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

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    1. Linda DeLia

      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!

    2. aparna sharma

      thankful 2 u!
      such a fabulous work

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