Author Birthdays for May
Wes Anderson 52
Screenwriter
Thursday, May 1st 1969Yasmina Reza 62
Novelist, Playwright
Friday, May 1st 1959Joel Rosenberg 67
Novelist
Saturday, May 1st 1954Sergio Infante 74
Poet
Thursday, May 1st 1947Bobbie Ann Mason 81
Novelist
Wednesday, May 1st 1940Jacques Languirand 90
Playwright, Essayist, Novelist
Friday, May 1st 1931Terry Southern 97
Screenwriter
Thursday, May 1st 1924Joseph Heller 98
Novelist
Tuesday, May 1st 1923Vladimir Colin 100
Novelist
Sunday, May 1st 1921Wilfred Watson 110
Poet, Playwright
Monday, May 1st 1911Yiannis Ritsos 112
Poet
Saturday, May 1st 1909Giovannino Guareschi 113
Journalist
Friday, May 1st 1908Sterling Allen Brown 120
Poet
Wednesday, May 1st 1901Antal Szerb 120
Non-Fiction
Wednesday, May 1st 1901Clément Pansaers 136
Poet
Friday, May 1st 1885Harry Leon Wilson 154
Novelist
Wednesday, May 1st 1867Marcel Prévost 159
Novelist, Playwright
Thursday, May 1st 1862Laza Lazarević 170
Short Stories, Non-Fiction
Thursday, May 1st 1851Henry Demarest Lloyd 174
Journalist
Saturday, May 1st 1847Guido Gezelle 191
Poet
Saturday, May 1st 1830José de Alencar 192
Novelist, Playwright
Friday, May 1st 1829James Clarence Mangan 218
Poet
Sunday, May 1st 1803Joseph Addison 349
Essayist, Poet, Playwright
Sunday, May 1st 1672Jean de Joinville 797
Biographer
Wednesday, May 1st 1224Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 48
Screenwriter
Wednesday, May 2nd 1973Maury Allen 89
Journalist, Columnist
Monday, May 2nd 1932Jamal Abro 97
Short Stories
Friday, May 2nd 1924A. M. Rosenthal 99
Columnist
Tuesday, May 2nd 1922Dr. Spock 118
Non-Fiction
Saturday, May 2nd 1903E. E. Smith 131
Novelist
Friday, May 2nd 1890Gottfried Benn 135
Novelist, Poet, Essayist
Sunday, May 2nd 1886Hedda Hopper 136
Columnist
Saturday, May 2nd 1885Jurgis Baltrušaitis 148
Poet
Friday, May 2nd 1873Clyde Fitch 156
Playwright
Tuesday, May 2nd 1865Theodor Herzl 161
Journalist
Wednesday, May 2nd 1860Jerome K. Jerome 162
Novelist
Monday, May 2nd 1859Novalis 249
Novelist, Poet
Saturday, May 2nd 1772William Inge 108
Saturday, May 3rd 1913Norman Corwin 111
Tuesday, May 3rd 1910Niccolo Machiavelli 552
Monday, May 3rd 1469David Guterson 65
Friday, May 4th 1956Graham Swift 72
Wednesday, May 4th 1949Josh Weinstein 55
Screenwriter
Thursday, May 5th 1966Scott Westerfeld 58
Novelist
Sunday, May 5th 1963Michael Palin 78
Screenwriter, Children's Literature
Wednesday, May 5th 1943Ignacio Ramonet 78
Journalist
Wednesday, May 5th 1943Ervin Lázár 85
Children's Literature
Tuesday, May 5th 1936Bernard Pivot 86
Journalist
Sunday, May 5th 1935Douglas Marland 87
Screenwriter
Saturday, May 5th 1934Greg 90
Comic Book Writer
Tuesday, May 5th 1931Miklós Radnóti 112
Poet
Wednesday, May 5th 1909Charles Exbrayat 115
Novelist
Saturday, May 5th 1906James Beard 118
Non-Fiction
Tuesday, May 5th 1903Christopher Morley 131
Novelist, Poet, Essayist, Journalist
Monday, May 5th 1890Nellie Bly 157
Journalist
Thursday, May 5th 1864Henryk Sienkiewicz 175
