Author Birthdays for July
Jean Stafford 106
Thursday, July 1st 1915James M. Cain 129
Friday, July 1st 1892George Sand 217
Sunday, July 1st 1804Wislawa Szymborska 98
Monday, July 2nd 1923Hermann Hesse 144
Monday, July 2nd 1877William Le Queux 157
Saturday, July 2nd 1864Dave Barry 74
Thursday, July 3rd 1947Tom Stoppard 84
Saturday, July 3rd 1937M.F.K. Fisher 113
Friday, July 3rd 1908Franz Kafka 138
Tuesday, July 3rd 1883Charlotte Perkins Gilman 161
Tuesday, July 3rd 1860Richard Rhodes 84
Sunday, July 4th 1937Nathaniel Hawthorne 217
Wednesday, July 4th 1804Craig Nova 76
Thursday, July 5th 1945Jean Cocteau 132
Poet, Novelist, Playwright
Friday, July 5th 1889Kathryn Hulme 121
Friday, July 6th 1900Robert Heinlein 114
Sunday, July 7th 1907J.F. Powers 104
Sunday, July 8th 1917Richard Aldington 129
Friday, July 8th 1892Dean Koontz 76
Monday, July 9th 1945Oliver Sacks 88
Sunday, July 9th 1933Fanny Fern 110
Sunday, July 9th 1911Alice Munro 90
Friday, July 10th 1931John Wyndham 118
Friday, July 10th 1903Marcel Proust 150
Novelist
Monday, July 10th 1871Harold Bloom 91
Friday, July 11th 1930E. B. White 122
Tuesday, July 11th 1899Donald E. Westlake 88
Wednesday, July 12th 1933Pablo Neruda 117
Tuesday, July 12th 1904Henry David Thoreau 204
Saturday, July 12th 1817Woody Guthrie 109
Sunday, July 14th 1912Richard Pini 71
Comic Book Writer
Saturday, July 15th 1950Richard Russo 72
Novelist
Friday, July 15th 1949Iris Murdoch 102
Novelist
Tuesday, July 15th 1919Linda Salzman 81
Tuesday, July 16th 1940Caroline Blackwood 90
Thursday, July 16th 1931Anita Brookner 93
Monday, July 16th 1928J. Michael Straczynski 67
Saturday, July 17th 1954James Purdy 98
Tuesday, July 17th 1923Christina Stead 119
Thursday, July 17th 1902Jared Hess 42
Screenwriter
Wednesday, July 18th 1979Alfian Sa'at 44
Poet, Playwright
Monday, July 18th 1977Alan Morrison 47
Poet
Thursday, July 18th 1974M.J. Alexander 60
Poet, Playwright
Tuesday, July 18th 1961Hunter S. Thompson 82
Journalist
Tuesday, July 18th 1939Yevgeny Yevtushenko 88
Poet, Novelist
Tuesday, July 18th 1933Margaret Laurence 95
Novelist
Sunday, July 18th 1926Robert Sloman 95
Screenwriter
Sunday, July 18th 1926Clifford Odets 115
Playwright, Screenwriter
Wednesday, July 18th 1906Jessamyn West 119
Novelist
Friday, July 18th 1902Nathalie Sarraute 121
Novelist
Wednesday, July 18th 1900Rose Hartwick Thorpe 171
Poet
Thursday, July 18th 1850Tristan Corbière 176
Poet
Friday, July 18th 1845William Makepeace Thackeray 210
Novelist
Thursday, July 18th 1811Garth Nix 58
Novelist
Friday, July 19th 1963Aya Kitō 59
Memoirist
Thursday, July 19th 1962Srđa Trifković 67
Journalist
Monday, July 19th 1954Jayne Anne Phillips 69
Novelist
Saturday, July 19th 1952Jayson Stark 70
Journalist
Thursday, July 19th 1951Joseph Hansen 98
Novelist
Thursday, July 19th 1923William A. Rusher 98
Columnist
Thursday, July 19th 1923Miltos Sachtouris 102
Poet
Saturday, July 19th 1919Eve Merriam 105
