Literature, identified with the nouveau roman movement Edith Mary Ellis Peters Pargeter, author Ellis Peters, British Author Daan Wildschut, painter/glazenier/author Ralph Hammond Innes, English author Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, U.S., sci-fi author, Space Lords Jacques Rabemananjara, Hungarian author/vice-president, Antsa Irving Shulman, author/screenwriter Aime Cesaire, born in Martinique, Afro-Martinican francophone, educator, poet, author, politician Mignon McLaughlin, born in Baltimore, Maryland, journalist, author, contributed to Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Vogue magazines, Managing Editor, Glamour magazine, famous quote, 'Anything you lose automatically doubles in value' Barbara Pym, romantic author, Very Private Eye Earl Blackwell, born in Atlanta, Georgia, author, Celebrity Register Stefan Heym, German/U.S. author, Crusaders, Family Benda William Hutchinson Murray, mountaineer/author Mary Durack, born in Adelaide, Australia, poet, author, historian, wrote Kings in Grass Castles and Keep Him My Country Phyllis Flowerdew, school Reading text author 1913 Death Thomas P Krag, Norw author/novelist (Jon Graeff, Ulf Ran), dies at 44 1912 Birthday John W. Pritchard, Ian Wallace, U.S., sci-fi author, Megalomania Gordon Parks, Ft. Scott, Kansas, film director/author, Learning Tree Anton Koolhaas, author, Weird White 1912 Death Louis van Haecke, Flemish chaplain/author (Zeesterre), dies at 83 Ian Serraillier, children author Andrew Long, Scottish author, Blue Book of Fairy Tales Mary Lavin MacDonald Scott, author Studs Terkel, born in New York, author, historian, broadcaster, Pulitzer Prize winner George Woodcock, author A[lfred] E[lton] van Vogt, Canada, sci-fi author, Wizard of Linn A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, UK, sci-fi author, Empress of Outer Space Peter Bull, actor/author, Executioner, Tom Jones, Dr. Strangelove Hugues Panassie, French jazz saxophonist/author, Hot Club of France Bob Tadema Sporry, Dutch, female, author Edmund George Love, U.S., teacher/historian/author, A Small Bequest, = Barbara Tuchman, U.S., historian/author, Pulitzer, Guns of August Franz Tumler, Austria, author/novelist, Cloak, Aufruf Rudolf Hagelstange, German author and poet, Spielball der Gotter 1911 Birthday William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian Harriet Freezer, Dutch journalist/author James H[enry] Schmitz, Germany, sci-fi author, Lion Game Viktor P. Nekrasov, Ukrainian author, Vokopach Stalingrada Gardner F[rancis] Fox, U.S., sci-fi author, Kothar-Barbarian Swordsman C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore, U.S., sci-fi author, Judgment Night 1910 Birthday Fritz [Reuter] Leiber, Jr., U.S., sci-fi author, Bazaar of the Bizarre 1910 Death Leo Tolstoy, Russian author (Anna Karenina), dies at 82 Wilhelm Raabe, Jakob Corvinus, German author, dies at 79 Quentin Bell, artist author/teacher Jacquetta Hawker, English archaeologist/author, A Country Jurgen Rausch, German philosopher/author, End of the Playboys Catherine Helen Spence, Australian Author Kalman Mikszath, Hungarian author (Szent Peter Esernyoje), dies at 63 Peter De Vries, Chicago, author, Reuben Reuben, Prick of Noon Joy Adamson, naturalist/author, Born Free Ulrich Becher, born in Germany, writer, author, playwright, studied law in Berlin, novella series condemned by Nazi party, burned in book-burning fire, received Lifetime Achievement Award from Swiss Schiller Foundation 1909 Birthday James Agee, American author, African Queen, Death in Family Hotze de Roos, Dutch youth book author, Chameleon Nigel Tranter, author/historian, River Realm, Robert the Bruce Paul de Vree, Flemish author, Between Doubt and Tears Hendrik van Randwijk, Dutch author/founder, Vrij Netherland John Baur, museum director/author, American Paintings in 19th Century Neil R[onald] Jones, U.S., sci-fi author, Space War, Twin Worlds Laura Hillenbrand, American Author David Brock, American Author Helen Fielding, British Author James Bovard, Author Tom Bodett, American Author Sheri S. Tepper, American Author Robert Brasillach, French author/nazi collaborator Edgar Pangborn, U.S., sci-fi author, Judgment of Eve, Davy Keith Davis, voice tutor/author 1908 Birthday Jacques Gans, Dutch author/journalist Nigel M Balchin, Mark Spade, English author, Business for Pleasure Harry Kemelman, U.S. detective author, rabbi-omnibus Harrison E Salisbury, journalist/author, 50th Anniv of Soviet Union Hans Werner Richter, German author, Socially Responsible Cinema Kay Thompson, American Author 1908 Death Victorien Sardou, French opera author (Madame Sans-Gene), dies at 77 Fanny Leys, Flemish author, Ontwijding Ann Lane Petry, U.S. journalist/author, Street Richard Wright, U.S., author, Native Son, Uncle Tom's Children Osbert Lancaster, English cartoonist/author, Daily Express Charles Camproux, French linguistic/author, Bestiari Ian Lancaster Fleming, born in London, England, author, James Bond Ludovic Halevy, French Author Jack [Stewart] Williamson, U.S., sci-fi author, Cometeers Victor Vasarely, Hungarian/French painter and author, Op Art Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, author, Cheaper by the Dozen Louis D L'Amour, Jamestown ND, author, Hondo, Jubal Sackett Louis L'Amour, American Author Frank G Slaughter, author, Sangaree Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguistic/author/novelist Simone de Beauvoir, France, author, Mandarins, 2nd Sex 1907 Birthday Rumer Godden, England, author, Thursday's Children Jo Boer, Dutch author, Catharina and the Magnolias Jacques Barzun, France, author, The House of Interlect Alberto Moravia, Pincherle, Italian author, Indifferent Ones L[yon] Sprague de Camp, U.S., sci-fi author, Goblin Tower, Hand of Zei Jim Bishop, author, The Day Lincoln was Shot Halldis Vesaas-Moren, Norwegian author and poet Astrid Lindgren, Swedish children book author, Pipi Longstocking Maurits Mok, Dutch author and poet, Cheese and Bread Game Roger Vailland, French author, La Novice, Et Mourir de Plasir Miguel Torga, Adolfo Correia da Rocha, Portuguese author Elspeth Josceline Huxley, English author 1907 Death Hector H Malot, French lawyer/author (Alone in the World), dies at 77 Robert A[nson] Heinlein, U.S., sci-fi author, 4 Hugos, Red Planet John Hadfield, author/publisher, Love on a Branch Line Nicolas Bentley, British Author Dorothy West, U.S. journalist/author, Living is Easy Gerald Abrahams, born in Liverpool, author, Teach Yourself Chess Hugh MacLennan, Canadian Author E. W. Swanton, author and sports commentator Anton Ingolic, Slavic author, After Splavih, After Prelomu 1906 Birthday H Allen Smith, Illinois, humorist/author, Low Man on Totem Pole Klaus Mann, German/US author, Mephisto, son of Thomas Mann 1906 Death Hendrik J Schimmel, author/dramatist, dies Jan Vercammen, Flemish author/chief inspector LO, Primary Education Fredric [William] Brown, U.S., sci-fi author, Martians Go Home Mogens Klitgaard, Danish author, Ballade pa Nytorv Francis Walder, Francois Waldburger, Belgian author Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author/aviator, Charles' wife Eleanor Estes, author, Ginger Pye, Moffats Alexis Curvers, Belgian author, Tempo di Roma, Bourg-le-Rond Robert E[rvin] Howard, U.S., sci-fi author, Conan the Conqueror 1905 Birthday Charles Finney, U.S., author, Circus of Dr. Lao Wazyk, Adam Wagman, Polish poet and author, Eyes and Mouth Sanoesi Pane, Indonesian author Erika Mann, German/US author, Other Germany, daughter of Thomas Mann Martin Raschke, German author/publisher/war correspondent Pentti Haanpaa, Finnish author, Yhdeksan Miehen Saappaat 1905 Death George MacDonald, sci-fi author (Princess and Curdie), dies at 80 Sven Johan Stolpe, Swedish author, Latt, snabb och om Daniel M K "Daan" Inghelram, Flemish author, Angelique Edgar P. Snow, U.S. author/journalist: Red star over China Lionel Trilling, author, 1969 Poses Award, Liberal Imagination Juan Valera bon Alcala Galiano, Sp author (Pepita Jimenez), dies at 80 Jules Verne, sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 77 B Amalie Skram-Alver, Norwegian author (Paa St. Jorgen), dies at 58 Vera Fjodorova Panova, Russian author, Sputniki Pol le Roy, Flemish author/novelist/writer, Stroom Eric Frank Russell, UK, sci-fi author, Hugo, Deep Space, Dark Tides 1904 Birthday Eve Denise Curie, French pianist/author/daughter of Madame Curie Nancy Mitford, English author, Love in a cold climate 1904 Death Justus van Maurik, cigar manufacturer/author/head of Red Guard, dies Marya Mannes, New York City, author, The Reporter Edmond [Moore] Hamilton, U.S., sci-fi author, Danger Planet Lafcadio Hearn, author (Soul of the Great Ball), dies at 54 Karen Aabye, Danish author, Less bedstemor there jomfru Thanasis Petsalis, Greek author, I Mavrolyki Christopher Isherwood, American Author M Revis, Willem Fisherman, author, Gelakte Brain Clifford D[onald] Simak, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Empire, Way Station Agnes Yarnall, sculptor, artist, author laa, 1987 Rudolf Arnheim, born in Berlin, German-born author, art and film theorist, philosopher, psychologist Jean Helion, artist/author, They Shall Not Have Me Samuel Smiles, Scottish Author Theodor Geisel, Dr. Seuss, children's author, "Horton Hears a Who!" James Thomas Farrell, U.S., author, Studs Lonigan trilogy Adelle Davis, author, Lets Stay Healthy, nutritionist, died of cancer Buzurg Alavi, Persian author, Panjah va sih nafar, Namal'ha S J Perelman, Brooklyn, author/humorist, Around the World in 80 Days S. J. Perelman, Author Theodore Brameld, author/educator, Use of Explosive Ideas 1903 Birthday Erskine P Caldwell, author, Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre William Plomer, Transvaal, author, Paper Houses, I Speak of Africa Kathleen, Kitty, Rosalind Muggeridge, author 1903 Death Wilhelm von Polenz, German author (Country of Zukunft), dies Lodewijk AM "Lou" Lichtveld, Albert Helman, Suriname author Jean Tardieu, author Evelyn Waugh, English Author Irving Stone, U.S., author, Love is Eternal, Lust for Life John Wyndham P L B Harris, U.S., sci-fi author, Day of the Triffids Marcia Davenport, American Author Manly Wade Wellman, Angola, sci-fi author, After Dark, Devil's Planet James Beard, U.S., culinary expert/author, Delights and Prejudices Dagmar Edqvist, Swedish author, Kamrathustru-Wife and Comrade Rabbe A. Enckell, Finnish author and poet, Lutad about Brunnen Morley Callaghan, Canada, author, Toronto Star, Native Argosy Raymond Queneau, M Presle, French author, Un Enfant a Dit 1902 Birthday Mortimer J Adler, New York City, author, Encyclopedia Brittanica Jorgen Nielsen, Danish author, regional novels Gyula Illyes, Hungarian author and poet, Az Ismertlen Illyes Hermine Heijermans, Dutch actress/author 1902 Death Mathilde Wesendonk, German author and poet, dies at 73 Eric Hoffer, longshoreman/author, True Believer Joachim Prinz, author/Rabbi of Berlin, 1926-37 Bret Harte, American Author Cola [Nicolas] Debrot, Bonaire governor, Netherlands Antilles, author Quentin Reynolds, New York City, newscaster, Its News to Me, author, FBI Louise L de Vilmorin, French poet and author, Lutin Sauvage John Steinbeck, born in Salinas, California, author, Grapes of Wrath-Nobel 1962 Max Kommerell, German literary/author, Die Gefangenen Hanns Neupert, German piano builder/author, Das Klavichord Norman Maclean, American Author Heinrich Schmist-Barrien, German author, Moorkeerl Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English author, Cold Comfort Farm 1901 Birthday Vitorino Nemesio, Portuguese author, Presenea Irja A Browallius, Swedish author, Syndon pa Skruke John Gunther, born in Chicago, Illinois, author/host, John Gunther's High Road Barbara Cartland, romance author, Camfield #69 Lode Zielens, Flemish author/journalist, Obscure Blood Mari Sandoz, Nebraska, author, Cheyenne Autumn Laszlo Nemeth, Hungarian physician/author, Gyasz/Galilei Aartje W. "Mien" van It Sant-van Bommel, author, Mieke-serial Rene Jules Dubos, France, U.S. microbiologist/author, Health and Disease 1901 Death Victor Balaguer, Catalaans historian/politician/author, dies at 76 1900 Birthday Oda Schaefer, German author and poet, Die Windharfe, Ladies Only Victor S Pritchett, literary critic/author, Myth Makers 1900 Death Oscar Wilde, Irish author, dies in Paris at 46 Anna Seghers, Netty Radvanyi-Reiling, German author, 7th Cross Howard Thurman, theologian/author, Deep River, Deep in the Hunger Margaret Mitchell, author, 'Gone With the Wind' Rene Crevel, French author, Mon corps et moi, Detours Enrique Amorim, Uruguayan author, La victoria no viene sola Leon Kruczkowski, Polish author, Kordian into Cham Stephen Crane, author (Red Badge of Courage), dies at 28 Helma Wolf-Catz, Dutch author, Undercurrent, Coral Reef Bauke Tuinstra, Dutch/Frisian notary/author, Earste Keur Polly Adler, Russia, bordello proprieter/author, House is not a Home Ferenc Kormendy, Hungarian/US author, Budapest Kaland 1899 Birthday Jean de Brunhoff, France, children's book author, Babar the Elephant William R Burnett, U.S., author, Little Caesar Eddy du Perron, Dutch author and poet 1899 Death Horatio Alger, Jr., Amer clergyman/author (Disagreeeable Woman), dies Jannetje Fisherman-Roosendaal, author, regional novels Maxwell Maltz, born in America, cosmetic surgeon, author, self-help pioneer, invented Psycho-Cybernetics, system to improve one's self-image, lead a better life, wrote, 'Psycho-Cybernetics', believes positive self-view key to achieving goals Erich Kastner, Dresden German author, Emil and the Detective 1898 Birthday C[live] S[taples] Lewis, UK, sci-fi author, Silver Chair C. S. Lewis, English Author Abraham J D van Oosten, Dutch poet and author, His Master's Voice Guomundur G Hagalin, Iceland author, Kristun/d