2012 Death Robertson Davies, novelist essayist/dramatist, dies 2012 Event In an attempt to encourage people to buy from their local bookstores, novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Russo boycotts e-books 2004 Death Walter Wager, American Novelist 2004 Death Janet Frame, New Zealander Novelist 2003 Death Winston Graham, English Novelist 2003 Death Sloan Wilson, American Novelist 2003 Death Howard Fast, novelist, Spartacus, dies at 88 2001 Death Dorothy Dunnett, Scottish Novelist 2001 Death Mordecai Richler, Canadian Novelist 2001 Death Tove Jansson, Finnish Novelist 2001 Death Robert Ludlum, novelist, The Bourne Identity, dies at 73 2000 Death Anthony Powell, British Novelist 2000 Death Alex Comfort, physician, poet, novelist, anarchist, pacifist, 'The New Joy of Sex', dies at 80 1999 Death J. F. Powers, American Novelist 1999 Death Roderick Thorp, American Novelist 1998 Death William Gaddis, American Novelist 1998 Death Lawrence Sanders, American Novelist 1997 Death James A. Michener, American Novelist 1997 Death Harold Robbins, salacious novelist, dies at 81 1997 Death Harold Robbins, novelist, The Carpetbaggers, dies at 81 1997 Death Robert Pinget, novelist/Playwright, dies at 78 1996 Death Abdelhamid Benhadugah, novelist, dies at 71 1996 Death Oliver Charles Anderson, novelist, dies at 84 1996 Death Eva Jones, poet and novelist, dies at 82 1996 Death Leo Malet, writer, novelist, dies at 86 1996 Death Hubert Nicholson, poet and novelist, dies at 87 1995 Death Robertson Davies, novelist essayist/dramatist, dies 1995 Death Robertson Davies, Canadian Novelist 1995 Death Henry Roth, novelist (Call it Sleep), dies at 89 1995 Death Brigid Brophy, novelist/campaigner, dies at 66 1995 Death Don Richard Carpenter, novelist, dies at 64 1995 Death Gesualdo Bufalino, novelist, dies at 74 1995 Death Paul George Vincent O'Shaughnessy Horgan, novelist, dies at 91 1995 Death Calder Willingham, novelist/Scriptwriter, dies at 72 1994 Death Jessie Kesson, author, novelist, radio producer, and playwright, dies at 77 1994 Death Ladislav Fuks, writer, novelist, psychological novels, involving despair, suffering, experience of Fascist rule, dies at 70 1994 Death Leonid Maksimovich Leonov, novelist/Playwright, dies at 94 1994 Death Rosa Chacel, spanish Novelist, dies at 96 1994 Death Terence de Vere White, novelist/critic, dies at 82 1994 Death Denis Pitts, film-maker, journalist, novelist, wrote, 'This City is Ours', 'The Predator', dies at 64 1994 Death Sandra Paretti, romantic novelist, dies at 59 1993 Death Anthony Burgess, novelist (Clockwork Orange), dies of cancer at 76 1993 Death James Leo Herlihy, novelist (Midnight Cowboy), dies at 66 1992 Death Laurie Colwin, novelist (Happy All the Time), dies at 48 1992 Death Frederick Exley, novelist (Fan's Note), dies at 63 1992 Death Wallace Stegner, novelist (Pulitzer 1972), dies at 84 1992 Death Angela Carter, British novelist (Magic Toyshop), dies of cancer at 51 1991 Death Ernest K Gann, U.S. adventure novelist, dies at 81 1991 Death Isaac Bashevis Singer, American Novelist 1990 Death Walker Percy, physician/novelist (Lancelot), dies of cancer at 73 1989 Death Robert Penn Warren, American Novelist 1989 Death 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 Event Khomeini orders Moslems to murder "Satanic Verses" novelist Rushdie 1989 Death Thomas Bernhard, most prominent German-speaking postwar era author, writer, playwright, novelist, dies at 58 of tuberculosis in Ohlsdorf, Upper Austria 1988 Death Alan Paton, South African Novelist 1988 Death Raymond Williams, Welsh Novelist 1987 Death Erskine Caldwell, novelist (Tobacco Road), dies at 83 1987 Death Alistair Maclean, Scottish Novelist 1986 Death John Braine, British Novelist 1986 Death Jean Genet, French criminal/novelist/dramatist, dies at 75 1986 Death Hubert Fichte, writer, columnist for magazine konkret, novelist, dies at 50 1986 Death L Ron Hubbard, novelist/founder (Church of Scientology), dies at 74 1980 Death Romain Gary, Russian Novelist 1980 Death Alejo Carpentier, Cuban Novelist 1980 Event French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it 1st woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar) 1978 Death Cornelis P "Cor" Bruon, Dutch novelist (Sil), dies at 95 1978 Death Sylvia Townsend Warner, English Novelist 1978 Death Paul Scott, British Novelist 1977 Death Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist 1976 Death Jose Lezama Lima, Cuban poet and novelist, dies at 65 1975 Death Thornton Wilder, American Novelist 1975 Death 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 Death Henry Green, English Novelist 1973 Death J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist 1973 Death Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist 1973 Death Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish novelist (Cat Jumps), dies in Lond at 73 1972 Death Jules Romains, French novelist (Death of Nobody), dies at 86 1971 Death A. P. Herbert, British novelist, humorist, playwright and activist at age 81 1970 Death Stefan Andres, post-World War II writer, novelist, 'Wir sind Utopia', dies at 64 1970 Death E. M. Forster, English Novelist 1970 Death Tarjei Vesaas, Nowegian author/novelist/writer (Isslottet), dies at 72 1970 Death Schmuel J Agnon, novelist (Nobel 1966), dies 1969 Death Katharine Susannah Prichard, novelist (Black Opal), dies at 85 1969 Death Ivy Compton-Burnett, novelist, dies 1967 Death Nigel Martin Balchin, novelist, dies 1967 Death Elmer Rice, New York playwright/director/novelist, dies at 74 1966 Death Georges Duhamel, French Novelist 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' 1964 Death Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), dies at 57 1963 Death Aldous Huxley, English Novelist 1963 Death Sylvia Plath, poet and novelist (Ariel), kills herself in London at 30 1962 Birthday 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 Death Edward Godfrey Richard