Author Birthdays for August

James St. James 54
Novelist
Monday, August 1st 1966

Madison Smartt Bell 63
Novelist
Thursday, August 1st 1957

Howard Kurtz 67
Journalist
Saturday, August 1st 1953

Jim Carroll 70
Poet, Novelist
Tuesday, August 1st 1950

Mark Alan Stamaty 73
Children's Literature
Friday, August 1st 1947

Étienne Roda-Gil 79
Screenwriter
Friday, August 1st 1941

Ram Loevy 80
Screenwriter
Thursday, August 1st 1940

Ernst Jandl 95
Poet
Saturday, August 1st 1925

Anne Hébert 104
Novelist, Poet
Tuesday, August 1st 1916

Herman Melville 201
Novelist
Sunday, August 1st 1819

Richard Henry Dana Jr. 205
Novelist
Tuesday, August 1st 1815

Luis Vélez de Guevara 441
Playwright, Novelist
Wednesday, August 1st 1579

Caleb Carr 65

Tuesday, August 2nd 1955

Isabel Allende 78

Sunday, August 2nd 1942

James Baldwin 96

Saturday, August 2nd 1924

Aino Kallas 142

Friday, August 2nd 1878

Steven Millhauser 77

Tuesday, August 3rd 1943

Leon Uris 96

Sunday, August 3rd 1924

P. D. James 100

Tuesday, August 3rd 1920

Clifford D. Simak 116

Wednesday, August 3rd 1904

Rupert Brooke 133

Wednesday, August 3rd 1887

John August 50
Screenwriter
Tuesday, August 4th 1970

Dennis Lehane 55
Novelist
Wednesday, August 4th 1965

Tim Winton 60
Novelist
Thursday, August 4th 1960

Allison Hedge Coke 62
Poet
Monday, August 4th 1958

Billy Bob Thornton 65
Screenwriter
Thursday, August 4th 1955

Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi 97
Humorist
Saturday, August 4th 1923