into Hamravik 1898 Death Theodor Fontane, German author (Der Stechlin), dies at 78 Malcolm Cowley, Belsano Penn, author, Flowering of New England Alexandra G "Alja" von Hoyer-Rachmanova, Russian/Australia author, Students Curzio Malaparte, Kurt E Suckert, Italian author, Kaputt Edward Bellamy, U.S. author (Looking Backward), dies Paul Tournier, born in Geneva, Switzerland, author, physician, famous Christian physician, pioneer of person-centered psychotherapy, wrote 'Medecine de la Personne', advocating we are more than our body, we are spiritual beings Jan Filip Boon, Flemish author/editor, De Standaard 1929-39 1897 Birthday Manuel A. Neat, Curaeaos author, Nobleza di Coerazon Sacheverell Sitwell, English poet and author, People's Palace Dorothy Day, author, Stump the Authors Naomi Mitchison, author, African Heroes, Return to Fairy Hill Rouben Mamoulian, movie director/author, Mark of Zorro, Applause William Faulkner, Mississippi, author, Sound and Fury-Nobel 1949 Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian author, Det Store Spelet Robert Neumann, Austrian/British author, Waters of Babylon Antonius F "Anton" Coolen, Dutch author, Village by the River 1896 Birthday Eslanda Goode, U.S. anthropology/author under Paul Robeson , Lady Huxley, Juliette Baillot, author Giovanni B Angioletti, Italian author, Il giorno del giudizio Joris Vriamont, Flemish author/music publisher Fjodor I Panfjorov, Russian author, Volga F. Scott Fitzgerald, St. Paul, Minnesota, author, Great Gatsby Fjodor I Panfjorov, Russian author, Volga Archibald J Cronin, England, author, Citadel, Shining Victory 1896 Death William Hamilton Gibson, illustrator/author/novelist, dies Harriet Beecher Stowe, U.S. author (Uncle Tom's Cabin), dies at 85 William Fitzgerald Jenkins, author, Time Tunnel, Land of Giants Henry M de Montherlant, French stage author, La Reine Morte Thomas Hughes, politican/author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, Brighton Elmer R Diktonius, Finnish musicologist/author, Janne Kubik 1895 Birthday Ingeborg Refling-Hagen, Norwegian author and poet, Loke Saar Havre Maurice Roelants, Belgian author, Jazz Player Henry Williamson, English Author Michael Arlen, Armenia, English author, An American Verdict Raymond Brulez, Flemish author, Appearance at Kallista Jeanne G van Schaik-Willing, Dutch author, Sinner and the Girl Michail M Soschtschenko, Russian author Michail M Zosjtsjenko, Russian author Gabriel M-E-R Chevallier, French author, Le petit general Peggy Bacon, Ridgefield, Connecticut, author/illustrator, Off With Their Heads Vardis A Fisher, U.S. author, Darkness and Deep Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet and author, Der Halbe Mensch 1894 Birthday John B[oynton] Priestly, author, Good Companions, wed Jessica Hawkes Erik A Blomberg, Swedish art historian/poet/author, Jorden Aldous Huxley, born in Surrey, England, author, Brave New World Mark van Doren, born in Illinois, author, Happy Critic, Transients Dashiell Hammett, Maryland, author, Sam Spade, Maltese Falcon Adela Rogers St. John, journalist/author, Foreign Correspondent 1894 Death James Morrison Steele Mackaye, U.S. actor/author/director, dies at 51 1893 Birthday Max Lamberty, Flemish sociologist/author, Flemish Resurrection Harry Blomberg, Swedish author, Master Jacob Evert S J Kruythoff, Ned Antillean author, conservation flora Alceu Amoroso Lima, Brazilian author Faith Baldwin, New Rochelle, New York, author/novelist, They Who Love 1893 Event English author Beatrix Potter 1st tells the story of Peter Rabbit Voranc Prezikov, Lovro Kuhar, Slovenian author, Samorastniki Dorothy L. Sayers, British Author Anita Loos, author, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Pal Szabo, Hungarian farmer and author, Talpalatnyi Fold Beatrice Wood, potter, artist and author 1893 Death Ignacio M Altamirano, Mexican author (El Zarco), dies at 58 Freya Stark, English explorist/author Clarke Ashton Smith, U.S., sci-fi author, Lost Worlds, Genius Loci 1892 Birthday Rebecca West, Cicely Isabel Fairfield, English author Rebecca West, Cicily I F Andrews, English author, Meaning of Treason Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian author/mayor of Palmeira 1892 Death George William Curtis, American Author John Kieran, New York City, columnist/author, Natural History of New York City Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, born in China, author, Good Earth-Nobel 1938 Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian author, Bespokojnaja Joenostj, Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian author, Povestj Zjizni, Thorne Smith, author, Topper, Rain in the Doorway, Stray Lamb Wendell Wilkie, presidential candidate, R-1940, author, One World 1891 Birthday Henry Miller, author, Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer, Sexus Mary Dorna, Dutch author Emmy van Lokhorst, Dutch author Esther Forbes, American Author Vladislav Vancura, Czechoslovakian physician, stage, author and resistance fighter David Vogel, Ukraine, author, Huwelijksleven Watze Cuperus, Frisian author, Swart mar leaflik Karel MJF Cruysberghs, Flemish author Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian/US author, Ararat/Sud a nap Osip E Mandelstam, Polish/Russian poet and author, Kamenj 1890 Birthday [Agathe] Henriette [M de Beaufort], Dutch author, Rembrandt 1890 Death Johanna D Courtmans-Berchmans, Flemish author, dies at 79 Claude McKaye, Jamaica/US author, Songs of Jamaica, Banjo Franz Werfel, Austria, author, 40 Days of Musa Dagh Louise Ackermann-Choquet, French author (Journal), dies at 76 Rose Kennedy, American Author Paul J M Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author Christopher Morley, author, Kitty Foil E[dward] E[lmer] "Doc" Smith, U.S., sci-fi author, Triplanetary Marten Baersma, MH Bottema, Friesan author, De ljochte kimen 1889 Death Ion Creanga, Romanian (fairy tales) author, dies at 52 1889 Birthday Hervey Allen, American Author Cissy van Marxfield, Setske Beek-de Haan, Dutch author Ralph W. Sockman, born in New York, New York, Protestant pastor, author, successful radio show, National Radio Pulpit, considered by Time magazine as the best Protestant preacher in the U.S. Sarah Delany, author/teacher Ludwig Tugel, German author/novelist/writer, Horse Music Pierre Reverdy, French author and poet, Coeur de Chevre Bruce F Cummings, English author, Journal of a Disappointed Man Gyula Reviczky, Hungarian author and poet, dies at 34 Howard Spring, British author/novelist/writer/critic, O Absalom Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian author (Siete Tratados), dies at 56 1888 Birthday Jan Greshoff, Dutch poet/author/journalist, Bric Brac Benjamin Cremieux, French author, Le premier the la Classe Dale Carnegie, author, How to Win Friends and Influence People Henri [Ferdinand M J] Bosco, French author and poet, Gogol Katherine Mansfield, New