Journalist, Novelist
Tuesday, May 5th 1846Soren Kierkegaard 208
Wednesday, May 5th 1813Jeffery Deaver 71
Saturday, May 6th 1950Randall Jarrell 107
Wednesday, May 6th 1914Gaston Leroux 153
Wednesday, May 6th 1868Sigmund Freud 165
Tuesday, May 6th 1856Elizabeth Drew Stoddard 198
Tuesday, May 6th 1823Peter Carey 78
Friday, May 7th 1943Angela Carter 81
Tuesday, May 7th 1940Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 94
Saturday, May 7th 1927Archibald MacLeish 129
Saturday, May 7th 1892Robert Browning 209
Thursday, May 7th 1812Pat Barker 78
Saturday, May 8th 1943Thomas Pynchon 84
Saturday, May 8th 1937Gary Snyder 91
Thursday, May 8th 1930Romain Gary 107
Friday, May 8th 1914Edmund Wilson 126
Wednesday, May 8th 1895Augusta Jane Evans 186
Novelist
Friday, May 8th 1835Audrey Schulman 58
Thursday, May 9th 1963Alan Bennett 87
Wednesday, May 9th 1934Jose Ortega y Gasset 138
Wednesday, May 9th 1883J. M. Barrie 161
Wednesday, May 9th 1860John Scalzi 52
Novelist
Saturday, May 10th 1969Jon Ronson 54
Journalist
Wednesday, May 10th 1967Jonathan Roberts 65
Screenwriter
Thursday, May 10th 1956John Diamond 68
Journalist
Sunday, May 10th 1953Thomas Tessier 74
Novelist
Saturday, May 10th 1947Caroline B. Cooney 74
Novelist
Saturday, May 10th 1947Barbara Taylor Bradford 88
Novelist
Wednesday, May 10th 1933Ettore Scola 90
Screenwriter
Sunday, May 10th 1931Antonine Maillet 92
Novelist, Playwright
Friday, May 10th 1929Nayantara Sahgal 94
Novelist
Tuesday, May 10th 1927Monica Dickens 106
Novelist
Monday, May 10th 1915Bel Kaufman 110
Novelist
Wednesday, May 10th 1911Olaf Stapledon 135
Novelist
Monday, May 10th 1886Ivan Cankar 145
Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Essayist
Wednesday, May 10th 1876Upendrakishore Ray 158
Children's Literature
Sunday, May 10th 1863Benito Pérez Galdós 178
Novelist
Wednesday, May 10th 1843Johann Peter Hebel 261
Short Stories, Poet
Saturday, May 10th 1760Jean Mairet 417
Playwright
Monday, May 10th 1604Dusán Mukics 40
Journalist
Monday, May 11th 1981Theresa Burke 65
Journalist
Friday, May 11th 1956Mike Lupica 69
Columnist
Sunday, May 11th 1952Jeremy Paxman 71
Journalist
Thursday, May 11th 1950Rachel Billington 79
Novelist
Monday, May 11th 1942Francisco Umbral 89
Journalist, Novelist, Essayist
Wednesday, May 11th 1932Stanley Elkin 91
Novelist, Short Stories, Essayist
Sunday, May 11th 1930Marco Ferreri 93
Screenwriter
Friday, May 11th 1928Richard Feynman 103
Non-Fiction
Saturday, May 11th 1918Camilo Jose Cela 105
Novelist
Thursday, May 11th 1916Saadat Hasan Manto 109
Short Stories
Saturday, May 11th 1912Rose Ausländer 120
Poet
Saturday, May 11th 1901Paulino Masip 122
Playwright, Novelist
Thursday, May 11th 1899János Batsányi 258
Poet
Wednesday, May 11th 1763L. Neil Smith 75
Novelist
Sunday, May 12th 1946George Carlin 84
Comedy Writer
Wednesday, May 12th 1937Andrei Voznesensky 88
Poet
Friday, May 12th 1933Marco Denevi 99
Novelist
Friday, May 12th 1922Farley Mowat 100
Novelist