Helen Thomas 100
Journalist, Columnist
Wednesday, August 4th 1920

Iceberg Slim 102
Novelist
Sunday, August 4th 1918

Robert Hayden 107
Poet
Monday, August 4th 1913

Witold Gombrowicz 116
Novelist, Playwright
Thursday, August 4th 1904

Knut Hamsun 161
Novelist
Thursday, August 4th 1859

Percy Bysshe Shelley 228
Poet
Saturday, August 4th 1792

François Hédelin 416
Playwright
Wednesday, August 4th 1604

Ron Silliman 74
Poet
Monday, August 5th 1946

Wendell Berry 86
Novelist, Poet
Sunday, August 5th 1934

Conrad Potter Aiken 131
Novelist, Poet
Monday, August 5th 1889

Guy de Maupassant 170
Short Stories
Monday, August 5th 1850

Ivar Aasen 207
Poet, Playwright
Thursday, August 5th 1813

Karenna Gore Schiff 47
Journalist
Monday, August 6th 1973

Diane di Prima 86
Poet
Monday, August 6th 1934

Piers Anthony 86
Novelist
Monday, August 6th 1934

Chalmers Johnson 89
Non-Fiction
Thursday, August 6th 1931

Elisabeth Beresford 94
Children's Literature
Friday, August 6th 1926

Norman Wexler 94
Screenwriter
Friday, August 6th 1926

Constance Heaven 109
Novelist
Sunday, August 6th 1911

John Middleton Murry 131
Novelist, Poet, Essayist
Tuesday, August 6th 1889

Scott Nearing 137
Non-Fiction
Monday, August 6th 1883

Louella Parsons 139
Columnist
Saturday, August 6th 1881

Charles Fort 146
Novelist, Non-Fiction
Thursday, August 6th 1874

Paul Claudel 152
Poet, Playwright
Thursday, August 6th 1868

Thomas Alexander Browne 194
Novelist
Sunday, August 6th 1826

Alfred Lord Tennyson 211
Poet
Sunday, August 6th 1809

Luc de Clapiers 305
Essayist
Tuesday, August 6th 1715

John Birmingham 56
Novelist
Friday, August 7th 1964

Vladimir Sorokin 65
Novelist, Playwright
Sunday, August 7th 1955

Anne Fadiman 67
Novelist
Friday, August 7th 1953

Marty Appel 72
Biographer
Saturday, August 7th 1948

Garrison Keillor 78
Humorist
Friday, August 7th 1942

Charles E. Rice 89
Non-Fiction
Friday, August 7th 1931

Romeo Muller 92
Screenwriter
Tuesday, August 7th 1928

Sue Kaufman 94
Novelist
Saturday, August 7th 1926

Georg Stiernhielm 422
Poet
Friday, August 7th 1598

Alonso de Ercilla 487
Poet
Monday, August 7th 1533

Jostein Gaarder 68

Friday, August 8th 1952

Randy Shilts 69

Wednesday, August 8th 1951

Terry Nation 90

Friday, August 8th 1930

Nina Berberova 119

Thursday, August 8th 1901

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 124

Saturday, August 8th 1896

Sara Teasdale 136

Friday, August 8th 1884

Emilie Flygare-Carlén 213

Saturday, August 8th 1807

Jonathan Kellerman 71

Tuesday, August 9th 1949

Graeme C. Gibson 86

Thursday, August 9th 1934

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi 87

Wednesday, August 9th 1933

Daniel Keyes 93

Tuesday, August 9th 1927

Frank M. Robinson 94

Monday, August 9th 1926

Philip Larkin 98

Wednesday, August 9th 1922

Tove Jansson 106

Sunday, August 9th 1914

P. L. Travers 121

Wednesday, August 9th 1899

Leonid Andreyev 149

Wednesday, August 9th 1871

John Dryden 389

Saturday, August 9th 1631

Mark Doty 67

Monday, August 10th 1953

Barry Unsworth 90

Sunday, August 10th 1930

Jorge Amado 108

Saturday, August 10th 1912

Ward Moore 117

Monday, August 10th 1903

Curt Siodmak 118

Sunday, August 10th 1902

Panait Istrati 136

Sunday, August 10th 1884

Alfred Döblin 142

Saturday, August 10th 1878

David Brooks 59
Journalist
Friday, August 11th 1961

Tom Miller 73
Travel Writer
Monday, August 11th 1947

Marilyn vos Savant 74
Columnist
Sunday, August 11th 1946

Andre Dubus 84
Short Stories
Tuesday, August 11th 1936

Fernando Arrabal 88
Playwright, Screenwriter
Thursday, August 11th 1932

Alex Haley 99
Novelist
Thursday, August 11th 1921

Angus Wilson 107
Novelist
Monday, August 11th 1913

Enid Blyton 123
Children's Literature
Wednesday, August 11th 1897

Louise Bogan 123
Poet
Wednesday, August 11th 1897

Eiji Yoshikawa 128
Novelist
Thursday, August 11th 1892

Hugh MacDiarmid 128
Poet
Thursday, August 11th 1892

Oliver W. F. Lodge 142
Poet
Sunday, August 11th 1878

Anthony Swofford 50
Novelist
Wednesday, August 12th 1970

Ann M. Martin 65
Children's Literature
Friday, August 12th 1955

Jim Beaver 70
Playwright, Screenwriter
Saturday, August 12th 1950

Réjean Ducharme 79
Novelist, Playwright
Tuesday, August 12th 1941

Walter Dean Myers 83
Children's Literature
Thursday, August 12th 1937

William Goldman 89
Novelist, Playwright,Screenwriter
Wednesday, August 12th 1931

Wallace Markfield 94
Novelist
Thursday, August 12th 1926

Zerna Sharp 131
Children's Literature
Monday, August 12th 1889

Keith Murdoch 135
Journalist
Wednesday, August 12th 1885

Radclyffe Hall 140
Poet, Novelist
Thursday, August 12th 1880

Mary Roberts Rinehart 144
Novelist
Saturday, August 12th 1876

Jacinto Benavente 154
Playwright
Sunday, August 12th 1866

Katharine Lee Bates 161
Poet, Children's Literature
Friday, August 12th 1859

Robert Southey 246
Poet
Friday, August 12th 1774

Piper Reese 20
Journalist
Sunday, August 13th 2000

Will Clarke 50
Novelist
Thursday, August 13th 1970

Amélie Nothomb 53
Novelist
Sunday, August 13th 1967

Sean Hood 54
Screenwriter
Saturday, August 13th 1966

Tom Perrotta 59
Novelist
Sunday, August 13th 1961

Goldwin Smith 197
Journalist
Wednesday, August 13th 1823

Vladimir Odoevsky 217
Short Stories, Children's Literature
Saturday, August 13th 1803

