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Author Birthdays for June

  • Khawar Rizvi  88
    Poet
    Wednesday, June 1st 1938
  • Colleen McCullough  89
    Novelist
    Tuesday, June 1st 1937
  • Bill Deedes  113
    Journalist
    Sunday, June 1st 1913
  • John Van Druten  125
    Playwright
    Saturday, June 1st 1901
  • Charles Kay Ogden  137
    Non-Fiction
    Saturday, June 1st 1889
  • John Masefield  148
    Poet, Children's Literature
    Saturday, June 1st 1878
  • Ferdinand Raimund  236
    Playwright
    Tuesday, June 1st 1790
  • Dante Alighieri  761
    Poet
    Monday, June 1st 1265
  • Carol Shields  91

    Sunday, June 2nd 1935
  • Lester del Rey  111

    Wednesday, June 2nd 1915
  • Barbara Rym  113

    Monday, June 2nd 1913
  • Karl Adolph Gjellerup  169
    Poet, Novelist
    Tuesday, June 2nd 1857
  • Thomas Hardy  186

    Tuesday, June 2nd 1840
  • Marquis de Sade  286

    Thursday, June 2nd 1740
  • Larry McMurtry  90

    Wednesday, June 3rd 1936
  • Marion Zimmer Bradley  96

    Tuesday, June 3rd 1930
  • Allen Ginsberg  100

    Thursday, June 3rd 1926
  • Buddy Wakefield  52
    Poet
    Tuesday, June 4th 1974
  • Joe Hill  54
    Novelist
    Sunday, June 4th 1972
  • John Hockenberry  70
    Journalist
    Monday, June 4th 1956
  • Val McDermid  71
    Novelist
    Saturday, June 4th 1955
  • Wendy Pini  75
    Comic Book Writer
    Monday, June 4th 1951
  • Kenneth G. Ross  85
    Playwright, Screenwriter
    Wednesday, June 4th 1941
  • Robert Fulghum  89
    Essayist, Novelist
    Friday, June 4th 1937
  • Maurice Shadbolt  94
    Novelist
    Saturday, June 4th 1932
  • Ruth Westheimer  98
    Non-Fiction
    Monday, June 4th 1928
  • Elizabeth Jolley  103
    Novelist
    Monday, June 4th 1923
  • Jacques Roumain  119
    Novelist, Poet
    Tuesday, June 4th 1907
  • Patience Strong  119
    Poet
    Tuesday, June 4th 1907
  • Mabel Lucie Attwell  147
    Children's Literature
    Wednesday, June 4th 1879
  • Apollon Maykov  205
    Poet
    Monday, June 4th 1821
  • Ken Follett  77

    Sunday, June 5th 1949
  • Margaret Drabble  87

    Monday, June 5th 1939
  • Alfred Kazin  111

    Saturday, June 5th 1915
  • Federico Garcia Lorca  128

    Sunday, June 5th 1898
  • Geraldine McCaughrean  75
    Novelist
    Wednesday, June 6th 1951
  • Stephen Dixon  90

    Saturday, June 6th 1936
  • Harry Crews  91

    Thursday, June 6th 1935
  • Maxine Kumine  101

    Saturday, June 6th 1925
  • Thomas Mann  151

    Sunday, June 6th 1875
  • Alexander Pushkin  227

    Thursday, June 6th 1799
  • Louise Erdrich  72

    Monday, June 7th 1954
  • Orhan Pamuk  74

    Saturday, June 7th 1952
  • Elizabeth Bowen  127

    Wednesday, June 7th 1899
  • Sara Paretsky  79

    Sunday, June 8th 1947
  • John W. Campbell  116

    Wednesday, June 8th 1910
  • David Koepp  63
    Screenwriter
    Sunday, June 9th 1963
  • Aaron Sorkin  65
    Playwright, Screenwriter
    Friday, June 9th 1961
  • Patricia Cornwell  70
    Novelist
    Saturday, June 9th 1956
  • Gregory Maguire  72
    Novelist
    Wednesday, June 9th 1954
  • James Kelman  80
    Novelist
    Sunday, June 9th 1946
  • Deyda Hydara  80
    Journalist
    Sunday, June 9th 1946
  • Joe Haldeman  83
    Novelist
    Wednesday, June 9th 1943
  • Charles Webb  87
    Novelist
    Friday, June 9th 1939
  • Keith Laumer  101
    Novelist
    Tuesday, June 9th 1925
  • George Axelrod  104
    Playwright, Screenwriter
    Friday, June 9th 1922
  • John Gillespie Magee, Jr.  104
    Poet
    Friday, June 9th 1922
  • Jurij Brězan  110
    Novelist
    Friday, June 9th 1916
  • Bertha von Suttner  183
    Novelist
    Friday, June 9th 1843
  • Maurice Sendak  98
    Children's Literature
    Sunday, June 10th 1928
  • Saul Bellow  111

    Thursday, June 10th 1915
  • Athol Fugard  94

    Saturday, June 11th 1932
  • William Styron  101

    Thursday, June 11th 1925
  • Sonia Manzano  76

    Monday, June 12th 1950
  • Brigid Brophy  97

    Wednesday, June 12th 1929
  • Anne Frank  97
    Diarist
    Wednesday, June 12th 1929
  • Djuna Barnes  134
    Novelist
    Sunday, June 12th 1892
  • Audrey Niffenegger  63