Thursday, May 12th 1921Albert Murray 105
Novelist
Friday, May 12th 1916Howard K. Smith 107
Journalist
Tuesday, May 12th 1914James Bacon 107
Columnist
Tuesday, May 12th 1914Bertus Aafjes 107
Poet
Tuesday, May 12th 1914Leslie Charteris 114
Novelist
Sunday, May 12th 1907Benjamin Farjeon 183
Novelist, Playwright
Saturday, May 12th 1838Edward Lear 209
Poet
Tuesday, May 12th 1812Armistead Maupin 77
Novelist
Saturday, May 13th 1944Eve Babitz 78
Novelist
Thursday, May 13th 1943Bruce Chatwin 81
Novelist, Travel Writer
Monday, May 13th 1940Roger Zelazny 84
Novelist
Thursday, May 13th 1937Daphne du Maurier 114
Novelist, Playwright
Monday, May 13th 1907Arthur Sullivan 179
Playwright
Friday, May 13th 1842Alphonse Daudet 181
Novelist
Wednesday, May 13th 1840Eoin Colfer 56
Novelist
Friday, May 14th 1965David Quantick 60
Journalist
Sunday, May 14th 1961Christine Brennan 63
Columnist
Wednesday, May 14th 1958Rudi Šeligo 86
Novelist, Playwright, Essayist
Tuesday, May 14th 1935Barbara Branden 92
Non-Fiction
Tuesday, May 14th 1929Herbert W. Franke 94
Novelist
Saturday, May 14th 1927Solange Chaput-Rolland 102
Journalist
Wednesday, May 14th 1919Hal Borland 121
Novelist, Journalist
Monday, May 14th 1900Louis Verneuil 128
Playwright
Sunday, May 14th 1893Alexander Kaufmann 204
Poet
Wednesday, May 14th 1817Lauren Myracle 52
Thursday, May 15th 1969Paul Zindel 85
Friday, May 15th 1936Clifton Fadiman 117
Essayist
Sunday, May 15th 1904Katherine Anne Porter 131
Thursday, May 15th 1890Arthur Schnitzler 159
Thursday, May 15th 1862L. Frank Baum 165
Thursday, May 15th 1856Eduard von Keyserling 166
Novelist, Playwright
Tuesday, May 15th 1855Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 332
Poet
Sunday, May 15th 1689Omar Khayyám 973
Poet
Monday, May 15th 1048Adrienne Rich 92
Thursday, May 16th 1929Louis "Studs" Terkel 109
Thursday, May 16th 1912Jane Moore 59
Journalist
Thursday, May 17th 1962F. Paul Wilson 75
Friday, May 17th 1946David Cope 80
Non-Fiction
Saturday, May 17th 1941Gary Paulsen 82
Novelist
Wednesday, May 17th 1939Dennis Potter 86
Friday, May 17th 1935Merle Miller 102
Novelist
Saturday, May 17th 1919Henri Barbusse 148
Novelist
Saturday, May 17th 1873Dorothy Richardson 148
Novelist, Journalist
Saturday, May 17th 1873Jacint Verdaguer 176
Poet
Saturday, May 17th 1845Virginie Loveling 185
Poet, Novelist
Tuesday, May 17th 1836Tina Fey 51
Screenwriter
Monday, May 18th 1970Nina Björk 54
Journalist
Thursday, May 18th 1967Diane Duane 69
Novelist
Sunday, May 18th 1952Yi Munyol 73
Novelist
Tuesday, May 18th 1948W. G. Sebald 77
Novelist
Thursday, May 18th 1944Jeanie MacPherson 134
Screenwriter
Wednesday, May 18th 1887Bertrand Russell 149
Non-Fiction
Saturday, May 18th 1872Francis Bellamy 166
Novelist
Friday, May 18th 1855John Wilson 236
Poet
Wednesday, May 18th 1785Jodi Picoult 55
Novelist
Thursday, May 19th 1966Gregory Poirier 60
Screenwriter
Friday, May 19th 1961Nora Ephron 80
Screenwriter, Novelist, Playwright
Monday, May 19th 1941Ruskin Bond 87