William Wotton 354
Non-Fiction
Friday, August 13th 1666

Brannon Braga 55
Screenwriter
Saturday, August 14th 1965

Danielle Steel 73
Novelist
Thursday, August 14th 1947

Lee Hoffman 88
Novelist
Sunday, August 14th 1932

Alice Adams 94
Novelist
Saturday, August 14th 1926

René Goscinny 94
Comic Book Writer
Saturday, August 14th 1926

Russell Baker 95
Journalist, Essayist
Friday, August 14th 1925

B. A. Santamaria 105
Journalist
Saturday, August 14th 1915

Alice Rivaz 119
Novelist
Wednesday, August 14th 1901

John Galsworthy 153
Novelist, Playwright
Wednesday, August 14th 1867

Ernest Thayer 157
Poet
Friday, August 14th 1863

Robert Hayman 445
Poet
Thursday, August 14th 1575

Rob Thomas 55
Novelist, Screenwriter
Sunday, August 15th 1965

Victor Shenderovich 62
Playwright, Screenwriter
Friday, August 15th 1958

Simon Baron-Cohen 62
Non-Fiction
Friday, August 15th 1958

Mary Jo Salter 66
Poet
Sunday, August 15th 1954

Stieg Larsson 66
Novelist, Journalist
Sunday, August 15th 1954

Garry Disher 71
Novelist, Children's Literature
Monday, August 15th 1949

Linda Ellerbee 76
Journalist
Tuesday, August 15th 1944

Janusz Zajdel 82
Novelist
Monday, August 15th 1938

Sami Michael 94
Novelist
Sunday, August 15th 1926

Robert Bolt 96
Playwright, Screenwriter
Friday, August 15th 1924

Benedict Kiely 101
Novelist
Friday, August 15th 1919

Aleks Çaçi 104
Essayist
Tuesday, August 15th 1916

Jan Brzechwa 122
Poet, Children's Literature
Monday, August 15th 1898

Edna Ferber 135
Novelist
Saturday, August 15th 1885

Sri Aurobindo 148
Poet
Thursday, August 15th 1872

E. Nesbit 162
Poet, Children's Literature
Sunday, August 15th 1858

Thomas-Alfred Bernier 176
Journalist
Thursday, August 15th 1844

Thomas de Quincey 235
Novelist
Monday, August 15th 1785

Sir Walter Scott 249
Novelist
Thursday, August 15th 1771

Matthias Claudius 280
Poet
Monday, August 15th 1740

Luigi Pulci 588
Poet
Wednesday, August 15th 1432

Diana Wynne Jones 86
Novelist
Thursday, August 16th 1934

Charles Bukowski 100
Poet, Novelist
Monday, August 16th 1920

William Keepers Maxwell, Jr. 112
Novelist
Sunday, August 16th 1908

Georgette Heyer 118
Novelist
Saturday, August 16th 1902

Albert Cohen 125
Novelist
Friday, August 16th 1895

Nicola Kraus 46

Saturday, August 17th 1974

Jonathan Franzen 61

Monday, August 17th 1959

Eric Schlosser 61

Monday, August 17th 1959

Alexander Theroux 81

Thursday, August 17th 1939

V. S. Naipaul 88

Wednesday, August 17th 1932

Ted Hughes 90

Sunday, August 17th 1930

John Hawkes 95

Monday, August 17th 1925

Evan Connell 96

Sunday, August 17th 1924

Gene Stratton-Porter 157

Monday, August 17th 1863

Brian Aldiss 95

Tuesday, August 18th 1925

Alain Robbe-Grillet 98

Friday, August 18th 1922

Nettie Palmer 135
Poet
Tuesday, August 18th 1885

Jami 606

Thursday, August 18th 1414

Jonathan Coe 59

Saturday, August 19th 1961

Bodil Malmsten 76

Saturday, August 19th 1944

Frank McCourt 90

Tuesday, August 19th 1930

Quentin Bell 110

Friday, August 19th 1910

James Gould Cozzens 117

Wednesday, August 19th 1903

Ogden Nash 118

Tuesday, August 19th 1902

Samuel Richardson 331

Friday, August 19th 1689

Íñigo López de Mendoza 622

Sunday, August 19th 1398

Marcus Mastin 45

Wednesday, August 20th 1975

Greg Egan 59

Sunday, August 20th 1961

Greg Bear 69

