Author Birthdays for September
Scott Spencer 76
Novelist
Saturday, September 1st 1945Mustafa Balel 76
Novelist
Saturday, September 1st 1945C. J. Cherryh 79
Novelist
Tuesday, September 1st 1942Alan Dershowitz 83
Non-Fiction
Thursday, September 1st 1938Ron O'Neal 84
Screenwriter
Wednesday, September 1st 1937Wyatt Emory Cooper 94
Playwright, Screenwriter
Thursday, September 1st 1927Willem Frederik Hermans 100
Novelist
Thursday, September 1st 1921Liz Carpenter 101
Journalist
Wednesday, September 1st 1920Eleanor Hibbert 115
Novelist
Saturday, September 1st 1906Andrei Platonov 122
Novelist
Friday, September 1st 1899Blaise Cendrars 134
Novelist, Poet
Thursday, September 1st 1887Edgar Rice Burroughs 146
Novelist
Wednesday, September 1st 1875Innokenty Annensky 166
Poet
Saturday, September 1st 1855Daniel Defoe 361
Novelist
Wednesday, September 1st 1660Aimee Osbourne 38
Columnist
Friday, September 2nd 1983Chris Kuzneski 52
Novelist
Tuesday, September 2nd 1969John S. Hall 61
Poet
Friday, September 2nd 1960Walt Simonson 75
Comic Book Writer
Monday, September 2nd 1946Cleveland Amory 104
Non-Fiction
Sunday, September 2nd 1917Andreas Embirikos 120
Poet
Monday, September 2nd 1901Joseph Roth 127
Journalist, Novelist
Sunday, September 2nd 1894Ion Dragoumis 143
Non-Fiction
Monday, September 2nd 1878Hans Jæger 167
Non-Fiction
Saturday, September 2nd 1854Paul Bourget 169
Novelist
Thursday, September 2nd 1852Eugene Field 171
Children's Literature, Essayist
Monday, September 2nd 1850Lucretia Peabody Hale 201
Journalist, Novelist
Saturday, September 2nd 1820Esteban Echeverría 216
Poet
Monday, September 2nd 1805William Somervile 346
Poet
Monday, September 2nd 1675Kiran Desai 50
Novelist
Friday, September 3rd 1971Spike Feresten 57
Screenwriter
Thursday, September 3rd 1964Malcolm Gladwell 58
Journalist
Tuesday, September 3rd 1963Sergei Dovlatov 80
Novelist, Journalist
Wednesday, September 3rd 1941Eduardo Galeano 81
Novelist, Journalist
Tuesday, September 3rd 1940Caryl Churchill 83
Playwright
Saturday, September 3rd 1938Cherry Wilder 91
Novelist
Wednesday, September 3rd 1930Alison Lurie 95
Novelist
Friday, September 3rd 1926Mort Walker 98
Comic Book Writer
Monday, September 3rd 1923Marguerite Higgins 101
Journalist
Friday, September 3rd 1920Sally Benson 124
Screenwriter, Short Stories
Friday, September 3rd 1897Sarah Orne Jewett 172
Novelist
Monday, September 3rd 1849Yanka Dyagileva 55
Poet
Sunday, September 4th 1966Ferenc Sánta 94
Novelist, Screenwriter
Sunday, September 4th 1927Forrest Carter 96
Novelist
Friday, September 4th 1925Joan Aiken 97
Novelist
Thursday, September 4th 1924Per Olof Sundman 99
Novelist
Monday, September 4th 1922Syd Hoff 109
Children's Literature
Wednesday, September 4th 1912Richard Wright 113
Novelist
Friday, September 4th 1908Mary Renault 116
Novelist
Monday, September 4th 1905Antonin Artaud 125
Playwright
Friday, September 4th 1896Juliusz Słowacki 212
Poet, Playwright
Monday, September 4th 1809Constantijn Huygens 425
Poet
Wednesday, September 4th 1596Richard Marsland 45
Comedy Writer
Sunday, September 5th 1976Frederick Kempe 67
Journalist
Sunday, September 5th 1954Dario Bellezza 77
Poet, Playwright
Tuesday, September 5th 1944Jonathan Kozol 85
