Today in Novelist History (Part 4)
Literature Topics: Author - Essayist - Journalist - Jurist - Playwright - Poetess - Poetry - Scholar - Writer
Historical Events
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Famous Birthdays
Results 301 - 400 of 531
1914-04-26 - Bernard Malamud, US, novelist (Fixer, Natural, Pulitizer 1967)
1914-07-10 - Saul Bellow, Quebec, novelist (Nobel 1976-Mr Samler's Planet)
1915-05-27 - Herman Wouk, NYC, novelist (Caine Mutiny, Winds of War)
1915-07-07 - Margaret Walker Alexander, poet/novelist (For My People)
1915-10-24 - Marghanita Laski, British Journalist and Novelist(d. 1988)
1915-12-13 - Ross MacDonald, detective novelist (Goodbye Look)
1916-01-14 - John Oliver Killens, novelist
1916-03-24 - Donald Hamilton, Swedish-American novelist (d. 2006)
1916-04-26 - Morris L West, Australia, novelist (Shoes of the Fisherman)
1916-07-24 - John D MacDonald, novelist (Deep Blue Goodbye)
1916-09-05 - Frank Yerby American novelist (d. 1991)
1916-10-03 - James Alfred Wight Herriot, veterinarian/novelist
1916-11-08 - Peter Weiss, Germany, Swedish author/dramatist/novelist (Marat/Sade)
1917-02-11 - Sidney Sheldon, novelist (1947 Academy Award, 1959 Tony, Bloodline)
1917-02-19 - Carson McCullers, US, novelist (Heart Is a Lonely Hunter)
1917-02-25 - Anthony Burgess, essayist/novelist (Clockwork Orange)
1917-04-11 - David Westheimer, American novelist (d. 2005)
1917-05-22 - Jean-Louis Laffitte Curtis, novelist
1917-09-27 - Louis Auchincloss, Lawrence NY, lawyer/novelist (Watchfires)
1917-10-17 - Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-born American novelist (d. 1991)
1918-02-01 - Muriel Spark, Edinburgh Scotland, novelist (Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
1918-08-20 - Jacqueline Susann, American novelist (d. 1974)
1919-01-01 - J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, NYC, novelist (Catcher in the Rye)
1919-03-14 - Max Shulman, novelist (Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap)
1919-04-15 - Meriol Trevor, novelist/biographer (Civil Prisoners)
1919-07-15 - Iris Murdoch, Dublin Ireland, novelist (Severed Head, Unicorn)
1919-07-19 - Robert Pinget, novelist/playwright
1919-08-01 - Stanley Middleton, novelist
1919-10-22 - Doris Lessing, Kermanshah Iran, novelist (Golden Notebook)
1919-11-11 - Kalle Päätalo, Finnish novelist (d. 2000)
1920-03-01 - Howard Nemerov, US, 3rd US poet laureate/novelist (Blue Swallows)
1920-03-11 - D J Enright, England, poet/novelist (Some Men are Brothers)
1920-03-15 - Lawrence Sanders, American novelist (d. 1998)
1920-04-05 - Arthur Hailey, Luton England, novelist (Hotel, Airport)
1920-05-08 - Sloan Wilson, Norwalk, Conn, novelist (Man in the Gray Flannal
1920-06-28 - A. E. Hotchner, American editor, novelist and playwright
1921-01-05 - Friedrich Dörrenmatt, Switzerland, playwright/novelist (Visit)
1921-06-11 - Michael Meyer, UK, novelist/Ibsen translator (Hedda Gabler)
1921-08-03 - Hayden Carruth, Waterbury Ct, novelist (Crow & Heart)
1921-08-25 - Brian Moore, Ireland, novelist (Catholics, Doctor's Wife)
1921-10-15 - Mario Puzo, NYC, novelist (Godfather, Cotton Club, Earthquake)
1921-11-06 - James Jones, Robinson Ill, novelist (From Here to Eternity)
1922-04-13 - John Braine, English novelist (Life at the Top)
1922-04-16 - Kingsley Amis, London, novelist (Lucky Jim, James Bond Dossier)
1922-04-28 - Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (d. 1987)
1922-08-18 - Alain Robbe-Grillet, France, novelist (Voyeur)
1922-12-22 - Calder Willingham, novelist/scriptwriter
1923-01-31 - Norman Mailer, NJ, NYC mayoral candidate/novelist (Naked & the Dead)
