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2004 Walter Wager, American Novelist

2004 Janet Frame, New Zealander Novelist

2003 Winston Graham, English Novelist

2003 Sloan Wilson, American Novelist

2003 Howard Fast, novelist, Spartacus, dies at 88

2001 Dorothy Dunnett, Scottish Novelist

2001 Mordecai Richler, Canadian Novelist

2001 Tove Jansson, Finnish Novelist

2001 Robert Ludlum, novelist, The Bourne Identity, dies at 73

2000 Anthony Powell, British Novelist

2000 Alex Comfort, physician, poet, novelist, anarchist, pacifist, 'The New Joy of Sex', dies at 80

1999 J. F. Powers, American Novelist

1999 Roderick Thorp, American Novelist

1998 William Gaddis, American Novelist

1998 Lawrence Sanders, American Novelist

1997 James A. Michener, American Novelist

1997 Harold Robbins, salacious novelist, dies at 81

1997 Harold Robbins, novelist, The Carpetbaggers, dies at 81

1997 Robert Pinget, novelist/Playwright, dies at 78

1996 Abdelhamid Benhadugah, novelist, dies at 71

1996 Oliver Charles Anderson, novelist, dies at 84

1996 Eva Jones, poet and novelist, dies at 82

1996 Leo Malet, writer, novelist, dies at 86

1996 Hubert Nicholson, poet and novelist, dies at 87

1995 Robertson Davies, novelist essayist/dramatist, dies

1995 Robertson Davies, Canadian Novelist

1995 Henry Roth, novelist (Call it Sleep), dies at 89

1995 Brigid Brophy, novelist/campaigner, dies at 66

1995 Don Richard Carpenter, novelist, dies at 64

1995 Gesualdo Bufalino, novelist, dies at 74

1995 Paul George Vincent O'Shaughnessy Horgan, novelist, dies at 91

1995 Calder Willingham, novelist/Scriptwriter, dies at 72

1994 Jessie Kesson, author, novelist, radio producer, and playwright, dies at 77

1994 Ladislav Fuks, writer, novelist, psychological novels, involving despair, suffering, experience of Fascist rule, dies at 70

1994 Leonid Maksimovich Leonov, novelist/Playwright, dies at 94

1994 Rosa Chacel, spanish Novelist, dies at 96

1994 Terence de Vere White, novelist/critic, dies at 82

1994 Denis Pitts, film-maker, journalist, novelist, wrote, 'This City is Ours', 'The Predator', dies at 64

1994 Sandra Paretti, romantic novelist, dies at 59

1993 Anthony Burgess, novelist (Clockwork Orange), dies of cancer at 76

1993 James Leo Herlihy, novelist (Midnight Cowboy), dies at 66

1992 Laurie Colwin, novelist (Happy All the Time), dies at 48

1992 Frederick Exley, novelist (Fan's Note), dies at 63

1992 Wallace Stegner, novelist (Pulitzer 1972), dies at 84

1992 Angela Carter, British novelist (Magic Toyshop), dies of cancer at 51

1991 Ernest K Gann, U.S. adventure novelist, dies at 81

1991 Isaac Bashevis Singer, American Novelist

1990 Walker Percy, physician/novelist (Lancelot), dies of cancer at 73

1989 Robert Penn Warren, American Novelist

1989 Hermann Burger, writer, essayist, novelist, poet, wrote 'Tractatus logico-suicidalis' 1988, advocating suicide, dies of suicide, from overdose of sleeping pills, in Brunegg, Switzerland

1989 Khomeini orders Moslems to murder "Satanic Verses" novelist Rushdie

1989 Thomas Bernhard, most prominent German-speaking postwar era author, writer, playwright, novelist, dies at 58 of tuberculosis in Ohlsdorf, Upper Austria

1988 Alan Paton, South African Novelist

1988 Raymond Williams, Welsh Novelist

1987 Erskine Caldwell, novelist (Tobacco Road), dies at 83

1987 Alistair Maclean, Scottish Novelist

1986 John Braine, British Novelist

1986 Jean Genet, French criminal/novelist/dramatist, dies at 75

1986 Hubert Fichte, writer, columnist for magazine konkret, novelist, dies at 50

1986 L Ron Hubbard, novelist/founder (Church of Scientology), dies at 74

1980 Romain Gary, Russian Novelist

1980 Alejo Carpentier, Cuban Novelist

1980 French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it 1st woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar)

1978 Cornelis P "Cor" Bruon, Dutch novelist (Sil), dies at 95

1978 Sylvia Townsend Warner, English Novelist

1978 Paul Scott, British Novelist

1977 Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

1976 Jose Lezama Lima, Cuban poet and novelist, dies at 65

1975 Thornton Wilder, American Novelist

1975 Ivo Andric, writer, novelist, awarded Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote 'Bosnian Chronicle', 'The Bridge on the Drina', dies in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, at age 82

1973 Henry Green, English Novelist

1973 J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

1973 Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist

1973 Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish novelist (Cat Jumps), dies in Lond at 73

1972 Jules Romains, French novelist (Death of Nobody), dies at 86

1971 A. P. Herbert, British novelist, humorist, playwright and activist at age 81

1970 Stefan Andres, post-World War II writer, novelist, 'Wir sind Utopia', dies at 64

1970 E. M. Forster, English Novelist

1970 Tarjei Vesaas, Nowegian author/novelist/writer (Isslottet), dies at 72

1970 Schmuel J Agnon, novelist (Nobel 1966), dies

1969 Katharine Susannah Prichard, novelist (Black Opal), dies at 85

1969 Ivy Compton-Burnett, novelist, dies

1967 Nigel Martin Balchin, novelist, dies

1967 Elmer Rice, New York playwright/director/novelist, dies at 74

1966 Georges Duhamel, French Novelist

1965 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'

1964 Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), dies at 57

1963 Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

1963 Sylvia Plath, poet and novelist (Ariel), kills herself in London at 30

1962 Mark Haddon, born in Northampton, England, novelist, poet, wrote, 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time', written from perspective of boy with Asperger syndrome

