Author Birthdays for September

  • Scott Spencer  75
    Novelist
    Saturday, September 1st 1945
  • Mustafa Balel  75
    Novelist
    Saturday, September 1st 1945
  • C. J. Cherryh  78
    Novelist
    Tuesday, September 1st 1942
  • Alan Dershowitz  82
    Non-Fiction
    Thursday, September 1st 1938
  • Ron O'Neal  83
    Screenwriter
    Wednesday, September 1st 1937
  • Wyatt Emory Cooper  93
    Playwright, Screenwriter
    Thursday, September 1st 1927
  • Willem Frederik Hermans  99
    Novelist
    Thursday, September 1st 1921
  • Liz Carpenter  100
    Journalist
    Wednesday, September 1st 1920
  • Eleanor Hibbert  114
    Novelist
    Saturday, September 1st 1906
  • Andrei Platonov  121
    Novelist
    Friday, September 1st 1899
  • Blaise Cendrars  133
    Novelist, Poet
    Thursday, September 1st 1887
  • Edgar Rice Burroughs  145
    Novelist
    Wednesday, September 1st 1875
  • Innokenty Annensky  165
    Poet
    Saturday, September 1st 1855
  • Daniel Defoe  360
    Novelist
    Wednesday, September 1st 1660
  • Aimee Osbourne  37
    Columnist
    Friday, September 2nd 1983
  • Chris Kuzneski  51
    Novelist
    Tuesday, September 2nd 1969
  • John S. Hall  60
    Poet
    Friday, September 2nd 1960
  • Walt Simonson  74
    Comic Book Writer
    Monday, September 2nd 1946
  • Cleveland Amory  103
    Non-Fiction
    Sunday, September 2nd 1917
  • Andreas Embirikos  119
    Poet
    Monday, September 2nd 1901
  • Joseph Roth  126
    Journalist, Novelist
    Sunday, September 2nd 1894
  • Ion Dragoumis  142
    Non-Fiction
    Monday, September 2nd 1878
  • Hans Jæger  166
    Non-Fiction
    Saturday, September 2nd 1854
  • Paul Bourget  168
    Novelist
    Thursday, September 2nd 1852
  • Eugene Field  170
    Children's Literature, Essayist
    Monday, September 2nd 1850
  • Lucretia Peabody Hale  200
    Journalist, Novelist
    Saturday, September 2nd 1820
  • Esteban Echeverría  215
    Poet
    Monday, September 2nd 1805
  • William Somervile  345
    Poet
    Monday, September 2nd 1675
  • Kiran Desai  49
    Novelist
    Friday, September 3rd 1971
  • Spike Feresten  56
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, September 3rd 1964
  • Malcolm Gladwell  57
    Journalist
    Tuesday, September 3rd 1963
  • Sergei Dovlatov  79
    Novelist, Journalist
    Wednesday, September 3rd 1941
  • Eduardo Galeano  80
    Novelist, Journalist
    Tuesday, September 3rd 1940
  • Caryl Churchill  82
    Playwright
    Saturday, September 3rd 1938
  • Cherry Wilder  90
    Novelist
    Wednesday, September 3rd 1930
  • Alison Lurie  94
    Novelist
    Friday, September 3rd 1926
  • Mort Walker  97
    Comic Book Writer
    Monday, September 3rd 1923
  • Marguerite Higgins  100
    Journalist
    Friday, September 3rd 1920
  • Sally Benson  123
    Screenwriter, Short Stories
    Friday, September 3rd 1897
  • Sarah Orne Jewett  171
    Novelist
    Monday, September 3rd 1849
  • Yanka Dyagileva  54
    Poet
    Sunday, September 4th 1966
  • Ferenc Sánta  93
    Novelist, Screenwriter
    Sunday, September 4th 1927
  • Forrest Carter  95
    Novelist
    Friday, September 4th 1925
  • Joan Aiken  96
    Novelist
    Thursday, September 4th 1924
  • Per Olof Sundman  98
    Novelist
    Monday, September 4th 1922
  • Syd Hoff  108
    Children's Literature
    Wednesday, September 4th 1912
  • Richard Wright  112
    Novelist
    Friday, September 4th 1908
  • Mary Renault  115
    Novelist
    Monday, September 4th 1905
  • Antonin Artaud  124
    Playwright
    Friday, September 4th 1896
  • Juliusz Słowacki  211
    Poet, Playwright
    Monday, September 4th 1809
  • Constantijn Huygens  424
    Poet
    Wednesday, September 4th 1596
  • Richard Marsland  44
    Comedy Writer
    Sunday, September 5th 1976
  • Frederick Kempe  66
    Journalist
    Sunday, September 5th 1954
  • Dario Bellezza  76
    Poet, Playwright
    Tuesday, September 5th 1944
  • Jonathan Kozol  84
    Non-Fiction
    Saturday, September 5th 1936
  • Luis Alcoriza  102
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, September 5th 1918
  • Frank Yerby  104
    Novelist
    Tuesday, September 5th 1916
  • Nicanor Parra  106
    Poet
    Saturday, September 5th 1914
  • Leila Mackinlay  110
    Novelist
    Monday, September 5th 1910
  • Josué de Castro  112
    Non-Fiction
    Saturday, September 5th 1908
  • Arthur Koestler  115
    Novelist
    Tuesday, September 5th 1905
  • Victorien Sardou  189
    Playwright
    Monday, September 5th 1831
  • Goffredo Mameli  193
    Poet
    Wednesday, September 5th 1827
  • A. K. Tolstoy  203
    Poet, Novelist, Playwright
    Friday, September 5th 1817
  • Robert Fergusson  270
    Poet
    Saturday, September 5th 1750
  • Tommaso Campanella  452
    Non-Fiction, Poet
    Thursday, September 5th 1568
  • China Miéville  48
    Novelist
    Wednesday, September 6th 1972
  • Christopher Brookmyre  52
    Novelist
    Friday, September 6th 1968
  • Christopher Nolan  55
    Poet, Novelist
    Monday, September 6th 1965
  • Alice Sebold  57
    Novelist
    Friday, September 6th 1963
  • Jennifer Egan  58
    Novelist
    Thursday, September 6th 1962
  • Raymond Benson  65
    Novelist
    Tuesday, September 6th 1955
  • Donna Haraway  76
    Non-Fiction
    Wednesday, September 6th 1944
  • Dan Cragg  81
    Novelist, Essayist
    Wednesday, September 6th 1939
  • Robert M. Pirsig  92
    Novelist
    Thursday, September 6th 1928
  • Carmen Laforet  99
    Novelist
    Tuesday, September 6th 1921
  • Julien Green  120
    Novelist
    Thursday, September 6th 1900
  • Felix Salten  151
    Novelist
    Monday, September 6th 1869
  • William Lane  159
    Journalist
    Friday, September 6th 1861
  • Frances Wright  225
    Non-Fiction
    Sunday, September 6th 1795
  • Diane Farr  47
    Memoirest
    Friday, September 7th 1973
  • Eric Hill  93