1923-03-08 - Sembene Ousmane, Senegalese author/novelist/director (Doctor Noir)
1923-03-26 - Elizabeth Jane Howard, British novelist (After Julius)
1923-04-23 - James Kirkup, travel writer/poet/novelist (African in Greenland)
1923-05-01 - Joseph Heller, Bkln NY, novelist (Catch-22, 1963 Arts & Letters Award)
1923-07-10 - Jean Kerr, Scranton Pa, novelist (Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
1923-08-01 - Stanley Middleton, novelist
1923-12-20 - Nadine Gordimer, Springs South Africa, novelist
1924-06-06 - Jinyong, Chinese novelist
1924-07-20 - Thomas Berger, US, novelist (Vital Parts, Little Big Man)
1924-07-30 - William Gass, Fargo ND, novelist/philosopher (Omensetter's Luck)
1924-08-03 - Leon Uris, Baltimore, novelist (Exodus, QB VII, Battle Cry)
1924-08-28 - Janet Frame, NZ, novelist (Intensive Care, Owls Do Cry)
1924-09-22 - Rosamunde Pilcher, English novelist
1924-12-03 - Francisco Sionil José, Filipino novelist, Philippine National Artist for Literature
1925-01-09 - Abdelhamid Benhadugah, novelist
1925-01-14 - Yukio Mishima, Japan, novelist (Temple of Golden Pavilion)
1925-02-20 - Alex La Guma, Cape Town South Africa, novelist (A Walk in the Night)
1925-03-14 - John Barrington Wain, England, novelist/poet (Hurry on Down)
1925-03-25 - Flannery O'Connor, GA, novelist (A Good Man is Hard to Find)
1925-06-10 - Nat Hentoff, columnist/novelist (Village Voice, The Cold Society)
1925-06-11 - William Styron, Va, novelist (Confess of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice)
1925-10-26 - Jan Wolkers, Dutch sculptor/novelist (Brief American)
1926-01-20 - Qurratulain Hyder, Pakistani novelist (d. 2007)
1926-03-31 - John Fowles, England, novelist (Collector, French Leiutenent's Woman)
1926-04-23 - James P Donleavy, Brooklyn, novelist (Ginger Man, Onion Eaters)
1926-05-21 - Robert Creeley, Mass, poet/novelist (Island)
1926-09-03 - Alison Lurie, US, novelist (War Between the Tates)
1927-05-25 - Robert Ludlum, NYC, spy novelist (Bourne Identity)
1927-06-02 - W. Watts Biggers, American novelist and animator
1927-12-24 - Mary Higgins Clark, suspense novelist
1928-01-01 - Ernest R Tidyman, Ohio, novelist/screenwriter (French Connection)
1928-01-26 - Philip Jose Farmer, Indiana, science fiction novelist (Riverworld)
1928-07-16 - Anita Brookner, English novelist
1928-08-26 - Naïm Kattan, Canadian novelist and essayist
1929-01-27 - Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist (d. 1984)
1929-02-17 - Chaim Potok, NYC, novelist (Promise)
1929-03-18 - Christa Wolf, German novelist (Divided Heaven)
1929-04-02 - Catherine Gaskin, romantic novelist (Fiona, Coporation Wife)
1929-06-12 - Brigid Brophy, novelist/campaigner
1929-07-27 - Jack Higgins, [Harry Patterson], novelist
1929-10-24 - Hubert Aquin, French-Canadian novelist and activist (d. 1977)
1930-05-10 - June Knox-Mawer, British radio host/novelist (World of Islands)
1930-05-27 - John Barth, novelist (Sot-Weed Factor)
1930-08-10 - Barry Unsworth, novelist (Pascali's Island)
1930-10-26 - John Arden, England, novelist/playwright (Left Handed Liberty)
1930-12-15 - Edna O'Brien, Irish novelist and short story writer
1931-02-18 - Toni Morrison, Ohio, novelist (Tar Baby, Beloved, Song of Solomon)
1931-03-16 - Don Richard Carpenter, novelist
1931-10-13 - Janice Elliott, novelist
1931-10-19 - John le Carré, English novelist
1932-03-18 - John Updike, Shillington Pa, poet/novelist (Rabbit Run)
1932-06-05 - Christy Brown, Dublin, novelist (My Left Foot, Down All the Days)
Famous Deaths
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