1962 Edward Godfrey Richard Aldington, novelist/biographer, dies

1962 William Faulkner, American Novelist

1962 Vita Sackville-West, English Novelist

1962 David Foster Wallace, born in New York, author, novelist, short story and literary fiction writer

1961 Arundhati Roy, Indian Novelist

1961 Rick Moody, American Novelist

1961 Irvine Welsh, Scottish Novelist

1961 Tom Holt, born in London, author, British novelist, writes mythopoeic novels that parody mythology, history, literature

1961 Louis-Ferdinand Celine, born in Courbevoie, France, novelist, 'Journey to End of Night', dies in Paris, France, at age 67

1961 David Leavitt, American Novelist

1961 Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

1960 John Phillips Marquand, novelist, dies at 66

1960 Dornford Yates, British Novelist

1959 Andy McNab, British Novelist

1959 Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

1959 Jonathan Franzen, American Novelist

1959 Julian Clary, born in Teddington, England, comedian, novelist, employs campy delivery style, emphasizing use of double entendre, innuendo, videos of stage acts include 'My Glittering Passage', 'The Mincing Machine Tour'

1958 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature

1958 Roger Martin du Gard, novelist/playwright, dies

1957 Richard Powers, American Novelist

1957 Joyce Cary, Irish Novelist

1957 Valery Larbaud, French author/novelist/writer (Amants), dies at 75

1957 Nicholson Baker, American Novelist

1955 Caleb Carr, American Novelist

1955 Barbara Kingsolver, American Novelist

1955 Patrick McCabe, born in Clones, Ireland, novelist, wrote 'Butcher Boy', 'Breakfast on Pluto', both adapted into films by Neil Jordan

1954 Louis de Bernieres, British Novelist

1954 Joseph Hergesheimer, novelist (Java Head), dies

1952 Orhan Pamuk, born in Istanbul, Turkey, novelist, professor in the Humanities, teaching comparative literature, writing, at Columbia University, received 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature

1952 Amy Tan, American Novelist

1952 Norman Douglas, essayist/novelist, dies

1952 Walter Mosley, American Novelist

1951 Dean Pitchford, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, prolific songwriter, screenwriter, director, actor, novelist, Oscar, Golden Globe award-winner, wrote with composers Alan Menken, Rupert Holmes, collaborated on songs for movie, Fame, wrote screenplay for movie, 'Footloose'

1950 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'

1950 Neil Jordan, born in Sligo, Ireland, novelist, Dream of a Beast, Past

1949 Jerry B. Jenkins, American Novelist

1949 Marilyn Tucker Quayle, novelist/wife of vice president Dan, 1989-93

1949 Richard Russo, American Novelist

1949 Scott Turow, American Novelist

1948 Robert Coover, novelist, Pricksongs and Descants

1947 Baroness Orczy, British Novelist

1947 Ann Beattie, born in Washington, D.C., short story writer, novelist, compared to John Updike, J.D Salinger, professor at Harvard, University of Virginia, Rea Award for the Short Story recipient

1947 Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

1947 Danielle Steel, American Novelist

1947 Rose Tremain, novelist/playwright

1947 Salman Rushdie, Pak, novelist, Midnight's Children, Satanic Verses

1947 Tom Clancy, American Novelist

1946 Elfriede Jelinek, born in MŸrzzuschlag, Austria, writer, playwright, novelist, member, Austria's Communist Party, awarded Nobel Prize in Literature, 2004

1946 Clare Francis, yachtswoman/novelist, Come Hell or High Water

1946 Sue Townsend, English Novelist

1945 Theodore Dreiser, novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74

1945 Ellen Glasgow, American Novelist

1945 Bruno Frank, born in Stuttgart, Germany, writer, dramatist, novelist, wrote 'Trenchk', 'The Days of the King', dies at 58 in Beverly Hills, California

1945 Shivadhar Srinivasa Naipaul, Trinidad, novelist, essayist, Fireflies

1945 Margaret Deland, American Novelist

1944 Eugenia Zukerman, Cambridge Ms, flutist/novelist, Deceptive Cadence

1944 George Ade, U.S. novelist/playwright (Counsel Widow), dies at 78

1944 Armistead Maupin, American Novelist

1944 Alice Walker, U.S., novelist, Color Purple, Meridian

1943 Joanna Trollope, English Novelist

1943 Marlene Jobert, novelist, Adventures of John Difool

1943 Rose Tremain, British novelist/playwright, Restoration

1942 Bruno Schulz, Polish Novelist

1942 Helen Garner, Australian Novelist

1942 Michael Crichton, Chicago, novelist, Andromeda Strain, Congo, Looker

1942 Isabel Allende, born in Lima, Peru, writer, novelist, of Spanish and Portuguese descent, wrote 'The House of Spirits', 'City of the Beasts'

1942 Hermann Burger, born in Burg, Switzerland, writer, essayist, novelist, poet, wrote 'Tractatus logico-suicidalis' 1988, advocating suicide

1941 Nora Ephron, New York, novelist/screenwriter/director, Michael, Heartburn

1941 Eugene-Marcel Prevost, novelist, dies

1941 James Joyce, novelist (Ulysses), dies in Zurich Switzerland, at 58

1940 Waclaw Berent, Polish novelist, dies at 67

1940 Maeve Binchy, Irish Novelist

1940 Peter Benchley, New York City, novelist, Jaws, The Deep

1940 Angela Carter, English Novelist

1940 Sue Grafton, American Novelist

1940 Edward Frederic Benson, novelist, dies

1940 Edmund White, American Novelist

1940 Gao Xingjian, Chinese Novelist

1939 Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

1939 Bertrand Blier, born in Paris, France, novelist and director, Going Places

1938 Anne Perry, British Novelist

1938 Anita Brookner, art historian/novelist

1938 Joyce Carol Oates, born in New York, novelist, Garden of Earthly Delights

1937 Sapper, British soldier/novelist (Bull-Dog Drummond), dies at 48

1937 Anita Desai, Indian Novelist

1937 Thomas Pynchon, novelist, V

1937 Ian St. James, novelist, Balfour Conspiracy, Vengeance, Money Stones

1937 Paul Bailey, born in England, novelist, George Orewell prize-winner, lecturer at North Dakota State University, writer in residence, Kingston University, wrote At The Jerusalem, radio and television plays, and non-fiction books