Poet, Playwright
Wednesday, July 19th 1916A. J. Cronin 125
Novelist
Sunday, July 19th 1896Vladimir Mayakovsky 128
Poet, Playwright
Wednesday, July 19th 1893Ferdinand Brunetière 172
Essayist
Thursday, July 19th 1849Gottfried Keller 202
Novelist
Monday, July 19th 1819Heinrich Christian Boie 277
Poet
Sunday, July 19th 1744Dan Shaughnessy 68
Journalist
Monday, July 20th 1953Thomas Friedman 68
Journalist
Monday, July 20th 1953Adrian Păunescu 78
Poet, Journalist
Tuesday, July 20th 1943Periklis Korovesis 80
Journalist
Sunday, July 20th 1941Uwe Johnson 87
Novelist
Friday, July 20th 1934Cormac McCarthy 88
Novelist
Thursday, July 20th 1933Giannis Agouris 91
Journalist
Sunday, July 20th 1930Frantz Fanon 96
Non-Fiction
Monday, July 20th 1925Thomas Berger 97
Novelist
Sunday, July 20th 1924Stanisław Albinowski 98
Journalist
Friday, July 20th 1923George Johnston 109
Journalist, Novelist
Saturday, July 20th 1912Erik Axel Karlfeldt 157
Poet
Wednesday, July 20th 1864Sir George Trevelyan 183
Biographer
Friday, July 20th 1838Augustin Daly 183
Playwright
Friday, July 20th 1838Petrarch 717
Poet
Sunday, July 20th 1304Sarah Waters 55
Novelist
Thursday, July 21st 1966Michael Connelly 65
Novelist
Saturday, July 21st 1956Ed Hinton 73
Journalist
Wednesday, July 21st 1948William S. Burroughs, Jr. 74
Poet
Monday, July 21st 1947Tess Gallagher 78
Poet, Playwright
Wednesday, July 21st 1943John Gardner 88
Novelist
Friday, July 21st 1933Marshall McLuhan 110
Non-Fiction
Friday, July 21st 1911Ernest Hemingway 122
Novelist
Friday, July 21st 1899Hart Crane 127
Poet
Saturday, July 21st 1894Hans Fallada 128
Novelist
Friday, July 21st 1893Frances Parkinson Keyes 136
Novelist
Tuesday, July 21st 1885Paul Reuter 205
Journalist
Sunday, July 21st 1816Matthew Prior 357
Poet
Monday, July 21st 1664Don Van Natta, Jr. 57
Journalist
Wednesday, July 22nd 1964Paul Quarrington 68
Novelist, Playwright
Wednesday, July 22nd 1953S. E. Hinton 73
Novelist
Thursday, July 22nd 1948Paul Schrader 75
Screenwriter
Monday, July 22nd 1946Tom Robbins 85
Novelist
Wednesday, July 22nd 1936Bryan Forbes 95
Screenwriter
Thursday, July 22nd 1926Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah 106
Essayist
Thursday, July 22nd 1915Wayne Robbins 107
Short Stories
Wednesday, July 22nd 1914Ormond Robbins 107
Novelist
Wednesday, July 22nd 1914Stephen Vincent Benet 123
Poet, Short Stories, Novelist
Friday, July 22nd 1898León de Greiff 126
Poet
Monday, July 22nd 1895Janusz Korczak 143
Children's Literature
Monday, July 22nd 1878Frederick Rolfe - Baron Corvo 161
Novelist
Sunday, July 22nd 1860Emma Lazarus 172
Poet
Sunday, July 22nd 1849Mikhail Shcherbatov 288
Non-Fiction
Wednesday, July 22nd 1733Joel Stein 50
Journalist
Friday, July 23rd 1971Thea Dorn 51
Novelist
Thursday, July 23rd 1970Gardner Dozois 74
Short Stories
Wednesday, July 23rd 1947Lisa Alther 77
Novelist
Sunday, July 23rd 1944Claude Fournier 90
Screenwriter
