Author Birthdays for June
Khawar Rizvi 86
Poet
Wednesday, June 1st 1938Colleen McCullough 87
Novelist
Tuesday, June 1st 1937Bill Deedes 111
Journalist
Sunday, June 1st 1913John Van Druten 123
Playwright
Saturday, June 1st 1901Charles Kay Ogden 135
Non-Fiction
Saturday, June 1st 1889John Masefield 146
Poet, Children's Literature
Saturday, June 1st 1878Ferdinand Raimund 234
Playwright
Tuesday, June 1st 1790Dante Alighieri 759
Poet
Monday, June 1st 1265Carol Shields 89
Sunday, June 2nd 1935Lester del Rey 109
Wednesday, June 2nd 1915Barbara Rym 111
Monday, June 2nd 1913Karl Adolph Gjellerup 167
Poet, Novelist
Tuesday, June 2nd 1857Thomas Hardy 184
Tuesday, June 2nd 1840Marquis de Sade 284
Thursday, June 2nd 1740Larry McMurtry 88
Wednesday, June 3rd 1936Marion Zimmer Bradley 94
Tuesday, June 3rd 1930Allen Ginsberg 98
Thursday, June 3rd 1926Buddy Wakefield 50
Poet
Tuesday, June 4th 1974Joe Hill 52
Novelist
Sunday, June 4th 1972John Hockenberry 68
Journalist
Monday, June 4th 1956Val McDermid 69
Novelist
Saturday, June 4th 1955Wendy Pini 73
Comic Book Writer
Monday, June 4th 1951Kenneth G. Ross 83
Playwright, Screenwriter
Wednesday, June 4th 1941Robert Fulghum 87
Essayist, Novelist
Friday, June 4th 1937Maurice Shadbolt 92
Novelist
Saturday, June 4th 1932Ruth Westheimer 96
Non-Fiction
Monday, June 4th 1928Elizabeth Jolley 101
Novelist
Monday, June 4th 1923Jacques Roumain 117
Novelist, Poet
Tuesday, June 4th 1907Patience Strong 117
Poet
Tuesday, June 4th 1907Mabel Lucie Attwell 145
Children's Literature
Wednesday, June 4th 1879Apollon Maykov 203
Poet
Monday, June 4th 1821Ken Follett 75
Sunday, June 5th 1949Margaret Drabble 85
Monday, June 5th 1939Alfred Kazin 109
Saturday, June 5th 1915Federico Garcia Lorca 126
Sunday, June 5th 1898Geraldine McCaughrean 73
Novelist
Wednesday, June 6th 1951Stephen Dixon 88
Saturday, June 6th 1936Harry Crews 89
Thursday, June 6th 1935Maxine Kumine 99
Saturday, June 6th 1925Thomas Mann 149
Sunday, June 6th 1875Alexander Pushkin 225
Thursday, June 6th 1799Louise Erdrich 70
Monday, June 7th 1954Orhan Pamuk 72
Saturday, June 7th 1952Elizabeth Bowen 125
Wednesday, June 7th 1899Sara Paretsky 77
Sunday, June 8th 1947John W. Campbell 114
Wednesday, June 8th 1910David Koepp 61
Screenwriter
Sunday, June 9th 1963Aaron Sorkin 63
Playwright, Screenwriter
Friday, June 9th 1961Patricia Cornwell 68
Novelist
Saturday, June 9th 1956Gregory Maguire 70
Novelist
Wednesday, June 9th 1954Deyda Hydara 78
Journalist
Sunday, June 9th 1946James Kelman 78
Novelist
Sunday, June 9th 1946Joe Haldeman 81
Novelist
Wednesday, June 9th 1943Charles Webb 85
Novelist
Friday, June 9th 1939Keith Laumer 99
Novelist
Tuesday, June 9th 1925George Axelrod 102
Playwright, Screenwriter
Friday, June 9th 1922John Gillespie Magee, Jr. 102
Poet
Friday, June 9th 1922Jurij Brězan 108
Novelist
Friday, June 9th 1916Bertha von Suttner 181
Novelist
Friday, June 9th 1843Maurice Sendak 96
Children's Literature
Sunday, June 10th 1928Saul Bellow 109
Thursday, June 10th 1915Athol Fugard 92
Saturday, June 11th 1932William Styron 99
Thursday, June 11th 1925Sonia Manzano 74