1936 Don DeLillo, American Novelist

1936 Roderick Thorp, American Novelist

1936 Maxim Gorky, Russian Novelist

1936 Judith Guest, American Novelist

1935 Thomas Keneally, Australian Novelist

1935 Winifred Holtby, English Novelist

1935 Francoise Sagan, born in Cajarc, France, novelist, Bonjour Trieste

1935 Hubert Fichte, born in Germany, writer, columnist for magazine konkret, novelist, influenced by Marcel Proust, Hans henny Jahnn, Jean Genet, wrote novel Die Geschichte der Empfindlichkeit, translated as the history of sensibility

1935 Oe Kenzaburo, Japanese novelist, Catch, Personal Matter

1935 Richard Brautigan, born in Tacoma, Washington, writer, novelist, wrote Trout Fishing in America, known for black comedy, parody, satire, and Zen Buddhism

1934 Joan Didion, U.S. novelist/journalist, Salvador

1934 Diane Johnson, American Novelist

1933 Fay Weldon, English Novelist

1933 Jerzy Kosinski, novelist, Painted Bird, Being There

1933 Barbara Taylor Bradford, English Novelist

1933 Penelope Lively, born in Cairo, Egypt, writer, novelist, won Booker Prize for 'Moon Tiger', influenced by social changes in 20th century Britain

1933 George Konrad, Hungarian Novelist

1933 Philip Roth, born in Newark, novelist, Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint

1932 Charles W. Chesnutt, American Novelist

1932 Malcolm Bradbury, English Novelist

1932 Vidiadhar S Naipaul, Trinidad, novelist, Middle Passage

1932 V. S. Naipaul, Indian Novelist

1932 Rona Jaffe, novelist, Mazes and Monsters

1932 Christy Brown, born in Dublin, novelist, My Left Foot, Down All the Days

1932 John Updike, born in Reading, Pennsylvania, writer, novelist, art critic, literary critic, Pulitzer Prize winner

1932 Aharon Appelfeld, born near Czernowitz, Romania, now Ukraine, Israeli novelist, Holocaust survivor, Hebrew-language author with modernistic, metaphorical writing style

1931 John LeCarre, Cornwell, England, spy novelist, Little Drummer Girl

1931 Hall Caine, British Novelist

1931 Arnold Bennett, novelist, dies

1931 Don Richard Carpenter, novelist

1931 Toni Morrison, born in Ohio, novelist, Tar Baby, Beloved, Song of Solomon

1931 Thomas Bernhard, born in Heerlen, Netherlands, most prominent German-speaking postwar era author, writer, playwright, novelist

1931 E[dgar] L[aurence] Doctorow, New York City, novelist, World's Fair

1930 John Arden, England, novelist/playwright, Left Handed Liberty

1930 Barry Unsworth, novelist, Pascali's Island

1930 John Barth, novelist, Sot-Weed Factor

1930 June Knox-Mawer, British radio host/novelist, World of Islands

1930 Nathaniel Branden, born in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, psychotherapist, known for work in psychology of self-esteem, writer, associate of novelist Ayn Rand, promoted her philosophy, idea of Objectivism, profiled in movie, 'The Passion of Ayn Rand'

1930 Denis Pitts, film-maker, journalist, novelist, wrote, 'This City is Ours', 'The Predator'

1929 Jack Higgins, Harry Patterson, novelist

1929 Brigid Brophy, novelist/campaigner

1929 Catherine Gaskin, romantic novelist, Fiona, Coporation Wife

1929 Christa Wolf, German novelist, Divided Heaven

1929 Chaim Potok, New York City, novelist, Promise

1928 Veijo Meri, born in Viipuri, now Vyborg, Russia, writer, novelist, poet, focuses on absurdity of war, published biography of Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

1928 Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Col, novelist, Europa Y America, Nobel 1982

1928 Philip Jose Farmer, Indiana, science fiction novelist, Riverworld

1928 Thomas Hardy, novelist (Maddening Crowd), dies near Dorchester at 87

1928 Ernest R Tidyman, Ohio, novelist/screenwriter, French Connection

1927 Gunter Grass, Danzig Germany, novelist/poet, Tin Drum

1927 Robert Ludlum, New York City, spy novelist, Bourne Identity

1926 Alison Lurie, U.S., novelist, War Between the Tates

1926 Margaret Laurence, Canadian Novelist

1926 Robert Creeley, Massachusetts, poet and novelist, Island

1926 James P. Donleavy, born in Brooklyn, novelist, Ginger Man, Onion Eaters

1926 John Fowles, born in England, novelist, Collector, French Leiutenent's Woman

1925 Jan Wolkers, Dutch sculptor/novelist, Brief American

1925 William Styron, born in Virginia, novelist, Confess of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice

1925 Nat Hentoff, columnist/novelist, Village Voice, The Cold Society

1925 Flannery O'Connor, born in Georgia, novelist, A Good Man is Hard to Find

1925 John Barrington Wain, born in England, novelist and poet, Hurry on Down

1925 Alex La Guma, Cape Town South Africa, novelist, A Walk in the Night

1925 George Washington Cable, American Novelist

1925 Yukio Mishima, Japan, novelist, Temple of Golden Pavilion

1925 Abdelhamid Benhadugah, novelist

1924 Grace Metalious, American Novelist

1924 Walter Wager, American Novelist

1924 Janet Frame, New Zealand, novelist, Intensive Care, Owls Do Cry

1924 Leon Uris, born in Baltimore, novelist, Exodus, QB VII, Battle Cry

1924 William Gass, Fargo ND, novelist/philosopher, Omensetter's Luck

1924 William H. Gass, American Novelist

1924 Thomas Berger, U.S., novelist, Vital Parts, Little Big Man

1923 Nadine Gordimer, Springs South Africa, novelist

1923 Ladislav Fuks, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, writer, novelist, psychological novels, involving despair, suffering, experience of Fascist rule, received doctorate at Charles University in Prague