    Wednesday, September 7th 1927
  • Edith Sitwell  133

    Wednesday, September 7th 1887
  • Elinor Wylie  135

    Monday, September 7th 1885
  • C. J. Dennis  144

    Thursday, September 7th 1876
  • Aleksandr Kuprin  150

    Wednesday, September 7th 1870
  • Tristan Bernard  154

    Friday, September 7th 1866
  • Angela Rawlings  42
    Poet
    Friday, September 8th 1978
  • Christopher Klim  58
    Novelist
    Saturday, September 8th 1962
  • Terry Tempest Williams  65
    Non-Fiction
    Thursday, September 8th 1955
  • Jon Scieszka  66
    Children's Literature
    Wednesday, September 8th 1954
  • Michael Shermer  66
    Non-Fiction
    Wednesday, September 8th 1954
  • Ann Beattie  73
    Novelist
    Monday, September 8th 1947
  • Jack Prelutsky  80
    Children's Literature
    Sunday, September 8th 1940
  • Michael Frayn  87
    Playwright, Novelist
    Friday, September 8th 1933
  • Robert W. Firestone  90
    Non-Fiction
    Monday, September 8th 1930
  • Grace Metalious  96
    Novelist
    Monday, September 8th 1924
  • Rasul Gamzatov  97
    Poet
    Saturday, September 8th 1923
  • Gianni Brera  101
    Novelist, Journalist
    Monday, September 8th 1919
  • Jane Arbor  117
    Novelist
    Tuesday, September 8th 1903
  • Siegfried Sassoon  134
    Poet
    Wednesday, September 8th 1886
  • Alfred Jarry  147
    Playwright
    Monday, September 8th 1873
  • Wilhelm Raabe  189
    Novelist
    Thursday, September 8th 1831
  • Frédéric Mistral  190
    Poet
    Wednesday, September 8th 1830
  • Clarence Cook  192
    Non-Fiction
    Monday, September 8th 1828
  • Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg  206
    Non-Fiction
    Thursday, September 8th 1814
  • Eduard Mörike  216
    Poet
    Saturday, September 8th 1804
  • N. F. S. Grundtvig  237
    Non-Fiction
    Monday, September 8th 1783
  • August Wilhelm Schlegel  253
    Poet
    Tuesday, September 8th 1767
  • John Sheffield  373
    Poet
    Sunday, September 8th 1647
  • Ludovico Ariosto  546
    Poet
    Tuesday, September 8th 1474
  • Paul Goodman  109

