Author Birthdays for August
James St. James 56
Novelist
Monday, August 1st 1966Madison Smartt Bell 65
Novelist
Thursday, August 1st 1957Howard Kurtz 69
Journalist
Saturday, August 1st 1953Jim Carroll 72
Poet, Novelist
Tuesday, August 1st 1950Mark Alan Stamaty 75
Children's Literature
Friday, August 1st 1947Étienne Roda-Gil 81
Screenwriter
Friday, August 1st 1941Ram Loevy 82
Screenwriter
Thursday, August 1st 1940Ernst Jandl 97
Poet
Saturday, August 1st 1925Anne Hébert 106
Novelist, Poet
Tuesday, August 1st 1916Herman Melville 203
Novelist
Sunday, August 1st 1819Richard Henry Dana Jr. 207
Novelist
Tuesday, August 1st 1815Luis Vélez de Guevara 443
Playwright, Novelist
Wednesday, August 1st 1579Caleb Carr 67
Tuesday, August 2nd 1955Isabel Allende 80
Sunday, August 2nd 1942James Baldwin 98
Saturday, August 2nd 1924Aino Kallas 144
Friday, August 2nd 1878Steven Millhauser 79
Tuesday, August 3rd 1943Leon Uris 98
Sunday, August 3rd 1924P. D. James 102
Tuesday, August 3rd 1920Clifford D. Simak 118
Wednesday, August 3rd 1904Rupert Brooke 135
Wednesday, August 3rd 1887John August 52
Screenwriter
Tuesday, August 4th 1970Dennis Lehane 57
Novelist
Wednesday, August 4th 1965Tim Winton 62
Novelist
Thursday, August 4th 1960Allison Hedge Coke 64
Poet
Monday, August 4th 1958Billy Bob Thornton 67
Screenwriter
Thursday, August 4th 1955Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi 99
Humorist
Saturday, August 4th 1923Helen Thomas 102
Journalist, Columnist
Wednesday, August 4th 1920Iceberg Slim 104
Novelist
Sunday, August 4th 1918Robert Hayden 109
Poet
Monday, August 4th 1913Witold Gombrowicz 118
Novelist, Playwright
Thursday, August 4th 1904Knut Hamsun 163
Novelist
Thursday, August 4th 1859Percy Bysshe Shelley 230
Poet
Saturday, August 4th 1792François Hédelin 418
Playwright
Wednesday, August 4th 1604Ron Silliman 76
Poet
Monday, August 5th 1946Wendell Berry 88
Novelist, Poet
Sunday, August 5th 1934Conrad Potter Aiken 133
Novelist, Poet
Monday, August 5th 1889Guy de Maupassant 172
Short Stories
Monday, August 5th 1850Ivar Aasen 209
Poet, Playwright
Thursday, August 5th 1813Karenna Gore Schiff 49
Journalist
Monday, August 6th 1973Diane di Prima 88
Poet
Monday, August 6th 1934Piers Anthony 88
Novelist
Monday, August 6th 1934Chalmers Johnson 91
Non-Fiction
Thursday, August 6th 1931Elisabeth Beresford 96
Children's Literature
Friday, August 6th 1926Norman Wexler 96
Screenwriter
Friday, August 6th 1926Constance Heaven 111
Novelist
Sunday, August 6th 1911John Middleton Murry 133
Novelist, Poet, Essayist
Tuesday, August 6th 1889Scott Nearing 139
Non-Fiction
Monday, August 6th 1883Louella Parsons 141
Columnist
Saturday, August 6th 1881Charles Fort 148
Novelist, Non-Fiction
Thursday, August 6th 1874Paul Claudel 154
Poet, Playwright
Thursday, August 6th 1868Thomas Alexander Browne 196
Novelist
Sunday, August 6th 1826Alfred Lord Tennyson 213
Poet
Sunday, August 6th 1809Luc de Clapiers 307
Essayist
Tuesday, August 6th 1715John Birmingham 58
Novelist
Friday, August 7th 1964Vladimir Sorokin 67
Novelist, Playwright
Sunday, August 7th 1955Anne Fadiman 69
Novelist
Friday, August 7th 1953Marty Appel 74