1923 Dorothy Dunnett, Scottish Novelist

1923 Stanley Middleton, novelist

1923 Jean Kerr, born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, novelist, Please Don't Eat the Daisies

1923 Nicholas Mosley, British Novelist

1923 Joseph Heller, born in Brooklyn, New York, novelist, Catch-22, 1963 Arts and Letters Award

1923 James Kirkup, travel writer/poet/novelist, African in Greenland

1923 John Mortimer, English Novelist

1923 Elizabeth Jane Howard, British novelist, After Julius

1923 Sembene Ousmane, Senegalese author/novelist/director, Doctor Noir

1923 Norman Mailer, born in New Jersey, American novelist, poet, playwright, film director, wrote 40 books and 11 novels

1923 Eva Zeller, born in Germany, poet, writer, novelist, wrote Lampenfieber, Hauptfrau, Fliehkraft, Auf dem Wasser gehen

1922 William Gaddis, American Novelist

1922 Calder Willingham, novelist/scriptwriter

1922 Kurt Vonnegut, born in Indiana, novelist, essayist, satirist, wrote 'Slaughterhouse Five'

1922 Alain Robbe-Grillet, France, novelist, Voyeur

1922 Alistair Maclean, Scottish Novelist

1922 Kingsley Amis, English Novelist

1922 Kingsley Amis, born in London, novelist, Lucky Jim, James Bond Dossier

1922 John Braine, English novelist, Life at the Top

1921 James Jones, Robinson, Illinois, novelist, From Here to Eternity

1921 Mario Puzo, New York City, novelist, Godfather, Cotton Club, Earthquake

1921 Raymond Williams, Welsh Novelist

1921 Brian Moore, Ireland, novelist, Catholics, Doctor's Wife

1921 Hayden Carruth, born in Waterbury, Connecticut, novelist, Crow and Heart

1921 Elaine Dundy, born in New York, American novelist, biographer, journalist, actress, playwright

1921 Michael Meyer, UK, novelist/Ibsen translator, Hedda Gabler

1921 Friedrich Durrenmatt, born in Switzerland, playwright and novelist, Visit

1920 P. D. James, English Novelist

1920 Eleanor Porter, American Novelist

1920 Sloan Wilson, Norwalk, Conn, novelist, Man in the Gray Flannal

1920 Arthur Hailey, Luton England, novelist, Hotel, Airport

1920 Paul Scott, British Novelist

1920 Lawrence Sanders, American Novelist

1920 D. J. Enright, born in England, poet and novelist, Some Men are Brothers

1920 Howard Nemerov, U.S., 3rd U.S. poet laureate and novelist, Blue Swallows

1920 Alex Comfort, born in England, physician, poet, novelist, anarchist, pacifist, wrote "The Joy of Sex", a scholarly approach to sexual behavior

1919 Doris Lessing, Kermanshah Iran, novelist, Golden Notebook

1919 Stanley Middleton, novelist

1919 Robert Pinget, novelist/playwright

1919 Iris Murdoch, born in Dublin, Ireland, novelist, Severed Head, Unicorn

1919 Meriol Trevor, novelist/biographer, Civil Prisoners

1919 Max Shulman, novelist, Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap

1919 Amelia Barr, writer, novelist, wrote for religious periodicals, novels include 'The Lone House', 'Shela Vedder', dies

1919 Peter Abrahams, South African Novelist

1919 J. D. Salinger, American Novelist, Catcher in the Rye

1918 Muriel Spark, Edinburgh Scotland, novelist, Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

1917 Louis Auchincloss, Lawrence, New York, lawyer/novelist, Watchfires

1917 J. F. Powers, American Novelist

1917 Jean-Louis Laffitte Curtis, novelist

1917 Anthony Burgess, essayist/novelist, Clockwork Orange

1917 Carson McCullers, U.S., novelist, Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

1917 Sidney Sheldon, born in Chicago, American writer, Academy-Award winner, crime fiction novelist

1916 Hector Hugh Munro, British Novelist

1916 Peter Weiss, Germany, Swedish author/dramatist/novelist, Marat/Sade

1916 Jessie Kesson, born in Scotland, Jessie Grant McDonald, author, novelist, radio producer, and playwright

1916 James Alfred Wight Herriot, veterinarian/novelist

1916 Elizabeth Hardwick, American literary critic, novelist, author, co-founded The New York Review of Books

1916 John D. MacDonald, novelist, Deep Blue Goodbye

1916 Morris L. West, born in Australia, novelist, Shoes of the Fisherman

1916 Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian Novelist

1916 John Oliver Killens, novelist

1915 Ross MacDonald, detective novelist, Goodbye Look

1915 Margaret Walker Alexander, poet and novelist, For My People

1915 Herman Wouk, New York City, novelist, Caine Mutiny, Winds of War

1915 James E Flecker, British diplomat/novelist (Hassan), dies at 30

1914 Tove Jansson, Finnish Novelist

1914 Saul Bellow, born in Quebec, novelist, Nobel 1976-Mr Samler's Planet

1914 Romain Gary, Russian Novelist

1914 Bernard Malamud, U.S., novelist, Fixer, Natural, Pulitizer 1967

1914 Marguerite Duras, born in France, novelist and playwright, Sea Wall

1914 Budd Schulberg, born in New York City, novelist, On the Waterfront

1913 Albert Camus, Algeria, novelist/director, The Just-Nobel 1957

1913 Robertson Davies, Canadian Novelist

1913 Eva Jones, poet and novelist

1913 Jo Sinclair, born in Brooklyn, New York, pen name Jo Sinlair, writer, novelist, focused on race relations and the struggle of immigrant families, wrote Sing at My Wake, Anna Teller

1913 Irwin Shaw, U.S., novelist, Rich Man Poor Man

1913 Thomas P Krag, Norw author/novelist (Jon Graeff, Ulf Ran), dies at 44

1912 Oliver Charles Anderson, novelist

1912 Mary McCarthy, U.S., novelist, Group

1912 Patrick White, Australia, novelist, Happy Valley, Nobel 1973

1912 Terence de Vere White, novelist/critic

1912 Justin M'Carthy, politician/novelist (Miss Misanthrope), dies at 81

1912 Louis Boon, born in Aalst, Belgium, born Lodewijk Paul Aalbrecht Boon, writer, journalist, novelist, wrote historical novels, modernist work Vergeten straat