Thursday, July 23rd 1931Guy Fournier 90
Playwright, Screenwriter
Thursday, July 23rd 1931Hubert Selby, Jr. 93
Novelist
Monday, July 23rd 1928Gérard Brach 94
Screenwriter
Saturday, July 23rd 1927Gavin Lambert 97
Screenwriter, Novelist
Wednesday, July 23rd 1924Cyril M. Kornbluth 98
Novelist
Monday, July 23rd 1923Davis Grubb 102
Novelist
Wednesday, July 23rd 1919M. H. Abrams 109
Non-Fiction
Tuesday, July 23rd 1912Raymond Chandler 133
Novelist
Monday, July 23rd 1888Mark Andrew Smith 42
Comic Book Writer
Tuesday, July 24th 1979John Rosengren 57
Non-Fiction
Friday, July 24th 1964Colleen Doran 58
Comic Book Writer
Wednesday, July 24th 1963Marc Jampole 71
Poet, Journalist
Monday, July 24th 1950Arliss Ryan 71
Novelist
Monday, July 24th 1950Geoff McQueen 74
Screenwriter
Thursday, July 24th 1947Alfred Balk 91
Journalist
Thursday, July 24th 1930Madeleine Ferron 99
Novelist
Monday, July 24th 1922John D. MacDonald 105
Novelist
Monday, July 24th 1916Robert Graves 126
Poet, Novelist
Wednesday, July 24th 1895Jun'ichirō Tanizaki 135
Novelist
Saturday, July 24th 1886Edward Plunkett 143
Novelist, Playwright
Wednesday, July 24th 1878Oswald Chambers 147
Non-Fiction
Friday, July 24th 1874E. F. Benson 154
Novelist
Wednesday, July 24th 1867Vicente Acosta 154
Poet
Wednesday, July 24th 1867Frank Wedekind 157
Playwright
Sunday, July 24th 1864Henrik Pontoppidan 164
Novelist
Friday, July 24th 1857William Gillette 168
Playwright
Sunday, July 24th 1853Alexandre Dumas 219
Novelist
Saturday, July 24th 1802Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan 45
Poet
Sunday, July 25th 1976Claude Zidi 87
Screenwriter
Wednesday, July 25th 1934Alice Parizeau 91
Novelist, Journalist
Friday, July 25th 1930Midge Decter 94
Journalist
Monday, July 25th 1927Maria Gripe 98
Children's Literature
Wednesday, July 25th 1923Elias Canetti 116
Novelist, Playwright
Tuesday, July 25th 1905Denys Watkins-Pitchford 116
Children's Literature
Tuesday, July 25th 1905Max Dauthendey 154
Poet
Thursday, July 25th 1867Pieter Langendijk 338
Playwright, Poet
Sunday, July 25th 1683Rick Bragg 62
Journalist
Sunday, July 26th 1959Hart Hanson 64
Screenwriter
Friday, July 26th 1957Bernice Rubens 93
Novelist
Thursday, July 26th 1928Ibn-e-Safi 93
Novelist, Poet
Thursday, July 26th 1928Ana Maria Matute 95
Novelist
Monday, July 26th 1926Jan Berenstain 98
Children's Literature
Thursday, July 26th 1923Jean Shepherd 100
Short Stories
Tuesday, July 26th 1921Paul Gallico 124
Novelist
Monday, July 26th 1897Aldous Huxley 127
Novelist
Thursday, July 26th 1894André Maurois 136
Novelist
Sunday, July 26th 1885Antonio Machado 146
Poet
Monday, July 26th 1875Carl Jung 146
Non-Fiction
Monday, July 26th 1875George Bernard Shaw 165
Playwright
Saturday, July 26th 1856Cat Bauer 66
Wednesday, July 27th 1955Kathleen Norris 74
Sunday, July 27th 1947Bharati Mukherjee 81
Saturday, July 27th 1940Jack Higgins 92
Saturday, July 27th 1929Elizabeth Hardwick 105
