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Author Birthdays for August

  • James St. James  60
    Novelist
    Monday, August 1st 1966
  • Madison Smartt Bell  69
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 1st 1957
  • Howard Kurtz  73
    Journalist
    Saturday, August 1st 1953
  • Jim Carroll  76
    Poet, Novelist
    Tuesday, August 1st 1950
  • Mark Alan Stamaty  79
    Children's Literature
    Friday, August 1st 1947
  • Étienne Roda-Gil  85
    Screenwriter
    Friday, August 1st 1941
  • Ram Loevy  86
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, August 1st 1940
  • Ernst Jandl  101
    Poet
    Saturday, August 1st 1925
  • Anne Hébert  110
    Novelist, Poet
    Tuesday, August 1st 1916
  • Herman Melville  207
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 1st 1819
  • Richard Henry Dana Jr.  211
    Novelist
    Tuesday, August 1st 1815
  • Luis Vélez de Guevara  447
    Playwright, Novelist
    Wednesday, August 1st 1579
  • Caleb Carr  71

    Tuesday, August 2nd 1955
  • Isabel Allende  84

    Sunday, August 2nd 1942
  • James Baldwin  102

    Saturday, August 2nd 1924
  • Aino Kallas  148

    Friday, August 2nd 1878
  • Steven Millhauser  83

    Tuesday, August 3rd 1943
  • Leon Uris  102

    Sunday, August 3rd 1924
  • P. D. James  106

    Tuesday, August 3rd 1920
  • Clifford D. Simak  122

    Wednesday, August 3rd 1904
  • Rupert Brooke  139

    Wednesday, August 3rd 1887
  • John August  56
    Screenwriter
    Tuesday, August 4th 1970
  • Dennis Lehane  61
    Novelist
    Wednesday, August 4th 1965
  • Tim Winton   66
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 4th 1960
  • Allison Hedge Coke  68
    Poet
    Monday, August 4th 1958
  • Billy Bob Thornton  71
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, August 4th 1955
  • Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi  103
    Humorist
    Saturday, August 4th 1923
  • Helen Thomas   106
    Journalist, Columnist
    Wednesday, August 4th 1920
  • Iceberg Slim  108
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 4th 1918
  • Robert Hayden  113
    Poet
    Monday, August 4th 1913
  • Witold Gombrowicz  122
    Novelist, Playwright
    Thursday, August 4th 1904
  • Knut Hamsun  167
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 4th 1859
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley  234
    Poet
    Saturday, August 4th 1792
  • François Hédelin  422
    Playwright
    Wednesday, August 4th 1604
  • Ron Silliman  80
    Poet
    Monday, August 5th 1946
  • Wendell Berry  92
    Novelist, Poet
    Sunday, August 5th 1934
  • Conrad Potter Aiken  137
    Novelist, Poet
    Monday, August 5th 1889
  • Guy de Maupassant  176
    Short Fiction
    Monday, August 5th 1850
  • Ivar Aasen  213
    Poet, Playwright
    Thursday, August 5th 1813
  • Karenna Gore Schiff  53
    Journalist
    Monday, August 6th 1973
  • Diane di Prima  92
    Poet
    Monday, August 6th 1934
  • Piers Anthony  92
    Novelist
    Monday, August 6th 1934
  • Chalmers Johnson  95
    Non-Fiction
    Thursday, August 6th 1931
  • Elisabeth Beresford  100
    Children's Literature
    Friday, August 6th 1926
  • Norman Wexler  100
    Screenwriter
    Friday, August 6th 1926
  • Constance Heaven  115
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 6th 1911
  • John Middleton Murry  137
    Novelist, Poet, Essayist
    Tuesday, August 6th 1889
  • Scott Nearing  143
    Non-Fiction
    Monday, August 6th 1883
  • Louella Parsons  145
    Columnist
    Saturday, August 6th 1881
  • Charles Fort  152
    Novelist, Non-Fiction
    Thursday, August 6th 1874
  • Paul Claudel  158
    Poet, Playwright
    Thursday, August 6th 1868
  • Thomas Alexander Browne  200
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 6th 1826
  • Alfred Lord Tennyson  217
    Poet
    Sunday, August 6th 1809
  • Luc de Clapiers  311
    Essayist
    Tuesday, August 6th 1715
  • John Birmingham  62
    Novelist
    Friday, August 7th 1964
  • Vladimir Sorokin  71
    Novelist, Playwright
    Sunday, August 7th 1955
  • Anne Fadiman  73
    Novelist
    Friday, August 7th 1953
  • Marty Appel  78
    Biographer
    Saturday, August 7th 1948
  • Garrison Keillor  84
    Humorist
    Friday, August 7th 1942
  • Charles E. Rice  95
    Non-Fiction
    Friday, August 7th 1931
  • Romeo Muller  98
    Screenwriter
    Tuesday, August 7th 1928
  • Sue Kaufman  100
    Novelist
    Saturday, August 7th 1926
  • Georg Stiernhielm  428
    Poet
    Friday, August 7th 1598
  • Alonso de Ercilla  493
    Poet
    Monday, August 7th 1533
  • Jostein Gaarder  74