Zealander Author 1888 Death Theodor Storm, German judge/author (Schimmelreiter), dies at 70 S S Van Dine, William Huntingdon Wright, author, Canary Murder Case Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese Author Louisa May Alcott, U.S. author (Old-fashioned Girl), dies at 55 Edward Lear, poet/author, dies at 75 Hedwig "Vicki" Baum, Austrian/US author, Men Never Know 1887 Birthday Rene Maran, Martinique, author, Batouala, Prix Goncourt Arnold Zweig, German antifascist/author, Erziehung vor Verdun Rie Cramer, Marie Holman, Dutch cartoonist/author Edith Sitwell, English poet and author, Wheels Edna Ferber, U.S., author, American Beauty, Cimarron James Norman Hall, American Author Josef Capek, Czechoslovakian painter/author/critic, Kulhavy Poutnik Mary Ellen Chase, U.S. linguistic/author, White Gate Mary Ellen Chase, educator/author, Windswept, 1959 Sarah Hale Award 1887 Death Ellen Wood, English author (Pomeroy Abbey), dies at 73 Diego Valeri, Italian author and poet, Le Gaie Tristezze Ernest Holmes, born in Lincoln, Maine, author, teacher, spiritualist, founded Religious Science movement, considered 'Science of Mind', part of New Thought movement, wrote metaphysical books, including 'The Science of Mind', founded 'Science of Mind' magazine 1886 Birthday Harold G Nicolson, English diplomat/author, Good Behaviour Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian/author 1886 Death Jose da Silva Mendes Leal, Portuguese author (Indiana), dies at 67 Bruce Barton, American Author Solomon Gazfried, rabbi/author (Kitzur Shulchan Aruch), dies Ned Buntline, Edward Zane Carroll Judson, author, dies Francis Carcopino, French author/critic, L'Homme Traque Emmet Fox, American Author Karl Barth, born in Basel, Switzerland, theologian and author, Action in Waiting Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips, Dutch author, Between Heaven and Earth Jose Gutierrez Solana, Spanish painter/author, Madrid Escenas Ventura Garcia Calderon, Peruvian diplomat/author Sax Rohmer, England, author, Dr. Fu Manchu 1885 Death Johannes Kneppelhout, Klikspaan, Dutch humorist/author, dies at 71 1885 Birthday Will Durant, U.S., author/historian, Story of Civilization Ernest Claes, Belgian author, Saints from Zichem Franz T Csokor, Austrian author, Writings on the Wall Edna Ferber, author, playwright Victor Hugo, French Author Juliana Horatia [Gatty] Ewing, author (Lob Lie-by-the-Fire), dies Susanna Moodie, British Author 1884 Birthday Jan van Nijlen, Flemish poet and author, Bird Phoenix Apie Prince, Dutch author, Me Own Way Earl Biggers, author, "Charlie Chan" detective series A[braham P] Merritt, U.S., sci-fi author, Moon Pool, Creep Shadow! Arthur Ransome, English author, Swallows and Amazons 1883 Birthday Napolean Hill, American Author Euphemia "Phemia" Molkenboer, Dutch author/poster artist Scott Nearing, U.S. sociologist/pacifist/author, The Good Life Franz Kafka, Czechoslovakia, author, Metamorphosis, Trial, Amerika Bokke R S Pollema, Dutch Frisian journalist/author, Lock of Hair 1883 Death William Chambers, author/publisher, dies Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author, dies Max Eastman, American Author 1882 Death Anthony Trollope, English Author 1882 Birthday Wyndham Lewis, English author/painter, Tarr, Apes of God Will Vesper, German author, Vom grossen Krieg Trijntje "Nine" van de Schaaf, author, To the Invisible George Jean Nathan, U.S., editor/author/critic, American Mercury Virginia Woolf, born in London, author, Jacob's Room, To Lighthouse Alan Alexander Milne, English author, Winnie-the-Pooh A. A. Milne, English Author 1881 Birthday Lu Xun, Chinese Author Jacqueline [Pierrette] R van Stuwe, Eline vs. S, Dutch author Ethel Mary Dell, English author, Storm Drift 1881 Death Marcus Andrews Hislop Clarke, author (His Natural Life) at 35 Mary MacLane, born in Winnipeg, Canada, author, individualistic style included feminist rhetoric, raw admissions, first book, 'The Story of Mary Mac Lane' published in 1902, sold 100,000 copies in the first month Kristian Mandrup Elster, Norwegian author (Torn Trondal), dies at 40 Kristian Elster, Norwegian author, Less bror Harris Carry van Bridges, de Haan, Dutch author, Heleen, Eva 1880 Birthday Leonard S Woolf, English author/husband of Virginia Woolf Leonard Woolf, British Author Robert [Edler von] Musil, Austrian author, Young Torless Marie Carmichael Stopes, Scottish Author Marguerite "John" Radclyffe-Hall, author Helen Keller, blind-deaf author/lecturer had more sense than many 1880 Death Jacobus J Cremer, painter/author (Betuwsche Novellen), dies at 52 Ida Grafin von Hahn-Hahn, author (Aus der Gesellschaft), dies at 74 1879 Birthday Karel van den Oever, Flemish author and poet, Geuzenstad Cyril M Scott, English pianist/composer/author, Heroic Suite 1879 Death Thomas Couture, French painter/author, dies at 63 Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch author/novelist/writer, dies at 67 Ludovicus H [Lode] Baekelmans, Flemish, stage, author, Tille Marie Koenen, author/wife of Felix Rutten, Wassend Cereal 1878 Birthday Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan author and poet, El Crimen del Otro Upton Sinclair, American Author Alfred Doblin, German/French author/co-founder of Sturm 1877 Birthday Rene de Clerq, Flemish poet and author, Emergency Horn Herman Hesse, German Author 1877 Death Mark Prager Lindo, English/Dutch author (Netherlands Spectator), dies at 58 Betsy Ranucci-Beckmann, Theodora, Dutch author/actress, Dead Water Henri Vandeputte, Belgian author and poet, L'homme Jeune 1876 Birthday Sherwood Anderson, born in Winesburg, Ohio, author/publisher, Winesburg Alfred L. Kroeber, Hoboken, New Jersey, author, Anthropologist looks at History 1876 Death George Sand, French author (Indiana, Consuelo), dies at 71 Saint-Georges de Bouchelier, French author, Le Rois Sans Couronne Ivan Cankar, Slavs author, Hlapec Jernej-Njegova Pravica Marie-C-S de Flavigny Agoult, Daniel Stern, French author, dies at 70 Natalie Clifford Barney, American Author 1875 Birthday Wladyslaw Orkan, Szmaciarz-Smreczynsky, Pol author, Nowele Zebrane 1875 Death Hilario Ascasubi, Argentina author (pampa, gauchos and indians), dies Edgar Rice Burroughs, U.S., sci-fi author, Tarzan of Apes, Mars Saga Hans Christian Anderson, Danish Author Eliphas Levi, French Author Andre Baillon, Belgian/French author, Un homme si simple Isadore Gilbert Mudge, U.S., librarian and author, Thackeray Dictionary Annette Kolb, German/French author, Small Fanfare Marika Stiernstedt, Swedish author, Ulla Bella 1874 Birthday Edmond Flegenheimer, Swiss/French author, Ecoute Israel Clarence Shepard Day, New York City, author, Life with Father Eugene Baie, Belgian author, Sub rosa et sub umbra Oswald Chambers born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Scottish Protestant Christian minister, teacher, author, wrote, 'My Utmost for His Highest', established