Aldington, novelist/biographer, dies 1962 Death William Faulkner, American Novelist 1962 Death Vita Sackville-West, English Novelist 1962 Birthday David Foster Wallace, born in New York, author, novelist, short story and literary fiction writer 1961 Birthday Arundhati Roy, Indian Novelist 1961 Birthday Rick Moody, American Novelist 1961 Birthday Irvine Welsh, Scottish Novelist 1961 Birthday Tom Holt, born in London, author, British novelist, writes mythopoeic novels that parody mythology, history, literature 1961 Death Louis-Ferdinand Celine, born in Courbevoie, France, novelist, 'Journey to End of Night', dies in Paris, France, at age 67 1961 Birthday Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist 1960 Death John Phillips Marquand, novelist, dies at 66 1960 Death Dornford Yates, British Novelist 1959 Birthday Andy McNab, British Novelist 1959 Birthday Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist 1959 Birthday Jonathan Franzen, American Novelist 1959 Birthday 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 Event Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature 1958 Death Roger Martin du Gard, novelist/playwright, dies 1957 Death Joyce Cary, Irish Novelist 1957 Death Valery Larbaud, French author/novelist/writer (Amants), dies at 75 1957 Birthday Nicholson Baker, American Novelist 1955 Birthday Barbara Kingsolver, American Novelist 1955 Birthday Patrick McCabe, born in Clones, Ireland, novelist, wrote 'Butcher Boy', 'Breakfast on Pluto', both adapted into films by Neil Jordan 1954 Birthday Louis de Bernieres, British Novelist 1954 Death Joseph Hergesheimer, novelist (Java Head), dies 1952 Birthday 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 Death Norman Douglas, essayist/novelist, dies 1952 Birthday Walter Mosley, American Novelist 1951 Birthday 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 Birthday 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 Birthday Neil Jordan, born in Sligo, Ireland, director, filmmaker, novelist, won Academy-Award for movie, The Crying Game 1949 Birthday Jerry B. Jenkins, American Novelist 1949 Birthday Marilyn Tucker Quayle, novelist/wife of vice president Dan, 1989-93 1949 Birthday Richard Russo, American Novelist 1949 Birthday Scott Turow, American Novelist 1948 Birthday Robert Coover, novelist, Pricksongs and Descants 1947 Death Baroness Orczy, British Novelist 1947 Birthday 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 Birthday Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist 1947 Birthday Danielle Steel, American Novelist 1947 Birthday Rose Tremain, novelist/playwright 1947 Birthday Salman Rushdie, Pak, novelist, Midnight's Children, Satanic Verses 1947 Birthday Tom Clancy, American Novelist 1946 Birthday Elfriede Jelinek, born in Murzzuschlag, Austria, writer, playwright, novelist, member, Austria's Communist Party, awarded Nobel Prize in Literature, 2004 1946 Birthday Clare Francis, yachtswoman/novelist, Come Hell or High Water 1946 Birthday Sue Townsend, English Novelist 1945 Death Theodore Dreiser, novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74 1945 Death Ellen Glasgow, American Novelist 1945 Death Bruno Frank, born in Stuttgart, Germany, writer, dramatist, novelist, wrote 'Trenchk', 'The Days of the King', dies at 58 in Beverly Hills, California 1945 Birthday Shivadhar Srinivasa Naipaul, Trinidad, novelist, essayist, Fireflies 1945 Death Margaret Deland, American Novelist 1944 Birthday Eugenia Zukerman, Cambridge Ms, flutist/novelist, Deceptive Cadence 1944 Death George Ade, U.S. novelist/playwright (Counsel Widow), dies at 78 1944 Birthday Armistead Maupin, American Novelist 1944 Birthday Alice Walker, U.S., novelist, Color Purple, Meridian 1943 Birthday Joanna Trollope, English Novelist 1943 Birthday Marlene Jobert, novelist, Adventures of John Difool 1943 Birthday Rose Tremain, British novelist/playwright, Restoration 1942 Death Bruno Schulz, Polish Novelist 1942 Birthday Helen Garner, Australian Novelist 1942 Birthday Michael Crichton, born in Chicago, Illinois novelist, Andromeda Strain, Congo, Looker 1942 Birthday Isabel Allende, born in Lima, Peru, writer, novelist, of Spanish and Portuguese descent, wrote 'The House of Spirits', 'City of the Beasts' 1942 Birthday Hermann Burger, born in Burg, Switzerland, writer, essayist, novelist, poet, wrote 'Tractatus logico-suicidalis' 1988, advocating suicide 1941 Birthday Nora Ephron, New York, novelist/screenwriter/director, Michael, Heartburn 1941 Death Eugene-Marcel Prevost, novelist, dies 1941 Death James Joyce, novelist (Ulysses), dies in Zurich Switzerland, at 58 1940 Death Waclaw Berent, Polish novelist, dies at 67 1940 Birthday Maeve Binchy, Irish Novelist 1940 Birthday Peter Benchley, New York City, novelist, Jaws, The Deep 1940 Birthday Angela Carter, English Novelist 1940 Birthday Sue Grafton, American Novelist 1940 Death Edward Frederic Benson, novelist, dies 1940 Birthday Edmund White, American Novelist 1940 Birthday Gao Xingjian, Chinese Novelist 1939 Birthday Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist 1939 Birthday Bertrand Blier, born in Paris, France, novelist and director, Going Places 1938 Birthday Anne Perry, British Novelist 1938 Birthday Anita Brookner, art historian/novelist 1938 Birthday Joyce Carol Oates, born in New York, novelist, Garden of Earthly Delights 1937 Death Sapper, British soldier/novelist (Bull-Dog Drummond), dies at 48 1937 Birthday Anita Desai, Indian Novelist 1937 Birthday Thomas Pynchon, novelist, V 1937 Birthday Ian St. James, novelist, Balfour Conspiracy, Vengeance, Money Stones 1937 Birthday 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 Birthday Don DeLillo, American Novelist 1936 Birthday Roderick Thorp, American Novelist 1936 Death Maxim Gorky, Russian Novelist 1936 Birthday Judith Guest, American Novelist 1935 Birthday Thomas Keneally, Australian Novelist 1935 Death Winifred Holtby, English Novelist 1935 Birthday Francoise Sagan, born