Author Birthdays for July
Jean Stafford 109
Thursday, July 1st 1915James M. Cain 132
Friday, July 1st 1892George Sand 220
Sunday, July 1st 1804Wislawa Szymborska 101
Monday, July 2nd 1923Hermann Hesse 147
Monday, July 2nd 1877William Le Queux 160
Saturday, July 2nd 1864Dave Barry 77
Thursday, July 3rd 1947Tom Stoppard 87
Saturday, July 3rd 1937M.F.K. Fisher 116
Friday, July 3rd 1908Franz Kafka 141
Tuesday, July 3rd 1883Charlotte Perkins Gilman 164
Tuesday, July 3rd 1860Richard Rhodes 87
Sunday, July 4th 1937Nathaniel Hawthorne 220
Wednesday, July 4th 1804Craig Nova 79
Thursday, July 5th 1945Jean Cocteau 135
Poet, Novelist, Playwright
Friday, July 5th 1889Kathryn Hulme 124
Friday, July 6th 1900Robert Heinlein 117
Sunday, July 7th 1907J.F. Powers 107
Sunday, July 8th 1917Richard Aldington 132
Friday, July 8th 1892Dean Koontz 79
Monday, July 9th 1945Oliver Sacks 91
Sunday, July 9th 1933Fanny Fern 113
Sunday, July 9th 1911Alice Munro 93
Friday, July 10th 1931John Wyndham 121
Friday, July 10th 1903Marcel Proust 153
Novelist
Monday, July 10th 1871Harold Bloom 94
Friday, July 11th 1930E. B. White 125
Tuesday, July 11th 1899Donald E. Westlake 91
Wednesday, July 12th 1933Pablo Neruda 120
Tuesday, July 12th 1904Henry David Thoreau 207
Saturday, July 12th 1817Woody Guthrie 112
Sunday, July 14th 1912Richard Pini 74
Comic Book Writer
Saturday, July 15th 1950Richard Russo 75
Novelist
Friday, July 15th 1949Iris Murdoch 105
Novelist
Tuesday, July 15th 1919Linda Salzman 84
Tuesday, July 16th 1940Caroline Blackwood 93
Thursday, July 16th 1931Anita Brookner 96
Monday, July 16th 1928J. Michael Straczynski 70
Saturday, July 17th 1954James Purdy 101
Tuesday, July 17th 1923Christina Stead 122
Thursday, July 17th 1902Jared Hess 45
Screenwriter
Wednesday, July 18th 1979Alfian Sa'at 47
Poet, Playwright
Monday, July 18th 1977Alan Morrison 50
Poet
Thursday, July 18th 1974M.J. Alexander 63
Poet, Playwright
Tuesday, July 18th 1961Hunter S. Thompson 85
Journalist
Tuesday, July 18th 1939Yevgeny Yevtushenko 91
Poet, Novelist
Tuesday, July 18th 1933Margaret Laurence 98
Novelist
Sunday, July 18th 1926Robert Sloman 98
Screenwriter
Sunday, July 18th 1926Clifford Odets 118
Playwright, Screenwriter
Wednesday, July 18th 1906Jessamyn West 122
Novelist
Friday, July 18th 1902Nathalie Sarraute 124
Novelist
Wednesday, July 18th 1900Rose Hartwick Thorpe 174
Poet
Thursday, July 18th 1850Tristan Corbière 179
Poet
Friday, July 18th 1845William Makepeace Thackeray 213
Novelist
Thursday, July 18th 1811Garth Nix 61
Novelist
Friday, July 19th 1963Aya Kitō 62
Memoirist
Thursday, July 19th 1962Srđa Trifković 70
Journalist
Monday, July 19th 1954Jayne Anne Phillips 72
Novelist
Saturday, July 19th 1952Jayson Stark 73
Journalist
Thursday, July 19th 1951Joseph Hansen 101
Novelist
Thursday, July 19th 1923William A. Rusher 101
Columnist
Thursday, July 19th 1923Miltos Sachtouris 105
Poet
Saturday, July 19th 1919Eve Merriam 108
