Author Birthdays for May

  • Wes Anderson  52
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, May 1st 1969
  • Yasmina Reza  62
    Novelist, Playwright
    Friday, May 1st 1959
  • Joel Rosenberg  67
    Novelist
    Saturday, May 1st 1954
  • Sergio Infante  74
    Poet
    Thursday, May 1st 1947
  • Bobbie Ann Mason  81
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 1st 1940
  • Jacques Languirand  90
    Playwright, Essayist, Novelist
    Friday, May 1st 1931
  • Terry Southern  97
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, May 1st 1924
  • Joseph Heller  98
    Novelist
    Tuesday, May 1st 1923
  • Vladimir Colin  100
    Novelist
    Sunday, May 1st 1921
  • Wilfred Watson  110
    Poet, Playwright
    Monday, May 1st 1911
  • Yiannis Ritsos  112
    Poet
    Saturday, May 1st 1909
  • Giovannino Guareschi  113
    Journalist
    Friday, May 1st 1908
  • Sterling Allen Brown  120
    Poet
    Wednesday, May 1st 1901
  • Antal Szerb  120
    Non-Fiction
    Wednesday, May 1st 1901
  • Clément Pansaers  136
    Poet
    Friday, May 1st 1885
  • Harry Leon Wilson  154
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 1st 1867
  • Marcel Prévost  159
    Novelist, Playwright
    Thursday, May 1st 1862
  • Laza Lazarević  170
    Short Stories, Non-Fiction
    Thursday, May 1st 1851
  • Henry Demarest Lloyd  174
    Journalist
    Saturday, May 1st 1847
  • Guido Gezelle  191
    Poet
    Saturday, May 1st 1830
  • José de Alencar  192
    Novelist, Playwright
    Friday, May 1st 1829
  • James Clarence Mangan  218
    Poet
    Sunday, May 1st 1803
  • Joseph Addison  349
    Essayist, Poet, Playwright
    Sunday, May 1st 1672
  • Jean de Joinville  797
    Biographer
    Wednesday, May 1st 1224
  • Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck  48
    Screenwriter
    Wednesday, May 2nd 1973
  • Maury Allen  89
    Journalist, Columnist
    Monday, May 2nd 1932
  • Jamal Abro  97
    Short Stories
    Friday, May 2nd 1924
  • A. M. Rosenthal  99
    Columnist
    Tuesday, May 2nd 1922
  • Dr. Spock  118
    Non-Fiction
    Saturday, May 2nd 1903
  • E. E. Smith  131
    Novelist
    Friday, May 2nd 1890
  • Gottfried Benn  135
    Novelist, Poet, Essayist
    Sunday, May 2nd 1886
  • Hedda Hopper  136
    Columnist
    Saturday, May 2nd 1885
  • Jurgis Baltrušaitis  148
    Poet
    Friday, May 2nd 1873
  • Clyde Fitch  156
    Playwright
    Tuesday, May 2nd 1865
  • Theodor Herzl  161
    Journalist
    Wednesday, May 2nd 1860
  • Jerome K. Jerome  162
    Novelist
    Monday, May 2nd 1859
  • Novalis  249
    Novelist, Poet
    Saturday, May 2nd 1772
  • William Inge  108