    Thursday, June 13th 1963
  • Maurice G. Dantec  67

    Saturday, June 13th 1959
  • Whitley Strieber  81

    Wednesday, June 13th 1945
  • Dorothy L. Sayers  133

    Tuesday, June 13th 1893
  • William Butler Yeats  161

    Tuesday, June 13th 1865
  • John Edgar Wideman  85

    Saturday, June 14th 1941
  • Jerzy Kosinski  93

    Wednesday, June 14th 1933
  • Yasunari Kawabata  127

    Wednesday, June 14th 1899
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe  215

    Friday, June 14th 1811
  • Chris Morris  64
    Satirist, Screenwriter
    Friday, June 15th 1962
  • Ana Castillo  73

    Monday, June 15th 1953
  • Amy Clampitt  106

    Tuesday, June 15th 1920
  • Joyce Carol Oates  88

    Thursday, June 16th 1938
  • Ron Padgett  84

    Wednesday, June 17th 1942
  • John Hersey  112

    Wednesday, June 17th 1914
  • Richard Powers  69

    Tuesday, June 18th 1957
  • Amy Bloom  73

    Thursday, June 18th 1953
  • Chris Van Allsburg  77

    Saturday, June 18th 1949
  • Gail Godwin  89

    Friday, June 18th 1937
  • Salman Rushdie  79

    Thursday, June 19th 1947
  • Tobias Wolff  81

    Tuesday, June 19th 1945
  • E. Lynn Harris  71

    Monday, June 20th 1955
  • Vikram Seth  74

    Friday, June 20th 1952
  • Lillian Hellman  121

    Tuesday, June 20th 1905
  • Ian McEwan  78

    Monday, June 21st 1948
  • Francoise Sagan  91

    Friday, June 21st 1935
  • Mary McCarthy  114

    Friday, June 21st 1912
  • Jean-Paul Sartre  121

    Wednesday, June 21st 1905
  • Dan Brown  62

    Monday, June 22nd 1964
  • Joanna Scott  66

    Wednesday, June 22nd 1960
  • Octavia Butler  79

    Sunday, June 22nd 1947
  • Erich Maria Remarque  128

    Wednesday, June 22nd 1898
  • Julian Hawthorne  180

    Monday, June 22nd 1846
  • David Leavitt  65

    Friday, June 23rd 1961
  • Alexandru Odobescu  192

    Monday, June 23rd 1834
  • Lawrence Block  88

    Friday, June 24th 1938
  • Anita Desai  89

    Thursday, June 24th 1937
  • Ambrose Bierce  184

    Friday, June 24th 1842
  • Rebecca Harding Davis  195

    Friday, June 24th 1831
  • Nicholas Mosley  103

    Monday, June 25th 1923
  • George Orwell  123
    Novelist
    Thursday, June 25th 1903
  • Moses Hadas  126
    Literary Translator
    Monday, June 25th 1900
  • Robert Erskine Childers  156

    Saturday, June 25th 1870
  • Pearl S. Buck  134
    Novelist
    Sunday, June 26th 1892
  • J. J. Abrams  60
    Screenwriter
    Monday, June 27th 1966
  • Dan Jurgens  67
    Comic Book Writer
    Saturday, June 27th 1959
  • Anita Diamant  75
    Novelist
    Wednesday, June 27th 1951
  • James P. Hogan  85
    Novelist
    Friday, June 27th 1941
  • Ivan Doig  87
    Novelist
    Tuesday, June 27th 1939
  • Kirkpatrick Sale  89
    Non-Fiction
    Sunday, June 27th 1937
  • Lucille Clifton  90
    Poet, Children's Literature
    Saturday, June 27th 1936
  • Frank O'Hara  100
    Poet
    Sunday, June 27th 1926
  • Robert Aickman  112
    Novelist
    Saturday, June 27th 1914
  • João Guimarães Rosa  118
    Novelist
    Saturday, June 27th 1908
  • Catherine Cookson  120
    Novelist
    Wednesday, June 27th 1906
  • Lafcadio Hearn  176
    Journalist, Novelist
    Thursday, June 27th 1850
  • Louise von François  209
    Novelist
    Friday, June 27th 1817
  • Mark Helprin  79
    novelist, journalist
    Saturday, June 28th 1947
  • Eric Ambler  117
    Novelist
    Monday, June 28th 1909
  • Floyd Dell  139
    novelist, playwright, poet
    Tuesday, June 28th 1887
  • Luigi Pirandello  159
    playwright, novelist, poet
    Friday, June 28th 1867
  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery  126
    novelist, poet, journalist
    Friday, June 29th 1900
  • Czeslaw Milosz  115

    Friday, June 30th 1911
  • William Hamilton Maxwell  234
    Novelist
    Saturday, June 30th 1792
  • John Gay  341

    Saturday, June 30th 1685

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    1. Jessica Maciag

      Thank you for compiling such an extraordinarily comprehensive site. I work at a library and I only wished I’d found you before. Thanks again!

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