1912 Kylie Tennant, novelist, Battlers, Lost Haven

1912 Roy Fuller, England, poet and novelist, Lost Season

1912 Franz Tumler, Austria, author/novelist, Cloak, Aufruf

1911 Hortense Calisher, New York City, novelist, Arts and Letters 1967

1911 Kenneth Patchen, U.S., poet and novelist, Cloth of the Tempest

1911 William Golding, England, novelist, Lord of the Flies-Nobel 1983

1910 Jean Genet, born in Paris, France, criminal/novelist/dramatist, The Blacks

1910 Jose Lezama Lima, Havana Cuba, poet and novelist

1910 Nicholas Monsarrat, Liverpool England, novelist

1910 Uys Krige, South African playwright/novelist, Orphan of the Desert

1909 Ciro Alegria, Peru, novelist, Golden Serpent

1909 Malcolm Lowry, English novelist, Under the Volcano

1909 Petar Segedin, Croatian novelist, Holy Devil

1909 Juan Carlos Onetti, novelist

1909 Osamu Dazai, born in Japan, novelist, Tsugaru, No Longer Human

1909 Jeffrey Eugenides, American Novelist

1909 Roddy Doyle, irish Novelist

1909 Eudora Welty, born in Jackson, Mississippi, novelist, Optimist's Daughter-Pulitzer 1973

1909 Nelson Algren, U.S., novelist, Man with the Golden Arm

1909 Gabrielle Roy, French-Canadian novelist, Tin Flute

1909 Leo Malet, born in Montpelier, France, writer, novelist, aligned with Surrealists, friends with Renee Magritte, Andre Breton, famous for crime novel character Nestor Burma

1909 Wallace Stegner, novelist/critic, Pulitzer-1971-Angle of Repose

1908 Mika Waltari, novelist, Egyptian

1908 William Saroyan, U.S., novelist/playwright, Time of Your Life

1908 Harriette Arnow, Wayne Co, Kentucky, novelist, Dollmaker

1908 Winston Graham, English Novelist

1908 Albrecht Goes, born in Germany, pastor with the German army, writer, novelist, BBC Television in the United Kingdom adapted Unruhige Nacht in 1950, his novel, translated in English as 'Arrow to the Heart'

1908 Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguistic/author/novelist

1908 Hubert Nicholson, poet and novelist

1906 Betty Smith, novelist, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

1906 Richard Llewellyn, Wales, novelist, How Green Was My Valley

1906 Stefan Andres, born in Germany, post-World War II writer, novelist

1906 Catherine Cookson, born in England, novelist, Bannaman Legacy

1906 Terence Hanbury White, Bombay India, novelist, England Have My Bones

1906 Pierre [Louis] Boileau, born in Paris, France, novelist, Vertigo

1906 Henry Roth, born in Galicia, Austro-Hungary, writer, short story writer, novelist, Call It Sleep considered masterpiece of Jewish American literature

1905 Anthony Powell, England, novelist, Infants of Spring

1905 Henry Green, English Novelist

1905 Charles P Snow, England, novelist/scientist, Death Under Sail

1905 Elias Canetti, Bulgarian/British novelist, Life-Terms, Nobel 1981

1905 H[erbert] E[rnest] Bates, novelist, Feast for July, Love for Lydia

1905 Pol le Roy, Flemish author/novelist/writer, Stroom

1905 John O'Hara, Pottstown Penn, novelist, Appointment at Samarra

1904 Alejo Carpentier, Cuban Novelist

1904 [Henry] Graham Greene, England, prolific novelist, Brighton Rock

1904 Isaac Bashevis Singer, born in Poland, Yiddish novelist, Enemies-Nobel 1978

1904 Harry Martinson, Sweden, novelist/poet, Trade Wind-Nobel 1974

1904 MacKinlay Kantor, Webster City Iowa, novelist, Andersonville

1903 George [Robert] Gissing, English novelist, dies at 46

1903 Albert Helman, Lou Lichtveld, Suriname politician/novelist

1903 Nathanael West, American novelist, Day of the Locusts

1903 James Gould Cozzens, U.S., novelist, 1949 Pulitzer-Guard of Honor

1903 Paul George Vincent O'Shaughnessy Horgan, novelist

1903 Anais Nin, born in Paris, novelist, Winter of Artifice, House of Incense

1903 Kay Boyle, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, novelist, Plagued by Nightingales

1902 Carlo Levi, Italy, painter/novelist, Of Fear and Freedom

1902 Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet/dramatist/novelist, The Defeat

1902 Georgette Heyer, England, novelist, Friday's Child

1902 Christina Stead, born in Australia, novelist, Man Who Loved Children

1902 Halldor Laxness, born in Iceland, novelist, Salka Valka, Nobel 1955

1901 Oliver [Hazard Perry] La Farge, New York City, anthropologist/novelist

1901 Andre Malraux, Berger, France, novelist/art historian, L'Espoir

1901 Johanna Spyri, Swiss Novelist

1901 Walter Besant, novelist/philanthropist, dies

1900 Karin Boye, born in Gothenburg, Sweden, born Karin Maria Boye, poet, novelist, co-founder of poetry magazine Spektrum, introduced T.S. Eliot to Swedish readers, best-known novel 'Kallocain'