    Friday, August 8th 1952
  • Randy Shilts  75

    Wednesday, August 8th 1951
  • Terry Nation  96

    Friday, August 8th 1930
  • Nina Berberova  125

    Thursday, August 8th 1901
  • Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings  130

    Saturday, August 8th 1896
  • Sara Teasdale  142

    Friday, August 8th 1884
  • Emilie Flygare-Carlén  219

    Saturday, August 8th 1807
  • Jonathan Kellerman  77

    Tuesday, August 9th 1949
  • Graeme C. Gibson  92

    Thursday, August 9th 1934
  • Tetsuko Kuroyanagi  93

    Wednesday, August 9th 1933
  • Daniel Keyes  99

    Tuesday, August 9th 1927
  • Frank M. Robinson  100

    Monday, August 9th 1926
  • Philip Larkin  104

    Wednesday, August 9th 1922
  • Tove Jansson  112

    Sunday, August 9th 1914
  • P. L. Travers  127

    Wednesday, August 9th 1899
  • Leonid Andreyev  155

    Wednesday, August 9th 1871
  • John Dryden  395

    Saturday, August 9th 1631
  • Mark Doty  73

    Monday, August 10th 1953
  • Barry Unsworth  96

    Sunday, August 10th 1930
  • Jorge Amado  114

    Saturday, August 10th 1912
  • Ward Moore  123

    Monday, August 10th 1903
  • Curt Siodmak  124

    Sunday, August 10th 1902
  • Panait Istrati  142

    Sunday, August 10th 1884
  • Alfred Döblin  148

    Saturday, August 10th 1878
  • David Brooks  65
    Journalist
    Friday, August 11th 1961
  • Tom Miller  79
    Travel Writer
    Monday, August 11th 1947
  • Marilyn vos Savant  80
    Columnist
    Sunday, August 11th 1946
  • Andre Dubus  90
    Short Fiction
    Tuesday, August 11th 1936
  • Fernando Arrabal  94
    Playwright, Screenwriter
    Thursday, August 11th 1932
  • Alex Haley  105
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 11th 1921
  • Angus Wilson  113
    Novelist
    Monday, August 11th 1913
  • Louise Bogan  129
    Poet
    Wednesday, August 11th 1897
  • Enid Blyton  129
    Children's Literature
    Wednesday, August 11th 1897
  • Eiji Yoshikawa  134
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 11th 1892
  • Hugh MacDiarmid  134
    Poet
    Thursday, August 11th 1892
  • Oliver W. F. Lodge  148
    Poet
    Sunday, August 11th 1878
  • Anthony Swofford  56
    Novelist
    Wednesday, August 12th 1970
  • Ann M. Martin  71
    Children's Literature
    Friday, August 12th 1955
  • Jim Beaver  76
    Playwright, Screenwriter
    Saturday, August 12th 1950
  • Réjean Ducharme  85
    Novelist, Playwright
    Tuesday, August 12th 1941
  • Walter Dean Myers  89
    Children's Literature
    Thursday, August 12th 1937
  • William Goldman  95
    Novelist, Playwright,Screenwriter
    Wednesday, August 12th 1931
  • Wallace Markfield  100
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 12th 1926
  • Zerna Sharp  137
    Children's Literature
    Monday, August 12th 1889
  • Keith Murdoch  141
    Journalist
    Wednesday, August 12th 1885
  • Radclyffe Hall  146
    Poet, Novelist
    Thursday, August 12th 1880
  • Mary Roberts Rinehart  150
    Novelist
    Saturday, August 12th 1876
  • Jacinto Benavente  160
    Playwright
    Sunday, August 12th 1866
  • Katharine Lee Bates  167
    Poet, Children's Literature
    Friday, August 12th 1859
  • Robert Southey  252
    Poet
    Friday, August 12th 1774
  • Piper Reese  26
    Journalist
    Sunday, August 13th 2000
  • Will Clarke  56
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 13th 1970
  • Amélie Nothomb  59
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 13th 1967
  • Sean Hood  60
    Screenwriter
    Saturday, August 13th 1966
  • Tom Perrotta  65
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 13th 1961