local society dedicated to his favorite poet, Robert Browning Michel H. Campen, author/critic, Bikoerim 1874 Death Hermanus J Abbring, Dutch author/engineer on Curaeao, dies at 86 Elsa Beskow, Maartman, Swedish children's book/fairy tales author Gertrude Stein, Penn, author, Autobiography of Alice B Toklas Thornton Waldo Burgess, author, Peter Rabbit 1873 Birthday Willa Cather, U.S., author, My Antonia 1873 Death Ernest Feydeau, French author, dies at 52 [Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll, Norwegian author, Kvinnen og Den Otto zur Linde, German author, Charon Walter de la Mare, English poet/author (Behold the Dreamer), dies at 43 Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author/novelist, Pages from My Life Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Danish Author 1872 Birthday Robert marquess of Flers, French author, Habit Vert 1872 Death Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romanian politician/author, dies at 70 1871 Birthday Emanuel Querido, Joost Mendes, author/publisher Vernon Louis Parrington, author, Romantic Revolution, Pulitzer 1928 1871 Death John Gelinde van Blom, Fries notary/author, dies at 75 Enrica Freiin von Handel-Manzetti, Austrian author, Jesse and Maria 1870 Birthday Saki, Hector Hugo Munro, Burma, author, Reginald, When William Came Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author, Pojedinok Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author, Pojedinok Ada Negri, Italian poet and author, Il Libro di Mara 1869 Death Jan de Liefde II, Dutch vicar/author (People's Welfare), dies at 54 Gheorghe Asachi, author/humanist (1st newspaper in Moldavia), dies 1869 Birthday Margot SE Scharten-Antink, Dutch author, Catherina, Sprotje Johan M Dautzenberg, Flemish author/novelist (Future), dies at 60 Herbert David Croly, U.S. author, Promise of American Life Herbert Croly, American Author 1868 Birthday Emmanuel K de Bom, Flemish author, Wrakken 1868 Death Costache Negruzzi, Romanian author and poet, dies at about 60 Patty Smith Hill, author and songwriter, Happy Birthday To You Adalbert Stifter, Austrian author (Witiko), commits suicide at 62 Catharina A. M. de Savornin Lohman, Dutch author, Belief 1867 Birthday Marie Bregendahl, Danish author, Holger Hauge og hans Hustru John Galsworthy, England, author, Forsyte Saga-Nobel 1932 Max Dauthendy, German painter/author, Ewige Hochzeit Natsume Soseki [Natsume Kinnosuke], Japanese author, Kokoro Laura Ingalls Wilder, Wisconsin, kid book author, Little House on Prarie 1867 Death Nathaniel Parker Willis, American Author Charles Edward Montague, English author/critic, Fiery Particles 1866 Death Carl Almqvist, Swedish author (Amorina), dies at 72 1866 Birthday H. G. Wells, born in Bromley, England, author, Time Machine Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish journalist, author and poet, Vredens Born Beatrix Potter, born in England, children's author, Tale of Peter Rabbit Gelett Burgess, author, Purple Cow 1865 Birthday Rudyard Kipling, Bombay, author, Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907 1865 Death Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian Author Laurence Housman, England, author/playwright, Victoria Regina Martinus Ballings, Flemish jesuit/author, Will Power 1864 Birthday Alexander Cohen, Dutch anarchist/author 1864 Death Walter Savage Landor, author, dies Richard Harding Davis, U.S., journalist/author, In The Fig Israel Zangwill, England, Jewish author/Zionist, Children of Ghetto John Henry Mackay, Scottish/German author and poet, Anarchists Margot Asquith, English Author Frank Bacon, actor/author, Lightnin 1863 Birthday Alfredo Panzini, Italian author, Dizionario Moderno Hans Aanrud, Norse author, Solve Solfeng Arthur Machen, Welsh Author 1862 Birthday Gerhart Hauptmann, Germany, author, Before Dawn-Nobel 1912 Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, U.S., politician/author, Progressive Montague Rhodes James, scholar/author/editor Henry Newbolt, English Author August Cuppens, Flemish author/pastor Max Elskamp, Belgian author and poet, Lesson Joies Blondes, Maya A. 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Benson, British Author 1862 Death Bernard S Ingemann, Danish author (Holger Danske), dies at 72 Mori Ogai [Mori Rintaro], Japanese author, Maihime/Gan Edith Wharton, American Author Bozena Nemcova, Barnora Panklova, Czechoslovakian author, dies at 41 1861 Birthday Jose Protasio Rizal, Philippine optician/author/nationalist Lou [Andreas-]Salome, Russian/German author, Im Kampf um Gott 1861 Death Vaclav Hanka, Czechoslovakian author/translator/forger, dies at 69 1860 Birthday Ernest T Seton, naturalist/painter/author, Buffalo Wind-1938 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, economist/lecturer/author/feminist Dean Inge, English Author 1860 Death Albert Richard Smith, author/lecturer, dies Rachilde, Marguerite Vallette-Eymery, French author, Monsieur Venus Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian/French painter/author, Journal 1859 Death Thomas De Quincey, English Author Washington Irving, U.S. author (Geoffrey Crayon, gent), dies 1859 Birthday Stephanie H [Lapidoth-]Swarth, Dutch author, Lonely Flowers Jaime de Magalhes Lima, Portuguese author and poet, Salmos do Prisoneiro Katharine Lee Bates, U.S., author, America the Beautiful Frank Heino Damrosch, author/musician/teacher, found Inst of Music Arthur Conan Doyle, UK, author brought Sherlock Holmes to life twice Jerome K. Jerome, English Author Richard Englander, Peter Altenberg, Austria, author, Lebensabend Kenneth Grahame, author, Wind, Willows Sholem Aleichem, Solomon Rabinowitz, author, Fiddler on the Roof Karl Bleibtreu, German author, Revolution of Literature 1858 Death Karl A Varnhagen von Ense, German author, poet and diplomat, dies at 73 1858 Birthday Edith Nesbit, England, children books author, Railway Children Arnold Aletrino, Dutch physician-criminologist and author, From Life Jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author, poet and critic, dies at 54 Charles Alexander Eastman, American Author Charles Eastman, Sioux Author Tomas Carrasquilla, Colombian author, Frutos de mi Tierra Gustaf af Geijerstam, Swedish author, Boken om Lillebror 1857 Birthday George Gissing, English author, Thyrza, Crown of Life Henry Osborn, Conn, paleontologist/author, 52 Years of Research Charles LP "Philip" Zilcken, painter/author, HW Knife Day 1857 Death Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author and poet (A la paz), dies at 84 1856 Birthday Georgi Valentinovich Plechanow, born in Tambov, Russia, pseudonym, Volgin, writer, author, organized Russia's first political demonstration Kate Douglas Wiggins, author, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Violet Paget, Vernon Lee, British author, Satan the master 1856 Death Margaretha J de Neufville, author (The Kidnap), dies at 