Author Birthdays for August

James St. James 55
Novelist
Monday, August 1st 1966

Madison Smartt Bell 64
Novelist
Thursday, August 1st 1957

Howard Kurtz 68
Journalist
Saturday, August 1st 1953

Jim Carroll 71
Poet, Novelist
Tuesday, August 1st 1950

Mark Alan Stamaty 74
Children's Literature
Friday, August 1st 1947

Étienne Roda-Gil 80
Screenwriter
Friday, August 1st 1941

Ram Loevy 81
Screenwriter
Thursday, August 1st 1940

Ernst Jandl 96
Poet
Saturday, August 1st 1925

Anne Hébert 105
Novelist, Poet
Tuesday, August 1st 1916

Herman Melville 202
Novelist
Sunday, August 1st 1819

Richard Henry Dana Jr. 206
Novelist
Tuesday, August 1st 1815

Luis Vélez de Guevara 442
Playwright, Novelist
Wednesday, August 1st 1579

Caleb Carr 66

Tuesday, August 2nd 1955

Isabel Allende 79

Sunday, August 2nd 1942

James Baldwin 97

Saturday, August 2nd 1924

Aino Kallas 143

Friday, August 2nd 1878

Steven Millhauser 78

Tuesday, August 3rd 1943

Leon Uris 97

Sunday, August 3rd 1924

P. D. James 101

Tuesday, August 3rd 1920

Clifford D. Simak 117

Wednesday, August 3rd 1904

Rupert Brooke 134

Wednesday, August 3rd 1887

John August 51
Screenwriter
Tuesday, August 4th 1970

Dennis Lehane 56
Novelist
Wednesday, August 4th 1965

Tim Winton 61
Novelist
Thursday, August 4th 1960

Allison Hedge Coke 63
Poet
Monday, August 4th 1958

Billy Bob Thornton 66
Screenwriter
Thursday, August 4th 1955

Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi 98
Humorist
Saturday, August 4th 1923