in Cajarc, France, novelist, Bonjour Trieste 1935 Birthday 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 Birthday Oe Kenzaburo, Japanese novelist, Catch, Personal Matter 1935 Birthday Richard Brautigan, born in Tacoma, Washington, writer, novelist, wrote Trout Fishing in America, known for black comedy, parody, satire, and Zen Buddhism 1934 Birthday Joan Didion, U.S. novelist/journalist, Salvador 1934 Birthday Diane Johnson, American Novelist 1933 Birthday Fay Weldon, English Novelist 1933 Birthday Jerzy Kosinski, novelist, Painted Bird, Being There 1933 Birthday Barbara Taylor Bradford, English Novelist 1933 Birthday Penelope Lively, born in Cairo, Egypt, writer, novelist, won Booker Prize for 'Moon Tiger', influenced by social changes in 20th century Britain 1933 Birthday George Konrad, Hungarian Novelist 1933 Birthday Philip Roth, born in Newark, novelist, Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint 1932 Death Charles W. Chesnutt, American Novelist 1932 Birthday Malcolm Bradbury, English Novelist 1932 Birthday Vidiadhar S Naipaul, Trinidad, novelist, Middle Passage 1932 Birthday V. S. Naipaul, Indian Novelist 1932 Birthday Rona Jaffe, novelist, Mazes and Monsters 1932 Birthday Christy Brown, born in Dublin, novelist, My Left Foot, Down All the Days 1932 Birthday John Updike, born in Reading, Pennsylvania, writer, novelist, art critic, literary critic, Pulitzer Prize winner 1932 Birthday Aharon Appelfeld, born near Czernowitz, Romania, now Ukraine, Israeli novelist, Holocaust survivor, Hebrew-language author with modernistic, metaphorical writing style 1931 Birthday John LeCarre, Cornwell, England, spy novelist, Little Drummer Girl 1931 Death Hall Caine, British Novelist 1931 Death Arnold Bennett, novelist, dies 1931 Birthday Don Richard Carpenter, novelist 1931 Birthday Toni Morrison, born in Ohio, novelist, Tar Baby, Beloved, Song of Solomon 1931 Birthday Thomas Bernhard, born in Heerlen, Netherlands, most prominent German-speaking postwar era author, writer, playwright, novelist 1931 Birthday E[dgar] L[aurence] Doctorow, New York City, novelist, World's Fair 1930 Birthday John Arden, England, novelist/playwright, Left Handed Liberty 1930 Birthday Barry Unsworth, novelist, Pascali's Island 1930 Birthday John Barth, novelist, Sot-Weed Factor 1930 Birthday June Knox-Mawer, British radio host/novelist, World of Islands 1930 Birthday 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 Birthday Denis Pitts, film-maker, journalist, novelist, wrote, 'This City is Ours', 'The Predator' 1929 Birthday Jack Higgins, Harry Patterson, novelist 1929 Birthday Brigid Brophy, novelist/campaigner 1929 Birthday Catherine Gaskin, romantic novelist, Fiona, Coporation Wife 1929 Birthday Christa Wolf, German novelist, Divided Heaven 1929 Birthday Chaim Potok, New York City, novelist, Promise 1928 Birthday Veijo Meri, born in Viipuri, now Vyborg, Russia, writer, novelist, poet, focuses on absurdity of war, published biography of Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim 1928 Birthday Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Col, novelist, Europa Y America, Nobel 1982 1928 Birthday Philip Jose Farmer, Indiana, science fiction novelist, Riverworld 1928 Death Thomas Hardy, novelist (Maddening Crowd), dies near Dorchester at 87 1928 Birthday Ernest R Tidyman, Ohio, novelist/screenwriter, French Connection 1927 Birthday Gunter Grass, Danzig Germany, novelist/poet, Tin Drum 1927 Birthday Robert Ludlum, New York City, spy novelist, Bourne Identity 1926 Birthday Alison Lurie, U.S., novelist, War Between the Tates 1926 Birthday Margaret Laurence, Canadian Novelist 1926 Birthday Robert Creeley, Massachusetts, poet and novelist, Island 1926 Birthday James P. Donleavy, born in Brooklyn, novelist, Ginger Man, Onion Eaters 1926 Birthday John Fowles, born in England, novelist, Collector, French Leiutenent's Woman 1925 Birthday Jan Wolkers, Dutch sculptor/novelist, Brief American 1925 Birthday William Styron, born in Virginia, novelist, Confess of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice 1925 Birthday Nat Hentoff, columnist/novelist, Village Voice, The Cold Society 1925 Birthday Flannery O'Connor, born in Georgia, novelist, A Good Man is Hard to Find 1925 Birthday John Barrington Wain, born in England, novelist and poet, Hurry on Down 1925 Birthday Alex La Guma, Cape Town South Africa, novelist, A Walk in the Night 1925 Death George Washington Cable, American Novelist 1925 Birthday Yukio Mishima, Japan, novelist, Temple of Golden Pavilion 1925 Birthday Abdelhamid Benhadugah, novelist 1924 Birthday Grace Metalious, American Novelist 1924 Birthday Walter Wager, American Novelist 1924 Birthday Janet Frame, New Zealand, novelist, Intensive Care, Owls Do Cry 1924 Birthday Leon Uris, born in Baltimore, novelist, Exodus, QB VII, Battle Cry 1924 Birthday William Gass, Fargo ND, novelist/philosopher, Omensetter's Luck 1924 Birthday William H. Gass, American Novelist 1924 Birthday Thomas Berger, U.S., novelist, Vital Parts, Little Big Man 1923 Birthday Nadine Gordimer, Springs South Africa, novelist 1923 Birthday 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 Birthday Dorothy Dunnett, Scottish Novelist 1923 Birthday Stanley Middleton, novelist 1923 Birthday Jean Kerr, born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, novelist, Please Don't Eat the Daisies 1923 Birthday Nicholas Mosley, British Novelist 1923 Birthday Joseph Heller, born in Brooklyn, New York, novelist, Catch-22, 1963 Arts and Letters Award 1923 Birthday James Kirkup, travel writer/poet/novelist, African in Greenland 1923 Birthday John Mortimer, English Novelist 1923 Birthday Elizabeth Jane Howard, British novelist, After Julius 1923 Birthday Sembene Ousmane, Senegalese author/novelist/director, Doctor Noir 1923 Birthday Norman Mailer, born in New Jersey, American novelist, poet, playwright, film director, wrote 40 books and 11 novels 1923 Birthday Eva Zeller, born