81 Henry Rider Haggard, author, King Solomon's Mine, She, Dawn Elbert Hubbard, U.S., editor/publisher/author, Message to Garcia L. Frank Baum, American Author L'udovit Stur, Slovaaks author/linguistic (Das Slawentum), dies at 40 1855 Birthday Gyula Reviczky, Hungarian author and poet 1855 Death Charlotte Bronte, English author 'Jane Eyre', dies at 38 Dorothy Wordsworth, author, diarist, poet, sister of William Wordsworth, romantic poet, dies at 83 1854 Birthday Alphonse Allais, French author/humorist, Pass the Bile Francis Marion Crawford, British author James Frazer, Britain, anthropologist/author, The Golden Bough 1853 Birthday Howard Pyle, illustrator, painter and author, King Stork Gustav Falke, German author and poet, Der Mann im Nebel 1852 Birthday Henry Van Dyke, clergyman, educator, author, wrote poetry, hymns, essays, co-wrote first Presbyterian printed liturgy, 'The Common Book of Worship of 1906', served as U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and Luxembourg Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, author/politician Nikolai Garin [Michailovski], Russian author, Tjoma Kartashov William Scarborough, Macon, Georgia, linguist/author, Birds of Aristophanes Nikolai Garin [Michailovski], Russian author, Tjoma Kartashov 1850 Birthday Robert Louis Stevenson, Scotland, author, Treasure Island Eugene Field, author/journalist, Little Boy Blue Guy de Maupassant, born in France, author, Boule de Suif Lafcadio Hearn, U.S., journalist/author, Chita Edward Bellamy, author, Looking Backward Kate Chopin, American Author Augustine Birrell, English Author 1849 Birthday Fritz Mauthner, Bohemia, German author/philosopher, skepticism Ellen Key, Swedish theory/author/feminist, Courageous Woman Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of childrens book, My Secret Garden Sarah Orne Jewett, born in Maine, author, Country of the Pointed Firs William Osler, born in Canada, physician/author, circulatory system 1848 Death Frederick Marryat, English captain/author (Mr Midshipman Easy), dies 1847 Birthday Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/author, Dracula George Sorel, French Socialist thinker/author, violent revolutions Cornelie Huygens, feminist/author, Barthold Meryan 1847 Death Caroline von Wolzogen [von Lengefeld], German author, dies at 83 1846 Birthday Anna Katharine Green, American Author Henryk Sienkiewicz, Poland, author, Quo Vadis, Nobel 1905 1845 Birthday Jose Maria de Eca de Queiroz, Queiros, Portuguese author, Contos 1844 Birthday Andrew Lang, born in Scotland, author, The Blue Fairy Book 1843 Birthday Gleb Uspensky, Russia, author, Power of the Soil 1843 Death Washington Allston, U.S. painter/author, dies at 63 [Joaquim] Theofilo F Braga, Portuguese poet/author/politician Petronella Moens, Frisian author and poet, dies at 80 1842 Birthday Henry Duff Trail, journalist/author 1842 Death Stendhal, Marie-Henri Beyle, French author (Lamiel), dies at 59 1841 Birthday William Henry Hudson, British Author Kristian Mandrup Elster, Norwegian author, And fremmed Fugl 1840 Birthday Kemal Bey, Turkey, poet and author, Fatherland-1872 Hugo Verriest, Flemish author and poet, Flemish Movement Jakub Arbes, Czechoslovakian author, Moderni Upiri 1840 Death Gerald Griffin, American Author Odilon Redon, French painter/author, La nuit, Raves 1839 Death Hayim Rapoport, Rabbi of Ostrowiec/author (Maxim Chayyim), dies 1839 Birthday Helene Mercier, Dutch author/social reformer Luigi Capuana, Sicilian author/critic, Roccaverdina 1838 Birthday August Senoa, Croatian author, Zlatarevo zlato 1837 Birthday Ion Creanga, Romanian fairy tale author, Amintiti the Copilarie 1837 Death Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian Author 1836 Birthday Thomas Bailey Aldrich, U.S., author/editor, Story of a Bad Boy Juliette Adam-Lamber, French author, Salon/Nouvelle Revue Bret Harte, U.S., author, Outcasts of Poker Flat 1836 Death Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, author/composer (Marseillaise), dies 1835 Birthday Lyman Abbott, American Author Samuel Butler, England, author, Erewhom, Way of All Flesh Mark Twain, Samuel L Clemens, author, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn Emile Gaboriau, author, father of French detective novels Albijn van de Abeele, Flemish author/mayor/painter Richard Garnett, English author, Ananda the Miracle Worker 1834 Birthday Ignacio M Altamirano, Mexican author, El Zarco Charles-Albert Gobat, born in Switzerland, politician, lawyer, and author, Nobel 1902 Horatio Alger, Jr., Revere Massachusetts, author, Lost at Sea, Work and Win Ludovic Halevy, French Author 1833 Birthday Robert Green Ingersoll, New York, author/politician/agnostic, Attorney General-R-Illinois 1833 Death Rahel Varnhagen von Ense-Levin, German author, dies at 61 Marie-Antoine Careme, author (Pattissier Royal Parisien), dies at 48 1832 Birthday Louisa May Alcott, Germantown, Pennsylvania, author, Little Women Jules Valles, French journalist/communard/author, L'insurge John George Nicolay, U.S., author, Abe Lincoln's biographer 1831 Birthday Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, author, Ramona Wilhelm Raabe, Jakob Corvinus, German author, Der Hungerpastor 1831 Death Friedrich M Klinger, German (stage)author (Plimplamplasko), dies at 79 1830 Birthday Martinus W van der Aa, author/Dutch head-editor, The Time 1829 Birthday Charles Dudley Warner, Massachusetts, newspaperman/author, Being a Boy Silas Weir Mitchell, U.S. physician/author, Roland Blake Louis van Haecke, Flemish chaplain/author, Blood to Bridge 1827 Death Dov Baer Schneersohn, Lubavitch leader/author (Imirei Binah), dies 1827 Birthday Jacobus J Cremer, painter/author, Overbetuwsche Novellen Lewis Wallace, Major General Union volunteers and author, Ben Hur 1826 Birthday Collodi, Carlo Lorenzini, Italian author, Pinocchio 1826 Death Johann Peter Hebel, writer, teacher, most widely read German poet, author, wrote in Alemanic dialect, dies in Schwetzingen, Germany, at age 66 1825 Birthday Catherine Helen Spence, Australian Author Richard D. Blackmore, England, author, Norie, Lorna Doone 1824 Birthday George MacDonald, Scotland, sci-fi author, Princess and Curdie Juan Valera bon Alcala Galiano, Spanish author, Pepita Jimenez George William Curtis, American Author 1823 Birthday Thomas Hughes, England, author, Tom Brown's School Days Francis Parkman, American historian/author, Oregon Trail 1823 Death Ann Radcliffe (Ward), English poet/author of horror novels, dies at 58 Ann Radcliffe, English Author 1822 Birthday Edward Everett Hale, U.S., clergyman/author, Man without a Country Lucius C M Bakker, Frisian physician/author, Goethe 1821 Death Claire E J, countess the Remusat/Vergennes/author (Salon), dies at 41 Elizabeth Inchbald (Simpson), actress/author (Lady Abbess), dies at 68 1821 Birthday Ernest Feydeau, French author, Georges Feydeau 1820 Death Arthur