1900 Thomas Wolfe, American novelist, Look Homeward Angel

1900 James Hilton, English novelist, Goodbye Mr. Chips

1900 "Janet" Taylor Caldwell, England, novelist, Melissa

1900 Taylor Caldwell, novelist

1900 Eyvind Johnson, Sweden, novelist, Return to Ithaca-Nobel 1974

1900 Barbara Gooden, novelist

1900 Ignazio Silone, Italy, novelist/politician, Bread and Wine

1900 Richard D Blackmore, English novelist (Lorna Doone), dies at 74

1899 Cecil Scott Forester, England, historical novelist, Horatio Hornblower

1899 Johan J Fabricius, Dutch novelist, Island of Demons

1899 Sally Benson, novelist

1899 C. S. Forester, English Novelist

1899 Victor Cherbuliez, French Novelist

1899 Yasonari Kawabata, Japan, novelist, Thousand Cranes

1899 Elizabeth Bowen, born in Dublin, novelist, Death of the Heart, Encounters

1899 Leonid Maksimovich Leonov, novelist/playwright

1899 Vladimir Nabokov, born in St. Petersburg, Russia, novelist, Lolita, Ada

1899 Vladimir Nabokov, born in St. Petersburg, novelist

1899 Eric Linklater, born in Scotland, novelist/poet, Blue Swallows

1899 Nevil Shute [Norway], London, novelist, On the Beach, Town Like Alice

1898 Alec Waugh, London, novelist, Island in the Sun, brother of Evelyn

1898 Winifred Holtby, English Novelist

1898 Erich Maria Remarque, novelist, All Quiet on the Western Front

1898 Rosa Chacel, spanish novelist

1897 Piet Bakker, Dutch novelist, Ciske the Rat

1897 Paul Gallico, New York, novelist

1897 Thornton Wilder, U.S., novelist/playwright, Our Town

1897 Denise Robins, London, romantic novelist, 1st Long Kiss

1897 Valentin Katayev, Odessa Ukraine, novelist/playwright, Embezzled

1896 Edmond-Louis-Antoine Huot de Goncourt, novelist, dies at 74

1896 William Hamilton Gibson, illustrator/author/novelist, dies

1896 Margaret Kennedy, novelist

1896 John dos Passos, novelist, 1919, Big Money, 42nd Parallel

1895 Robert Graves, Irish Novelist

1894 Louis-Ferdinand Celine, born in Courbevoie, France, novelist, 'Journey to End of Night'

1894 Paul Green, U.S., novelist/playwright, In Abraham's Bosom

1894 Robert Nathan, New York City, poet, novelist, Portrait of Jennie

1893 Sylvia Townsend Warner, English Novelist

1893 Faith Baldwin, New Rochelle, New York, author/novelist, They Who Love

1893 Ben Hecht, New York City, novelist/playwright/screenwriter, Front Page

1893 Russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright, Life with Father

1893 Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, French novelist/essayist, Gilles

1892 Ivo Andric, born in Dolac, Bosnia, writer, novelist, awarded Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote 'Bosnian Chronicle', 'The Bridge on the Drina'

1892 Elmer Rice, New York City, playwright/director/novelist, Pulitzer-Street Scene

1892 Pearl Buck, prize winning novelist

1892 Bruno Schulz, Polish Novelist

1892 James M. Cain, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, novelist, Postman Always Rings Twice

1892 Djuna Barnes, American Novelist

1892 Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist

1892 David Garnett, England, novelist and editor, Lady into Fox

1892 Vita Sackville-West, born in England, novelist/poet, The Land

1892 J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist, Lord of Rings

1891 Par Lagerkvist, Sweden, novelist/dramatist, Barabbas, Nobel 1951

1891 Mikhail Bulgakov, Russia, playwright/novelist, Black Snow

1891 Storm Jameson, English novelist, The Green Man, Cousin Honore

1890 A. P. Herbert, born in Ashted, Surrey, novelist, humorist, playwright and activist

1890 H. P. Lovecraft, American Novelist

1890 Gottfried Keller, novelist/poet, dies

1890 Katherine Anne Porter, U.S., novelist, Ship of Fools

1890 Boris L Pasternak, Russia, novelist/poet, Dr. Zhivago, Nobel 1958,

1890 Boris Pasternak, Russian Novelist

1889 Enid Bagnold, novelist, Chalk Garden, 1956 Award of Merit

1889 Fannie Hurst, novelist, Anatomy of Me

1889 George Douglas Howard Cole, socialist/novelist

1889 Wilkie Collins, English Novelist

1889 Ludwig Tugel, German author/novelist/writer, Horse Music

1889 Jose Eustasio Rivera, Colombia, poet and novelist, Vortex

1889 Howard Spring, British author/novelist/writer/critic, O Absalom

1888 Herman McNeile, Cornwall England, soldier/novelist, Bull-Dog Drummond

1888 Shmuel Agnon, born in Israel, novelist, Day Before Yesterday-Nobel 1966

1888 Maria Dermoat, Java, Dutch novelist, 10,000 Things

1888 Georges Bernanos, France, novelist, Diary of a Country Priest

1887 Dinah Maria Mulock, English Novelist

1887 Martin Luis Guzman, Mexico, novelist, Eagle and the Serpent

1887 Bruno Frank, born in Stuttgart, Germany, writer, dramatist, novelist, wrote 'Trenchk', 'The Days of the King'

1886 Hermann Broch, Austria, novelist, Sleepwalkers, Bewitchment

1886 Henri Alain-Fournier, French novelist, Great Adventure

1886 Ricardo Guiraldes, Argentina, novelist/poet, Don Segundo Sombra

1886 Ronald Firbank, London, novelist, Flower Beneath the Foot

1885 Francois Mauriac, France, novelist/poet/playwright, Nobel 1952

1885 DuBose Heyward, novelist, Porgy

1885 Jules Romains, France, novelist/playwright/poet, Men of Good Will

1885 Dornford Yates, British Novelist

1885 Andre Maurois, Elbeuf, France, novelist/biographer

1885 Frances Parkinson Keyes, novelist, Dinner at Antoine

1885 Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, Polish novelist/satirist, Black Wings

1885 Sinclair Lewis, novelist/social critic, Main Street, Nobel 1930

1885 Edmond About, French Novelist

1884 Eduardo Barrios, Chile, novelist, The Love-Crazed Boy

1884 Frank Arthur Swinnerton, England, novelist, Summer Storm, Sanctuary

1884 Romulo Gallegos, Venezuela, novelist, Dona Barbara, President, 1947-48

1884 Georges Duhamel, French Novelist

1884 Ivy Compton-Burnett, novelist

1884 Hugh S. Walpole, born in New Zealand, novelist and playwright, Jeremy, Maradick at 40

1884 Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russia, novelist/playwright, We