  • Goldwin Smith  203
    Journalist
    Wednesday, August 13th 1823
  • Vladimir Odoevsky  223
    Short Fiction, Children's Literature
    Saturday, August 13th 1803
  • William Wotton  360
    Non-Fiction
    Friday, August 13th 1666
  • Brannon Braga  61
    Screenwriter
    Saturday, August 14th 1965
  • Danielle Steel  79
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 14th 1947
  • Lee Hoffman  94
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 14th 1932
  • Alice Adams  100
    Novelist
    Saturday, August 14th 1926
  • René Goscinny  100
    Comic Book Writer
    Saturday, August 14th 1926
  • Russell Baker  101
    Journalist, Essayist
    Friday, August 14th 1925
  • B. A. Santamaria  111
    Journalist
    Saturday, August 14th 1915
  • Alice Rivaz  125
    Novelist
    Wednesday, August 14th 1901
  • John Galsworthy  159
    Novelist, Playwright
    Wednesday, August 14th 1867
  • Ernest Thayer  163
    Poet
    Friday, August 14th 1863
  • Robert Hayman  451
    Poet
    Thursday, August 14th 1575
  • Rob Thomas  61
    Novelist, Screenwriter
    Sunday, August 15th 1965
  • Simon Baron-Cohen  68
    Non-Fiction
    Friday, August 15th 1958
  • Victor Shenderovich  68
    Playwright, Screenwriter
    Friday, August 15th 1958
  • Stieg Larsson  72
    Novelist, Journalist
    Sunday, August 15th 1954
  • Mary Jo Salter  72
    Poet
    Sunday, August 15th 1954
  • Garry Disher  77
    Novelist, Children's Literature
    Monday, August 15th 1949
  • Linda Ellerbee  82
    Journalist
    Tuesday, August 15th 1944
  • Janusz Zajdel  88
    Novelist
    Monday, August 15th 1938
  • Sami Michael  100
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 15th 1926
  • Robert Bolt  102
    Playwright, Screenwriter
    Friday, August 15th 1924
  • Benedict Kiely  107
    Novelist
    Friday, August 15th 1919
  • Aleks Çaçi  110
    Essayist
    Tuesday, August 15th 1916
  • Jan Brzechwa  128
    Poet, Children's Literature
    Monday, August 15th 1898
  • Edna Ferber  141
    Novelist
    Saturday, August 15th 1885
  • Sri Aurobindo  154
    Poet
    Thursday, August 15th 1872
  • E. Nesbit  168
    Poet, Children's Literature
    Sunday, August 15th 1858
  • Thomas-Alfred Bernier  182
    Journalist
    Thursday, August 15th 1844
  • Thomas de Quincey  241
    Novelist
    Monday, August 15th 1785
  • Sir Walter Scott  255
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 15th 1771
  • Matthias Claudius  286
    Poet
    Monday, August 15th 1740
  • Luigi Pulci  594
    Poet
    Wednesday, August 15th 1432
  • Diana Wynne Jones  92
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 16th 1934
  • Charles Bukowski  106
    Poet, Novelist
    Monday, August 16th 1920
  • William Keepers Maxwell, Jr.  118
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 16th 1908
  • Georgette Heyer  124
    Novelist
    Saturday, August 16th 1902
  • Albert Cohen  131
    Novelist
    Friday, August 16th 1895
  • Nicola Kraus  52

    Saturday, August 17th 1974
  • Jonathan Franzen  67

    Monday, August 17th 1959
  • Eric Schlosser  67

    Monday, August 17th 1959
  • Alexander Theroux  87

    Thursday, August 17th 1939
  • V. S. Naipaul  94

    Wednesday, August 17th 1932
  • Ted Hughes  96

    Sunday, August 17th 1930
  • John Hawkes  101

    Monday, August 17th 1925
  • Evan Connell  102

    Sunday, August 17th 1924
  • Gene Stratton-Porter  163

    Monday, August 17th 1863
  • Brian Aldiss  101

    Tuesday, August 18th 1925
  • Alain Robbe-Grillet  104

    Friday, August 18th 1922
  • Nettie Palmer  141
    Poet
    Tuesday, August 18th 1885
  • Jami  612