in Germany, poet, writer, novelist, wrote Lampenfieber, Hauptfrau, Fliehkraft, Auf dem Wasser gehen 1922 Birthday William Gaddis, American Novelist 1922 Birthday Calder Willingham, novelist/scriptwriter 1922 Birthday Kurt Vonnegut, born in Indiana, novelist, essayist, satirist, wrote 'Slaughterhouse Five' 1922 Birthday Alain Robbe-Grillet, France, novelist, Voyeur 1922 Birthday Alistair Maclean, Scottish Novelist 1922 Birthday Kingsley Amis, English Novelist 1922 Birthday Kingsley Amis, born in London, novelist, Lucky Jim, James Bond Dossier 1922 Birthday John Braine, English novelist, Life at the Top 1921 Birthday James Jones, Robinson, Illinois, novelist, From Here to Eternity 1921 Birthday Mario Puzo, born in New York City, novelist, Godfather, Cotton Club, Earthquake 1921 Birthday Raymond Williams, Welsh Novelist 1921 Birthday Brian Moore, Ireland, novelist, Catholics, Doctor's Wife 1921 Birthday Hayden Carruth, born in Waterbury, Connecticut, novelist, Crow and Heart 1921 Birthday Elaine Dundy, born in New York, American novelist, biographer, journalist, actress, playwright 1921 Birthday Michael Meyer, UK, novelist/Ibsen translator, Hedda Gabler 1921 Birthday Friedrich Durrenmatt, born in Switzerland, playwright and novelist, Visit 1920 Birthday P. D. James, English Novelist 1920 Death Eleanor Porter, American Novelist 1920 Birthday Sloan Wilson, Norwalk, Conn, novelist, Man in the Gray Flannal 1920 Birthday Arthur Hailey, Luton England, novelist, Hotel, Airport 1920 Birthday Paul Scott, British Novelist 1920 Birthday Lawrence Sanders, American Novelist 1920 Birthday D. J. Enright, born in England, poet and novelist, Some Men are Brothers 1920 Birthday Howard Nemerov, U.S., 3rd U.S. poet laureate and novelist, Blue Swallows 1920 Birthday Alex Comfort, born in England, physician, poet, novelist, anarchist, pacifist, wrote "The Joy of Sex", a scholarly approach to sexual behavior 1919 Birthday Doris Lessing, Kermanshah Iran, novelist, Golden Notebook 1919 Birthday Stanley Middleton, novelist 1919 Birthday Robert Pinget, novelist/playwright 1919 Birthday Iris Murdoch, born in Dublin, Ireland, novelist, Severed Head, Unicorn 1919 Birthday Meriol Trevor, novelist/biographer, Civil Prisoners 1919 Birthday Max Shulman, novelist, Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap 1919 Death Amelia Barr, writer, novelist, wrote for religious periodicals, novels include 'The Lone House', 'Shela Vedder', dies 1919 Birthday Peter Abrahams, South African Novelist 1919 Birthday J. D. Salinger, American Novelist, Catcher in the Rye 1918 Birthday Muriel Spark, Edinburgh Scotland, novelist, Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1917 Birthday Louis Auchincloss, Lawrence, New York, lawyer/novelist, Watchfires 1917 Birthday J. F. Powers, American Novelist 1917 Birthday Jean-Louis Laffitte Curtis, novelist 1917 Birthday Anthony Burgess, essayist/novelist, Clockwork Orange 1917 Birthday Carson McCullers, U.S., novelist, Heart Is a Lonely Hunter 1917 Birthday Sidney Sheldon, born in Chicago, American writer, Academy-Award winner, crime fiction novelist 1916 Death Hector Hugh Munro, British Novelist 1916 Birthday Peter Weiss, Germany, Swedish author/dramatist/novelist, Marat/Sade 1916 Birthday Jessie Kesson, born in Scotland, Jessie Grant McDonald, author, novelist, radio producer, and playwright 1916 Birthday James Alfred Wight Herriot, veterinarian/novelist 1916 Birthday Elizabeth Hardwick, American literary critic, novelist, author, co-founded The New York Review of Books 1916 Birthday John D. MacDonald, novelist, Deep Blue Goodbye 1916 Birthday Morris L. West, born in Australia, novelist, Shoes of the Fisherman 1916 Death Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian Novelist 1916 Birthday John Oliver Killens, novelist 1915 Birthday Ross MacDonald, detective novelist, Goodbye Look 1915 Birthday Margaret Walker Alexander, poet and novelist, For My People 1915 Birthday Herman Wouk, New York City, novelist, Caine Mutiny, Winds of War 1915 Death James E Flecker, British diplomat/novelist (Hassan), dies at 30 1914 Birthday Tove Jansson, Finnish Novelist 1914 Birthday Saul Bellow, born in Quebec, novelist, Nobel 1976-Mr Samler's Planet 1914 Birthday Romain Gary, Russian Novelist 1914 Birthday Bernard Malamud, U.S., novelist, Fixer, Natural, Pulitizer 1967 1914 Birthday Marguerite Duras, born in France, novelist and playwright, Sea Wall 1914 Birthday Budd Schulberg, born in New York City, novelist, On the Waterfront 1913 Birthday Albert Camus, Algeria, novelist/director, The Just-Nobel 1957 1913 Birthday Robertson Davies, Canadian Novelist 1913 Birthday Eva Jones, poet and novelist 1913 Birthday 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 Birthday Irwin Shaw, U.S., novelist, Rich Man Poor Man 1913 Death Thomas P Krag, Norw author/novelist (Jon Graeff, Ulf Ran), dies at 44 1912 Birthday Oliver Charles Anderson, novelist 1912 Birthday Mary McCarthy, U.S., novelist, Group 1912 Birthday Patrick White, Australia, novelist, Happy Valley, Nobel 1973 1912 Birthday Terence de Vere White, novelist/critic 1912 Death Justin M'Carthy, politician/novelist (Miss Misanthrope), dies at 81 1912 Birthday Louis Boon, born in Aalst, Belgium, born Lodewijk Paul Aalbrecht Boon, writer, journalist, novelist, wrote historical novels, modernist work Vergeten straat 1912 Birthday Kylie Tennant, novelist, Battlers, Lost Haven 1912 Birthday Roy Fuller, England, poet and novelist, Lost Season 1912 Birthday Franz Tumler, Austria, author/novelist, Cloak, Aufruf 1911 Birthday Hortense Calisher, New York City, novelist, Arts and Letters 1967 1911 Birthday Kenneth Patchen, U.S., poet and novelist, Cloth of the Tempest 1911 Birthday William Golding, England, novelist, Lord of the Flies-Nobel 1983 1910 Birthday Jean Genet, born in Paris, France, criminal/novelist/dramatist, The Blacks 1910 Birthday Jose Lezama Lima, Havana Cuba, poet and novelist 1910 Birthday Nicholas