Poet, Playwright
Wednesday, July 19th 1916A. J. Cronin 128
Novelist
Sunday, July 19th 1896Vladimir Mayakovsky 131
Poet, Playwright
Wednesday, July 19th 1893Ferdinand Brunetière 175
Essayist
Thursday, July 19th 1849Gottfried Keller 205
Novelist
Monday, July 19th 1819Heinrich Christian Boie 280
Poet
Sunday, July 19th 1744Dan Shaughnessy 71
Journalist
Monday, July 20th 1953Thomas Friedman 71
Journalist
Monday, July 20th 1953Adrian Păunescu 81
Poet, Journalist
Tuesday, July 20th 1943Periklis Korovesis 83
Journalist
Sunday, July 20th 1941Uwe Johnson 90
Novelist
Friday, July 20th 1934Cormac McCarthy 91
Novelist
Thursday, July 20th 1933Giannis Agouris 94
Journalist
Sunday, July 20th 1930Frantz Fanon 99
Non-Fiction
Monday, July 20th 1925Thomas Berger 100
Novelist
Sunday, July 20th 1924Stanisław Albinowski 101
Journalist
Friday, July 20th 1923George Johnston 112
Journalist, Novelist
Saturday, July 20th 1912Erik Axel Karlfeldt 160
Poet
Wednesday, July 20th 1864Sir George Trevelyan 186
Biographer
Friday, July 20th 1838Augustin Daly 186
Playwright
Friday, July 20th 1838Petrarch 720
Poet
Sunday, July 20th 1304Sarah Waters 58
Novelist
Thursday, July 21st 1966Michael Connelly 68
Novelist
Saturday, July 21st 1956Ed Hinton 76
Journalist
Wednesday, July 21st 1948William S. Burroughs, Jr. 77
Poet
Monday, July 21st 1947Tess Gallagher 81
Poet, Playwright
Wednesday, July 21st 1943John Gardner 91
Novelist
Friday, July 21st 1933Marshall McLuhan 113
Non-Fiction
Friday, July 21st 1911Ernest Hemingway 125
Novelist
Friday, July 21st 1899Hart Crane 130
Poet
Saturday, July 21st 1894Hans Fallada 131
Novelist
Friday, July 21st 1893Frances Parkinson Keyes 139
Novelist
Tuesday, July 21st 1885Paul Reuter 208
Journalist
Sunday, July 21st 1816Matthew Prior 360
Poet
Monday, July 21st 1664Don Van Natta, Jr. 60
Journalist
Wednesday, July 22nd 1964Paul Quarrington 71
Novelist, Playwright
Wednesday, July 22nd 1953S. E. Hinton 76
Novelist
Thursday, July 22nd 1948Paul Schrader 78
Screenwriter
Monday, July 22nd 1946Tom Robbins 88
Novelist
Wednesday, July 22nd 1936Bryan Forbes 98
Screenwriter
Thursday, July 22nd 1926Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah 109
Essayist
Thursday, July 22nd 1915Wayne Robbins 110
Short Stories
Wednesday, July 22nd 1914Ormond Robbins 110
Novelist
Wednesday, July 22nd 1914Stephen Vincent Benet 126
Poet, Short Stories, Novelist
Friday, July 22nd 1898León de Greiff 129
Poet
Monday, July 22nd 1895Janusz Korczak 146
Children's Literature
Monday, July 22nd 1878Frederick Rolfe - Baron Corvo 164
Novelist
Sunday, July 22nd 1860Emma Lazarus 175
Poet
Sunday, July 22nd 1849Mikhail Shcherbatov 291
Non-Fiction
Wednesday, July 22nd 1733Joel Stein 53
Journalist
Friday, July 23rd 1971Thea Dorn 54
Novelist
Thursday, July 23rd 1970Gardner Dozois 77
Short Stories
Wednesday, July 23rd 1947Lisa Alther 80
Novelist
Sunday, July 23rd 1944Claude Fournier 93
Screenwriter