    Saturday, May 3rd 1913
  • Norman Corwin  111

    Tuesday, May 3rd 1910
  • Niccolo Machiavelli  552

    Monday, May 3rd 1469
  • David Guterson  65

    Friday, May 4th 1956
  • Graham Swift  72

    Wednesday, May 4th 1949
  • Josh Weinstein  55
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, May 5th 1966
  • Scott Westerfeld  58
    Novelist
    Sunday, May 5th 1963
  • Michael Palin  78
    Screenwriter, Children's Literature
    Wednesday, May 5th 1943
  • Ignacio Ramonet  78
    Journalist
    Wednesday, May 5th 1943
  • Ervin Lázár  85
    Children's Literature
    Tuesday, May 5th 1936
  • Bernard Pivot  86
    Journalist
    Sunday, May 5th 1935
  • Douglas Marland  87
    Screenwriter
    Saturday, May 5th 1934
  • Greg  90
    Comic Book Writer
    Tuesday, May 5th 1931
  • Miklós Radnóti  112
    Poet
    Wednesday, May 5th 1909
  • Charles Exbrayat  115
    Novelist
    Saturday, May 5th 1906
  • James Beard  118
    Non-Fiction
    Tuesday, May 5th 1903
  • Christopher Morley  131
    Novelist, Poet, Essayist, Journalist
    Monday, May 5th 1890
  • Nellie Bly  157
    Journalist
    Thursday, May 5th 1864
  • Henryk Sienkiewicz  175
    Journalist, Novelist
    Tuesday, May 5th 1846
  • Soren Kierkegaard  208

    Wednesday, May 5th 1813
  • Jeffery Deaver  71

    Saturday, May 6th 1950
  • Randall Jarrell  107

    Wednesday, May 6th 1914
  • Gaston Leroux  153

    Wednesday, May 6th 1868
  • Sigmund Freud  165

    Tuesday, May 6th 1856
  • Elizabeth Drew Stoddard  198

    Tuesday, May 6th 1823
  • Peter Carey  78

    Friday, May 7th 1943
  • Angela Carter  81

    Tuesday, May 7th 1940
  • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala  94

    Saturday, May 7th 1927
  • Archibald MacLeish  129

    Saturday, May 7th 1892
  • Robert Browning  209

    Thursday, May 7th 1812
  • Pat Barker  78

    Saturday, May 8th 1943
  • Thomas Pynchon  84

    Saturday, May 8th 1937
  • Gary Snyder  91

    Thursday, May 8th 1930
  • Romain Gary  107

    Friday, May 8th 1914
  • Edmund Wilson  126

    Wednesday, May 8th 1895
  • Augusta Jane Evans  186
    Novelist
    Friday, May 8th 1835
  • Audrey Schulman  58