Monsarrat, Liverpool England, novelist 1910 Birthday Uys Krige, South African playwright/novelist, Orphan of the Desert 1909 Birthday Ciro Alegria, Peru, novelist, Golden Serpent 1909 Birthday Malcolm Lowry, English novelist, Under the Volcano 1909 Birthday Petar Segedin, Croatian novelist, Holy Devil 1909 Birthday Juan Carlos Onetti, novelist 1909 Birthday Osamu Dazai, born in Japan, novelist, Tsugaru, No Longer Human 1909 Birthday Jeffrey Eugenides, American Novelist 1909 Birthday Roddy Doyle, irish Novelist 1909 Birthday Eudora Welty, born in Jackson, Mississippi, novelist, Optimist's Daughter-Pulitzer 1973 1909 Birthday Nelson Algren, U.S., novelist, Man with the Golden Arm 1909 Birthday Gabrielle Roy, French-Canadian novelist, Tin Flute 1909 Birthday 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 Birthday Wallace Stegner, novelist/critic, Pulitzer-1971-Angle of Repose 1908 Birthday Mika Waltari, novelist, Egyptian 1908 Birthday William Saroyan, U.S., novelist/playwright, Time of Your Life 1908 Birthday Harriette Arnow, Wayne Co, Kentucky, novelist, Dollmaker 1908 Birthday Winston Graham, English Novelist 1908 Birthday 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 Birthday Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguistic/author/novelist 1908 Birthday Hubert Nicholson, poet and novelist 1906 Birthday Betty Smith, novelist, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1906 Birthday Richard Llewellyn, Wales, novelist, How Green Was My Valley 1906 Birthday Stefan Andres, born in Germany, post-World War II writer, novelist 1906 Birthday Catherine Cookson, born in England, novelist, Bannaman Legacy 1906 Birthday Terence Hanbury White, Bombay India, novelist, England Have My Bones 1906 Birthday Pierre [Louis] Boileau, born in Paris, France, novelist, Vertigo 1906 Birthday Henry Roth, born in Galicia, Austro-Hungary, writer, short story writer, novelist, Call It Sleep considered masterpiece of Jewish American literature 1905 Birthday Anthony Powell, England, novelist, Infants of Spring 1905 Birthday Henry Green, English Novelist 1905 Birthday Charles P Snow, England, novelist/scientist, Death Under Sail 1905 Birthday Elias Canetti, Bulgarian/British novelist, Life-Terms, Nobel 1981 1905 Birthday H[erbert] E[rnest] Bates, novelist, Feast for July, Love for Lydia 1905 Birthday Pol le Roy, Flemish author/novelist/writer, Stroom 1905 Birthday John O'Hara, Pottstown Penn, novelist, Appointment at Samarra 1904 Birthday Alejo Carpentier, Cuban Novelist 1904 Birthday [Henry] Graham Greene, England, prolific novelist, Brighton Rock 1904 Birthday Isaac Bashevis Singer, born in Poland, Yiddish novelist, Enemies-Nobel 1978 1904 Birthday Harry Martinson, Sweden, novelist/poet, Trade Wind-Nobel 1974 1904 Birthday MacKinlay Kantor, Webster City Iowa, novelist, Andersonville 1903 Death George [Robert] Gissing, English novelist, dies at 46 1903 Birthday Albert Helman, Lou Lichtveld, Suriname politician/novelist 1903 Birthday Nathanael West, American novelist, Day of the Locusts 1903 Birthday James Gould Cozzens, U.S., novelist, 1949 Pulitzer-Guard of Honor 1903 Birthday Paul George Vincent O'Shaughnessy Horgan, novelist 1903 Birthday Anais Nin, born in Paris, novelist, Winter of Artifice, House of Incense 1903 Birthday Kay Boyle, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, novelist, Plagued by Nightingales 1902 Birthday Carlo Levi, Italy, painter/novelist, Of Fear and Freedom 1902 Birthday Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian poet/dramatist/novelist, The Defeat 1902 Birthday Georgette Heyer, England, novelist, Friday's Child 1902 Birthday Christina Stead, born in Australia, novelist, Man Who Loved Children 1902 Birthday Halldor Laxness, born in Iceland, novelist, Salka Valka, Nobel 1955 1901 Birthday Oliver [Hazard Perry] La Farge, New York City, anthropologist/novelist 1901 Birthday Andre Malraux, Berger, France, novelist/art historian, L'Espoir 1901 Death Johanna Spyri, Swiss Novelist 1901 Death Walter Besant, novelist/philanthropist, dies 1900 Birthday 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 Birthday Thomas Wolfe, American novelist, Look Homeward Angel 1900 Birthday James Hilton, English novelist, Goodbye Mr. Chips 1900 Birthday "Janet" Taylor Caldwell, England, novelist, Melissa 1900 Birthday Taylor Caldwell, novelist 1900 Birthday Eyvind Johnson, Sweden, novelist, Return to Ithaca-Nobel 1974 1900 Birthday Barbara Gooden, novelist 1900 Birthday Ignazio Silone, Italy, novelist/politician, Bread and Wine 1900 Death Richard D Blackmore, English novelist (Lorna Doone), dies at 74 1899 Birthday Cecil Scott Forester, England, historical novelist, Horatio Hornblower 1899 Birthday Johan J Fabricius, Dutch novelist, Island of Demons 1899 Birthday Sally Benson, novelist 1899 Birthday C. S. Forester, English Novelist 1899 Death Victor Cherbuliez, French Novelist 1899 Birthday Yasonari Kawabata, Japan, novelist, Thousand Cranes 1899 Birthday Elizabeth Bowen, born in Dublin, novelist, Death of the Heart, Encounters 1899 Birthday Leonid Maksimovich Leonov, novelist/playwright 1899 Birthday Vladimir Nabokov, born in St. Petersburg, Russia, novelist, Lolita, Ada 1899 Birthday Vladimir Nabokov, born in St. Petersburg, novelist 1899 Birthday Eric Linklater, born in Scotland, novelist/poet, Blue Swallows 1899 Birthday Nevil Shute [Norway], London, novelist, On the Beach, Town Like Alice 1898 Birthday Alec Waugh, London, novelist, Island in the Sun, brother of Evelyn 1898 Birthday Winifred Holtby, English Novelist 1898 Birthday Erich Maria Remarque, novelist, All Quiet on the Western Front 1898 Birthday Rosa Chacel, spanish novelist 1897 Birthday Piet Bakker, Dutch novelist, Ciske the Rat 1897 Birthday Paul Gallico, New York, novelist 1897 Birthday Thornton Wilder, U.S., novelist/playwright, Our Town 1897 Birthday Denise Robins, London, romantic novelist, 1st Long Kiss 1897 Birthday Valentin Katayev, Odessa Ukraine, novelist/playwright, Embezzled 