Thursday, July 23rd 1931Guy Fournier 93
Playwright, Screenwriter
Thursday, July 23rd 1931Hubert Selby, Jr. 96
Novelist
Monday, July 23rd 1928Gérard Brach 97
Screenwriter
Saturday, July 23rd 1927Gavin Lambert 100
Screenwriter, Novelist
Wednesday, July 23rd 1924Cyril M. Kornbluth 101
Novelist
Monday, July 23rd 1923Davis Grubb 105
Novelist
Wednesday, July 23rd 1919M. H. Abrams 112
Non-Fiction
Tuesday, July 23rd 1912Raymond Chandler 136
Novelist
Monday, July 23rd 1888Mark Andrew Smith 45
Comic Book Writer
Tuesday, July 24th 1979John Rosengren 60
Non-Fiction
Friday, July 24th 1964Colleen Doran 61
Comic Book Writer
Wednesday, July 24th 1963Marc Jampole 74
Poet, Journalist
Monday, July 24th 1950Arliss Ryan 74
Novelist
Monday, July 24th 1950Geoff McQueen 77
Screenwriter
Thursday, July 24th 1947Alfred Balk 94
Journalist
Thursday, July 24th 1930Madeleine Ferron 102
Novelist
Monday, July 24th 1922John D. MacDonald 108
Novelist
Monday, July 24th 1916Robert Graves 129
Poet, Novelist
Wednesday, July 24th 1895Jun'ichirō Tanizaki 138
Novelist
Saturday, July 24th 1886Edward Plunkett 146
Novelist, Playwright
Wednesday, July 24th 1878Oswald Chambers 150
Non-Fiction
Friday, July 24th 1874E. F. Benson 157
Novelist
Wednesday, July 24th 1867Vicente Acosta 157
Poet
Wednesday, July 24th 1867Frank Wedekind 160
Playwright
Sunday, July 24th 1864Henrik Pontoppidan 167
Novelist
Friday, July 24th 1857William Gillette 171
Playwright
Sunday, July 24th 1853Alexandre Dumas 222
Novelist
Saturday, July 24th 1802Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan 48
Poet
Sunday, July 25th 1976Claude Zidi 90
Screenwriter
Wednesday, July 25th 1934Alice Parizeau 94
Novelist, Journalist
Friday, July 25th 1930Midge Decter 97
Journalist
Monday, July 25th 1927Maria Gripe 101
Children's Literature
Wednesday, July 25th 1923Elias Canetti 119
Novelist, Playwright
Tuesday, July 25th 1905Denys Watkins-Pitchford 119
Children's Literature
Tuesday, July 25th 1905Max Dauthendey 157
Poet
Thursday, July 25th 1867Pieter Langendijk 341
Playwright, Poet
Sunday, July 25th 1683Rick Bragg 65
Journalist
Sunday, July 26th 1959Hart Hanson 67
Screenwriter
Friday, July 26th 1957Bernice Rubens 96
Novelist
Thursday, July 26th 1928Ibn-e-Safi 96
Novelist, Poet
Thursday, July 26th 1928Ana Maria Matute 98
Novelist
Monday, July 26th 1926Jan Berenstain 101
Children's Literature
Thursday, July 26th 1923Jean Shepherd 103
Short Stories
Tuesday, July 26th 1921Paul Gallico 127
Novelist
Monday, July 26th 1897Aldous Huxley 130
Novelist
Thursday, July 26th 1894André Maurois 139
Novelist
Sunday, July 26th 1885Antonio Machado 149
Poet
Monday, July 26th 1875Carl Jung 149
Non-Fiction
Monday, July 26th 1875George Bernard Shaw 168
Playwright
Saturday, July 26th 1856Cat Bauer 69
Wednesday, July 27th 1955Kathleen Norris 77
Sunday, July 27th 1947Bharati Mukherjee 84
Saturday, July 27th 1940Jack Higgins 95
Saturday, July 27th 1929Elizabeth Hardwick 108
