Author Birthdays for August

  • James St. James  57
    Novelist
    Monday, August 1st 1966
  • Madison Smartt Bell  66
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 1st 1957
  • Howard Kurtz  70
    Journalist
    Saturday, August 1st 1953
  • Jim Carroll  73
    Poet, Novelist
    Tuesday, August 1st 1950
  • Mark Alan Stamaty  76
    Children's Literature
    Friday, August 1st 1947
  • Étienne Roda-Gil  82
    Screenwriter
    Friday, August 1st 1941
  • Ram Loevy  83
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, August 1st 1940
  • Ernst Jandl  98
    Poet
    Saturday, August 1st 1925
  • Anne Hébert  107
    Novelist, Poet
    Tuesday, August 1st 1916
  • Herman Melville  204
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 1st 1819
  • Richard Henry Dana Jr.  208
    Novelist
    Tuesday, August 1st 1815
  • Luis Vélez de Guevara  444
    Playwright, Novelist
    Wednesday, August 1st 1579
  • Caleb Carr  68

    Tuesday, August 2nd 1955
  • Isabel Allende  81

    Sunday, August 2nd 1942
  • James Baldwin  99

    Saturday, August 2nd 1924
  • Aino Kallas  145

    Friday, August 2nd 1878
  • Steven Millhauser  80

    Tuesday, August 3rd 1943
  • Leon Uris  99

    Sunday, August 3rd 1924
  • P. D. James  103

    Tuesday, August 3rd 1920
  • Clifford D. Simak  119

    Wednesday, August 3rd 1904
  • Rupert Brooke  136

    Wednesday, August 3rd 1887
  • John August  53
    Screenwriter
    Tuesday, August 4th 1970
  • Dennis Lehane  58
    Novelist
    Wednesday, August 4th 1965
  • Tim Winton   63
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 4th 1960
  • Allison Hedge Coke  65
    Poet
    Monday, August 4th 1958
  • Billy Bob Thornton  68
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, August 4th 1955
  • Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi  100
    Humorist
    Saturday, August 4th 1923
  • Helen Thomas   103
    Journalist, Columnist
    Wednesday, August 4th 1920
  • Iceberg Slim  105
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 4th 1918
  • Robert Hayden  110
    Poet
    Monday, August 4th 1913
  • Witold Gombrowicz  119
    Novelist, Playwright
    Thursday, August 4th 1904
  • Knut Hamsun  164
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 4th 1859
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley  231
    Poet
    Saturday, August 4th 1792
  • François Hédelin  419
    Playwright
    Wednesday, August 4th 1604
  • Ron Silliman  77
    Poet
    Monday, August 5th 1946
  • Wendell Berry  89
    Novelist, Poet
    Sunday, August 5th 1934
  • Conrad Potter Aiken  134
    Novelist, Poet
    Monday, August 5th 1889
  • Guy de Maupassant  173
    Short Stories
    Monday, August 5th 1850
  • Ivar Aasen  210
    Poet, Playwright
    Thursday, August 5th 1813
  • Karenna Gore Schiff  50
    Journalist
    Monday, August 6th 1973
  • Diane di Prima  89
    Poet
    Monday, August 6th 1934
  • Piers Anthony  89
    Novelist
    Monday, August 6th 1934
  • Chalmers Johnson  92
    Non-Fiction
    Thursday, August 6th 1931
  • Elisabeth Beresford  97
    Children's Literature
    Friday, August 6th 1926
  • Norman Wexler  97
    Screenwriter
    Friday, August 6th 1926
  • Constance Heaven  112
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 6th 1911
  • John Middleton Murry  134
    Novelist, Poet, Essayist
    Tuesday, August 6th 1889
  • Scott Nearing  140
    Non-Fiction
    Monday, August 6th 1883
  • Louella Parsons  142
    Columnist
    Saturday, August 6th 1881
  • Charles Fort  149
    Novelist, Non-Fiction
    Thursday, August 6th 1874
  • Paul Claudel  155
    Poet, Playwright
    Thursday, August 6th 1868
  • Thomas Alexander Browne  197
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 6th 1826
  • Alfred Lord Tennyson  214
    Poet
    Sunday, August 6th 1809
  • Luc de Clapiers  308
    Essayist
    Tuesday, August 6th 1715
  • John Birmingham  59
    Novelist
    Friday, August 7th 1964
  • Vladimir Sorokin  68
    Novelist, Playwright
    Sunday, August 7th 1955
  • Anne Fadiman  70
    Novelist
    Friday, August 7th 1953
  • Marty Appel  75
    Biographer
    Saturday, August 7th 1948
  • Garrison Keillor  81
    Humorist
    Friday, August 7th 1942
  • Charles E. Rice  92
    Non-Fiction
    Friday, August 7th 1931
  • Romeo Muller  95
    Screenwriter
    Tuesday, August 7th 1928
  • Sue Kaufman  97
    Novelist
    Saturday, August 7th 1926
  • Georg Stiernhielm  425
    Poet
    Friday, August 7th 1598
  • Alonso de Ercilla  490
    Poet
    Monday, August 7th 1533
  • Jostein Gaarder  71