1883 Shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist, Road Through Dark Night

1882 Sigrid Undset, Norway, novelist, Kristin Lavransdatter, Nobel 1928

1882 James Joyce, Ire, novelist/poet, Dubliners, Ulysses, Finnigan's Wake

1882 William Harrison Ainsworth, English Novelist

1881 Padraic Colum, Irish poet and novelist /poet, Collected Poems

1881 Valery Nicolas Larbaud, France, novelist/translator, Enfantines

1881 Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl (Beaconsfield)/novelist, dies

1881 Mary Webb, English Novelist

1881 Roger Martin du Guard, born in France, novelist, Les Thibault-Nobel 1937

1881 Feodor M Dostoevski, Russian novelist (Crime and Punishment), dies at 59

1881 Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

1880 George Eliot, Victorian novelist (Adam Bede), dies on 61st birthday

1880 Sholem Asch, Poland, Yiddish novelist/playwright, Three Cities

1879 James Branch Cabell, American novelist/essayist, Restless Heads

1879 Norman Lindsay, Creswick Victoria, artist/novelist

1879 Dorothy Canfield Fisher, U.S., novelist, Book-of-Month-Club

1879 Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch author/novelist/writer, dies at 67

1879 Edward M Forster, England, novelist, Howards End, Passage to India

1879 Edward M. Forster, English Novelist

1879 E. M. Forster, English Novelist

1878 Eino Leino, Finland, poet/playwright/novelist, Elaman Koreus

1877 Lloyd Cassel Douglas, novelist

1877 Hermann Hesse, born in Switzerland, novelist and poet, Steppenwolf, Nobel 1946

1876 O E Rolvaag, Norwegian-American novelist, Giants in the Earth

1876 Ian Hay, Scotland, novelist/playwright, PIp, Carrying On

1875 Grazia Deledda, Italy, novelist, Old Man of the Mtn-Nobel 1926

1875 Thomas Mann, Germany, novelist, Magic Mountain-Nobel 1929

1875 Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker, Dutch playwright/novelist, Poverty

1875 Edgar Wallace, born in England, novelist, playwright and journalist, Terror

1874 Gilbert Keith Chesterton, England, novelist, Man Who Made Gold

1874 Ellen Glasgow, novelist

1874 [William] Somerset Maugham, Paris, novelist/poet, Of Human Bondage

1873 Ford Madox Ford, England, novelist/editor, Inheritors

1873 Dorothy Miller Richardson, Abingdon Berkshire, novelist

1873 Henri Barbusse, Asnieres, France, novelist, Le Feu

1873 Ellen Anderson Glasgow, U.S., novelist, Ancient Law, Pulitzer-1942

1873 Jakob Wassermann, born in Germany, novelist, My Life as German and Jew

1873 Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author/novelist, Pages from My Life

1873 Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Burgundy France, novelist, Cheri, Gigi

1873 Johannes V Jensen, Denmark, novelist/poet, Energy Storage, Nobel 1944

1873 Mariano Azuela, Mexico, novelist, The Flies, The Bosses

1872 Albert P. Terhune, U.S., novelist, Lad, a Dog

1872 Paul Laurence Dunbar, Dayton Ohio, poet and novelist, Oak and Ivory

1872 Zane Grey, American West novelist, Riders of the Purple Sage

1871 Stephen Crane, U.S., novelist/poet, Red Badge of Courage

1871 Theodore Dreiser, U.S., novelist, Sister Carie, American Tragedy

1871 Marcel Proust, France, novelist, Remembrance of Things Past

1871 Heinrich Mann, born in Germany, novelist/essayist, Blue Angel, ; bros of Thomas

1870 Hector Hugh Munro, British Novelist

1870 Pierre Louijs, France, novelist/poet, Aphrodite, Woman and Puppet

1870 Alexander Dumas, French Novelist

1870 Ivan Bunin, Russia, poet and novelist, Gentleman from SF-Nobel 1933

1870 Marie C of Zeggelen, Dutch novelist, Koloniaaltje

1870 Henry Handel Richardson, Australia, novelist, Richard Mahoney

1869 Andre Gide, French Novelist

1869 Andre Gide, France, novelist, Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel 1947

1869 Booth Tarkington, U.S., novelist, 17, Magnificent Ambersons

1869 Owen Wister, U.S., novelist, Virginian

1869 Johan M Dautzenberg, Flemish author/novelist (Future), dies at 60

1869 Ozaki Koyo, Japan, novelist/essayist/haiku poet, The Heart

1868 Eleanor Porter, American Novelist

1868 Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont, Poland, novelist, Chiopi, Nobel-1924

1868 Maxim Gorky, Russian Novelist

1867 Frederic Benson, novelist

1867 Arnold Bennett, England, novelist/playwright/critic, Great Babylon

1865 Elizabeth Gaskell, British Novelist

1865 Baroness Orczy, British Novelist

1865 George A. Birmingham, Reverend James Owen Hannay, novelist

1864 Elinor Glyn, British novelist, 3 Weeks

1863 William Makepeace Thackeray, English Novelist

1862 Eden Phillpotts, England, novelist/poet/playwright, Red Madymaynes

1862 Arthur Schnitzler, Austria, playwright/novelist, La Ronde

1861 Italo Svevo, Trieste Austria, Italian novelist, La Coscienza di Zeno

1860 Samuel Rutherford Crockett, novelist

1860 James Matthew Barrie, Scotland, novelist, Margaret Ogilvy, Peter Pan

1859 Verner von Heidenstam, Sweden, poet and novelist, Charles Men, Nobel 1916

1858 Selma Lagerlof, Sweden, novelist, Tales of a Manor-Nobel 1909

1858 Charles W. Chesnutt, American Novelist

1858 John Meade Falkner, novelist, Moonfleet

1857 George Gissing, England, novelist

1857 Joseph Conrad, Poland, novelist, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness

1857 Eugene Sue, French Novelist

1857 Margaret Deland, American Novelist

1853 Hall Caine, British Novelist

1852 George A. Moore, Ireland, painter/novelist, Esther Waters

1851 Kate O'Flaherty Chopin, novelist

1851 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist (Frankenstein), dies at 53

