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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 Mordecai Richler, Canadian Novelist 2001 Tove Jansson, Finnish Novelist 2001 Robert Ludlum, novelist, The Bourne Identity, dies at 73 2001 Dorothy Dunnett, Scottish Novelist 2000 Anthony Powell, British Novelist 1999 J. F. Powers, American Novelist 1999 Roderick Thorp, American Novelist 1998 Lawrence Sanders, American Novelist 1998 William Gaddis, 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 Hubert Nicholson, poet and novelist, dies at 87 1995 [William] 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 Janice Elliott, novelist, dies at 63 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 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 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 Khomeini orders Moslems to murder "Satanic Verses" novelist Rushdie 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 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" Bru˜n, 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 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 1973 Henry Green, English Novelist 1972 Jules Romains, French novelist (Death of Nobody), dies at 86 1971 Alan Patrick Herbert, British Novelist 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 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 Edward Godfrey Richard Aldington, novelist/biographer, dies 1962 William Faulkner, American Novelist 1962 Vita Sackville-West, English Novelist 1961 Irvine Welsh, Scottish Novelist 1961 David Leavitt, American Novelist 1961 Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist 1961 Arundhati Roy, Indian Novelist 1961 Rick Moody, American Novelist 1960 John Phillips Marquand, novelist, dies at 66 1960 Dornford Yates, British Novelist 1959 Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist 1959 Jonathan Franzen, American Novelist 1959 Andy McNabb, British Novelist 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, novelist 1954 Colette, [Willy], France, novelist (Vagabonde), dies at 81 1954 Joseph Hergesheimer, novelist (Java Head), dies 1954 Louis de Bernieres, British Novelist 1952 Orhan Pamuk, Novelist 1952 Amy Tan, American Novelist 1952 Norman Douglas, essayist/novelist, dies 1952 Walter Mosley, American Novelist 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 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 1947 Baroness Orczy, British Novelist 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 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 Marlene Jobert, novelist, Adventures of John Difool 1943 Rose Tremain, British novelist/playwright, Restoration 1943 Joanna Trollope, English Novelist 1942 Michael Crichton, Chicago, novelist, Andromeda Strain, Congo, Looker 1942 Isabel Allende, Novelist 1942 Bruno Schulz, Polish Novelist 1942 Helen Garner, Australian Novelist 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, novelist 1936 Don DeLillo, American Novelist 1936 Roderick Thorp, American Novelist 1936 Maxim Gorky, Russian Novelist 1936 Judith Guest, American Novelist 1935 Winifred Holtby, English Novelist 1935 Francoise Sagan, born in Cajarc, France, novelist, Bonjour Trieste 1935 Oe Kenzaburo, Japanese novelist, Catch, Personal Matter 1935 Thomas Keneally, Australian Novelist 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 George Konrad, Hungarian Novelist 1933 Philip Roth, born in Newark, novelist, Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint 1933 Richard Brautigan, born in Tacoma, Washington, novelist/poet, Trout Fishing... 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 Shillington, Pennsylvania, poet and novelist, Rabbit Run 1932 Aharon Appelfeld, Israeli Novelist 1932 Charles W. Chesnutt, American Novelist 1931 John LeCarre, [Cornwell], England, spy novelist, Little Drummer Girl 1931 Janice Elliott, novelist 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 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 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 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, NZ, 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 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, New Jersey, New York City mayoral candidate/novelist, Naked and the Dead 1922 Calder Willingham, novelist/scriptwriter 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 1922 William Gaddis, American Novelist 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 Michael Meyer, UK, novelist/Ibsen translator, Hedda Gabler 1921 Friedrich Durrenmatt, Switzerland, playwright/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 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 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, novelist, 1947 Academy Award, 1959 Tony, Bloodline 1916 Peter Weiss, Germany, Swedish author/dramatist/novelist, Marat/Sade 1916 James Alfred Wight Herriot, veterinarian/novelist 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 1916 Hector Hugh Munro, British 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 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 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 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 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 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 1905 Anthony Powell, England, novelist, Infants of Spring 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 1905 Henry Green, English 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 1904 Alejo Carpentier, Cuban Novelist 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 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[er O] 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, 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 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 Sylvia Townsend Warner, English Novelist 1893 Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, French novelist/essayist, Gilles 1892 Ivo Andric, Yugoslavia, novelist, Bridge on Drina, Nobel 1961 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 Alan Patrick Herbert, British Novelist 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 Martin Luis Guzman, Mexico, novelist, Eagle and the Serpent 1887 Dinah Maria Mulock, English Novelist 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 NZ, 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/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 Pierre Louijs, France, novelist/poet, Aphrodite, Woman and Puppet 1870 Ivan Bunin, Russia, poet and novelist, Gentleman from SF-Nobel 1933 1870 Marie C of Zeggelen, Dutch novelist, Koloniaaltje 1870 Hector Hugh Munro, British Novelist 1870 Alexander Dumas, French Novelist 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 Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont, Poland, novelist, Chiopi, Nobel-1924 1868 Maxim Gorky, Russian Novelist 1868 Eleanor Porter, American 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, [Rev 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 [Robert] Gissing, England, novelist 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/novelist, Apologia 1848 Francois Rene de Chateaubriand, French novelist (Atala)/diplomat, dies 1848 Emily Bronte, English Novelist 1844 Minna Canth, Finland, novelist/playwright, social evils 1844 George Washington Cable, American Novelist 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 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 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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