    Friday, August 8th 1952
  • Randy Shilts  72

    Wednesday, August 8th 1951
  • Terry Nation  93

    Friday, August 8th 1930
  • Nina Berberova  122

    Thursday, August 8th 1901
  • Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings  127

    Saturday, August 8th 1896
  • Sara Teasdale  139

    Friday, August 8th 1884
  • Emilie Flygare-Carlén  216

    Saturday, August 8th 1807
  • Jonathan Kellerman  74

    Tuesday, August 9th 1949
  • Graeme C. Gibson  89

    Thursday, August 9th 1934
  • Tetsuko Kuroyanagi  90

    Wednesday, August 9th 1933
  • Daniel Keyes  96

    Tuesday, August 9th 1927
  • Frank M. Robinson  97

    Monday, August 9th 1926
  • Philip Larkin  101

    Wednesday, August 9th 1922
  • Tove Jansson  109

    Sunday, August 9th 1914
  • P. L. Travers  124

    Wednesday, August 9th 1899
  • Leonid Andreyev  152

    Wednesday, August 9th 1871
  • John Dryden  392

    Saturday, August 9th 1631
  • Mark Doty  70

    Monday, August 10th 1953
  • Barry Unsworth  93

    Sunday, August 10th 1930
  • Jorge Amado  111

    Saturday, August 10th 1912
  • Ward Moore  120

    Monday, August 10th 1903
  • Curt Siodmak  121

    Sunday, August 10th 1902
  • Panait Istrati  139

    Sunday, August 10th 1884
  • Alfred Döblin  145

    Saturday, August 10th 1878
  • David Brooks  62
    Journalist
    Friday, August 11th 1961
  • Tom Miller  76
    Travel Writer
    Monday, August 11th 1947
  • Marilyn vos Savant  77
    Columnist
    Sunday, August 11th 1946
  • Andre Dubus  87
    Short Stories
    Tuesday, August 11th 1936
  • Fernando Arrabal  91
    Playwright, Screenwriter
    Thursday, August 11th 1932
  • Alex Haley  102
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 11th 1921
  • Angus Wilson  110
    Novelist
    Monday, August 11th 1913
  • Enid Blyton  126
    Children's Literature
    Wednesday, August 11th 1897
  • Louise Bogan  126
    Poet
    Wednesday, August 11th 1897
  • Eiji Yoshikawa  131
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 11th 1892
  • Hugh MacDiarmid  131
    Poet
    Thursday, August 11th 1892
  • Oliver W. F. Lodge  145
    Poet
    Sunday, August 11th 1878
  • Anthony Swofford  53
    Novelist
    Wednesday, August 12th 1970
  • Ann M. Martin  68
    Children's Literature
    Friday, August 12th 1955
  • Jim Beaver  73
    Playwright, Screenwriter
    Saturday, August 12th 1950
  • Réjean Ducharme  82
    Novelist, Playwright
    Tuesday, August 12th 1941
  • Walter Dean Myers  86
    Children's Literature
    Thursday, August 12th 1937
  • William Goldman  92
    Novelist, Playwright,Screenwriter
    Wednesday, August 12th 1931
  • Wallace Markfield  97
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 12th 1926
  • Zerna Sharp  134
    Children's Literature
    Monday, August 12th 1889
  • Keith Murdoch  138
    Journalist
    Wednesday, August 12th 1885
  • Radclyffe Hall  143
    Poet, Novelist
    Thursday, August 12th 1880
  • Mary Roberts Rinehart  147
    Novelist
    Saturday, August 12th 1876
  • Jacinto Benavente  157
    Playwright
    Sunday, August 12th 1866
  • Katharine Lee Bates  164
    Poet, Children's Literature
    Friday, August 12th 1859
  • Robert Southey  249
    Poet
    Friday, August 12th 1774
  • Piper Reese  23
    Journalist
    Sunday, August 13th 2000
  • Will Clarke  53
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 13th 1970
  • Amélie Nothomb  56
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 13th 1967
  • Sean Hood  57
    Screenwriter
    Saturday, August 13th 1966
  • Tom Perrotta  62
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 13th 1961