    Thursday, August 18th 1414
  • Jonathan Coe  65

    Saturday, August 19th 1961
  • Bodil Malmsten  82

    Saturday, August 19th 1944
  • Frank McCourt  96

    Tuesday, August 19th 1930
  • Quentin Bell  116

    Friday, August 19th 1910
  • James Gould Cozzens  123

    Wednesday, August 19th 1903
  • Ogden Nash  124

    Tuesday, August 19th 1902
  • Samuel Richardson  337

    Friday, August 19th 1689
  • Íñigo López de Mendoza  628

    Sunday, August 19th 1398
  • Marcus Mastin  51

    Wednesday, August 20th 1975
  • Greg Egan  65

    Sunday, August 20th 1961
  • Greg Bear  75

    Monday, August 20th 1951
  • Vasily Aksyonov  94

    Saturday, August 20th 1932
  • Jacqueline Susann  105

    Saturday, August 20th 1921
  • William Lindsay Gresham  117

    Friday, August 20th 1909
  • Vilhelm Moberg  128

    Saturday, August 20th 1898
  • Tarjei Vesaas  129

    Friday, August 20th 1897
  • H. P. Lovecraft  136

    Wednesday, August 20th 1890
  • Edgar Guest  145

    Saturday, August 20th 1881
  • Boleslaw Prus  179

    Friday, August 20th 1847
  • Ivan Stang  73

    Friday, August 21st 1953
  • Robert Stone  89

    Saturday, August 21st 1937
  • Christopher Robin Milne  106

    Saturday, August 21st 1920
  • M. M. Kaye  118

    Friday, August 21st 1908
  • Aubrey Beardsley  154

    Wednesday, August 21st 1872
  • Emilio Salgari  164

    Thursday, August 21st 1862
  • Diane Setterfield  62

    Saturday, August 22nd 1964
  • Diane Setterfield  62

    Saturday, August 22nd 1964
  • Will Shetterly  71

    Monday, August 22nd 1955
  • Þórarinn Eldjárn  77

    Monday, August 22nd 1949
  • E. Annie Proulx  91

    Thursday, August 22nd 1935
  • James Kirkwood, Jr.  102

    Friday, August 22nd 1924
  • Ray Bradbury  106
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 22nd 1920
  • Dorothy Parker  133

    Tuesday, August 22nd 1893
  • James Kirke Paulding  248

    Saturday, August 22nd 1778
  • Georges de Scudéry  425

    Wednesday, August 22nd 1601
  • Nelson DeMille  83

    Monday, August 23rd 1943
  • Lewis Nordan  87
    Novelist
    Wednesday, August 23rd 1939
  • Will Cuppy  142

    Saturday, August 23rd 1884
  • Alexander Grin  146

    Monday, August 23rd 1880
  • Edgar Lee Masters  157

    Monday, August 23rd 1869
  • John Green  49

    Wednesday, August 24th 1977
  • Chris Offutt  68

    Sunday, August 24th 1958
  • Oscar Hijuelos  75

    Friday, August 24th 1951
  • Orson Scott Card  75

    Friday, August 24th 1951
  • Paulo Coelho  79

    Sunday, August 24th 1947
  • Howard Jacobson  84

    Monday, August 24th 1942
  • A. S. Byatt  90

    Monday, August 24th 1936
  • David Ireland  99

    Wednesday, August 24th 1927
  • James Tiptree, Jr.  111

    Tuesday, August 24th 1915
  • Jorge Luis Borges  127

    Thursday, August 24th 1899
  • Jean Rhys  136

    Sunday, August 24th 1890
  • Earl Derr Biggers  142

    Sunday, August 24th 1884
  • Max Beerbohm  154

    Saturday, August 24th 1872
  • Tim Burton  68
    Screenwriter
    Monday, August 25th 1958
  • Martin Amis  77