    Saturday, September 9th 1911
  • Cesare Pavese  112

    Wednesday, September 9th 1908
  • Phyllis A. Whitney  117

    Wednesday, September 9th 1903
  • James Hilton  120

    Sunday, September 9th 1900
  • Brassai  121

    Saturday, September 9th 1899
  • Mary Hunter Austin  152

    Wednesday, September 9th 1868
  • Joseph Henry Shorthouse  186

    Tuesday, September 9th 1834
  • Leo Tolstoy  192

    Tuesday, September 9th 1828
  • Zhang Chengzhi  72

    Friday, September 10th 1948
  • Stephen Jay Gould  79

    Wednesday, September 10th 1941
  • Mary Oliver  85

    Tuesday, September 10th 1935
  • Miguel Serrano  103

    Monday, September 10th 1917
  • Cyril Connolly  117

    Thursday, September 10th 1903
  • Georges Bataille  123

    Friday, September 10th 1897
  • Franz Werfel  130

    Wednesday, September 10th 1890
  • H.D.  134

    Friday, September 10th 1886
  • Jeppe Aakjær  154

    Monday, September 10th 1866
  • Hannah Webster Foster  262

    Sunday, September 10th 1758
  • Philip Ardagh  59

    Monday, September 11th 1961
  • Andrew Macdonald  87

    Monday, September 11th 1933
  • Jessica Mitford  103

    Tuesday, September 11th 1917
  • William Thomas Walsh  129

    Friday, September 11th 1891
  • D. H. Lawrence  135

    Friday, September 11th 1885
  • O. Henry  158

    Thursday, September 11th 1862
  • Vjenceslav Novak  161

    Sunday, September 11th 1859
  • Fitz Hugh Ludlow  184

    Sunday, September 11th 1836
  • James Frey  51

    Friday, September 12th 1969
  • Jon Clinch  66

    Sunday, September 12th 1954
  • Michael Ondaatje  77

    Sunday, September 12th 1943
  • Stanislaw Lem  99

    Monday, September 12th 1921
  • H. L. Mencken  140

    Sunday, September 12th 1880
  • Tõnu Õnnepalu  58

    Thursday, September 13th 1962
  • Roald Dahl  104

    Wednesday, September 13th 1916
  • J. B. Priestley  126

    Thursday, September 13th 1894
  • Frances Newman  137

    Thursday, September 13th 1883
  • Sherwood Anderson  144

    Wednesday, September 13th 1876
  • Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach  190

    Monday, September 13th 1830
  • Bernard MacLaverty  78

    Monday, September 14th 1942
  • Kate Millett  86

    Friday, September 14th 1934
  • Ivan Klima  89

    Monday, September 14th 1931
  • Larry Collins  91

    Saturday, September 14th 1929
  • Martin Caidin  93

    Wednesday, September 14th 1927
  • Michel Butor  94

    Tuesday, September 14th 1926
  • Abioseh Nicol  96

    Sunday, September 14th 1924
  • Mario Benedetti  100

    Tuesday, September 14th 1920
  • Hamlin Garland  160

    Friday, September 14th 1860
  • Howard Waldrop  74

    Sunday, September 15th 1946
  • Chelsea Quinn Yarbro  78

    Tuesday, September 15th 1942
  • Robert McCloskey  106

    Tuesday, September 15th 1914
  • Adolfo Bioy Casares  106

    Tuesday, September 15th 1914
  • Betty Neels  110

    Thursday, September 15th 1910
  • Gunnar Ekelof  113

    Sunday, September 15th 1907
  • J. Slauerhoff  122

    Thursday, September 15th 1898
  • Agatha Christie  130

    Monday, September 15th 1890
  • Robert Benchley  131

    Sunday, September 15th 1889
  • Sharat Chandra Chatterji  144

    Friday, September 15th 1876
  • James Fenimore Cooper  231

    Tuesday, September 15th 1789
  • Justin Haythe  47

    Sunday, September 16th 1973
  • Nick Sagan  50

    Wednesday, September 16th 1970
  • Walt Becker  52

    Monday, September 16th 1968
  • Nancy Huston  67

    Wednesday, September 16th 1953
  • Henry Louis Gates, Jr.  70

    Saturday, September 16th 1950
  • James Alan McPherson  77

    Thursday, September 16th 1943
  • Breyten Breytenbach  81

    Saturday, September 16th 1939
  • John Knowles  94

    Thursday, September 16th 1926
  • Laurence J. Peter  101

    Tuesday, September 16th 1919
  • H. A. Rey  122

    Friday, September 16th 1898
  • T. E. Hulme  137

    Sunday, September 16th 1883
  • Wendy Northcutt  57

    Tuesday, September 17th 1963
  • Lawrence Anthony  70
    Non-Fiction
    Sunday, September 17th 1950
  • Ken Kesey  85