Non-Fiction
Saturday, September 5th 1936Luis Alcoriza 103
Screenwriter
Thursday, September 5th 1918Frank Yerby 105
Novelist
Tuesday, September 5th 1916Nicanor Parra 107
Poet
Saturday, September 5th 1914Leila Mackinlay 111
Novelist
Monday, September 5th 1910Josué de Castro 113
Non-Fiction
Saturday, September 5th 1908Arthur Koestler 116
Novelist
Tuesday, September 5th 1905Victorien Sardou 190
Playwright
Monday, September 5th 1831Goffredo Mameli 194
Poet
Wednesday, September 5th 1827A. K. Tolstoy 204
Poet, Novelist, Playwright
Friday, September 5th 1817Robert Fergusson 271
Poet
Saturday, September 5th 1750Tommaso Campanella 453
Non-Fiction, Poet
Thursday, September 5th 1568China Miéville 49
Novelist
Wednesday, September 6th 1972Christopher Brookmyre 53
Novelist
Friday, September 6th 1968Christopher Nolan 56
Poet, Novelist
Monday, September 6th 1965Alice Sebold 58
Novelist
Friday, September 6th 1963Jennifer Egan 59
Novelist
Thursday, September 6th 1962Raymond Benson 66
Novelist
Tuesday, September 6th 1955Donna Haraway 77
Non-Fiction
Wednesday, September 6th 1944Dan Cragg 82
Novelist, Essayist
Wednesday, September 6th 1939Robert M. Pirsig 93
Novelist
Thursday, September 6th 1928Carmen Laforet 100
Novelist
Tuesday, September 6th 1921Julien Green 121
Novelist
Thursday, September 6th 1900Felix Salten 152
Novelist
Monday, September 6th 1869William Lane 160
Journalist
Friday, September 6th 1861Frances Wright 226
Non-Fiction
Sunday, September 6th 1795Diane Farr 48
Memoirest
Friday, September 7th 1973Eric Hill 94
Wednesday, September 7th 1927Edith Sitwell 134
Wednesday, September 7th 1887Elinor Wylie 136
Monday, September 7th 1885C. J. Dennis 145
Thursday, September 7th 1876Aleksandr Kuprin 151
Wednesday, September 7th 1870Tristan Bernard 155
Friday, September 7th 1866Angela Rawlings 43
Poet
Friday, September 8th 1978Christopher Klim 59
Novelist
Saturday, September 8th 1962Terry Tempest Williams 66
Non-Fiction
Thursday, September 8th 1955Jon Scieszka 67
Children's Literature
Wednesday, September 8th 1954Michael Shermer 67
Non-Fiction
Wednesday, September 8th 1954Ann Beattie 74
Novelist
Monday, September 8th 1947Jack Prelutsky 81
Children's Literature
Sunday, September 8th 1940Michael Frayn 88
Playwright, Novelist
Friday, September 8th 1933Robert W. Firestone 91
Non-Fiction
Monday, September 8th 1930Grace Metalious 97
Novelist
Monday, September 8th 1924Rasul Gamzatov 98
Poet
Saturday, September 8th 1923Gianni Brera 102
Novelist, Journalist
Monday, September 8th 1919Jane Arbor 118
Novelist
Tuesday, September 8th 1903Siegfried Sassoon 135
Poet
Wednesday, September 8th 1886Alfred Jarry 148
Playwright
Monday, September 8th 1873Wilhelm Raabe 190
Novelist
Thursday, September 8th 1831Frédéric Mistral 191
Poet
Wednesday, September 8th 1830Clarence Cook 193
Non-Fiction
Monday, September 8th 1828Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg 207
Non-Fiction
Thursday, September 8th 1814Eduard Mörike 217
Poet
Saturday, September 8th 1804N. F. S. Grundtvig 238
Non-Fiction
Monday, September 8th 1783August Wilhelm Schlegel 254
Poet
Tuesday, September 8th 1767John Sheffield 374
Poet
Sunday, September 8th 1647Ludovico Ariosto 547
Poet
