Today in Novelist History (Part 5)
Literature Topics: Author - Essayist - Journalist - Jurist - Playwright - Poetess - Poetry - Scholar - Writer
Historical Events
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Famous Birthdays
Results 401 - 500 of 531
1932-06-12 - Rona Jaffe, novelist (Mazes & Monsters)
1932-08-17 - Vidiadhar S Naipaul, Trinidad, novelist (Middle Passage)
1932-08-20 - Vasily Aksyonov, Russian novelist
1933-01-02 - Morimura Seiichi, Japanese novelist
1933-01-09 - Wilbur Smith, Zambian-British novelist
1933-01-30 - Richard Brautigan, Tacoma Wash, novelist/poet (Trout Fishing...)
1933-03-19 - Philip Roth, Newark, novelist (Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint)
1933-06-14 - Jerzy Kosinski, novelist (Painted Bird, Being There)
1934-04-28 - Lois Duncan, American novelist
1934-12-05 - Joan Didion, US novelist/journalist (Salvador)
1935-01-31 - Oe Kenzaburo, Japanese novelist (Catch, Personal Matter)
1935-05-11 - Francisco Umbral, Spanish novelist (d. 2007)
1935-06-02 - Carol Shields, American-born novelist (d. 2
1935-06-21 - Francoise Sagan, [Quoirez], Cajarc France, novelist (Bonjour Trieste)
1936-08-24 - A. S. Byatt, English novelist
1937-02-16 - Paul Bailey, novelist
1937-04-04 - Ian St James, novelist (Balfour Conspiracy, Vengeance, Money Stones)
1937-05-08 - Thomas Pynchon, novelist (V)
1937-05-13 - Roch Carrier, Canadian novelist
1937-12-17 - John Kennedy Toole, American novelist (d. 1969)
1938-05-26 - Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Russian playwright and novelist
1938-06-16 - Joyce Carol Oates, NY, novelist (Garden of Earthly Delights)
1938-07-16 - Anita Brookner, art historian/novelist
1938-10-28 - Anne Perry, English-born novelist
1939-03-14 - Bertrand Blier, Paris France, novelist/director (Going Places)
1939-05-04 - Amos Oz, Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist
1940-01-04 - Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born French novelist and dramatist, Nobel laureate
1940-05-04 - Robin Cook, American novelist
1940-05-07 - Angela Carter, English novelist and journalist (d. 1992)
1940-05-08 - Peter Benchley, NYC, novelist (Jaws, The Deep)
1941-01-18 - Denise Bombardier, Quebec journalist, television host and novelist
1941-05-19 - Nora Ephron, NY, novelist/screenwriter/director (Michael, Heartburn)
1941-06-24 - Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French philosopher, psychoanalyst, and novelist
1941-06-26 - Yves Beauchemin, Canadian novelist
1941-08-12 - Réjean Ducharme, Quebec novelist and playwright
1942-08-24 - Howard Jacobson, British novelist and newspaper columnist
1942-10-23 - Michael Crichton, Chicago, novelist (Andromeda Strain, Congo, Looker)
1943-08-02 - Rose Tremain, British novelist/playwright (Restoration)
1943-08-23 - Nelson DeMille, American novelist
1943-11-04 - Marlene Jobert, novelist (Adventures of John Difool)
1944-01-03 - Blanche d'Alpuget, Australian novelist, biographer and second wife of Bob Hawke
1944-02-09 - Alice Walker, US, novelist (Color Purple, Meridian)
1944-02-23 - Bernard Cornwell, English historical novelist
1944-02-23 - John Sandford, American novelist
1944-09-25 - Eugenia Zukerman, Cambridge Ms, flutist/novelist (Deceptive Cadence)
1944-12-09 - Ki Longfellow, American novelist
1945-01-06 - Allen Appel, American novelist
1945-02-25 - Shivadhar Srinivasa Naipaul, Trinidad, novelist, essayist (Fireflies)
1945-03-18 - Joy Fielding, Canadian novelist and actress
1945-07-30 - Patrick Modiano, French novelist
1945-12-08 - John Banville, Irish novelist and journalist
1946-04-17 - Clare Francis, yachtswoman/novelist (Come Hell or High Water)
1946-05-17 - F. Paul Wilson, American novelist
1946-10-18 - James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter
1947-06-19 - Salman Rushdie, Pak, novelist (Midnight's Children, Satanic Verses)
1947-08-02 - Rose Tremain, novelist/playwright
1947-08-14 - Danielle Steel, American novelist
1948-02-04 - Robert Coover, novelist (Pricksongs & Descants)
1948-02-29 - Jirō Akagawa, Japanese novelist
1948-10-08 - Benjamin Cheever, American novelist and editor
1949-01-12 - Haruki Murakami, Japanese novelist
1949-02-26 - Elizabeth George, American novelist
1949-07-29 - Marilyn Tucker Quayle, novelist/wife of vice president Dan (1989-93)
1949-08-25 - Martin Amis, English novelist
1949-09-26 - Jane Smiley, American novelist
1949-09-26 - Minette Walters, English novelist
1950-02-23 - Neil Jordan, Sligo Ireland, novelist (Dream of a Beast, Past)
1950-04-20 - Steve Erickson, American novelist
1950-10-10 - Nora Roberts, American novelist
1950-11-16 - John Swartzwelder, American television writer and novelist
1951-03-04 - Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, American novelist (d. 1982)
1951-11-02 - Thomas Mallon, American novelist and critic
1951-11-25 - Arturo Pérez Reverte, Spanish novelist and war reporter
1951-12-20 - Peter May, Scottish novelist and scriptwriter
1952-02-19 - Amy Tan, American novelist
1952-03-12 - Naomi Shihab Nye, American poet, songwriter, and novelist
1952-10-18 - Bảo Ninh, Vietnamese novelist
1952-10-21 - Allen Hoey, American poet and novelist
1953-04-20 - Sebastian Faulks, British novelist
1953-09-16 - Nancy Huston, Canadian-born novelist and essayist
1953-11-18 - Alan Moore, British comic book writer and novelist
1954-05-26 - Alan Hollinghurst, British novelist
1954-11-11 - Mary Gaitskill, American novelist
1955-02-03 - Stephen Euin Cobb, American novelist
1955-02-17 - Mo Yan, Chinese novelist
1955-03-27 - Patrick McCabe, novelist
1955-04-08 - Barbara Kingsolver, American novelist
1955-04-09 - Joolz Denby, English poet and novelist
1955-07-27 - Cat Bauer, American novelist
1955-08-02 - Caleb Carr, American novelist and military historian
1955-10-20 - David Profumo, English novelist
1955-11-10 - James Chapman, American novelist
1955-12-10 - Jacquelyn Mitchard, American novelist
1956-05-20 - William Michaelian, American novelist and poet
1957-01-07 - Nicholson Baker, American novelist
1958-01-27 - James Grippando, American novelist
1958-02-15 - Chrystine Brouillet, Quebec novelist
1958-02-26 - Michel Houellebecq, French novelist
1958-07-14 - Joe Keenan, American screenwriter, television producer and novelist.
1958-10-06 - Joseph Finder, American novelist
Famous Deaths
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