    Tuesday, September 17th 1935
  • Robert B. Parker  88

    Saturday, September 17th 1932
  • Frank O'Connor  117

    Thursday, September 17th 1903
  • William Carlos Williams  137

    Monday, September 17th 1883
  • Chris Hedges  64

    Tuesday, September 18th 1956
  • Francis Parker Yockey  103

    Tuesday, September 18th 1917
  • William March  127

    Monday, September 18th 1893
  • Samuel Johnson  311

    Wednesday, September 18th 1709
  • Susan Compo  65

    Monday, September 19th 1955
  • James Lipton  94

    Sunday, September 19th 1926
  • Damon Knight  98

    Tuesday, September 19th 1922
  • William Golding  109

    Tuesday, September 19th 1911
  • Mika Waltari  112

    Saturday, September 19th 1908
  • James Blaylock  70

    Wednesday, September 20th 1950
  • George R. R. Martin  72

    Monday, September 20th 1948
  • Keith Roberts  85

    Friday, September 20th 1935
  • Donald Hall  92

    Thursday, September 20th 1928
  • Geraldine Clinton Little  97

    Thursday, September 20th 1923
  • Stevie Smith  118

    Saturday, September 20th 1902
  • Charles Williams  134

    Monday, September 20th 1886
  • Maxwell Perkins  136

    Saturday, September 20th 1884
  • Upton Sinclair  142

    Friday, September 20th 1878
  • Kate Harrington  189

    Tuesday, September 20th 1831
  • Heather Brewer  47

    Friday, September 21st 1973
  • Ethan Coen  63

    Saturday, September 21st 1957
  • Stephen King  73

    Sunday, September 21st 1947
  • Fannie Flagg  76

    Thursday, September 21st 1944
  • Leonard Cohen  86

    Friday, September 21st 1934
  • H. G. Wells  154

    Friday, September 21st 1866
  • Rosamunde Pilcher  96

    Monday, September 22nd 1924
  • Dannie Abse  97

    Saturday, September 22nd 1923
  • Theodore Hook  232

    Monday, September 22nd 1788
  • John Home  298

    Tuesday, September 22nd 1722
  • Ana Marie Cox  48

    Saturday, September 23rd 1972
  • Peter David  64

    Sunday, September 23rd 1956
  • Anne Desclos - Pauline Réage  113

    Monday, September 23rd 1907
  • Jaroslav Seifert  119

    Monday, September 23rd 1901
  • Emma Orczy  155

    Saturday, September 23rd 1865
  • Mary Church Terrell  157

    Wednesday, September 23rd 1863
  • Szilvia Molnar  36

    Monday, September 24th 1984
  • Shamim Sarif  51

    Wednesday, September 24th 1969
  • Yves Navarre  80

    Tuesday, September 24th 1940
  • John Brunner  86

    Monday, September 24th 1934
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald  124

    Thursday, September 24th 1896
  • A. P. Herbert  130

    Wednesday, September 24th 1890
  • Charles Ferdinand Ramuz  142

    Tuesday, September 24th 1878
  • Horace Walpole  303

    Friday, September 24th 1717
  • William Faulkner  123

    Saturday, September 25th 1897
  • Mark Haddon  58

    Wednesday, September 26th 1962
  • Minette Walters  71

    Monday, September 26th 1949
  • Jane Smiley  71

    Monday, September 26th 1949
  • Andrea Dworkin  74

    Thursday, September 26th 1946
  • T. S. Eliot  132

    Wednesday, September 26th 1888
  • Joyce Johnson  85

    Friday, September 27th 1935
  • Jim Thompson  114

    Thursday, September 27th 1906
  • Grazia Deledda  149

    Wednesday, September 27th 1871
  • Stuart M. Kaminsky  86

    Saturday, September 29th 1934
  • Stan Berenstain  97

    Saturday, September 29th 1923
  • Miguel de Cervantes  473
    Novelist, Poet, Playwright
    Monday, September 29th 1547
  • W. S. Merwin  93

    Friday, September 30th 1927
  • Truman Capote  96

    Tuesday, September 30th 1924
  • Gertrude Atherton  163

    Wednesday, September 30th 1857
  • Ferdinand von Saar  187

    Monday, September 30th 1833

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