Young, author (Annals of Agriculture), dies 1820 Birthday Nadar, Felix Tournachon, French painter, cartoonist, author and ballonist Bozena Nemcova, Barnora Panklova, Czechoslovakian author, Babicka 1819 Birthday George Eliot, Mary A Evans, England, author, Silas Marner Herman Melville, U.S., author, Moby Dick, Billy Budd Julia Ward Howe, U.S., author/lecturer, Battle Hymn of the Republic Louise Otto, Germany, author and feminist Mark Prager Lindo, English/Dutch author/novelist/writer 1818 Birthday Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author, V Lesach Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author, V Lesach 1818 Death Joachim H Campe, German theory/author, dies at 72 Jose da Silva Mendes Leal, Portuguese author, Gloria e Martirio 1817 Birthday Theodor Mommsen, Germ, historian/author, Imperial Lives, Nobel 1902 Theodor Storm, German judge/author, Imense China 1817 Death Anne Louise Germaine de Stael, Swiss Author 1816 Death Elizabeth Hamilton, author (Cats: A Celebration), dies at 68 1815 Birthday Thomas Couture, French painter/author Ida von Duringsfeld, German author, Vd Schelde bis zur Mas 1814 Death Charles Joseph Prince of Ligne, Belgian Field Marshal/author, dies at 79 1814 Birthday John Lothrop Motley, U.S., historian/author, Rise of Dutch Rep Ellen Wood, English author, East Lynne, Pomeroy Abbey 1813 Birthday Hermann Kurz, German author and poet Louise Ackermann-Choquet, French author, Pensees 1812 Birthday Samuel Smiles, born in Scotland, author, Self-Help, Character, Duty Berthold Auerbach, German author, Schwarzwalder Dorfgeschichten 1811 Birthday Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch author Johanna D Courtmans-Berchmans, Flemish author, Rozeken Pot Harriet Beecher Stowe, author, Uncle Tom's Cabin Vissarion Belinsky, born in Sveaborg, Finland, Russian author, Literary Review 1810 Birthday Abraham Geiger, theologian/author/leader of Reform Judaism Eliphas Levi, French Author 1809 Death Caroline von Schelling, Michaelis, German author, dies at 46 1809 Birthday Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Cambridge, Massachusetts, physician/author, Old Ironsides Edgar Allan Poe, Boston, author, Pit and the Pendulum 1808 Birthday Johan M Dautzenberg, Flemish author, Future Martha Finley, children's book author 1807 Death Clara Reeve, English author (old English baron), dies 1806 Birthday Nathaniel Parker Willis, American Author 1805 Birthday Marie-C-S de Flavigny Agoult, Daniel Stern, French author, Knife Adalbert Stifter, Austrian author, Nachsommer Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, author of 150 fairy tales Hans Christian Anderson, Danish Author 1804 Birthday Nathaniel Hawthorne, Massachusetts, author, House of 7 Gables, Scarlet Letter Jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author, poet and critic 1803 Birthday Gerald Griffin, American Author Susanna Moodie, British Author Douglas William Jerrold, London, author/playwright/wit, Punch Mag 1802 Birthday Alexandre Dumas Pere, France, author, 3 Musketeers 1802 Death Johann J Angel, German author/director, dies at 60 Victor Hugo, born in France, author, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables Lydia Maria Child, U.S., author/abolitionist, Juvenile Miscellany Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romania, author/novelist/writer, Gramatica 1801 Death Novalis, philosopher of early German Romanticism, author, wrote 'Pollen, Faith and Love', 'Hymns to the Night', dies from tuberculosis in the Germany, at age 28 1801 Birthday John Henry Newman, England, cardinal/author, Dream of Gerontius 1800 Birthday Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/author, Povesti 1800 Death Michael Dennis, jesuit/author, dies at 71 William Chambers, author/publisher, Basis of Communication and Coding 1799 Birthday Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian Author 1798 Event Rabbi Shneur Zalman, author (Tanya), released from St. Peterburg jail 1798 Death Giacomo Casanova, writer, author, adventurer, book, 'Histoire de ma vie', or, 'History of My Life', profiles customs of 18th century European social life, dies at age 73 1797 Birthday Aleksander A Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, Russian author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, born in London, England, author, Frankenstein 1797 Death Edmund Burke, British author/parliament leader (Reflections), dies at 68 1796 Birthday Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian Author George Catlin, U.S., author/painter, American Indian scenes Horace Mann, U.S., educator/author/editor, pioneered public schools John Gelinde van Blom, Frisian notary/author 1795 Birthday Peter of Limburg Brouwer, physician/classical/author 1794 Death Marie Jean Herault de Sechelles, French author/politician, dies 1793 Death Karl Philipp Moritz, German Author Carlo Goldoni, Italian author (L'avaro), dies at 85 1792 Birthday Edward John Trelawney, England, traveler/author, Adv of Younger Son 1791 Birthday Lydia Sigourney, U.S., religious author, How to Be Happy Vaclav Hanka, Czechoslovakian author/interpreter/forger John Howard Payne, U.S., author/actor/diplomat, Home Sweet Home 1789 Death Thomas Day, author, killed by fall from a horse at Wargrave Berkshire 1789 Birthday Bernard S Ingemann, Danish author, Tomorrow- og Aftensange 1788 Birthday Sarah Josepha Hale, author, Mary Had a Little Lamb 1787 Death Robert Lowth, English Author 1785 Birthday Thomas Love Peacock, English author, Headlong Hall Karl A. Varnhagen von Ense, German officer/author, Die Sterner 1784 Death Samuel Johnson, English Author 1781 Death Jose F de Isla, Spanish Jesuit/author, dies at 78 1780 Birthday William Hone, England, author/bookseller, Every-Day Book Claire EJ, countess of Remusat/Vergennes/French author, Salon 1779 Birthday Washington Allston, U.S. painter/author Clement Clarke Moore, U.S., author, 'Twas the Night Before Xmas 1777 Death Albrecht von Haller, Swiss physician/biologist/author, dies at 69 1776 Death Julie de Lespinasse, French Author 1775 Birthday Margaretha J de Neufville, author, Small Pligten 1773 Birthday Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician, astronomer and author, Marine Sextant 1772 Birthday Novalis, born in Oberwiederstedt, Germany, philosopher of early German Romanticism, author, wrote 'Pollen, Faith and Love', 'Hymns to the Night' Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author and poet, El Duque de Viseo 1771 Birthday Dorothy Wordsworth, born in Cumberland, England, author, diarist, poet, sister of William Wordsworth, romantic poet Sydney Smith, Woodford Essex, preacher/reformer/author Rahel Varnhagen von Ense-Levin, German saloon owner/author Heinrich D Zschokke, Swiss author, Das Goldmacherdorf 1771 Death Gottlieb W Rabener, German author (Bremer Beitrage), dies at 56 Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, marquis