    Thursday, August 25th 1949
  • Charles Ghigna - "Father Goose"  80

    Sunday, August 25th 1946
  • Frederick Forsyth  88

    Thursday, August 25th 1938
  • Thea Astley  101

    Tuesday, August 25th 1925
  • Brian Moore  105

    Thursday, August 25th 1921
  • Bret Harte  190

    Thursday, August 25th 1836
  • Naïm Kattan  98

    Sunday, August 26th 1928
  • Julio Cortazar  112

    Wednesday, August 26th 1914
  • Christopher Isherwood  122

    Friday, August 26th 1904
  • Jules Romains  141

    Wednesday, August 26th 1885
  • Guillaume Apollinaire  146

    Thursday, August 26th 1880
  • John Buchan  151

    Thursday, August 26th 1875
  • Zona Gale  152

    Wednesday, August 26th 1874
  • Jeanette Winterson  67

    Thursday, August 27th 1959
  • Tom Lanoye  68

    Wednesday, August 27th 1958
  • Antonia Fraser  94

    Saturday, August 27th 1932
  • Ira Levin  97

    Tuesday, August 27th 1929
  • Norah Lofts  122

    Saturday, August 27th 1904
  • C. S. Forester  127

    Sunday, August 27th 1899
  • Lloyd C. Douglas  149

    Monday, August 27th 1877
  • Theodore Dreiser  155

    Sunday, August 27th 1871
  • Ivan Franko  170
    Poet
    Wednesday, August 27th 1856
  • Rita Dove  74
    Poet
    Thursday, August 28th 1952
  • Janet Frame  102
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 28th 1924
  • Fernando Fernán Gómez  105
    Novelist, Playwright
    Sunday, August 28th 1921
  • Jack Kirby  109
    Comic Book Writer
    Tuesday, August 28th 1917
  • Jack Vance  110
    Novelist
    Monday, August 28th 1916
  • Robertson Davies  113
    Novelist, Playwright
    Thursday, August 28th 1913
  • Boris Pahor  113
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 28th 1913
  • John Betjeman  120
    Poet
    Tuesday, August 28th 1906
  • Andrei Platonov  127
    Novelist
    Monday, August 28th 1899
  • Vance Palmer  141
    Novelist
    Friday, August 28th 1885
  • Sheridan Le Fanu  212
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 28th 1814
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  277
    Poet, Novelist
    Thursday, August 28th 1749
  • Michael P. Kube-McDowell  72
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 29th 1954
  • Karen Hesse  74
    Children's Literature
    Friday, August 29th 1952
  • Temple Grandin  79
    Non-Fiction, Essayist
    Friday, August 29th 1947
  • Lise Payette  95
    Columnist
    Saturday, August 29th 1931
  • Thom Gunn  97
    Poet
    Thursday, August 29th 1929
  • Luther Davis  110
    Playwright, Screenwriter
    Tuesday, August 29th 1916
  • Maurice Maeterlinck  164
    Poet, Playwright, Essayist
    Friday, August 29th 1862
  • Edward Carpenter  182
    Poet
    Thursday, August 29th 1844
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.  217
    Poet
    Tuesday, August 29th 1809
  • Anna Politkovskaya  68
    Journalist
    Saturday, August 30th 1958
  • Molly Ivins  82
    Columnist
    Wednesday, August 30th 1944
  • R. Crumb  83
    Comicbook Writer
    Monday, August 30th 1943
  • Laurent de Brunhoff  101
    Children's Literature
    Sunday, August 30th 1925
  • Charmian Clift  103
    Essayist
    Thursday, August 30th 1923
  • John Gunther  125
    Journalist
    Friday, August 30th 1901
  • Marcelo H. del Pilar  176
    Journalist
    Friday, August 30th 1850
  • Agoston Haraszthy  214
    Non-Fiction
    Sunday, August 30th 1812
  • Mary Shelly  229
    Novelist
    Wednesday, August 30th 1797
  • Joseph Dennie  258
    Journalist, Essayist
    Tuesday, August 30th 1768
  • Raymond P. Hammond  62
    Poet
    Monday, August 31st 1964
  • Julie Brown  68
    Screenwriter
    Sunday, August 31st 1958
  • Gary Webb  71
    Journalist
    Wednesday, August 31st 1955
  • György Károly  73
    Poet
    Monday, August 31st 1953
  • Lowell Ganz  78
    Screenwriter
    Tuesday, August 31st 1948
  • Jerome Corsi  80
    Non-Fiction
    Saturday, August 31st 1946
  • Martin Bell  88
    Journalist
    Wednesday, August 31st 1938
  • Amrita Pritam  107
    Poet, Novelist
    Sunday, August 31st 1919
  • Daniel Schorr  110
    Journalist
    Thursday, August 31st 1916
  • Edward Brongersma  115
    Journalist
    Thursday, August 31st 1911
  • Ferenc Fejtő  117
    Journalist
    Tuesday, August 31st 1909
  • William Saroyan  118
    Novelist, Playwright
    Monday, August 31st 1908
  • William Shawn  119
    Journalist, Editor
    Saturday, August 31st 1907
  • Félix-Antoine Savard  130
    Poet, Novelist
    Monday, August 31st 1896
  • Albert Facey  132
    Memoirist
    Friday, August 31st 1894
  • DuBose Heyward  141
    Novelist
    Monday, August 31st 1885
  • Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin  184
    Journalist
    Wednesday, August 31st 1842
  • Théophile Gautier  215
    Poet, Novelist
    Saturday, August 31st 1811

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    2 thoughts on “Author Birthdays for August”

    1. Linda DeLia

      Your work is fabulous! My friend and I are creating a Booklovers’ Calendar for 2012, and I’m using your sites for a last check for some of the dates for which we didn’t have our own authors (I was an English professor, though we are including popular authors as well as more classical ones.) Great sites!

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