Helen Thomas 101
Journalist, Columnist
Wednesday, August 4th 1920

Iceberg Slim 103
Novelist
Sunday, August 4th 1918

Robert Hayden 108
Poet
Monday, August 4th 1913

Witold Gombrowicz 117
Novelist, Playwright
Thursday, August 4th 1904

Knut Hamsun 162
Novelist
Thursday, August 4th 1859

Percy Bysshe Shelley 229
Poet
Saturday, August 4th 1792

François Hédelin 417
Playwright
Wednesday, August 4th 1604

Ron Silliman 75
Poet
Monday, August 5th 1946

Wendell Berry 87
Novelist, Poet
Sunday, August 5th 1934

Conrad Potter Aiken 132
Novelist, Poet
Monday, August 5th 1889

Guy de Maupassant 171
Short Stories
Monday, August 5th 1850

Ivar Aasen 208
Poet, Playwright
Thursday, August 5th 1813

Karenna Gore Schiff 48
Journalist
Monday, August 6th 1973

Diane di Prima 87
Poet
Monday, August 6th 1934

Piers Anthony 87
Novelist
Monday, August 6th 1934

Chalmers Johnson 90
Non-Fiction
Thursday, August 6th 1931

Elisabeth Beresford 95
Children's Literature
Friday, August 6th 1926

Norman Wexler 95
Screenwriter
Friday, August 6th 1926

Constance Heaven 110
Novelist
Sunday, August 6th 1911

John Middleton Murry 132
Novelist, Poet, Essayist
Tuesday, August 6th 1889

Scott Nearing 138
Non-Fiction
Monday, August 6th 1883

Louella Parsons 140
Columnist
Saturday, August 6th 1881

Charles Fort 147
Novelist, Non-Fiction
Thursday, August 6th 1874

Paul Claudel 153
Poet, Playwright
Thursday, August 6th 1868

Thomas Alexander Browne 195
Novelist
Sunday, August 6th 1826

Alfred Lord Tennyson 212
Poet
Sunday, August 6th 1809

Luc de Clapiers 306
Essayist
Tuesday, August 6th 1715

John Birmingham 57
Novelist
Friday, August 7th 1964

Vladimir Sorokin 66
Novelist, Playwright
Sunday, August 7th 1955

Anne Fadiman 68
Novelist
Friday, August 7th 1953

Marty Appel 73
Biographer
Saturday, August 7th 1948

Garrison Keillor 79
Humorist
Friday, August 7th 1942

Charles E. Rice 90
Non-Fiction
Friday, August 7th 1931

Romeo Muller 93
Screenwriter
Tuesday, August 7th 1928

Sue Kaufman 95
Novelist
Saturday, August 7th 1926

Georg Stiernhielm 423
Poet
Friday, August 7th 1598

Alonso de Ercilla 488
Poet
Monday, August 7th 1533

Jostein Gaarder 69

Friday, August 8th 1952

Randy Shilts 70

Wednesday, August 8th 1951

Terry Nation 91

Friday, August 8th 1930

Nina Berberova 120

Thursday, August 8th 1901

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 125

Saturday, August 8th 1896

Sara Teasdale 137

Friday, August 8th 1884

Emilie Flygare-Carlén 214

Saturday, August 8th 1807

Jonathan Kellerman 72

Tuesday, August 9th 1949

Graeme C. Gibson 87

Thursday, August 9th 1934

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi 88

Wednesday, August 9th 1933

Daniel Keyes 94

Tuesday, August 9th 1927

Frank M. Robinson 95

Monday, August 9th 1926

Philip Larkin 99

Wednesday, August 9th 1922

Tove Jansson 107

Sunday, August 9th 1914

P. L. Travers 122

Wednesday, August 9th 1899

Leonid Andreyev 150

Wednesday, August 9th 1871

John Dryden 390

Saturday, August 9th 1631

Mark Doty 68

Monday, August 10th 1953

Barry Unsworth 91

Sunday, August 10th 1930

Jorge Amado 109

Saturday, August 10th 1912

Ward Moore 118

Monday, August 10th 1903

Curt Siodmak 119

Sunday, August 10th 1902

Panait Istrati 137

Sunday, August 10th 1884

Alfred Döblin 143

Saturday, August 10th 1878

David Brooks 60
Journalist
Friday, August 11th 1961

Tom Miller 74
Travel Writer
Monday, August 11th 1947

Marilyn vos Savant 75
Columnist
Sunday, August 11th 1946

Andre Dubus 85
Short Stories
Tuesday, August 11th 1936

Fernando Arrabal 89
Playwright, Screenwriter
Thursday, August 11th 1932

Alex Haley 100
Novelist
Thursday, August 11th 1921

Angus Wilson 108
Novelist
Monday, August 11th 1913

Enid Blyton 124
Children's Literature
Wednesday, August 11th 1897

Louise Bogan 124
Poet
Wednesday, August 11th 1897

Eiji Yoshikawa 129
Novelist
Thursday, August 11th 1892

Hugh MacDiarmid 129
Poet
Thursday, August 11th 1892

Oliver W. F. Lodge 143
Poet
Sunday, August 11th 1878

Anthony Swofford 51
Novelist
Wednesday, August 12th 1970

Ann M. Martin 66
Children's Literature
Friday, August 12th 1955

Jim Beaver 71
Playwright, Screenwriter
Saturday, August 12th 1950

Réjean Ducharme 80
Novelist, Playwright
Tuesday, August 12th 1941

Walter Dean Myers 84
Children's Literature
Thursday, August 12th 1937

William Goldman 90
Novelist, Playwright,Screenwriter
Wednesday, August 12th 1931

Wallace Markfield 95
Novelist
Thursday, August 12th 1926

Zerna Sharp 132
Children's Literature
Monday, August 12th 1889

Keith Murdoch 136
Journalist
Wednesday, August 12th 1885

Radclyffe Hall 141
Poet, Novelist
Thursday, August 12th 1880

Mary Roberts Rinehart 145
Novelist
Saturday, August 12th 1876

Jacinto Benavente 155
Playwright
Sunday, August 12th 1866

Katharine Lee Bates 162
Poet, Children's Literature
Friday, August 12th 1859

Robert Southey 247
Poet
Friday, August 12th 1774

Piper Reese 21
Journalist
Sunday, August 13th 2000

Will Clarke 51
Novelist
Thursday, August 13th 1970

Amélie Nothomb 54
Novelist
Sunday, August 13th 1967

Sean Hood 55
Screenwriter
Saturday, August 13th 1966

Tom Perrotta 60
Novelist
Sunday, August 13th 1961

Goldwin Smith 198
Journalist
Wednesday, August 13th 1823

Vladimir Odoevsky 218
Short Stories, Children's Literature
Saturday, August 13th 1803