Tuesday, September 8th 1474Paul Goodman 110
Saturday, September 9th 1911Cesare Pavese 113
Wednesday, September 9th 1908Phyllis A. Whitney 118
Wednesday, September 9th 1903James Hilton 121
Sunday, September 9th 1900Brassai 122
Saturday, September 9th 1899Mary Hunter Austin 153
Wednesday, September 9th 1868Joseph Henry Shorthouse 187
Tuesday, September 9th 1834Leo Tolstoy 193
Tuesday, September 9th 1828Zhang Chengzhi 73
Friday, September 10th 1948Stephen Jay Gould 80
Wednesday, September 10th 1941Mary Oliver 86
Tuesday, September 10th 1935Miguel Serrano 104
Monday, September 10th 1917Cyril Connolly 118
Thursday, September 10th 1903Georges Bataille 124
Friday, September 10th 1897Franz Werfel 131
Wednesday, September 10th 1890H.D. 135
Friday, September 10th 1886Jeppe Aakjær 155
Monday, September 10th 1866Hannah Webster Foster 263
Sunday, September 10th 1758Philip Ardagh 60
Monday, September 11th 1961Andrew Macdonald 88
Monday, September 11th 1933Jessica Mitford 104
Tuesday, September 11th 1917William Thomas Walsh 130
Friday, September 11th 1891D. H. Lawrence 136
Friday, September 11th 1885O. Henry 159
Thursday, September 11th 1862Vjenceslav Novak 162
Sunday, September 11th 1859Fitz Hugh Ludlow 185
Sunday, September 11th 1836James Frey 52
Friday, September 12th 1969Jon Clinch 67
Sunday, September 12th 1954Michael Ondaatje 78
Sunday, September 12th 1943Stanislaw Lem 100
Monday, September 12th 1921H. L. Mencken 141
Sunday, September 12th 1880Tõnu Õnnepalu 59
Thursday, September 13th 1962Roald Dahl 105
Wednesday, September 13th 1916J. B. Priestley 127
Thursday, September 13th 1894Frances Newman 138
Thursday, September 13th 1883Sherwood Anderson 145
Wednesday, September 13th 1876Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 191
Monday, September 13th 1830Bernard MacLaverty 79
Monday, September 14th 1942Kate Millett 87
Friday, September 14th 1934Ivan Klima 90
Monday, September 14th 1931Larry Collins 92
Saturday, September 14th 1929Martin Caidin 94
Wednesday, September 14th 1927Michel Butor 95
Tuesday, September 14th 1926Abioseh Nicol 97
Sunday, September 14th 1924Mario Benedetti 101
Tuesday, September 14th 1920Hamlin Garland 161
Friday, September 14th 1860Howard Waldrop 75
Sunday, September 15th 1946Chelsea Quinn Yarbro 79
Tuesday, September 15th 1942Robert McCloskey 107
Tuesday, September 15th 1914Adolfo Bioy Casares 107
Tuesday, September 15th 1914Betty Neels 111
Thursday, September 15th 1910Gunnar Ekelof 114
Sunday, September 15th 1907J. Slauerhoff 123
Thursday, September 15th 1898Agatha Christie 131
Monday, September 15th 1890Robert Benchley 132
Sunday, September 15th 1889Sharat Chandra Chatterji 145
Friday, September 15th 1876James Fenimore Cooper 232
Tuesday, September 15th 1789Justin Haythe 48
Sunday, September 16th 1973Nick Sagan 51
Wednesday, September 16th 1970Walt Becker 53
Monday, September 16th 1968Nancy Huston 68
Wednesday, September 16th 1953Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 71
Saturday, September 16th 1950James Alan McPherson 78
Thursday, September 16th 1943Breyten Breytenbach 82
Saturday, September 16th 1939John Knowles 95
Thursday, September 16th 1926Laurence J. Peter 102