    Thursday, May 9th 1963
  • Alan Bennett  87

    Wednesday, May 9th 1934
  • Jose Ortega y Gasset  138

    Wednesday, May 9th 1883
  • J. M. Barrie  161

    Wednesday, May 9th 1860
  • John Scalzi  52
    Novelist
    Saturday, May 10th 1969
  • Jon Ronson  54
    Journalist
    Wednesday, May 10th 1967
  • Jonathan Roberts  65
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, May 10th 1956
  • John Diamond  68
    Journalist
    Sunday, May 10th 1953
  • Thomas Tessier  74
    Novelist
    Saturday, May 10th 1947
  • Caroline B. Cooney  74
    Novelist
    Saturday, May 10th 1947
  • Barbara Taylor Bradford  88
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 10th 1933
  • Ettore Scola  90
    Screenwriter
    Sunday, May 10th 1931
  • Antonine Maillet  92
    Novelist, Playwright
    Friday, May 10th 1929
  • Nayantara Sahgal  94
    Novelist
    Tuesday, May 10th 1927
  • Monica Dickens  106
    Novelist
    Monday, May 10th 1915
  • Bel Kaufman  110
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 10th 1911
  • Olaf Stapledon  135
    Novelist
    Monday, May 10th 1886
  • Ivan Cankar  145
    Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Essayist
    Wednesday, May 10th 1876
  • Upendrakishore Ray  158
    Children's Literature
    Sunday, May 10th 1863
  • Benito Pérez Galdós  178
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 10th 1843
  • Johann Peter Hebel  261
    Short Stories, Poet
    Saturday, May 10th 1760
  • Jean Mairet  417
    Playwright
    Monday, May 10th 1604
  • Dusán Mukics  40
    Journalist
    Monday, May 11th 1981
  • Theresa Burke  65
    Journalist
    Friday, May 11th 1956
  • Mike Lupica  69
    Columnist
    Sunday, May 11th 1952
  • Jeremy Paxman  71
    Journalist
    Thursday, May 11th 1950
  • Rachel Billington  79
    Novelist
    Monday, May 11th 1942
  • Francisco Umbral  89
    Journalist, Novelist, Essayist
    Wednesday, May 11th 1932
  • Stanley Elkin  91
    Novelist, Short Stories, Essayist
    Sunday, May 11th 1930
  • Marco Ferreri  93
    Screenwriter
    Friday, May 11th 1928
  • Richard Feynman  103
    Non-Fiction
    Saturday, May 11th 1918
  • Camilo Jose Cela  105
    Novelist
    Thursday, May 11th 1916
  • Saadat Hasan Manto  109
    Short Stories
    Saturday, May 11th 1912
  • Rose Ausländer  120
    Poet
    Saturday, May 11th 1901
  • Paulino Masip  122
    Playwright, Novelist
    Thursday, May 11th 1899
  • János Batsányi  258
    Poet
    Wednesday, May 11th 1763
  • L. Neil Smith  75
    Novelist
    Sunday, May 12th 1946
  • George Carlin  84
    Comedy Writer
    Wednesday, May 12th 1937
  • Andrei Voznesensky  88
    Poet
    Friday, May 12th 1933
  • Marco Denevi  99
    Novelist
    Friday, May 12th 1922
  • Farley Mowat  100
    Novelist
    Thursday, May 12th 1921
  • Albert Murray  105
    Novelist
    Friday, May 12th 1916
  • Howard K. Smith  107
    Journalist
    Tuesday, May 12th 1914
  • James Bacon  107
    Columnist
    Tuesday, May 12th 1914
  • Bertus Aafjes  107
    Poet
    Tuesday, May 12th 1914
  • Leslie Charteris  114
    Novelist
    Sunday, May 12th 1907
  • Benjamin Farjeon  183
    Novelist, Playwright
    Saturday, May 12th 1838
  • Edward Lear  209
    Poet
    Tuesday, May 12th 1812
  • Armistead Maupin  77
    Novelist
    Saturday, May 13th 1944
  • Eve Babitz  78
    Novelist
    Thursday, May 13th 1943
  • Bruce Chatwin  81
    Novelist, Travel Writer
    Monday, May 13th 1940
  • Roger Zelazny  84
    Novelist
    Thursday, May 13th 1937
  • Daphne du Maurier  114
    Novelist, Playwright
    Monday, May 13th 1907
  • Arthur Sullivan  179
    Playwright
    Friday, May 13th 1842
  • Alphonse Daudet  181
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 13th 1840
  • Eoin Colfer  56
    Novelist
    Friday, May 14th 1965
  • David Quantick  60
    Journalist
    Sunday, May 14th 1961
  • Christine Brennan  63
    Columnist
    Wednesday, May 14th 1958
  • Rudi Šeligo  86
    Novelist, Playwright, Essayist
    Tuesday, May 14th 1935
  • Barbara Branden  92
    Non-Fiction
    Tuesday, May 14th 1929
  • Herbert W. Franke  94
    Novelist
    Saturday, May 14th 1927
  • Solange Chaput-Rolland  102
    Journalist
    Wednesday, May 14th 1919
  • Hal Borland  121
    Novelist, Journalist
    Monday, May 14th 1900
  • Louis Verneuil  128
    Playwright
    Sunday, May 14th 1893
  • Alexander Kaufmann  204
    Poet
    Wednesday, May 14th 1817
  • Lauren Myracle  52

    Thursday, May 15th 1969
  • Paul Zindel  85

    Friday, May 15th 1936
  • Clifton Fadiman  117
    Essayist
    Sunday, May 15th 1904
  • Katherine Anne Porter  131