William Wotton 355
Non-Fiction
Friday, August 13th 1666

Brannon Braga 56
Screenwriter
Saturday, August 14th 1965

Danielle Steel 74
Novelist
Thursday, August 14th 1947

Lee Hoffman 89
Novelist
Sunday, August 14th 1932

Alice Adams 95
Novelist
Saturday, August 14th 1926

René Goscinny 95
Comic Book Writer
Saturday, August 14th 1926

Russell Baker 96
Journalist, Essayist
Friday, August 14th 1925

B. A. Santamaria 106
Journalist
Saturday, August 14th 1915

Alice Rivaz 120
Novelist
Wednesday, August 14th 1901

John Galsworthy 154
Novelist, Playwright
Wednesday, August 14th 1867

Ernest Thayer 158
Poet
Friday, August 14th 1863

Robert Hayman 446
Poet
Thursday, August 14th 1575

Rob Thomas 56
Novelist, Screenwriter
Sunday, August 15th 1965

Victor Shenderovich 63
Playwright, Screenwriter
Friday, August 15th 1958

Simon Baron-Cohen 63
Non-Fiction
Friday, August 15th 1958

Mary Jo Salter 67
Poet
Sunday, August 15th 1954

Stieg Larsson 67
Novelist, Journalist
Sunday, August 15th 1954

Garry Disher 72
Novelist, Children's Literature
Monday, August 15th 1949

Linda Ellerbee 77
Journalist
Tuesday, August 15th 1944

Janusz Zajdel 83
Novelist
Monday, August 15th 1938

Sami Michael 95
Novelist
Sunday, August 15th 1926

Robert Bolt 97
Playwright, Screenwriter
Friday, August 15th 1924

Benedict Kiely 102
Novelist
Friday, August 15th 1919

Aleks Çaçi 105
Essayist
Tuesday, August 15th 1916

Jan Brzechwa 123
Poet, Children's Literature
Monday, August 15th 1898

Edna Ferber 136
Novelist
Saturday, August 15th 1885

Sri Aurobindo 149
Poet
Thursday, August 15th 1872

E. Nesbit 163
Poet, Children's Literature
Sunday, August 15th 1858

Thomas-Alfred Bernier 177
Journalist
Thursday, August 15th 1844

Thomas de Quincey 236
Novelist
Monday, August 15th 1785

Sir Walter Scott 250
Novelist
Thursday, August 15th 1771

Matthias Claudius 281
Poet
Monday, August 15th 1740

Luigi Pulci 589
Poet
Wednesday, August 15th 1432

Diana Wynne Jones 87
Novelist
Thursday, August 16th 1934

Charles Bukowski 101
Poet, Novelist
Monday, August 16th 1920

William Keepers Maxwell, Jr. 113
Novelist
Sunday, August 16th 1908

Georgette Heyer 119
Novelist
Saturday, August 16th 1902

Albert Cohen 126
Novelist
Friday, August 16th 1895

Nicola Kraus 47

Saturday, August 17th 1974

Jonathan Franzen 62

Monday, August 17th 1959

Eric Schlosser 62

Monday, August 17th 1959

Alexander Theroux 82

Thursday, August 17th 1939

V. S. Naipaul 89

Wednesday, August 17th 1932

Ted Hughes 91

Sunday, August 17th 1930

John Hawkes 96

Monday, August 17th 1925

Evan Connell 97

Sunday, August 17th 1924

Gene Stratton-Porter 158

Monday, August 17th 1863

Brian Aldiss 96

Tuesday, August 18th 1925

Alain Robbe-Grillet 99

Friday, August 18th 1922

Nettie Palmer 136
Poet
Tuesday, August 18th 1885

Jami 607

Thursday, August 18th 1414

Jonathan Coe 60

Saturday, August 19th 1961

Bodil Malmsten 77

Saturday, August 19th 1944

Frank McCourt 91

Tuesday, August 19th 1930

Quentin Bell 111

Friday, August 19th 1910

James Gould Cozzens 118

Wednesday, August 19th 1903

Ogden Nash 119

Tuesday, August 19th 1902

Samuel Richardson 332

Friday, August 19th 1689