Biographer
Saturday, August 7th 1948Garrison Keillor 80
Humorist
Friday, August 7th 1942Charles E. Rice 91
Non-Fiction
Friday, August 7th 1931Romeo Muller 94
Screenwriter
Tuesday, August 7th 1928Sue Kaufman 96
Novelist
Saturday, August 7th 1926Georg Stiernhielm 424
Poet
Friday, August 7th 1598Alonso de Ercilla 489
Poet
Monday, August 7th 1533Jostein Gaarder 70
Friday, August 8th 1952Randy Shilts 71
Wednesday, August 8th 1951Terry Nation 92
Friday, August 8th 1930Nina Berberova 121
Thursday, August 8th 1901Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 126
Saturday, August 8th 1896Sara Teasdale 138
Friday, August 8th 1884Emilie Flygare-Carlén 215
Saturday, August 8th 1807Jonathan Kellerman 73
Tuesday, August 9th 1949Graeme C. Gibson 88
Thursday, August 9th 1934Tetsuko Kuroyanagi 89
Wednesday, August 9th 1933Daniel Keyes 95
Tuesday, August 9th 1927Frank M. Robinson 96
Monday, August 9th 1926Philip Larkin 100
Wednesday, August 9th 1922Tove Jansson 108
Sunday, August 9th 1914P. L. Travers 123
Wednesday, August 9th 1899Leonid Andreyev 151
Wednesday, August 9th 1871John Dryden 391
Saturday, August 9th 1631Mark Doty 69
Monday, August 10th 1953Barry Unsworth 92
Sunday, August 10th 1930Jorge Amado 110
Saturday, August 10th 1912Ward Moore 119
Monday, August 10th 1903Curt Siodmak 120
Sunday, August 10th 1902Panait Istrati 138
Sunday, August 10th 1884Alfred Döblin 144
Saturday, August 10th 1878David Brooks 61
Journalist
Friday, August 11th 1961Tom Miller 75
Travel Writer
Monday, August 11th 1947Marilyn vos Savant 76
Columnist
Sunday, August 11th 1946Andre Dubus 86
Short Stories
Tuesday, August 11th 1936Fernando Arrabal 90
Playwright, Screenwriter
Thursday, August 11th 1932Alex Haley 101
Novelist
Thursday, August 11th 1921Angus Wilson 109
Novelist
Monday, August 11th 1913Enid Blyton 125
Children's Literature
Wednesday, August 11th 1897Louise Bogan 125
Poet
Wednesday, August 11th 1897Eiji Yoshikawa 130
Novelist
Thursday, August 11th 1892Hugh MacDiarmid 130
Poet
Thursday, August 11th 1892Oliver W. F. Lodge 144
Poet
Sunday, August 11th 1878Anthony Swofford 52
Novelist
Wednesday, August 12th 1970Ann M. Martin 67
Children's Literature
Friday, August 12th 1955Jim Beaver 72
Playwright, Screenwriter
Saturday, August 12th 1950Réjean Ducharme 81
Novelist, Playwright
Tuesday, August 12th 1941Walter Dean Myers 85
Children's Literature
Thursday, August 12th 1937William Goldman 91
Novelist, Playwright,Screenwriter
Wednesday, August 12th 1931Wallace Markfield 96
Novelist
Thursday, August 12th 1926Zerna Sharp 133
Children's Literature
Monday, August 12th 1889Keith Murdoch 137
Journalist
Wednesday, August 12th 1885Radclyffe Hall 142
Poet, Novelist
Thursday, August 12th 1880Mary Roberts Rinehart 146
Novelist
Saturday, August 12th 1876Jacinto Benavente 156
Playwright
Sunday, August 12th 1866Katharine Lee Bates 163
Poet, Children's Literature
Friday, August 12th 1859Robert Southey 248
Poet
Friday, August 12th 1774Piper Reese 22
Journalist
Sunday, August 13th 2000Will Clarke 52
Novelist
Thursday, August 13th 1970Amélie Nothomb 55
Novelist
Sunday, August 13th 1967Sean Hood 56