Thursday, July 27th 1916Rayner Heppenstall 113
Thursday, July 27th 1911Julien Gracq 114
Wednesday, July 27th 1910Joseph Mitchell 116
Monday, July 27th 1908Hilaire Belloc 154
Wednesday, July 27th 1870Vladimir Korolenko 171
Wednesday, July 27th 1853Giosuè Carducci 189
Monday, July 27th 1835Alexandre Dumas, fils 200
Novelist
Tuesday, July 27th 1824James Piotr Montague 45
Journalist
Saturday, July 28th 1979William T. Vollman 65
Novelist
Tuesday, July 28th 1959Sarah Schulman 66
Novelist, Playwright
Monday, July 28th 1958John Feinstein 68
Journalist
Saturday, July 28th 1956Randall Wallace 75
Screenwriter
Thursday, July 28th 1949Fahmida Riaz 78
Poet
Sunday, July 28th 1946Jim Davis 79
Comic Book Writer
Saturday, July 28th 1945Tonia Marketaki 82
Screenwriter
Tuesday, July 28th 1942Francis Veber 87
Screenwriter, Playwright
Wednesday, July 28th 1937Natalie Babbitt 92
Children's Literature
Thursday, July 28th 1932Jean Roba 94
Comic Book Writer
Monday, July 28th 1930John Ashbery 97
Poet
Thursday, July 28th 1927Malcolm Lowry 115
Novelist, Poet
Wednesday, July 28th 1909Beatrix Potter 158
Children's Literature
Saturday, July 28th 1866Gerard Manley Hopkins 180
Poet
Sunday, July 28th 1844Fabre d'Églantine 274
Poet, Playwright
Tuesday, July 28th 1750Chang-Rae Lee 59
Thursday, July 29th 1965Dean Pitchford 73
Sunday, July 29th 1951Harry Mulisch 97
Novelist
Friday, July 29th 1927Edwin O'Connor 106
Monday, July 29th 1918Chester B. Himes 115
Thursday, July 29th 1909Stanley Kunitz 119
Saturday, July 29th 1905Eyvind Johnson 124
Sunday, July 29th 1900Don Marquis 146
Monday, July 29th 1878Eric Alfred Knudsen 152
Monday, July 29th 1872Booth Tarkington 155
Thursday, July 29th 1869Cherie Priest 49
Wednesday, July 30th 1975Kate Phillips 58
Saturday, July 30th 1966Patrick Modiano 79
Monday, July 30th 1945Alexander Trocchi 99
Thursday, July 30th 1925Willian Gass 100
Wednesday, July 30th 1924Emily Bronte 206
Thursday, July 30th 1818Samuel Rogers 261
Saturday, July 30th 1763Ahmad Akbarpour 54
Novelist
Friday, July 31st 1970Dave Wedge 54
Journalist
Friday, July 31st 1970J. K. Rowling 59
Novelist
Saturday, July 31st 1965Andrew Marr 65
Journalist
Friday, July 31st 1959João Barreiros 72
Novelist
Thursday, July 31st 1952Steve Miller 74
Short Stories
Monday, July 31st 1950Jonathan Dimbleby 80
Journalist, Non-Fiction
Monday, July 31st 1944Yvon Deschamps 89
Humorist
Wednesday, July 31st 1935Cees Nooteboom 91
Novelist
Monday, July 31st 1933Lynne Reid Banks 95
Novelist, Children's Literature
Wednesday, July 31st 1929Gilles Carle 96
Screenwriter
Tuesday, July 31st 1928Primo Levi 105
Novelist
Thursday, July 31st 1919Irv Kupcinet 112
Columnist
Wednesday, July 31st 1912Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn 115
Novelist, Non-Fiction
Saturday, July 31st 1909Brett Halliday 120
Novelist
Sunday, July 31st 1904Premchand 144
Novelist
Saturday, July 31st 1880Peter Rosegger 181
Poet
Monday, July 31st 1843