1896 Death Edmond-Louis-Antoine Huot de Goncourt, novelist, dies at 74 1896 Death William Hamilton Gibson, illustrator/author/novelist, dies 1896 Birthday Margaret Kennedy, novelist 1896 Birthday John dos Passos, novelist, 1919, Big Money, 42nd Parallel 1895 Birthday Robert Graves, Irish Novelist 1894 Birthday Louis-Ferdinand Celine, born in Courbevoie, France, novelist, 'Journey to End of Night' 1894 Birthday Paul Green, U.S., novelist/playwright, In Abraham's Bosom 1894 Birthday Robert Nathan, New York City, poet, novelist, Portrait of Jennie 1893 Birthday Sylvia Townsend Warner, English Novelist 1893 Birthday Faith Baldwin, New Rochelle, New York, author/novelist, They Who Love 1893 Birthday Ben Hecht, New York City, novelist/playwright/screenwriter, Front Page 1893 Birthday Russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright, Life with Father 1893 Birthday Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, French novelist/essayist, Gilles 1892 Birthday Ivo Andric, born in Dolac, Bosnia, writer, novelist, awarded Nobel Prize for Literature, wrote 'Bosnian Chronicle', 'The Bridge on the Drina' 1892 Birthday Elmer Rice, New York City, playwright/director/novelist, Pulitzer-Street Scene 1892 Birthday Pearl Buck, prize winning novelist 1892 Birthday Bruno Schulz, Polish Novelist 1892 Birthday James M. Cain, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, novelist, Postman Always Rings Twice 1892 Birthday Djuna Barnes, American Novelist 1892 Birthday Pearl S. Buck, American Novelist 1892 Birthday David Garnett, England, novelist and editor, Lady into Fox 1892 Birthday Vita Sackville-West, born in England, novelist/poet, The Land 1892 Birthday J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist, Lord of Rings 1891 Birthday Par Lagerkvist, Sweden, novelist/dramatist, Barabbas, Nobel 1951 1891 Birthday Mikhail Bulgakov, Russia, playwright/novelist, Black Snow 1891 Birthday Storm Jameson, English novelist, The Green Man, Cousin Honore 1890 Birthday A. P. Herbert, born in Ashted, Surrey, novelist, humorist, playwright and activist 1890 Birthday H. P. Lovecraft, American Novelist 1890 Death Gottfried Keller, novelist/poet, dies 1890 Birthday Katherine Anne Porter, U.S., novelist, Ship of Fools 1890 Birthday Boris L Pasternak, Russia, novelist/poet, Dr. Zhivago, Nobel 1958, 1890 Birthday Boris Pasternak, Russian Novelist 1889 Birthday Enid Bagnold, novelist, Chalk Garden, 1956 Award of Merit 1889 Birthday Fannie Hurst, novelist, Anatomy of Me 1889 Birthday George Douglas Howard Cole, socialist/novelist 1889 Death Wilkie Collins, English Novelist 1889 Birthday Ludwig Tugel, German author/novelist/writer, Horse Music 1889 Birthday Jose Eustasio Rivera, Colombia, poet and novelist, Vortex 1889 Birthday Howard Spring, British author/novelist/writer/critic, O Absalom 1888 Birthday Herman McNeile, Cornwall England, soldier/novelist, Bull-Dog Drummond 1888 Birthday Shmuel Agnon, born in Israel, novelist, Day Before Yesterday-Nobel 1966 1888 Birthday Maria Dermoat, Java, Dutch novelist, 10,000 Things 1888 Birthday Georges Bernanos, France, novelist, Diary of a Country Priest 1887 Death Dinah Maria Mulock, English Novelist 1887 Birthday Martin Luis Guzman, Mexico, novelist, Eagle and the Serpent 1887 Birthday Bruno Frank, born in Stuttgart, Germany, writer, dramatist, novelist, wrote 'Trenchk', 'The Days of the King' 1886 Birthday Hermann Broch, Austria, novelist, Sleepwalkers, Bewitchment 1886 Birthday Henri Alain-Fournier, French novelist, Great Adventure 1886 Birthday Ricardo Guiraldes, Argentina, novelist/poet, Don Segundo Sombra 1886 Birthday Ronald Firbank, London, novelist, Flower Beneath the Foot 1885 Birthday Francois Mauriac, France, novelist/poet/playwright, Nobel 1952 1885 Birthday DuBose Heyward, novelist, Porgy 1885 Birthday Jules Romains, France, novelist/playwright/poet, Men of Good Will 1885 Birthday Dornford Yates, British Novelist 1885 Birthday Andre Maurois, Elbeuf, France, novelist/biographer 1885 Birthday Frances Parkinson Keyes, novelist, Dinner at Antoine 1885 Birthday Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, Polish novelist/satirist, Black Wings 1885 Birthday Sinclair Lewis, novelist/social critic, Main Street, Nobel 1930 1885 Death Edmond About, French Novelist 1884 Birthday Eduardo Barrios, Chile, novelist, The Love-Crazed Boy 1884 Birthday Frank Arthur Swinnerton, England, novelist, Summer Storm, Sanctuary 1884 Birthday Romulo Gallegos, Venezuela, novelist, Dona Barbara, President, 1947-48 1884 Birthday Georges Duhamel, French Novelist 1884 Birthday Ivy Compton-Burnett, novelist 1884 Birthday Hugh S. Walpole, born in New Zealand, novelist and playwright, Jeremy, Maradick at 40 1884 Birthday Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russia, novelist/playwright, We 1883 Birthday Shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist, Road Through Dark Night 1882 Birthday Sigrid Undset, Norway, novelist, Kristin Lavransdatter, Nobel 1928 1882 Birthday James Joyce, Ire, novelist/poet, Dubliners, Ulysses, Finnigan's Wake 1882 Death William Harrison Ainsworth, English Novelist 1881 Birthday Padraic Colum, Irish poet and novelist /poet, Collected Poems 1881 Birthday Valery Nicolas Larbaud, France, novelist/translator, Enfantines 1881 Death Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl (Beaconsfield)/novelist, dies 1881 Birthday Mary Webb, English Novelist 1881 Birthday Roger Martin du Guard, born in France, novelist, Les Thibault-Nobel 1937 1881 Death Feodor M Dostoevski, Russian novelist (Crime and Punishment), dies at 59 1881 Death Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist 1880 Death George Eliot, Victorian novelist (Adam Bede), dies on 61st birthday 1880 Birthday Sholem Asch, Poland, Yiddish novelist/playwright, Three Cities 1879 Birthday James Branch Cabell, American novelist/essayist, Restless Heads 1879 Birthday Norman Lindsay, Creswick Victoria, artist/novelist 