Screenwriter
Saturday, August 13th 1966Tom Perrotta 61
Novelist
Sunday, August 13th 1961Goldwin Smith 199
Journalist
Wednesday, August 13th 1823Vladimir Odoevsky 219
Short Stories, Children's Literature
Saturday, August 13th 1803William Wotton 356
Non-Fiction
Friday, August 13th 1666Brannon Braga 57
Screenwriter
Saturday, August 14th 1965Danielle Steel 75
Novelist
Thursday, August 14th 1947Lee Hoffman 90
Novelist
Sunday, August 14th 1932Alice Adams 96
Novelist
Saturday, August 14th 1926René Goscinny 96
Comic Book Writer
Saturday, August 14th 1926Russell Baker 97
Journalist, Essayist
Friday, August 14th 1925B. A. Santamaria 107
Journalist
Saturday, August 14th 1915Alice Rivaz 121
Novelist
Wednesday, August 14th 1901John Galsworthy 155
Novelist, Playwright
Wednesday, August 14th 1867Ernest Thayer 159
Poet
Friday, August 14th 1863Robert Hayman 447
Poet
Thursday, August 14th 1575Rob Thomas 57
Novelist, Screenwriter
Sunday, August 15th 1965Victor Shenderovich 64
Playwright, Screenwriter
Friday, August 15th 1958Simon Baron-Cohen 64
Non-Fiction
Friday, August 15th 1958Mary Jo Salter 68
Poet
Sunday, August 15th 1954Stieg Larsson 68
Novelist, Journalist
Sunday, August 15th 1954Garry Disher 73
Novelist, Children's Literature
Monday, August 15th 1949Linda Ellerbee 78
Journalist
Tuesday, August 15th 1944Janusz Zajdel 84
Novelist
Monday, August 15th 1938Sami Michael 96
Novelist
Sunday, August 15th 1926Robert Bolt 98
Playwright, Screenwriter
Friday, August 15th 1924Benedict Kiely 103
Novelist
Friday, August 15th 1919Aleks Çaçi 106
Essayist
Tuesday, August 15th 1916Jan Brzechwa 124
Poet, Children's Literature
Monday, August 15th 1898Edna Ferber 137
Novelist
Saturday, August 15th 1885Sri Aurobindo 150
Poet
Thursday, August 15th 1872E. Nesbit 164
Poet, Children's Literature
Sunday, August 15th 1858Thomas-Alfred Bernier 178
Journalist
Thursday, August 15th 1844Thomas de Quincey 237
Novelist
Monday, August 15th 1785Sir Walter Scott 251
Novelist
Thursday, August 15th 1771Matthias Claudius 282
Poet
Monday, August 15th 1740Luigi Pulci 590
Poet
Wednesday, August 15th 1432Diana Wynne Jones 88
Novelist
Thursday, August 16th 1934Charles Bukowski 102
Poet, Novelist
Monday, August 16th 1920William Keepers Maxwell, Jr. 114
Novelist
Sunday, August 16th 1908Georgette Heyer 120
Novelist
Saturday, August 16th 1902Albert Cohen 127
Novelist
Friday, August 16th 1895Nicola Kraus 48
Saturday, August 17th 1974Jonathan Franzen 63
Monday, August 17th 1959Eric Schlosser 63
Monday, August 17th 1959Alexander Theroux 83
Thursday, August 17th 1939V. S. Naipaul 90
Wednesday, August 17th 1932Ted Hughes 92
Sunday, August 17th 1930John Hawkes 97
Monday, August 17th 1925Evan Connell 98
Sunday, August 17th 1924Gene Stratton-Porter 159
Monday, August 17th 1863Brian Aldiss 97
Tuesday, August 18th 1925Alain Robbe-Grillet 100
Friday, August 18th 1922Nettie Palmer 137
Poet
Tuesday, August 18th 1885Jami 608
Thursday, August 18th 1414Jonathan Coe 61
Saturday, August 19th 1961Bodil Malmsten 78
Saturday, August 19th 1944Frank McCourt 92
Tuesday, August 19th 1930Quentin Bell 112
Friday, August 19th 1910James Gould Cozzens 119