Monday, June 12th 1950Anne Frank 95
Wednesday, June 12th 1929Brigid Brophy 95
Wednesday, June 12th 1929Djuna Barnes 132
Novelist
Sunday, June 12th 1892Audrey Niffenegger 61
Thursday, June 13th 1963Maurice G. Dantec 65
Saturday, June 13th 1959Whitley Strieber 79
Wednesday, June 13th 1945Dorothy L. Sayers 131
Tuesday, June 13th 1893William Butler Yeats 159
Tuesday, June 13th 1865John Edgar Wideman 83
Saturday, June 14th 1941Jerzy Kosinski 91
Wednesday, June 14th 1933Yasunari Kawabata 125
Wednesday, June 14th 1899Harriet Beecher Stowe 213
Friday, June 14th 1811Chris Morris 62
Satirist, Screenwriter
Friday, June 15th 1962Ana Castillo 71
Monday, June 15th 1953Amy Clampitt 104
Tuesday, June 15th 1920Joyce Carol Oates 86
Thursday, June 16th 1938Ron Padgett 82
Wednesday, June 17th 1942John Hersey 110
Wednesday, June 17th 1914Richard Powers 67
Tuesday, June 18th 1957Amy Bloom 71
Thursday, June 18th 1953Chris Van Allsburg 75
Saturday, June 18th 1949Gail Godwin 87
Friday, June 18th 1937Salman Rushdie 77
Thursday, June 19th 1947Tobias Wolff 79
Tuesday, June 19th 1945E. Lynn Harris 69
Monday, June 20th 1955Vikram Seth 72
Friday, June 20th 1952Lillian Hellman 119
Tuesday, June 20th 1905Ian McEwan 76
Monday, June 21st 1948Francoise Sagan 89
Friday, June 21st 1935Mary McCarthy 112
Friday, June 21st 1912Jean-Paul Sartre 119
Wednesday, June 21st 1905Dan Brown 60
Monday, June 22nd 1964Joanna Scott 64
Wednesday, June 22nd 1960Octavia Butler 77
Sunday, June 22nd 1947Erich Maria Remarque 126
Wednesday, June 22nd 1898Julian Hawthorne 178
Monday, June 22nd 1846David Leavitt 63
Friday, June 23rd 1961Alexandru Odobescu 190
Monday, June 23rd 1834Lawrence Block 86
Friday, June 24th 1938Anita Desai 87
Thursday, June 24th 1937Ambrose Bierce 182
Friday, June 24th 1842Rebecca Harding Davis 193
Friday, June 24th 1831Nicholas Mosley 101
Monday, June 25th 1923George Orwell 121
Thursday, June 25th 1903Moses Hadas 124
Monday, June 25th 1900Robert Erskine Childers 154
Saturday, June 25th 1870J. J. Abrams 58
Screenwriter
Monday, June 27th 1966Dan Jurgens 65
Comic Book Writer
Saturday, June 27th 1959Anita Diamant 73
Novelist
Wednesday, June 27th 1951James P. Hogan 83
Novelist
Friday, June 27th 1941Ivan Doig 85
Novelist
Tuesday, June 27th 1939Kirkpatrick Sale 87
Non-Fiction
Sunday, June 27th 1937Lucille Clifton 88
Poet, Children's Literature
Saturday, June 27th 1936Frank O'Hara 98
Poet
Sunday, June 27th 1926Robert Aickman 110
Novelist
Saturday, June 27th 1914João Guimarães Rosa 116
Novelist
Saturday, June 27th 1908Catherine Cookson 118
Novelist
Wednesday, June 27th 1906Lafcadio Hearn 174
Journalist
Thursday, June 27th 1850Louise von François 207
Novelist
Friday, June 27th 1817Mark Helprin 77
Saturday, June 28th 1947Eric Ambler 115
Monday, June 28th 1909Floyd Dell 137
Tuesday, June 28th 1887Luigi Pirandello 157
Friday, June 28th 1867Antoine de Saint-Exupery 124
Friday, June 29th 1900Czeslaw Milosz 113
Friday, June 30th 1911William Hamilton Maxwell 232
Novelist
Saturday, June 30th 1792John Gay 339
Saturday, June 30th 1685
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