    Thursday, May 15th 1890
  • Arthur Schnitzler  159

    Thursday, May 15th 1862
  • L. Frank Baum  165

    Thursday, May 15th 1856
  • Eduard von Keyserling  166
    Novelist, Playwright
    Tuesday, May 15th 1855
  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu  332
    Poet
    Sunday, May 15th 1689
  • Omar Khayyám  973
    Poet
    Monday, May 15th 1048
  • Adrienne Rich  92

    Thursday, May 16th 1929
  • Louis "Studs" Terkel  109

    Thursday, May 16th 1912
  • Jane Moore  59
    Journalist
    Thursday, May 17th 1962
  • F. Paul Wilson  75

    Friday, May 17th 1946
  • David Cope  80
    Non-Fiction
    Saturday, May 17th 1941
  • Gary Paulsen  82
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 17th 1939
  • Dennis Potter  86

    Friday, May 17th 1935
  • Merle Miller  102
    Novelist
    Saturday, May 17th 1919
  • Henri Barbusse  148
    Novelist
    Saturday, May 17th 1873
  • Dorothy Richardson  148
    Novelist, Journalist
    Saturday, May 17th 1873
  • Jacint Verdaguer  176
    Poet
    Saturday, May 17th 1845
  • Virginie Loveling  185
    Poet, Novelist
    Tuesday, May 17th 1836
  • Tina Fey  51
    Screenwriter
    Monday, May 18th 1970
  • Nina Björk  54
    Journalist
    Thursday, May 18th 1967
  • Diane Duane  69
    Novelist
    Sunday, May 18th 1952
  • Yi Munyol  73
    Novelist
    Tuesday, May 18th 1948
  • W. G. Sebald  77
    Novelist
    Thursday, May 18th 1944
  • Jeanie MacPherson  134
    Screenwriter
    Wednesday, May 18th 1887
  • Bertrand Russell  149
    Non-Fiction
    Saturday, May 18th 1872
  • Francis Bellamy  166
    Novelist
    Friday, May 18th 1855
  • John Wilson  236
    Poet
    Wednesday, May 18th 1785
  • Jodi Picoult  55
    Novelist
    Thursday, May 19th 1966
  • Gregory Poirier  60
    Screenwriter
    Friday, May 19th 1961
  • Nora Ephron  80
    Screenwriter, Novelist, Playwright
    Monday, May 19th 1941
  • Ruskin Bond  87
    Novelist, Short Stories, Children's Literature
    Saturday, May 19th 1934
  • Paul Erdman  89
    Novelist, Non-Fiction
    Thursday, May 19th 1932
  • Lorraine Hansberry  91

    Monday, May 19th 1930
  • Karel van het Reve  100
    Essayist
    Thursday, May 19th 1921
  • Merriam Modell  113
    Novelist
    Tuesday, May 19th 1908
  • Anna Brownell Jameson  227
    Non-Fiction
    Monday, May 19th 1794
  • William Michaelian  65
    Novelist
    Sunday, May 20th 1956
  • Ingvar Ambjørnsen  65
    Novelist
    Sunday, May 20th 1956
  • Michel Vastel  81
    Journalist
    Monday, May 20th 1940
  • John Lucarotti  95
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, May 20th 1926
  • Wolfgang Borchert  100
    Playwright
    Friday, May 20th 1921
  • Gardner Fox  110
    Comic Book Writer
    Saturday, May 20th 1911
  • Annie M. G. Schmidt  110
    Children's Literature
    Saturday, May 20th 1911
  • Dorita Fairlie Bruce  136

    Wednesday, May 20th 1885
  • Sigrid Undset  139

    Saturday, May 20th 1882
  • Hector Malot  191
    Novelist
    Thursday, May 20th 1830
  • Honore de Balzac  222