Wednesday, August 19th 1903Ogden Nash 120
Tuesday, August 19th 1902Samuel Richardson 333
Friday, August 19th 1689Íñigo López de Mendoza 624
Sunday, August 19th 1398Marcus Mastin 47
Wednesday, August 20th 1975Greg Egan 61
Sunday, August 20th 1961Greg Bear 71
Monday, August 20th 1951Vasily Aksyonov 90
Saturday, August 20th 1932Jacqueline Susann 101
Saturday, August 20th 1921William Lindsay Gresham 113
Friday, August 20th 1909Vilhelm Moberg 124
Saturday, August 20th 1898Tarjei Vesaas 125
Friday, August 20th 1897H. P. Lovecraft 132
Wednesday, August 20th 1890Edgar Guest 141
Saturday, August 20th 1881Boleslaw Prus 175
Friday, August 20th 1847Ivan Stang 69
Friday, August 21st 1953Robert Stone 85
Saturday, August 21st 1937Christopher Robin Milne 102
Saturday, August 21st 1920M. M. Kaye 114
Friday, August 21st 1908Aubrey Beardsley 150
Wednesday, August 21st 1872Emilio Salgari 160
Thursday, August 21st 1862Diane Setterfield 58
Saturday, August 22nd 1964Diane Setterfield 58
Saturday, August 22nd 1964Will Shetterly 67
Monday, August 22nd 1955Þórarinn Eldjárn 73
Monday, August 22nd 1949E. Annie Proulx 87
Thursday, August 22nd 1935James Kirkwood, Jr. 98
Friday, August 22nd 1924Ray Bradbury 102
Novelist
Sunday, August 22nd 1920Dorothy Parker 129
Tuesday, August 22nd 1893James Kirke Paulding 244
Saturday, August 22nd 1778Georges de Scudéry 421
Wednesday, August 22nd 1601Nelson DeMille 79
Monday, August 23rd 1943Lewis Nordan 83
Novelist
Wednesday, August 23rd 1939Will Cuppy 138
Saturday, August 23rd 1884Alexander Grin 142
Monday, August 23rd 1880Edgar Lee Masters 153
Monday, August 23rd 1869John Green 45
Wednesday, August 24th 1977Chris Offutt 64
Sunday, August 24th 1958Orson Scott Card 71
Friday, August 24th 1951Oscar Hijuelos 71
Friday, August 24th 1951Paulo Coelho 75
Sunday, August 24th 1947Howard Jacobson 80
Monday, August 24th 1942A. S. Byatt 86
Monday, August 24th 1936David Ireland 95
Wednesday, August 24th 1927James Tiptree, Jr. 107
Tuesday, August 24th 1915Jorge Luis Borges 123
Thursday, August 24th 1899Jean Rhys 132
Sunday, August 24th 1890Earl Derr Biggers 138
Sunday, August 24th 1884Max Beerbohm 150
Saturday, August 24th 1872Tim Burton 64
Screenwriter
Monday, August 25th 1958Martin Amis 73
Thursday, August 25th 1949Charles Ghigna - "Father Goose" 76
Sunday, August 25th 1946Frederick Forsyth 84
Thursday, August 25th 1938Thea Astley 97
Tuesday, August 25th 1925Brian Moore 101
Thursday, August 25th 1921Bret Harte 186
Thursday, August 25th 1836Naïm Kattan 94
Sunday, August 26th 1928Julio Cortazar 108
Wednesday, August 26th 1914Christopher Isherwood 118
Friday, August 26th 1904Jules Romains 137
Wednesday, August 26th 1885Guillaume Apollinaire 142
Thursday, August 26th 1880John Buchan 147
Thursday, August 26th 1875Zona Gale 148
Wednesday, August 26th 1874Jeanette Winterson 63
Thursday, August 27th 1959Tom Lanoye 64
Wednesday, August 27th 1958Antonia Fraser 90
Saturday, August 27th 1932Ira Levin 93
Tuesday, August 27th 1929Norah Lofts 118
Saturday, August 27th 1904C. S. Forester 123
Sunday, August 27th 1899Lloyd C. Douglas 145
Monday, August 27th 1877Theodore Dreiser 151