Íñigo López de Mendoza 623

Sunday, August 19th 1398

Marcus Mastin 46

Wednesday, August 20th 1975

Greg Egan 60

Sunday, August 20th 1961

Greg Bear 70

Monday, August 20th 1951

Vasily Aksyonov 89

Saturday, August 20th 1932

Jacqueline Susann 100

Saturday, August 20th 1921

William Lindsay Gresham 112

Friday, August 20th 1909

Vilhelm Moberg 123

Saturday, August 20th 1898

Tarjei Vesaas 124

Friday, August 20th 1897

H. P. Lovecraft 131

Wednesday, August 20th 1890

Edgar Guest 140

Saturday, August 20th 1881

Boleslaw Prus 174

Friday, August 20th 1847

Ivan Stang 68

Friday, August 21st 1953

Robert Stone 84

Saturday, August 21st 1937

Christopher Robin Milne 101

Saturday, August 21st 1920

M. M. Kaye 113

Friday, August 21st 1908

Aubrey Beardsley 149

Wednesday, August 21st 1872

Emilio Salgari 159

Thursday, August 21st 1862

Diane Setterfield 57

Saturday, August 22nd 1964

Diane Setterfield 57

Saturday, August 22nd 1964

Will Shetterly 66

Monday, August 22nd 1955

Þórarinn Eldjárn 72

Monday, August 22nd 1949

E. Annie Proulx 86

Thursday, August 22nd 1935

James Kirkwood, Jr. 97

Friday, August 22nd 1924

Ray Bradbury 101
Novelist
Sunday, August 22nd 1920

Dorothy Parker 128

Tuesday, August 22nd 1893

James Kirke Paulding 243

Saturday, August 22nd 1778

Georges de Scudéry 420

Wednesday, August 22nd 1601

Nelson DeMille 78

Monday, August 23rd 1943

Lewis Nordan 82
Novelist
Wednesday, August 23rd 1939

Will Cuppy 137

Saturday, August 23rd 1884

Alexander Grin 141

Monday, August 23rd 1880

Edgar Lee Masters 152

Monday, August 23rd 1869

John Green 44

Wednesday, August 24th 1977

Chris Offutt 63

Sunday, August 24th 1958

Orson Scott Card 70

Friday, August 24th 1951

Oscar Hijuelos 70

Friday, August 24th 1951

Paulo Coelho 74

Sunday, August 24th 1947

Howard Jacobson 79

Monday, August 24th 1942

A. S. Byatt 85

Monday, August 24th 1936

David Ireland 94

Wednesday, August 24th 1927

James Tiptree, Jr. 106

Tuesday, August 24th 1915

Jorge Luis Borges 122

Thursday, August 24th 1899

Jean Rhys 131

Sunday, August 24th 1890

Earl Derr Biggers 137

Sunday, August 24th 1884

Max Beerbohm 149

Saturday, August 24th 1872

Tim Burton 63
Screenwriter
Monday, August 25th 1958

Martin Amis 72

Thursday, August 25th 1949

Charles Ghigna - "Father Goose" 75

Sunday, August 25th 1946

Frederick Forsyth 83

Thursday, August 25th 1938

Thea Astley 96

Tuesday, August 25th 1925

Brian Moore 100

Thursday, August 25th 1921

Bret Harte 185

Thursday, August 25th 1836

Naïm Kattan 93

Sunday, August 26th 1928

Julio Cortazar 107

Wednesday, August 26th 1914

Christopher Isherwood 117

Friday, August 26th 1904

Jules Romains 136

Wednesday, August 26th 1885

Guillaume Apollinaire 141

Thursday, August 26th 1880

John Buchan 146

Thursday, August 26th 1875

Zona Gale 147

Wednesday, August 26th 1874

Jeanette Winterson 62

Thursday, August 27th 1959

Tom Lanoye 63

Wednesday, August 27th 1958

Antonia Fraser 89

Saturday, August 27th 1932

Ira Levin 92

Tuesday, August 27th 1929

Norah Lofts 117

Saturday, August 27th 1904

C. S. Forester 122

Sunday, August 27th 1899