Novelist, Short Stories, Children's Literature
Saturday, May 19th 1934Paul Erdman 89
Novelist, Non-Fiction
Thursday, May 19th 1932Lorraine Hansberry 91
Monday, May 19th 1930Karel van het Reve 100
Essayist
Thursday, May 19th 1921Merriam Modell 113
Novelist
Tuesday, May 19th 1908Anna Brownell Jameson 227
Non-Fiction
Monday, May 19th 1794William Michaelian 65
Novelist
Sunday, May 20th 1956Ingvar Ambjørnsen 65
Novelist
Sunday, May 20th 1956Michel Vastel 81
Journalist
Monday, May 20th 1940John Lucarotti 95
Screenwriter
Thursday, May 20th 1926Wolfgang Borchert 100
Playwright
Friday, May 20th 1921Gardner Fox 110
Comic Book Writer
Saturday, May 20th 1911Annie M. G. Schmidt 110
Children's Literature
Saturday, May 20th 1911Dorita Fairlie Bruce 136
Wednesday, May 20th 1885Sigrid Undset 139
Saturday, May 20th 1882Hector Malot 191
Novelist
Thursday, May 20th 1830Honore de Balzac 222
Monday, May 20th 1799James Phelan 42
Monday, May 21st 1979Georgiy Gongadze 52
Journalist
Wednesday, May 21st 1969Richard Appel 58
Screenwriter
Tuesday, May 21st 1963Jeffrey Toobin 61
Non-Fiction
Saturday, May 21st 1960Elizabeth Buchan 73
Novelist
Friday, May 21st 1948Robert Creeley 95
Friday, May 21st 1926Harold Robbins 105
Novelist
Sunday, May 21st 1916Manly Wade Wellman 118
Novelist
Thursday, May 21st 1903Suzanne Lilar 120
Essayist, Novelist, Playwright
Tuesday, May 21st 1901Manuel Pérez y Curis 137
Poet
Wednesday, May 21st 1884Alexander Pope 333
Friday, May 21st 1688Graham Linehan 53
Screenwriter
Wednesday, May 22nd 1968Peter Matthiessen 94
Novelist
Sunday, May 22nd 1927Jean-Louis Curtis 104
Novelist
Tuesday, May 22nd 1917Vance Packard 107
Journalist
Friday, May 22nd 1914Hergé 114
Comic Book Writer
Wednesday, May 22nd 1907Paul Viiding 117
Poet
Sunday, May 22nd 1904Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 162
Sunday, May 22nd 1859Tsubouchi Shōyō 162
Playwright
Sunday, May 22nd 1859Catulle Mendès 180
Poet
Saturday, May 22nd 1841Gérard de Nerval 213
Poet
Sunday, May 22nd 1808Mitchell Albom 63
Novelist
Friday, May 23rd 1958Jane Kenyon 74
Poet
Friday, May 23rd 1947Jack McCarthy 82
Poet
Tuesday, May 23rd 1939Peter Preston 83
Journalist
Monday, May 23rd 1938M. Scott Peck 85
Non-Fiction
Saturday, May 23rd 1936Friedrich Achleitner 91
Poet
Friday, May 23rd 1930Karlheinz Deschner 97
Non-Fiction
Friday, May 23rd 1924James Blish 100
Novelist
Monday, May 23rd 1921Robert Bernstein 102
Comic Book Writer, Playwright
Friday, May 23rd 1919Celestine Sibley 107
Columnist
Saturday, May 23rd 1914Margaret Wise Brown 111
Children's Literature
Monday, May 23rd 1910Scott O'Dell 123
Novelist, Children's Literature
Monday, May 23rd 1898Pär Lagerkvist 130
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
Saturday, May 23rd 1891Margaret Fuller 211
Journalist
Wednesday, May 23rd 1810Giuseppe Parini 292
Satirist, Poet
Monday, May 23rd 1729Michael Chabon 58
Friday, May 24th 1963Walter Moers 64
Friday, May 24th 1957Bob Dylan 80