    Monday, May 20th 1799
  • James Phelan  42

    Monday, May 21st 1979
  • Georgiy Gongadze  52
    Journalist
    Wednesday, May 21st 1969
  • Richard Appel  58
    Screenwriter
    Tuesday, May 21st 1963
  • Jeffrey Toobin  61
    Non-Fiction
    Saturday, May 21st 1960
  • Elizabeth Buchan  73
    Novelist
    Friday, May 21st 1948
  • Robert Creeley  95

    Friday, May 21st 1926
  • Harold Robbins  105
    Novelist
    Sunday, May 21st 1916
  • Manly Wade Wellman  118
    Novelist
    Thursday, May 21st 1903
  • Suzanne Lilar  120
    Essayist, Novelist, Playwright
    Tuesday, May 21st 1901
  • Manuel Pérez y Curis  137
    Poet
    Wednesday, May 21st 1884
  • Alexander Pope  333

    Friday, May 21st 1688
  • Graham Linehan  53
    Screenwriter
    Wednesday, May 22nd 1968
  • Peter Matthiessen  94
    Novelist
    Sunday, May 22nd 1927
  • Jean-Louis Curtis  104
    Novelist
    Tuesday, May 22nd 1917
  • Vance Packard  107
    Journalist
    Friday, May 22nd 1914
  • Hergé  114
    Comic Book Writer
    Wednesday, May 22nd 1907
  • Paul Viiding  117
    Poet
    Sunday, May 22nd 1904
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  162

    Sunday, May 22nd 1859
  • Tsubouchi Shōyō  162
    Playwright
    Sunday, May 22nd 1859
  • Catulle Mendès  180
    Poet
    Saturday, May 22nd 1841
  • Gérard de Nerval  213
    Poet
    Sunday, May 22nd 1808
  • Mitchell Albom  63
    Novelist
    Friday, May 23rd 1958
  • Jane Kenyon  74
    Poet
    Friday, May 23rd 1947
  • Jack McCarthy  82
    Poet
    Tuesday, May 23rd 1939
  • Peter Preston  83
    Journalist
    Monday, May 23rd 1938
  • M. Scott Peck  85
    Non-Fiction
    Saturday, May 23rd 1936
  • Friedrich Achleitner  91
    Poet
    Friday, May 23rd 1930
  • Karlheinz Deschner  97
    Non-Fiction
    Friday, May 23rd 1924
  • James Blish  100
    Novelist
    Monday, May 23rd 1921
  • Robert Bernstein  102
    Comic Book Writer, Playwright
    Friday, May 23rd 1919
  • Celestine Sibley  107
    Columnist
    Saturday, May 23rd 1914
  • Margaret Wise Brown  111
    Children's Literature
    Monday, May 23rd 1910
  • Scott O'Dell  123
    Novelist, Children's Literature
    Monday, May 23rd 1898
  • Pär Lagerkvist  130
    Poet, Playwright, Novelist
    Saturday, May 23rd 1891
  • Margaret Fuller  211
    Journalist
    Wednesday, May 23rd 1810
  • Giuseppe Parini  292
    Satirist, Poet
    Monday, May 23rd 1729
  • Michael Chabon  58