Lloyd C. Douglas 144

Monday, August 27th 1877

Theodore Dreiser 150

Sunday, August 27th 1871

Ivan Franko 165
Poet
Wednesday, August 27th 1856

Rita Dove 69
Poet
Thursday, August 28th 1952

Janet Frame 97
Novelist
Thursday, August 28th 1924

Fernando Fernán Gómez 100
Novelist, Playwright
Sunday, August 28th 1921

Jack Kirby 104
Comic Book Writer
Tuesday, August 28th 1917

Jack Vance 105
Novelist
Monday, August 28th 1916

Boris Pahor 108
Novelist
Thursday, August 28th 1913

Robertson Davies 108
Novelist, Playwright
Thursday, August 28th 1913

John Betjeman 115
Poet
Tuesday, August 28th 1906

Andrei Platonov 122
Novelist
Monday, August 28th 1899

Vance Palmer 136
Novelist
Friday, August 28th 1885

Sheridan Le Fanu 207
Novelist
Sunday, August 28th 1814

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 272
Poet, Novelist
Thursday, August 28th 1749

Michael P. Kube-McDowell 67
Novelist
Sunday, August 29th 1954

Karen Hesse 69
Children's Literature
Friday, August 29th 1952

Temple Grandin 74
Non-Fiction, Essayist
Friday, August 29th 1947

Lise Payette 90
Columnist
Saturday, August 29th 1931

Thom Gunn 92
Poet
Thursday, August 29th 1929

Luther Davis 105
Playwright, Screenwriter
Tuesday, August 29th 1916

Maurice Maeterlinck 159
Poet, Playwright, Essayist
Friday, August 29th 1862

Edward Carpenter 177
Poet
Thursday, August 29th 1844

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 212
Poet
Tuesday, August 29th 1809

Anna Politkovskaya 63
Journalist
Saturday, August 30th 1958

Molly Ivins 77
Columnist
Wednesday, August 30th 1944

R. Crumb 78
Comicbook Writer
Monday, August 30th 1943

Laurent de Brunhoff 96
Children's Literature
Sunday, August 30th 1925

Charmian Clift 98
Essayist
Thursday, August 30th 1923

John Gunther 120
Journalist
Friday, August 30th 1901

Marcelo H. del Pilar 171
Journalist
Friday, August 30th 1850

Agoston Haraszthy 209
Non-Fiction
Sunday, August 30th 1812

Mary Shelly 224
Novelist
Wednesday, August 30th 1797

Joseph Dennie 253
Journalist, Essayist
Tuesday, August 30th 1768

Raymond P. Hammond 57
Poet
Monday, August 31st 1964

Julie Brown 63
Screenwriter
Sunday, August 31st 1958

Gary Webb 66
Journalist
Wednesday, August 31st 1955

György Károly 68
Poet
Monday, August 31st 1953

Lowell Ganz 73
Screenwriter
Tuesday, August 31st 1948

Jerome Corsi 75
Non-Fiction
Saturday, August 31st 1946

Martin Bell 83
Journalist
Wednesday, August 31st 1938

Amrita Pritam 102
Poet, Novelist
Sunday, August 31st 1919

Daniel Schorr 105
Journalist
Thursday, August 31st 1916

Edward Brongersma 110
Journalist
Thursday, August 31st 1911

Ferenc Fejtő 112
Journalist
Tuesday, August 31st 1909

William Saroyan 113
Novelist, Playwright
Monday, August 31st 1908

William Shawn 114
Journalist, Editor
Saturday, August 31st 1907

Félix-Antoine Savard 125
Poet, Novelist
Monday, August 31st 1896

Albert Facey 127
Memoirist
Friday, August 31st 1894

DuBose Heyward 136
Novelist
Monday, August 31st 1885

Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin 179
Journalist
Wednesday, August 31st 1842

Théophile Gautier 210
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

Leave a Reply Cancel reply