1879 Birthday Dorothy Canfield Fisher, U.S., novelist, Book-of-Month-Club 1879 Death Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch author/novelist/writer, dies at 67 1879 Birthday Edward M Forster, England, novelist, Howards End, Passage to India 1879 Birthday Edward M. Forster, English Novelist 1879 Birthday E. M. Forster, English Novelist 1878 Birthday Eino Leino, Finland, poet/playwright/novelist, Elaman Koreus 1877 Birthday Hermann Hesse, born in Switzerland, novelist and poet, Steppenwolf, Nobel 1946 1876 Birthday O E Rolvaag, Norwegian-American novelist, Giants in the Earth 1876 Birthday Ian Hay, Scotland, novelist/playwright, PIp, Carrying On 1875 Birthday Grazia Deledda, Italy, novelist, Old Man of the Mtn-Nobel 1926 1875 Birthday Thomas Mann, Germany, novelist, Magic Mountain-Nobel 1929 1875 Birthday Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker, Dutch playwright/novelist, Poverty 1875 Birthday Edgar Wallace, born in England, novelist, playwright and journalist, Terror 1874 Birthday Gilbert Keith Chesterton, England, novelist, Man Who Made Gold 1874 Birthday Ellen Glasgow, novelist 1874 Birthday [William] Somerset Maugham, Paris, novelist/poet, Of Human Bondage 1873 Birthday Ford Madox Ford, England, novelist/editor, Inheritors 1873 Birthday Dorothy Miller Richardson, Abingdon Berkshire, novelist 1873 Birthday Henri Barbusse, Asnieres, France, novelist, Le Feu 1873 Birthday Ellen Anderson Glasgow, U.S., novelist, Ancient Law, Pulitzer-1942 1873 Birthday Jakob Wassermann, born in Germany, novelist, My Life as German and Jew 1873 Birthday Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author/novelist, Pages from My Life 1873 Birthday Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Burgundy France, novelist, Cheri, Gigi 1873 Birthday Johannes V Jensen, Denmark, novelist/poet, Energy Storage, Nobel 1944 1873 Birthday Mariano Azuela, Mexico, novelist, The Flies, The Bosses 1872 Birthday Albert P. Terhune, U.S., novelist, Lad, a Dog 1872 Birthday Paul Laurence Dunbar, Dayton Ohio, poet and novelist, Oak and Ivory 1872 Birthday Zane Grey, American West novelist, Riders of the Purple Sage 1871 Birthday Stephen Crane, U.S., novelist/poet, Red Badge of Courage 1871 Birthday Theodore Dreiser, U.S., novelist, Sister Carie, American Tragedy 1871 Birthday Marcel Proust, France, novelist, Remembrance of Things Past 1871 Birthday Heinrich Mann, born in Germany, novelist/essayist, Blue Angel, ; bros of Thomas 1870 Birthday Hector Hugh Munro, British Novelist 1870 Birthday Pierre Louijs, France, novelist/poet, Aphrodite, Woman and Puppet 1870 Death Alexander Dumas, French Novelist 1870 Birthday Ivan Bunin, Russia, poet and novelist, Gentleman from SF-Nobel 1933 1870 Birthday Marie C of Zeggelen, Dutch novelist, Koloniaaltje 1870 Birthday Henry Handel Richardson, Australia, novelist, Richard Mahoney 1869 Birthday Andre Gide, French Novelist 1869 Birthday Andre Gide, France, novelist, Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel 1947 1869 Birthday Booth Tarkington, U.S., novelist, 17, Magnificent Ambersons 1869 Birthday Owen Wister, U.S., novelist, Virginian 1869 Death Johan M Dautzenberg, Flemish author/novelist (Future), dies at 60 1869 Birthday Ozaki Koyo, Japan, novelist/essayist/haiku poet, The Heart 1868 Birthday Eleanor Porter, American Novelist 1868 Birthday Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont, Poland, novelist, Chiopi, Nobel-1924 1868 Birthday Maxim Gorky, Russian Novelist 1867 Birthday Frederic Benson, novelist 1867 Birthday Arnold Bennett, England, novelist/playwright/critic, Great Babylon 1865 Death Elizabeth Gaskell, British Novelist 1865 Birthday Baroness Orczy, British Novelist 1865 Birthday George A. Birmingham, Reverend James Owen Hannay, novelist 1864 Birthday Elinor Glyn, British novelist, 3 Weeks 1863 Death William Makepeace Thackeray, English Novelist 1862 Birthday Eden Phillpotts, England, novelist/poet/playwright, Red Madymaynes 1862 Birthday Arthur Schnitzler, Austria, playwright/novelist, La Ronde 1861 Birthday Italo Svevo, Trieste Austria, Italian novelist, La Coscienza di Zeno 1860 Birthday Samuel Rutherford Crockett, novelist 1860 Birthday James Matthew Barrie, Scotland, novelist, Margaret Ogilvy, Peter Pan 1859 Birthday Verner von Heidenstam, Sweden, poet and novelist, Charles Men, Nobel 1916 1858 Birthday Selma Lagerlof, Sweden, novelist, Tales of a Manor-Nobel 1909 1858 Birthday Charles W. Chesnutt, American Novelist 1858 Birthday John Meade Falkner, novelist, Moonfleet 1857 Birthday George Gissing, England, novelist 1857 Birthday Joseph Conrad, Poland, novelist, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness 1857 Death Eugene Sue, French Novelist 1857 Birthday Margaret Deland, American Novelist 1853 Birthday Hall Caine, British Novelist 1852 Birthday George A. Moore, Ireland, painter/novelist, Esther Waters 1851 Birthday Kate O'Flaherty Chopin, novelist 1851 Death Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist (Frankenstein), dies at 53 1850 Death Honore de Balzac, French Novelist 1850 Birthday Ivan Vazov, Bulgaria, poet and novelist /playwright, Under the Yoke 1850 Death Jane Porter, novelist (Scottish Chiefs), dies at 74 1849 Death Countess of Blessington, Irish Novelist 1849 Death Anne Bronte, novelist, dies 1849 Death Maria Edgeworth, Irish Novelist 1849 Birthday August Strindberg, Sweden, dramatist and novelist, 'Apologia' 1848 Death Emily Bronte, English Novelist 1848 Death Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, French novelist (Atala)/diplomat, dies 1844 Birthday George Washington Cable, American Novelist 1844 Birthday Minna Canth, Finland, novelist/playwright, social evils 1843 Birthday Bertha von Suttner, Austria, novelist/pacifist, Nobel 1905 1843 Birthday Benito Perez Galdos, Spain, novelist, Fountain of Gold, Nazaarin 1841 Death Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, poet and novelist, dies 1840 Birthday Thomas Hardy, England, poet