Author Birthdays for September
Scott Spencer 79
Novelist
Saturday, September 1st 1945Mustafa Balel 79
Novelist
Saturday, September 1st 1945C. J. Cherryh 82
Novelist
Tuesday, September 1st 1942Alan Dershowitz 86
Non-Fiction
Thursday, September 1st 1938Ron O'Neal 87
Screenwriter
Wednesday, September 1st 1937Wyatt Emory Cooper 97
Playwright, Screenwriter
Thursday, September 1st 1927Willem Frederik Hermans 103
Novelist
Thursday, September 1st 1921Liz Carpenter 104
Journalist
Wednesday, September 1st 1920Eleanor Hibbert 118
Novelist
Saturday, September 1st 1906Andrei Platonov 125
Novelist
Friday, September 1st 1899Blaise Cendrars 137
Novelist, Poet
Thursday, September 1st 1887Edgar Rice Burroughs 149
Novelist
Wednesday, September 1st 1875Innokenty Annensky 169
Poet
Saturday, September 1st 1855Daniel Defoe 364
Novelist
Wednesday, September 1st 1660Aimee Osbourne 41
Columnist
Friday, September 2nd 1983Chris Kuzneski 55
Novelist
Tuesday, September 2nd 1969John S. Hall 64
Poet
Friday, September 2nd 1960Walt Simonson 78
Comic Book Writer
Monday, September 2nd 1946Cleveland Amory 107
Non-Fiction
Sunday, September 2nd 1917Andreas Embirikos 123
Poet
Monday, September 2nd 1901Joseph Roth 130
Journalist, Novelist
Sunday, September 2nd 1894Ion Dragoumis 146
Non-Fiction
Monday, September 2nd 1878Hans Jæger 170
Non-Fiction
Saturday, September 2nd 1854Paul Bourget 172
Novelist
Thursday, September 2nd 1852Eugene Field 174
Children's Literature, Essayist
Monday, September 2nd 1850Lucretia Peabody Hale 204
Journalist, Novelist
Saturday, September 2nd 1820Esteban Echeverría 219
Poet
Monday, September 2nd 1805William Somervile 349
Poet
Monday, September 2nd 1675Kiran Desai 53
Novelist
Friday, September 3rd 1971Spike Feresten 60
Screenwriter
Thursday, September 3rd 1964Malcolm Gladwell 61
Journalist
Tuesday, September 3rd 1963Sergei Dovlatov 83
Novelist, Journalist
Wednesday, September 3rd 1941Eduardo Galeano 84
Novelist, Journalist
Tuesday, September 3rd 1940Caryl Churchill 86
Playwright
Saturday, September 3rd 1938Cherry Wilder 94
Novelist
Wednesday, September 3rd 1930Alison Lurie 98
Novelist
Friday, September 3rd 1926Mort Walker 101
Comic Book Writer
Monday, September 3rd 1923Marguerite Higgins 104
Journalist
Friday, September 3rd 1920Sally Benson 127
Screenwriter, Short Stories
Friday, September 3rd 1897Sarah Orne Jewett 175
Novelist
Monday, September 3rd 1849Yanka Dyagileva 58
Poet
Sunday, September 4th 1966Ferenc Sánta 97
Novelist, Screenwriter
Sunday, September 4th 1927Forrest Carter 99
Novelist
Friday, September 4th 1925Joan Aiken 100
Novelist
Thursday, September 4th 1924Per Olof Sundman 102
Novelist
Monday, September 4th 1922Syd Hoff 112
Children's Literature
Wednesday, September 4th 1912Richard Wright 116
Novelist
Friday, September 4th 1908Mary Renault 119
Novelist
Monday, September 4th 1905Antonin Artaud 128
Playwright
Friday, September 4th 1896Juliusz Słowacki 215
Poet, Playwright
Monday, September 4th 1809Constantijn Huygens 428
Poet
Wednesday, September 4th 1596Richard Marsland 48
Comedy Writer
Sunday, September 5th 1976Frederick Kempe 70
Journalist
Sunday, September 5th 1954Dario Bellezza 80
Poet, Playwright
Tuesday, September 5th 1944Jonathan Kozol 88