1850 Honore de Balzac, French Novelist

1850 Ivan Vazov, Bulgaria, poet and novelist /playwright, Under the Yoke

1850 Jane Porter, novelist (Scottish Chiefs), dies at 74

1849 Countess of Blessington, Irish Novelist

1849 Anne Bronte, novelist, dies

1849 Maria Edgeworth, Irish Novelist

1849 August Strindberg, Sweden, dramatist and novelist, 'Apologia'

1848 Emily Bronte, English Novelist

1848 Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, French novelist (Atala)/diplomat, dies

1844 George Washington Cable, American Novelist

1844 Minna Canth, Finland, novelist/playwright, social evils

1843 Bertha von Suttner, Austria, novelist/pacifist, Nobel 1905

1843 Benito Perez Galdos, Spain, novelist, Fountain of Gold, Nazaarin

1841 Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, poet and novelist, dies

1840 Thomas Hardy, England, poet and novelist, Far from the Madding Crowd

1840 Emile Zola, born in France, novelist, Nana, J'Accuse

1839 Ethel Mary Dell, Mrs G T Savage, romantic novelist, dies

1839 Ouida, English Novelist

1838 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Bengali novelist, Anandamath

1837 William Dean Howells, U.S., novelist/critic/editor, Atlantic

1837 Aleksandr Pushkin, poet and novelist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel

1832 Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norway, novelist, Pa Guds Veje, Nobel-1903

1831 Amelia Barr, born in Ulverston, England, writer, novelist, wrote for religious periodicals, novels include 'The Lone House', 'Shela Vedder'

1830 Justin M'Carthy, Ireland, Irish politician/novelist, Miss Misanthrope

1830 Jules de Goncourt, France, novelist, Germinie

1830 Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian Novelist

1829 Victor Cherbuliez, French Novelist

1828 Leo Tolstoy, Russia, novelist, War and Peace, Anna Karenina,

1828 Margaret Oliphant, Scotland, novelist and biographer, Beleaguered City

1828 Edmond About, French Novelist

1828 George Meredith, England, poet and novelist, Shaving of Shagpat

1827 Johanna Spyri, Swiss Novelist

1826 Dinah Maria Mulock, English Novelist

1826 Herman Grimm, Germany, writer/novelist, Ralph Waldo Emerson

1824 Alexandre Dumas, born in France, playwright/novelist, Camille

1824 William Wilkie Collins, English novelist, Woman in White

1824 Wilkie Collins, English Novelist

1821 Gustave Flaubert, France, novelist, Madame Bovary

1821 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Russia, novelist, Crime and Punishment

1821 Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

1821 Fjodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski, Russian novelist

1820 Anne Bronte, English novelist/poet, Tenant of Wildfell Hall

1819 George Eliot, England, Victorian novelist, Adam Bede

1819 Mark Prager Lindo, English/Dutch author/novelist/writer

1818 Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright, Fathers and Sons,

1818 Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright, Fathers and Sons,

1818 Emily Jane Bronte, England, novelist, Wuthering Heights

1818 Emily Bronte, English Novelist

1818 Zacharias Topelius, Finnish historical novelist, Surgeon's Stories

1816 Charlotte Bronte, born in Tornton, England, novelist, Jane Eyre

1816 Charlotte Bronte, novelist/poet

1815 Richard Henry Dana, novelist/lawyer spent 2 years before mast

1815 Anthony Trollope, born in England, novelist/poet, Barchester Towers

1814 Charles Reade, England, novelist, Cloister and Hearth

1812 Ivan Goncharov, Russia, novelist/travel writer, Oblomov

1812 Charles Dickens, born in England, novelist, Oliver Twist, Tale of 2 Cities

1811 William Makepeace Thackeray, England, Victorian novelist, Vanity Fair

1810 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, London, novelist

1810 Elizabeth Gaskell, British Novelist

1808 Gerard De Nerval, French Novelist

1805 William Harrison Ainsworth, English Novelist

1804 George Sand, born in France, female, novelist, Valentine, Le Figaro

1804 Eugene Sue, French Novelist

1804 Charlotte Lennox, English novelist (The Female Quixote), dies

1803 Robert Smith Surtees, novelist

1802 Alexander Dumas, French Novelist

1802 Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romania, author/novelist/writer, Gramatica

1799 Honore de Balzac, France, novelist, Pere Goriot, Human Comedy

1791 Sergey Aksakov, Russia, novelist, Chronicles of a Russian Family

1789 James Fenimore Cooper, 1st major U.S. novelist, Last of Mohicans

1789 James F. Cooper, American Novelist

1789 Countess of Blessington, Irish Novelist

1785 Alessandro Manzoni, born in Italy, poet and novelist, Betrothed

1779 John Galt, Scotland, novelist, Ayrshire Legatees, Lawrie Todd

1775 Jane Austen, England, novelist, Pride and Prejudice

1771 Tobias George Smollett, novelist (Adv of Roderick Random), dies at 50

1771 Walter Scott, Scotland, novelist/poet, Lady of Lake

1771 Walter Scott, Scottish Novelist

1768 Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, France, poet and novelist, Atala

1768 Laurence Sterne, Irish Novelist

1767 Maria Edgeworth, Irish Novelist

1764 Ann Ward Radcliffe, English Gothic novelist, Italian

1756 Eliza Haywood, British Novelist

1746 Johann Heinse, German Sturm und Drang novelist/art critic

1731 Daniel Defoe, English novelist (Robinson Crusoe), dies

1730 Oliver Goldsmith, Ireland, novelist/dramatist, She Stoops to Conquer

1715 Christian F Gellert, Saxony, poet and novelist, Fables and Tales

1713 Laurence Sterne, Ireland, novelist/satirist, Tristram Shandy

1707 Henry Fielding, born in England, novelist, Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones

1707 Claude Prosper, Paris, France, novelist

1697 Abbe Prevost, French novelist and journalist, Manon Lescaut

1689 Samuel Richardson, English novelist, Pamela, baptized

1688 John Bunyan, preacher/novelist/author (Pilgrim's Progress), dies

1655 Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist/novelist, dies at 36 in Paris

1634 Contessa Marie Madeleine La Fayette, novelist

1616 Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Novelist

1547 Miguel de Cervantes, novelist, Don Quixote

1547 Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Novelist


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