and novelist, Far from the Madding Crowd 1840 Birthday Emile Zola, born in France, novelist, Nana, J'Accuse 1839 Death Ethel Mary Dell, Mrs G T Savage, romantic novelist, dies 1839 Birthday Ouida, English Novelist 1838 Birthday Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Bengali novelist, Anandamath 1837 Birthday William Dean Howells, U.S., novelist/critic/editor, Atlantic 1837 Death Aleksandr Pushkin, poet and novelist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel 1832 Birthday Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norway, novelist, Pa Guds Veje, Nobel-1903 1831 Birthday Amelia Barr, born in Ulverston, England, writer, novelist, wrote for religious periodicals, novels include 'The Lone House', 'Shela Vedder' 1830 Birthday Justin M'Carthy, Ireland, Irish politician/novelist, Miss Misanthrope 1830 Birthday Jules de Goncourt, France, novelist, Germinie 1830 Birthday Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian Novelist 1829 Birthday Victor Cherbuliez, French Novelist 1828 Birthday Leo Tolstoy, Russia, novelist, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, 1828 Birthday Margaret Oliphant, Scotland, novelist and biographer, Beleaguered City 1828 Birthday Edmond About, French Novelist 1828 Birthday George Meredith, England, poet and novelist, Shaving of Shagpat 1827 Birthday Johanna Spyri, Swiss Novelist 1826 Birthday Dinah Maria Mulock, English Novelist 1826 Birthday Herman Grimm, Germany, writer/novelist, Ralph Waldo Emerson 1824 Birthday Alexandre Dumas, born in France, playwright/novelist, Camille 1824 Birthday William Wilkie Collins, English novelist, Woman in White 1824 Birthday Wilkie Collins, English Novelist 1821 Birthday Gustave Flaubert, France, novelist, Madame Bovary 1821 Birthday Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Russia, novelist, Crime and Punishment 1821 Birthday Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist 1821 Birthday Fjodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski, Russian novelist 1820 Birthday Anne Bronte, English novelist/poet, Tenant of Wildfell Hall 1819 Birthday George Eliot, England, Victorian novelist, Adam Bede 1819 Birthday Mark Prager Lindo, English/Dutch author/novelist/writer 1818 Birthday Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright, Fathers and Sons, 1818 Birthday Ivan Turgenev, Russia, novelist/poet/playwright, Fathers and Sons, 1818 Birthday Emily Jane Bronte, England, novelist, Wuthering Heights 1818 Birthday Emily Bronte, English Novelist 1818 Birthday Zacharias Topelius, Finnish historical novelist, Surgeon's Stories 1816 Birthday Charlotte Bronte, born in Tornton, England, novelist 'Jane Eyre' 1815 Birthday Richard Henry Dana, novelist/lawyer spent 2 years before mast 1815 Birthday Anthony Trollope, born in England, novelist/poet, Barchester Towers 1814 Birthday Charles Reade, England, novelist, Cloister and Hearth 1812 Birthday Ivan Goncharov, Russia, novelist/travel writer, Oblomov 1812 Birthday Charles Dickens, born in England, novelist, Oliver Twist, Tale of 2 Cities 1811 Birthday William Makepeace Thackeray, England, Victorian novelist, Vanity Fair 1810 Birthday Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, London, novelist 1810 Birthday Elizabeth Gaskell, British Novelist 1808 Birthday Gerard De Nerval, French Novelist 1805 Birthday William Harrison Ainsworth, English Novelist 1804 Birthday George Sand, born in France, female, novelist, Valentine, Le Figaro 1804 Birthday Eugene Sue, French Novelist 1804 Death Charlotte Lennox, English novelist (The Female Quixote), dies 1803 Birthday Robert Smith Surtees, novelist 1802 Birthday Alexander Dumas, French Novelist 1802 Birthday Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romania, author/novelist/writer, Gramatica 1799 Birthday Honore de Balzac, France, novelist, Pere Goriot, Human Comedy 1791 Birthday Sergey Aksakov, Russia, novelist, Chronicles of a Russian Family 1789 Birthday James Fenimore Cooper, 1st major U.S. novelist, Last of Mohicans 1789 Birthday James F. Cooper, American Novelist 1789 Birthday Countess of Blessington, Irish Novelist 1785 Birthday Alessandro Manzoni, born in Italy, poet and novelist, Betrothed 1779 Birthday John Galt, Scotland, novelist, Ayrshire Legatees, Lawrie Todd 1775 Birthday Jane Austen, England, novelist, Pride and Prejudice 1771 Death Tobias George Smollett, novelist (Adv of Roderick Random), dies at 50 1771 Birthday Walter Scott, Scotland, novelist/poet, Lady of Lake 1771 Birthday Walter Scott, Scottish Novelist 1768 Birthday Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, France, poet and novelist, Atala 1768 Death Laurence Sterne, Irish Novelist 1767 Birthday Maria Edgeworth, Irish Novelist 1764 Birthday Ann Ward Radcliffe, English Gothic novelist, Italian 1756 Death Eliza Haywood, British Novelist 1746 Birthday Johann Heinse, German Sturm und Drang novelist/art critic 1731 Death Daniel Defoe, English novelist (Robinson Crusoe), dies 1730 Birthday Oliver Goldsmith, Ireland, novelist/dramatist, She Stoops to Conquer 1715 Birthday Christian F Gellert, Saxony, poet and novelist, Fables and Tales 1713 Birthday Laurence Sterne, Ireland, novelist/satirist, Tristram Shandy 1707 Birthday Henry Fielding, born in England, novelist, Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones 1707 Birthday Claude Prosper, Paris, France, novelist 1697 Birthday Abbe Prevost, French novelist and journalist, Manon Lescaut 1689 Birthday Samuel Richardson, English novelist, Pamela, baptized 1688 Death John Bunyan, preacher/novelist/author (Pilgrim's Progress), dies 1655 Death Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist/novelist, dies at 36 in Paris 1634 Birthday Contessa Marie Madeleine La Fayette, novelist 1616 Death Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Novelist 1547 Birthday Miguel de Cervantes, novelist, Don Quixote 1547 Birthday Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish Novelist