Non-Fiction
Saturday, September 5th 1936Luis Alcoriza 106
Screenwriter
Thursday, September 5th 1918Frank Yerby 108
Novelist
Tuesday, September 5th 1916Nicanor Parra 110
Poet
Saturday, September 5th 1914Leila Mackinlay 114
Novelist
Monday, September 5th 1910Josué de Castro 116
Non-Fiction
Saturday, September 5th 1908Arthur Koestler 119
Novelist
Tuesday, September 5th 1905Victorien Sardou 193
Playwright
Monday, September 5th 1831Goffredo Mameli 197
Poet
Wednesday, September 5th 1827A. K. Tolstoy 207
Poet, Novelist, Playwright
Friday, September 5th 1817Robert Fergusson 274
Poet
Saturday, September 5th 1750Tommaso Campanella 456
Non-Fiction, Poet
Thursday, September 5th 1568China Miéville 52
Novelist
Wednesday, September 6th 1972Christopher Brookmyre 56
Novelist
Friday, September 6th 1968Christopher Nolan 59
Poet, Novelist
Monday, September 6th 1965Alice Sebold 61
Novelist
Friday, September 6th 1963Jennifer Egan 62
Novelist
Thursday, September 6th 1962Raymond Benson 69
Novelist
Tuesday, September 6th 1955Donna Haraway 80
Non-Fiction
Wednesday, September 6th 1944Dan Cragg 85
Novelist, Essayist
Wednesday, September 6th 1939Robert M. Pirsig 96
Novelist
Thursday, September 6th 1928Carmen Laforet 103
Novelist
Tuesday, September 6th 1921Julien Green 124
Novelist
Thursday, September 6th 1900Felix Salten 155
Novelist
Monday, September 6th 1869William Lane 163
Journalist
Friday, September 6th 1861Frances Wright 229
Non-Fiction
Sunday, September 6th 1795Diane Farr 51
Memoirest
Friday, September 7th 1973Eric Hill 97
Wednesday, September 7th 1927Edith Sitwell 137
Wednesday, September 7th 1887Elinor Wylie 139
Monday, September 7th 1885C. J. Dennis 148
Thursday, September 7th 1876Aleksandr Kuprin 154
Wednesday, September 7th 1870Tristan Bernard 158
Friday, September 7th 1866Angela Rawlings 46
Poet
Friday, September 8th 1978Christopher Klim 62
Novelist
Saturday, September 8th 1962Terry Tempest Williams 69
Non-Fiction
Thursday, September 8th 1955Jon Scieszka 70
Children's Literature
Wednesday, September 8th 1954Michael Shermer 70
Non-Fiction
Wednesday, September 8th 1954Ann Beattie 77
Novelist
Monday, September 8th 1947Jack Prelutsky 84
Children's Literature
Sunday, September 8th 1940Michael Frayn 91
Playwright, Novelist
Friday, September 8th 1933Robert W. Firestone 94
Non-Fiction
Monday, September 8th 1930Grace Metalious 100
Novelist
Monday, September 8th 1924Rasul Gamzatov 101
Poet
Saturday, September 8th 1923Gianni Brera 105
Novelist, Journalist
Monday, September 8th 1919Jane Arbor 121
Novelist
Tuesday, September 8th 1903Siegfried Sassoon 138
Poet
Wednesday, September 8th 1886Alfred Jarry 151
Playwright
Monday, September 8th 1873Wilhelm Raabe 193
Novelist
Thursday, September 8th 1831Frédéric Mistral 194
Poet
Wednesday, September 8th 1830Clarence Cook 196
Non-Fiction
Monday, September 8th 1828Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg 210
Non-Fiction
Thursday, September 8th 1814Eduard Mörike 220
Poet
Saturday, September 8th 1804N. F. S. Grundtvig 241
Non-Fiction
Monday, September 8th 1783August Wilhelm Schlegel 257
Poet
Tuesday, September 8th 1767John Sheffield 377
Poet
Sunday, September 8th 1647Ludovico Ariosto 550
Poet