Monday, August 20th 1951

Vasily Aksyonov 88

Saturday, August 20th 1932

Jacqueline Susann 99

Saturday, August 20th 1921

William Lindsay Gresham 111

Friday, August 20th 1909

Vilhelm Moberg 122

Saturday, August 20th 1898

Tarjei Vesaas 123

Friday, August 20th 1897

H. P. Lovecraft 130

Wednesday, August 20th 1890

Edgar Guest 139

Saturday, August 20th 1881

Boleslaw Prus 173

Friday, August 20th 1847

Ivan Stang 67

Friday, August 21st 1953

Robert Stone 83

Saturday, August 21st 1937

Christopher Robin Milne 100

Saturday, August 21st 1920

M. M. Kaye 112

Friday, August 21st 1908

Aubrey Beardsley 148

Wednesday, August 21st 1872

Emilio Salgari 158

Thursday, August 21st 1862

Diane Setterfield 56

Saturday, August 22nd 1964

Diane Setterfield 56

Saturday, August 22nd 1964

Will Shetterly 65

Monday, August 22nd 1955

Þórarinn Eldjárn 71

Monday, August 22nd 1949

E. Annie Proulx 85

Thursday, August 22nd 1935

James Kirkwood, Jr. 96

Friday, August 22nd 1924

Ray Bradbury 100
Novelist
Sunday, August 22nd 1920

Dorothy Parker 127

Tuesday, August 22nd 1893

James Kirke Paulding 242

Saturday, August 22nd 1778

Georges de Scudéry 419

Wednesday, August 22nd 1601

Nelson DeMille 77

Monday, August 23rd 1943

Lewis Nordan 81
Novelist
Wednesday, August 23rd 1939

Will Cuppy 136

Saturday, August 23rd 1884

Alexander Grin 140

Monday, August 23rd 1880

Edgar Lee Masters 151

Monday, August 23rd 1869

John Green 43

Wednesday, August 24th 1977

Chris Offutt 62

Sunday, August 24th 1958

Orson Scott Card 69

Friday, August 24th 1951

Oscar Hijuelos 69

Friday, August 24th 1951

Paulo Coelho 73

Sunday, August 24th 1947

Howard Jacobson 78

Monday, August 24th 1942

A. S. Byatt 84

Monday, August 24th 1936

David Ireland 93

Wednesday, August 24th 1927

James Tiptree, Jr. 105

Tuesday, August 24th 1915

Jorge Luis Borges 121

Thursday, August 24th 1899

Jean Rhys 130

Sunday, August 24th 1890

Earl Derr Biggers 136

Sunday, August 24th 1884

Max Beerbohm 148

Saturday, August 24th 1872

Tim Burton 62
Screenwriter
Monday, August 25th 1958

Martin Amis 71

Thursday, August 25th 1949

Charles Ghigna - "Father Goose" 74

Sunday, August 25th 1946

Frederick Forsyth 82

Thursday, August 25th 1938

Thea Astley 95

Tuesday, August 25th 1925

Brian Moore 99

Thursday, August 25th 1921

Bret Harte 184

Thursday, August 25th 1836

Naïm Kattan 92

Sunday, August 26th 1928

Julio Cortazar 106

Wednesday, August 26th 1914

Christopher Isherwood 116

Friday, August 26th 1904

Jules Romains 135

Wednesday, August 26th 1885

Guillaume Apollinaire 140

Thursday, August 26th 1880

John Buchan 145

Thursday, August 26th 1875

Zona Gale 146

Wednesday, August 26th 1874

Jeanette Winterson 61

Thursday, August 27th 1959

Tom Lanoye 62

Wednesday, August 27th 1958

Antonia Fraser 88

Saturday, August 27th 1932

Ira Levin 91

Tuesday, August 27th 1929

Norah Lofts 116

Saturday, August 27th 1904

C. S. Forester 121

Sunday, August 27th 1899

Lloyd C. Douglas 143

Monday, August 27th 1877

Theodore Dreiser 149

Sunday, August 27th 1871

Ivan Franko 164
Poet
Wednesday, August 27th 1856

Rita Dove 68
Poet
Thursday, August 28th 1952

Janet Frame 96
Novelist
Thursday, August 28th 1924

Fernando Fernán Gómez 99
Novelist, Playwright
Sunday, August 28th 1921

Jack Kirby 103