Saturday, May 24th 1941Joseph Brodsky 81
Friday, May 24th 1940William Trevor 93
Thursday, May 24th 1928Luc Sante 67
Tuesday, May 25th 1954Jamaica Kincaid 72
Novelist
Wednesday, May 25th 1949Raymond Carver 83
Short Stories, Poet
Wednesday, May 25th 1938John Gregory Dunne 89
Novelist
Wednesday, May 25th 1932Robert Ludlum 94
Novelist
Wednesday, May 25th 1927Edward Bulwer-Lytton 218
Novelist
Wednesday, May 25th 1803Ralph Waldo Emerson 218
Poet
Wednesday, May 25th 1803Caitlín R. Kiernan 57
Novelist
Tuesday, May 26th 1964Alan Hollinghurst 67
Novelist
Wednesday, May 26th 1954Lyudmila Petrushevskaya 83
Novelist, Playwright
Thursday, May 26th 1938Phyllis Gotlieb 95
Novelist
Wednesday, May 26th 1926Henriette Roosenburg 105
Journalist
Friday, May 26th 1916Moondog 105
Poet
Friday, May 26th 1916Antonia Forest 106
Children's Literature
Wednesday, May 26th 1915Pierre Daninos 108
Humorist
Monday, May 26th 1913Henry Ephron 109
Playwright, Screenwriter
Sunday, May 26th 1912Maxwell Bodenheim 129
Poet, Novelist
Thursday, May 26th 1892Edmond de Goncourt 199
Sunday, May 26th 1822Harlan Ellison 87
Sunday, May 27th 1934John Barth 91
Tuesday, May 27th 1930Marijane Meaker 94
Friday, May 27th 1927Tony Hillerman 96
Wednesday, May 27th 1925Herman Wouk 106
Thursday, May 27th 1915John Cheever 109
Monday, May 27th 1912Dashiell Hammett 127
Sunday, May 27th 1894Arnold Bennett 154
Monday, May 27th 1867Barney Rosset 99
Sunday, May 28th 1922Walker Percy 105
Sunday, May 28th 1916Patrick White 109
Tuesday, May 28th 1912Ian Fleming 113
Thursday, May 28th 1908Andrew Clements 72
Children's Literature
Sunday, May 29th 1949Andre Brink 86
Novelist
Wednesday, May 29th 1935Paul R. Ehrlich 89
Non-Fiction
Sunday, May 29th 1932Lars Bo 97
Novelist
Thursday, May 29th 1924Bernard Clavel 98
Novelist
Tuesday, May 29th 1923T.H. White 115
Novelist
Tuesday, May 29th 1906Alfonsina Storni 129
Poet
Sunday, May 29th 1892Max Brand 129
Novelist
Sunday, May 29th 1892G. K. Chesterton 147
Novelist
Friday, May 29th 1874Michael Piller 73
Screenwriter
Sunday, May 30th 1948Hal Clement 99
Novelist
Tuesday, May 30th 1922Pita Amor 103
Poet
Thursday, May 30th 1918Joseph Stein 109
Playwright
Thursday, May 30th 1912Harry Bernstein 111
Memoirest
Monday, May 30th 1910Countee Cullen 118
Poet
Saturday, May 30th 1903Cornelia Otis Skinner 122
Playwright
Tuesday, May 30th 1899Randolph Bourne 135
Essayist
Sunday, May 30th 1886Félix Arnaudin 177
Poet
Thursday, May 30th 1844Robin Wasserman 43
Children's Literature
Wednesday, May 31st 1978John Connolly 53
Novelist
Friday, May 31st 1968Lynne Truss 66
Non-Fiction, Journalist, Essayist
Tuesday, May 31st 1955Bernard Goldberg 76
Journalist
Thursday, May 31st 1945Al Young 82
Novelist, Poet
Wednesday, May 31st 1939Robie Macauley 102
Novelist
Saturday, May 31st 1919George R. Stewart 126
Novelist
Friday, May 31st 1895Konstantin Paustovsky 129
Novelist, Poet
Tuesday, May 31st 1892Walt Whitman 202
Poet
Monday, May 31st 1819Ludwig Tieck 248
Poet
Monday, May 31st 1773