    Friday, May 24th 1963
  • Walter Moers  64

    Friday, May 24th 1957
  • Bob Dylan  80

    Saturday, May 24th 1941
  • Joseph Brodsky  81

    Friday, May 24th 1940
  • William Trevor  93

    Thursday, May 24th 1928
  • Luc Sante  67

    Tuesday, May 25th 1954
  • Jamaica Kincaid  72
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 25th 1949
  • Raymond Carver  83
    Short Stories, Poet
    Wednesday, May 25th 1938
  • John Gregory Dunne  89
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 25th 1932
  • Robert Ludlum  94
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 25th 1927
  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton  218
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 25th 1803
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson  218
    Poet
    Wednesday, May 25th 1803
  • Caitlín R. Kiernan  57
    Novelist
    Tuesday, May 26th 1964
  • Alan Hollinghurst  67
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 26th 1954
  • Lyudmila Petrushevskaya  83
    Novelist, Playwright
    Thursday, May 26th 1938
  • Phyllis Gotlieb  95
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 26th 1926
  • Henriette Roosenburg  105
    Journalist
    Friday, May 26th 1916
  • Moondog  105
    Poet
    Friday, May 26th 1916
  • Antonia Forest  106
    Children's Literature
    Wednesday, May 26th 1915
  • Pierre Daninos  108
    Humorist
    Monday, May 26th 1913
  • Henry Ephron  109
    Playwright, Screenwriter
    Sunday, May 26th 1912
  • Maxwell Bodenheim  129
    Poet, Novelist
    Thursday, May 26th 1892
  • Edmond de Goncourt  199

    Sunday, May 26th 1822
  • Harlan Ellison  87

    Sunday, May 27th 1934
  • John Barth  91

    Tuesday, May 27th 1930
  • Marijane Meaker  94

    Friday, May 27th 1927
  • Tony Hillerman  96

    Wednesday, May 27th 1925
  • Herman Wouk  106

    Thursday, May 27th 1915
  • John Cheever  109

    Monday, May 27th 1912
  • Dashiell Hammett  127

    Sunday, May 27th 1894
  • Arnold Bennett  154

    Monday, May 27th 1867
  • Barney Rosset  99

    Sunday, May 28th 1922
  • Walker Percy  105

    Sunday, May 28th 1916
  • Patrick White  109

    Tuesday, May 28th 1912
  • Ian Fleming  113

    Thursday, May 28th 1908
  • Andrew Clements  72
    Children's Literature
    Sunday, May 29th 1949
  • Andre Brink  86
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 29th 1935
  • Paul R. Ehrlich  89
    Non-Fiction
    Sunday, May 29th 1932
  • Lars Bo  97
    Novelist
    Thursday, May 29th 1924
  • Bernard Clavel  98
    Novelist
    Tuesday, May 29th 1923
  • T.H. White  115
    Novelist
    Tuesday, May 29th 1906
  • Alfonsina Storni  129
    Poet
    Sunday, May 29th 1892
  • Max Brand  129
    Novelist
    Sunday, May 29th 1892
  • G. K. Chesterton  147
    Novelist
    Friday, May 29th 1874
  • Michael Piller  73
    Screenwriter
    Sunday, May 30th 1948
  • Hal Clement  99
    Novelist
    Tuesday, May 30th 1922
  • Pita Amor  103
    Poet
    Thursday, May 30th 1918
  • Joseph Stein  109
    Playwright
    Thursday, May 30th 1912
  • Harry Bernstein  111
    Memoirest
    Monday, May 30th 1910
  • Countee Cullen  118
    Poet
    Saturday, May 30th 1903
  • Cornelia Otis Skinner  122
    Playwright
    Tuesday, May 30th 1899
  • Randolph Bourne  135
    Essayist
    Sunday, May 30th 1886
  • Félix Arnaudin  177
    Poet
    Thursday, May 30th 1844
  • Robin Wasserman  43
    Children's Literature
    Wednesday, May 31st 1978
  • John Connolly  53
    Novelist
    Friday, May 31st 1968
  • Lynne Truss  66
    Non-Fiction, Journalist, Essayist
    Tuesday, May 31st 1955
  • Bernard Goldberg  76
    Journalist
    Thursday, May 31st 1945
  • Al Young  82
    Novelist, Poet
    Wednesday, May 31st 1939
  • Robie Macauley  102
    Novelist
    Saturday, May 31st 1919
  • George R. Stewart  126
    Novelist
    Friday, May 31st 1895
  • Konstantin Paustovsky  129
    Novelist, Poet
    Tuesday, May 31st 1892
  • Walt Whitman  202
    Poet
    Monday, May 31st 1819
  • Ludwig Tieck  248
    Poet
    Monday, May 31st 1773

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