Tuesday, September 8th 1474Paul Goodman 113
Saturday, September 9th 1911Cesare Pavese 116
Wednesday, September 9th 1908Phyllis A. Whitney 121
Wednesday, September 9th 1903James Hilton 124
Sunday, September 9th 1900Brassai 125
Saturday, September 9th 1899Mary Hunter Austin 156
Wednesday, September 9th 1868Joseph Henry Shorthouse 190
Tuesday, September 9th 1834Leo Tolstoy 196
Tuesday, September 9th 1828Zhang Chengzhi 76
Friday, September 10th 1948Stephen Jay Gould 83
Wednesday, September 10th 1941Mary Oliver 89
Tuesday, September 10th 1935Miguel Serrano 107
Monday, September 10th 1917Cyril Connolly 121
Thursday, September 10th 1903Georges Bataille 127
Friday, September 10th 1897Franz Werfel 134
Wednesday, September 10th 1890H.D. 138
Friday, September 10th 1886Jeppe Aakjær 158
Monday, September 10th 1866Hannah Webster Foster 266
Sunday, September 10th 1758Philip Ardagh 63
Monday, September 11th 1961Andrew Macdonald 91
Monday, September 11th 1933Jessica Mitford 107
Tuesday, September 11th 1917William Thomas Walsh 133
Friday, September 11th 1891D. H. Lawrence 139
Friday, September 11th 1885O. Henry 162
Thursday, September 11th 1862Vjenceslav Novak 165
Sunday, September 11th 1859Fitz Hugh Ludlow 188
Sunday, September 11th 1836James Frey 55
Friday, September 12th 1969Jon Clinch 70
Sunday, September 12th 1954Michael Ondaatje 81
Sunday, September 12th 1943Stanislaw Lem 103
Monday, September 12th 1921H. L. Mencken 144
Sunday, September 12th 1880Tõnu Õnnepalu 62
Thursday, September 13th 1962Roald Dahl 108
Wednesday, September 13th 1916J. B. Priestley 130
Thursday, September 13th 1894Frances Newman 141
Thursday, September 13th 1883Sherwood Anderson 148
Wednesday, September 13th 1876Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 194
Monday, September 13th 1830Bernard MacLaverty 82
Monday, September 14th 1942Kate Millett 90
Friday, September 14th 1934Ivan Klima 93
Monday, September 14th 1931Larry Collins 95
Saturday, September 14th 1929Martin Caidin 97
Wednesday, September 14th 1927Michel Butor 98
Tuesday, September 14th 1926Abioseh Nicol 100
Sunday, September 14th 1924Mario Benedetti 104
Tuesday, September 14th 1920Hamlin Garland 164
Friday, September 14th 1860Howard Waldrop 78
Sunday, September 15th 1946Chelsea Quinn Yarbro 82
Tuesday, September 15th 1942Robert McCloskey 110
Tuesday, September 15th 1914Adolfo Bioy Casares 110
Tuesday, September 15th 1914Betty Neels 114
Thursday, September 15th 1910Gunnar Ekelof 117
Sunday, September 15th 1907J. Slauerhoff 126
Thursday, September 15th 1898Agatha Christie 134
Monday, September 15th 1890Robert Benchley 135
Sunday, September 15th 1889Sharat Chandra Chatterji 148
Friday, September 15th 1876James Fenimore Cooper 235
Tuesday, September 15th 1789Justin Haythe 51
Sunday, September 16th 1973Nick Sagan 54
Wednesday, September 16th 1970Walt Becker 56
Monday, September 16th 1968Nancy Huston 71
Wednesday, September 16th 1953Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 74
Saturday, September 16th 1950James Alan McPherson 81
Thursday, September 16th 1943Breyten Breytenbach 85
Saturday, September 16th 1939John Knowles 98
Thursday, September 16th 1926Laurence J. Peter 105
Tuesday, September 16th 1919H. A. Rey 126