Thursday, July 27th 1916Rayner Heppenstall 110
Thursday, July 27th 1911Julien Gracq 111
Wednesday, July 27th 1910Joseph Mitchell 113
Monday, July 27th 1908Hilaire Belloc 151
Wednesday, July 27th 1870Vladimir Korolenko 168
Wednesday, July 27th 1853Giosuè Carducci 186
Monday, July 27th 1835Alexandre Dumas, fils 197
Novelist
Tuesday, July 27th 1824James Piotr Montague 42
Journalist
Saturday, July 28th 1979William T. Vollman 62
Novelist
Tuesday, July 28th 1959Sarah Schulman 63
Novelist, Playwright
Monday, July 28th 1958John Feinstein 65
Journalist
Saturday, July 28th 1956Randall Wallace 72
Screenwriter
Thursday, July 28th 1949Fahmida Riaz 75
Poet
Sunday, July 28th 1946Jim Davis 76
Comic Book Writer
Saturday, July 28th 1945Tonia Marketaki 79
Screenwriter
Tuesday, July 28th 1942Francis Veber 84
Screenwriter, Playwright
Wednesday, July 28th 1937Natalie Babbitt 89
Children's Literature
Thursday, July 28th 1932Jean Roba 91
Comic Book Writer
Monday, July 28th 1930John Ashbery 94
Poet
Thursday, July 28th 1927Malcolm Lowry 112
Novelist, Poet
Wednesday, July 28th 1909Beatrix Potter 155
Children's Literature
Saturday, July 28th 1866Gerard Manley Hopkins 177
Poet
Sunday, July 28th 1844Fabre d'Églantine 271
Poet, Playwright
Tuesday, July 28th 1750Chang-Rae Lee 56
Thursday, July 29th 1965Dean Pitchford 70
Sunday, July 29th 1951Harry Mulisch 94
Novelist
Friday, July 29th 1927Edwin O'Connor 103
Monday, July 29th 1918Chester B. Himes 112
Thursday, July 29th 1909Stanley Kunitz 116
Saturday, July 29th 1905Eyvind Johnson 121
Sunday, July 29th 1900Don Marquis 143
Monday, July 29th 1878Eric Alfred Knudsen 149
Monday, July 29th 1872Booth Tarkington 152
Thursday, July 29th 1869Cherie Priest 46
Wednesday, July 30th 1975Kate Phillips 55
Saturday, July 30th 1966Patrick Modiano 76
Monday, July 30th 1945Alexander Trocchi 96
Thursday, July 30th 1925Willian Gass 97
Wednesday, July 30th 1924Emily Bronte 203
Thursday, July 30th 1818Samuel Rogers 258
Saturday, July 30th 1763Ahmad Akbarpour 51
Novelist
Friday, July 31st 1970Dave Wedge 51
Journalist
Friday, July 31st 1970J. K. Rowling 56
Novelist
Saturday, July 31st 1965Andrew Marr 62
Journalist
Friday, July 31st 1959João Barreiros 69
Novelist
Thursday, July 31st 1952Steve Miller 71
Short Stories
Monday, July 31st 1950Jonathan Dimbleby 77
Journalist, Non-Fiction
Monday, July 31st 1944Yvon Deschamps 86
Humorist
Wednesday, July 31st 1935Cees Nooteboom 88
Novelist
Monday, July 31st 1933Lynne Reid Banks 92
Novelist, Children's Literature
Wednesday, July 31st 1929Gilles Carle 93
Screenwriter
Tuesday, July 31st 1928Primo Levi 102
Novelist
Thursday, July 31st 1919Irv Kupcinet 109
Columnist
Wednesday, July 31st 1912Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn 112
Novelist, Non-Fiction
Saturday, July 31st 1909Brett Halliday 117
Novelist
Sunday, July 31st 1904Premchand 141
Novelist
Saturday, July 31st 1880Peter Rosegger 178
Poet
Monday, July 31st 1843