Sunday, August 27th 1871Ivan Franko 166
Poet
Wednesday, August 27th 1856Rita Dove 70
Poet
Thursday, August 28th 1952Janet Frame 98
Novelist
Thursday, August 28th 1924Fernando Fernán Gómez 101
Novelist, Playwright
Sunday, August 28th 1921Jack Kirby 105
Comic Book Writer
Tuesday, August 28th 1917Jack Vance 106
Novelist
Monday, August 28th 1916Boris Pahor 109
Novelist
Thursday, August 28th 1913Robertson Davies 109
Novelist, Playwright
Thursday, August 28th 1913John Betjeman 116
Poet
Tuesday, August 28th 1906Andrei Platonov 123
Novelist
Monday, August 28th 1899Vance Palmer 137
Novelist
Friday, August 28th 1885Sheridan Le Fanu 208
Novelist
Sunday, August 28th 1814Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 273
Poet, Novelist
Thursday, August 28th 1749Michael P. Kube-McDowell 68
Novelist
Sunday, August 29th 1954Karen Hesse 70
Children's Literature
Friday, August 29th 1952Temple Grandin 75
Non-Fiction, Essayist
Friday, August 29th 1947Lise Payette 91
Columnist
Saturday, August 29th 1931Thom Gunn 93
Poet
Thursday, August 29th 1929Luther Davis 106
Playwright, Screenwriter
Tuesday, August 29th 1916Maurice Maeterlinck 160
Poet, Playwright, Essayist
Friday, August 29th 1862Edward Carpenter 178
Poet
Thursday, August 29th 1844Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 213
Poet
Tuesday, August 29th 1809Anna Politkovskaya 64
Journalist
Saturday, August 30th 1958Molly Ivins 78
Columnist
Wednesday, August 30th 1944R. Crumb 79
Comicbook Writer
Monday, August 30th 1943Laurent de Brunhoff 97
Children's Literature
Sunday, August 30th 1925Charmian Clift 99
Essayist
Thursday, August 30th 1923John Gunther 121
Journalist
Friday, August 30th 1901Marcelo H. del Pilar 172
Journalist
Friday, August 30th 1850Agoston Haraszthy 210
Non-Fiction
Sunday, August 30th 1812Mary Shelly 225
Novelist
Wednesday, August 30th 1797Joseph Dennie 254
Journalist, Essayist
Tuesday, August 30th 1768Raymond P. Hammond 58
Poet
Monday, August 31st 1964Julie Brown 64
Screenwriter
Sunday, August 31st 1958Gary Webb 67
Journalist
Wednesday, August 31st 1955György Károly 69
Poet
Monday, August 31st 1953Lowell Ganz 74
Screenwriter
Tuesday, August 31st 1948Jerome Corsi 76
Non-Fiction
Saturday, August 31st 1946Martin Bell 84
Journalist
Wednesday, August 31st 1938Amrita Pritam 103
Poet, Novelist
Sunday, August 31st 1919Daniel Schorr 106
Journalist
Thursday, August 31st 1916Edward Brongersma 111
Journalist
Thursday, August 31st 1911Ferenc Fejtő 113
Journalist
Tuesday, August 31st 1909William Saroyan 114
Novelist, Playwright
Monday, August 31st 1908William Shawn 115
Journalist, Editor
Saturday, August 31st 1907Félix-Antoine Savard 126
Poet, Novelist
Monday, August 31st 1896Albert Facey 128
Memoirist
Friday, August 31st 1894DuBose Heyward 137
Novelist
Monday, August 31st 1885Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin 180
Journalist
Wednesday, August 31st 1842Théophile Gautier 211
Poet, Novelist
Saturday, August 31st 1811
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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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