Friday, September 16th 1898T. E. Hulme 141
Sunday, September 16th 1883Wendy Northcutt 61
Tuesday, September 17th 1963Lawrence Anthony 74
Non-Fiction
Sunday, September 17th 1950Ken Kesey 89
Tuesday, September 17th 1935Robert B. Parker 92
Saturday, September 17th 1932Frank O'Connor 121
Thursday, September 17th 1903William Carlos Williams 141
Monday, September 17th 1883Chris Hedges 68
Tuesday, September 18th 1956Francis Parker Yockey 107
Tuesday, September 18th 1917William March 131
Monday, September 18th 1893Samuel Johnson 315
Wednesday, September 18th 1709Susan Compo 69
Monday, September 19th 1955James Lipton 98
Sunday, September 19th 1926Damon Knight 102
Tuesday, September 19th 1922William Golding 113
Tuesday, September 19th 1911Mika Waltari 116
Saturday, September 19th 1908James Blaylock 74
Wednesday, September 20th 1950George R. R. Martin 76
Monday, September 20th 1948Keith Roberts 89
Friday, September 20th 1935Donald Hall 96
Thursday, September 20th 1928Geraldine Clinton Little 101
Thursday, September 20th 1923Stevie Smith 122
Saturday, September 20th 1902Charles Williams 138
Monday, September 20th 1886Maxwell Perkins 140
Saturday, September 20th 1884Upton Sinclair 146
Friday, September 20th 1878Kate Harrington 193
Tuesday, September 20th 1831Heather Brewer 51
Friday, September 21st 1973Ethan Coen 67
Saturday, September 21st 1957Stephen King 77
Sunday, September 21st 1947Fannie Flagg 80
Thursday, September 21st 1944Leonard Cohen 90
Friday, September 21st 1934H. G. Wells 158
Friday, September 21st 1866Rosamunde Pilcher 100
Monday, September 22nd 1924Dannie Abse 101
Saturday, September 22nd 1923Theodore Hook 236
Monday, September 22nd 1788John Home 302
Tuesday, September 22nd 1722Ana Marie Cox 52
Saturday, September 23rd 1972Peter David 68
Sunday, September 23rd 1956Anne Desclos - Pauline Réage 117
Monday, September 23rd 1907Jaroslav Seifert 123
Monday, September 23rd 1901Emma Orczy 159
Saturday, September 23rd 1865Mary Church Terrell 161
Wednesday, September 23rd 1863Szilvia Molnar 40
Monday, September 24th 1984Shamim Sarif 55
Wednesday, September 24th 1969Yves Navarre 84
Tuesday, September 24th 1940John Brunner 90
Monday, September 24th 1934F. Scott Fitzgerald 128
Thursday, September 24th 1896A. P. Herbert 134
Wednesday, September 24th 1890Charles Ferdinand Ramuz 146
Tuesday, September 24th 1878Horace Walpole 307
Friday, September 24th 1717William Faulkner 127
Saturday, September 25th 1897Mark Haddon 62
Wednesday, September 26th 1962Minette Walters 75
Monday, September 26th 1949Jane Smiley 75
Monday, September 26th 1949Andrea Dworkin 78
Thursday, September 26th 1946T. S. Eliot 136
Wednesday, September 26th 1888Joyce Johnson 89
Friday, September 27th 1935Jim Thompson 118
Thursday, September 27th 1906Grazia Deledda 153
Wednesday, September 27th 1871Stuart M. Kaminsky 90
Saturday, September 29th 1934Stan Berenstain 101
Saturday, September 29th 1923Miguel de Cervantes 477
Novelist, Poet, Playwright
Monday, September 29th 1547W. S. Merwin 97
Friday, September 30th 1927Truman Capote 100
Tuesday, September 30th 1924Gertrude Atherton 167
Wednesday, September 30th 1857Ferdinand von Saar 191
Monday, September 30th 1833