d'Argens, French author, dies at 66 1770 Birthday Etienne P de Senancour, French author, Obermann 1766 Birthday Anne Louise Germaine de Stael, Swiss Author 1765 Birthday Charles Dibdin, England, composer/author, Sea Songs 1764 Birthday Ann Radcliffe, English Author 1763 Birthday Caroline von Schelling, Michaelis, German author Caroline von Wolzogen, von Lengefeld, German author 1762 Birthday Petronella Moens, Frisian author and poet 1760 Death Friederike C Neuber, German actress/author (Schaferfest), dies at 63 1760 Birthday Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, soldier/author/composer, Marseillaise Johann Peter Hebel, born in Basel, Switzerland, writer, teacher, most widely read German poet, author, wrote in Alemanic dialect 1759 Birthday Marie Jean Herault de Sechelles, French author/politician 1758 Birthday Elizabeth Hamilton, author, Cats: A Celebration 1756 Birthday Karl Philipp Moritz, German Author 1754 Death Henry Fielding, English lawyer/author (Tom Jones), dies at 47 1753 Birthday August G Meissner, German author 1752 Birthday Fanny Burney, England, author, Camille, Evelina 1747 Death Alain R Lesage, French author (Le diable boiteux), dies at 79 1746 Birthday Joachim H Campe, German author, Robinson of the Jungere 1741 Birthday Johann J Angel, German author, Herr Lorenz Stark Theodor Gotlieb von Hippel, East Prussian author/mayor of Koningsberg 1738 Birthday Elizabeth "Betje" Wolff-Bekker, Dutch author and poet, Sara Burgerhart 1735 Birthday Charles Joseph, prince the Ligne, Belgian Field Marshal/author 1733 Death Ann-Therese de Marguent de Lambert, French marquess/author, dies at 86 1732 Birthday Julie de Lespinasse, French Author 1731 Death Daniel Defoe, English author (Robinson Crusoe), dies at about 70 1729 Birthday Michael Dennis, jesuit/author Edmund Burke, British author, Philosophy and Inquiry Edmund Burke, British author, Philosophy and Inquiry 1728 Birthday Johann G von Zimmermann, Swiss author 1726 Death Moshe Darshan, Rabbi/author (Torat Ahsam), dies 1725 Birthday Giacomo Casanova, writer, author, adventurer, book, 'Histoire de ma vie', or, 'History of My Life', profiles customs of 18th century European social life 1714 Birthday Gottlieb W. Rabener, German author, Vom Misbrauch of the Satire 1710 Birthday Robert Lowth, English Author 1709 Birthday Samuel Johnson, English Author 1705 Death Ninon de L'Enclos, French Author 1703 Death Charles Perrault, author/fairy tale writer, dies 1697 Birthday Friederike C Neuber, German actress and author, Allerkostbarste Schatz 1696 Birthday James Oglethorpe, England, General/author/colonizer, Georgia 1696 Death Jean de La Bruyere, French author, dies at 50 1692 Birthday Johannes G Schnabel, German author/surgeon, Insel Felsenburg 1691 Birthday Carolus van der Abeele, Flemish jesuit/author, Introduction l'amour 1690 Death Gedeon Tallemant van de Reaux, French author (Historiettes), dies at 71 1688 Death John Bunyan, preacher/novelist/author (Pilgrim's Progress), dies 1686 Birthday Benedetto Marcello, Italian author/composer, Lettera Famigliare 1685 Birthday John Gay, author, Baggars' Opera 1684 Death John Uytenhage van Lacks, lawyer/author, drowned at 48 1673 Death Moliare, Jean Baptiste Poquelin, French author (Learned Lady), dies 1672 Death Georg Stiernhielm, Swed scholar, author and poet (Hercules), dies at 73 1668 Birthday Alain R Lesage, French author, Turcaret ou le Financier 1667 Death David ben Samuel Halevi, rabbi/author (Shulchan Aruch), dies 1666 Death Francisco M the Melo, Portuguese author (Obras Morales), dies at 57 1655 Death Savinien Cyrano seigneur de Bergerac, French author, dies at 36 1654 Death Yom Tov Lipmann Heller, rabbi/author (Tosefot Yom Tov), dies 1649 Death Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, author, dies 1648 Death Tirso de Molina, Spanish author, dies at about 63 1645 Death Francisco Gomez Quevedo y Villegas, Spanish author and poet, dies at 64 1645 Birthday Jean de La Bruyere, French author 1643 Birthday Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury/author 1640 Death Robert Burton, author (Anatomy of Melancholy), dies 1633 Birthday George Savile, 1st marquis of Halifax/author, Character of a Trimmer 1632 Death John Eliot, English parliament leader/author (In Jail), dies at 40 1628 Birthday John Bunyan, England, cleric/author, Pilgrim's Progress 1627 Birthday Robert Boyle, Ireld, physicist/chemist/author, experiments with color 1625 Death James I (VI), king of England (1603-25)/poet/author, dies at 58 1619 Birthday Gedeon Tallemant des Reaux, French author, Historiettes 1616 Death William Shakesphere, English author (Hamlet) 1611 Birthday James Harrington, England, political author, Commonwealth of Oceans 1608 Birthday Francisco M de Melo, Portuguese author, Epanaforas 1602 Birthday William Lilly, England, astrologer, author, and almanac compiler 1596 Death Luis de Carabajal, 1st Jewish author in America, executed in Mexico 1592 Birthday John Eliot, St. Germans Cornwall, English MP/author 1587 Death John Foxe, author (Book of Martyrs), dies 1573 Death Solomon Luria (Maharshal), talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo), dies 1563 Death Hans Neusiedler, Hungarian/German luitist/author, dies at approx 54 1561 Birthday Carolus Scribani, Italian/Flemish jesuit/author 1556 Death Pietro Aretino, Italian author, poet and playwright, said to have died from laughing 1553 Death Francois Rabelais, French author (Gargantua/Pantagruel), dies at 49 1549 Birthday Philippe du Plessis, France, author 1542 Death Abraham ben Avigdor, rabbi/author (commentary on Tur), dies 1533 Birthday Peter Bornemisza, Hungarian vicar/author/publisher, Tragoedia 1527 Death Niccolo Machiavelli, Florentine statesman/author, dies at 57 1514 Birthday Tahmasp I, shah of Persia, 1524 - 1576, author, Tazkire-i Shah 1501 Death Ali Sjir Neva'i [Fani], Turkish poet/author, dies at 59 1500 Birthday Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor/goldsmith/author, Perseus 1492 Birthday Pietro Aretino, born in Arezzo, Italy, Italian author, poet and playwright Andreas Alicatus, Italian author 1471 Death Thomas Malory, author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55 1466 Birthday Desiderius Erasmus, Holland, scholar/author, In Praise of Folly 1441 Birthday Ali Sjir Neva'i [Fani], Turkish poet and author, Mahbub al-kulub 1400 Death Geofrey Chaucer, author (Canterbury Tales), dies in London 1391 Birthday Eduard, Dom Duarte, King of Portugal, 1433 - 1438, author 1321 Death Dante Alighieri, author (Divine Comedy), dies 1272 Death David of Augsburg, Franciscan minister/author, dies 1171 Death Dionysius bar Salibi, author (Diarbekir), dies 994 Birthday Muhammad ibn Hazm, historian/jurist/author of Islamic Spain 967 Death Aboe al-Faradj al-Isfahani, Arabic author (Book of liederen), dies 833 Death Ansegis/Ansegius, French abbot of Fontenelle/author, dies at about 63