Tuesday, September 16th 1919H. A. Rey 123
Friday, September 16th 1898T. E. Hulme 138
Sunday, September 16th 1883Wendy Northcutt 58
Tuesday, September 17th 1963Lawrence Anthony 71
Non-Fiction
Sunday, September 17th 1950Ken Kesey 86
Tuesday, September 17th 1935Robert B. Parker 89
Saturday, September 17th 1932Frank O'Connor 118
Thursday, September 17th 1903William Carlos Williams 138
Monday, September 17th 1883Chris Hedges 65
Tuesday, September 18th 1956Francis Parker Yockey 104
Tuesday, September 18th 1917William March 128
Monday, September 18th 1893Samuel Johnson 312
Wednesday, September 18th 1709Susan Compo 66
Monday, September 19th 1955James Lipton 95
Sunday, September 19th 1926Damon Knight 99
Tuesday, September 19th 1922William Golding 110
Tuesday, September 19th 1911Mika Waltari 113
Saturday, September 19th 1908James Blaylock 71
Wednesday, September 20th 1950George R. R. Martin 73
Monday, September 20th 1948Keith Roberts 86
Friday, September 20th 1935Donald Hall 93
Thursday, September 20th 1928Geraldine Clinton Little 98
Thursday, September 20th 1923Stevie Smith 119
Saturday, September 20th 1902Charles Williams 135
Monday, September 20th 1886Maxwell Perkins 137
Saturday, September 20th 1884Upton Sinclair 143
Friday, September 20th 1878Kate Harrington 190
Tuesday, September 20th 1831Heather Brewer 48
Friday, September 21st 1973Ethan Coen 64
Saturday, September 21st 1957Stephen King 74
Sunday, September 21st 1947Fannie Flagg 77
Thursday, September 21st 1944Leonard Cohen 87
Friday, September 21st 1934H. G. Wells 155
Friday, September 21st 1866Rosamunde Pilcher 97
Monday, September 22nd 1924Dannie Abse 98
Saturday, September 22nd 1923Theodore Hook 233
Monday, September 22nd 1788John Home 299
Tuesday, September 22nd 1722Ana Marie Cox 49
Saturday, September 23rd 1972Peter David 65
Sunday, September 23rd 1956Anne Desclos - Pauline Réage 114
Monday, September 23rd 1907Jaroslav Seifert 120
Monday, September 23rd 1901Emma Orczy 156
Saturday, September 23rd 1865Mary Church Terrell 158
Wednesday, September 23rd 1863Szilvia Molnar 37
Monday, September 24th 1984Shamim Sarif 52
Wednesday, September 24th 1969Yves Navarre 81
Tuesday, September 24th 1940John Brunner 87
Monday, September 24th 1934F. Scott Fitzgerald 125
Thursday, September 24th 1896A. P. Herbert 131
Wednesday, September 24th 1890Charles Ferdinand Ramuz 143
Tuesday, September 24th 1878Horace Walpole 304
Friday, September 24th 1717William Faulkner 124
Saturday, September 25th 1897Mark Haddon 59
Wednesday, September 26th 1962Minette Walters 72
Monday, September 26th 1949Jane Smiley 72
Monday, September 26th 1949Andrea Dworkin 75
Thursday, September 26th 1946T. S. Eliot 133
Wednesday, September 26th 1888Joyce Johnson 86
Friday, September 27th 1935Jim Thompson 115
Thursday, September 27th 1906Grazia Deledda 150
Wednesday, September 27th 1871Stuart M. Kaminsky 87
Saturday, September 29th 1934Stan Berenstain 98
Saturday, September 29th 1923Miguel de Cervantes 474
Novelist, Poet, Playwright
Monday, September 29th 1547W. S. Merwin 94
Friday, September 30th 1927Truman Capote 97
Tuesday, September 30th 1924Gertrude Atherton 164
Wednesday, September 30th 1857Ferdinand von Saar 188
Monday, September 30th 1833