Comic Book Writer
Tuesday, August 28th 1917

Jack Vance 104
Novelist
Monday, August 28th 1916

Boris Pahor 107
Novelist
Thursday, August 28th 1913

Robertson Davies 107
Novelist, Playwright
Thursday, August 28th 1913

John Betjeman 114
Poet
Tuesday, August 28th 1906

Andrei Platonov 121
Novelist
Monday, August 28th 1899

Vance Palmer 135
Novelist
Friday, August 28th 1885

Sheridan Le Fanu 206
Novelist
Sunday, August 28th 1814

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 271
Poet, Novelist
Thursday, August 28th 1749

Michael P. Kube-McDowell 66
Novelist
Sunday, August 29th 1954

Karen Hesse 68
Children's Literature
Friday, August 29th 1952

Temple Grandin 73
Non-Fiction, Essayist
Friday, August 29th 1947

Lise Payette 89
Columnist
Saturday, August 29th 1931

Thom Gunn 91
Poet
Thursday, August 29th 1929

Luther Davis 104
Playwright, Screenwriter
Tuesday, August 29th 1916

Maurice Maeterlinck 158
Poet, Playwright, Essayist
Friday, August 29th 1862

Edward Carpenter 176
Poet
Thursday, August 29th 1844

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 211
Poet
Tuesday, August 29th 1809

Anna Politkovskaya 62
Journalist
Saturday, August 30th 1958

Molly Ivins 76
Columnist
Wednesday, August 30th 1944

R. Crumb 77
Comicbook Writer
Monday, August 30th 1943

Laurent de Brunhoff 95
Children's Literature
Sunday, August 30th 1925

Charmian Clift 97
Essayist
Thursday, August 30th 1923

John Gunther 119
Journalist
Friday, August 30th 1901

Marcelo H. del Pilar 170
Journalist
Friday, August 30th 1850

Agoston Haraszthy 208
Non-Fiction
Sunday, August 30th 1812

Mary Shelly 223
Novelist
Wednesday, August 30th 1797

Joseph Dennie 252
Journalist, Essayist
Tuesday, August 30th 1768

Raymond P. Hammond 56
Poet
Monday, August 31st 1964

Julie Brown 62
Screenwriter
Sunday, August 31st 1958

Gary Webb 65
Journalist
Wednesday, August 31st 1955

György Károly 67
Poet
Monday, August 31st 1953

Lowell Ganz 72
Screenwriter
Tuesday, August 31st 1948

Jerome Corsi 74
Non-Fiction
Saturday, August 31st 1946

Martin Bell 82
Journalist
Wednesday, August 31st 1938

Amrita Pritam 101
Poet, Novelist
Sunday, August 31st 1919

Daniel Schorr 104
Journalist
Thursday, August 31st 1916

Edward Brongersma 109
Journalist
Thursday, August 31st 1911

Ferenc Fejtő 111
Journalist
Tuesday, August 31st 1909

William Saroyan 112
Novelist, Playwright
Monday, August 31st 1908

William Shawn 113
Journalist, Editor
Saturday, August 31st 1907

Félix-Antoine Savard 124
Poet, Novelist
Monday, August 31st 1896

Albert Facey 126
Memoirist
Friday, August 31st 1894

DuBose Heyward 135
Novelist
Monday, August 31st 1885

Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin 178
Journalist
Wednesday, August 31st 1842

Théophile Gautier 209
Poet, Novelist
Saturday, August 31st 1811

2 Comments to Author Birthdays for August

Linda DeLia says:

July 16, 2011 at 4:25 pm

Your work is fabulous! My friend and I are creating a Booklovers’ Calendar for 2012, and I’m using your sites for a last check for some of the dates for which we didn’t have our own authors (I was an English professor, though we are including popular authors as well as more classical ones.) Great sites!
aparna sharma says:

August 5, 2011 at 10:26 am

thankful 2 u!
such a fabulous work

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