  • Goldwin Smith  200
    Journalist
    Wednesday, August 13th 1823
  • Vladimir Odoevsky  220
    Short Stories, Children's Literature
    Saturday, August 13th 1803
  • William Wotton  357
    Non-Fiction
    Friday, August 13th 1666
  • Brannon Braga  58
    Screenwriter
    Saturday, August 14th 1965
  • Danielle Steel  76
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 14th 1947
  • Lee Hoffman  91
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 14th 1932
  • Alice Adams  97
    Novelist
    Saturday, August 14th 1926
  • René Goscinny  97
    Comic Book Writer
    Saturday, August 14th 1926
  • Russell Baker  98
    Journalist, Essayist
    Friday, August 14th 1925
  • B. A. Santamaria  108
    Journalist
    Saturday, August 14th 1915
  • Alice Rivaz  122
    Novelist
    Wednesday, August 14th 1901
  • John Galsworthy  156
    Novelist, Playwright
    Wednesday, August 14th 1867
  • Ernest Thayer  160
    Poet
    Friday, August 14th 1863
  • Robert Hayman  448
    Poet
    Thursday, August 14th 1575
  • Rob Thomas  58
    Novelist, Screenwriter
    Sunday, August 15th 1965
  • Victor Shenderovich  65
    Playwright, Screenwriter
    Friday, August 15th 1958
  • Simon Baron-Cohen  65
    Non-Fiction
    Friday, August 15th 1958
  • Mary Jo Salter  69
    Poet
    Sunday, August 15th 1954
  • Stieg Larsson  69
    Novelist, Journalist
    Sunday, August 15th 1954
  • Garry Disher  74
    Novelist, Children's Literature
    Monday, August 15th 1949
  • Linda Ellerbee  79
    Journalist
    Tuesday, August 15th 1944
  • Janusz Zajdel  85
    Novelist
    Monday, August 15th 1938
  • Sami Michael  97
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 15th 1926
  • Robert Bolt  99
    Playwright, Screenwriter
    Friday, August 15th 1924
  • Benedict Kiely  104
    Novelist
    Friday, August 15th 1919
  • Aleks Çaçi  107
    Essayist
    Tuesday, August 15th 1916
  • Jan Brzechwa  125
    Poet, Children's Literature
    Monday, August 15th 1898
  • Edna Ferber  138
    Novelist
    Saturday, August 15th 1885
  • Sri Aurobindo  151
    Poet
    Thursday, August 15th 1872
  • E. Nesbit  165
    Poet, Children's Literature
    Sunday, August 15th 1858
  • Thomas-Alfred Bernier  179
    Journalist
    Thursday, August 15th 1844
  • Thomas de Quincey  238
    Novelist
    Monday, August 15th 1785
  • Sir Walter Scott  252
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 15th 1771
  • Matthias Claudius  283
    Poet
    Monday, August 15th 1740
  • Luigi Pulci  591
    Poet
    Wednesday, August 15th 1432
  • Diana Wynne Jones  89
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 16th 1934
  • Charles Bukowski  103
    Poet, Novelist
    Monday, August 16th 1920
  • William Keepers Maxwell, Jr.  115
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 16th 1908
  • Georgette Heyer  121
    Novelist
    Saturday, August 16th 1902
  • Albert Cohen  128
    Novelist
    Friday, August 16th 1895
  • Nicola Kraus  49

    Saturday, August 17th 1974
  • Jonathan Franzen  64

    Monday, August 17th 1959
  • Eric Schlosser  64

    Monday, August 17th 1959
  • Alexander Theroux  84

    Thursday, August 17th 1939
  • V. S. Naipaul  91

    Wednesday, August 17th 1932
  • Ted Hughes  93

    Sunday, August 17th 1930
  • John Hawkes  98

    Monday, August 17th 1925
  • Evan Connell  99

    Sunday, August 17th 1924
  • Gene Stratton-Porter  160

    Monday, August 17th 1863
  • Brian Aldiss  98

    Tuesday, August 18th 1925
  • Alain Robbe-Grillet  101

    Friday, August 18th 1922
  • Nettie Palmer  138
    Poet
    Tuesday, August 18th 1885
  • Jami  609

    Thursday, August 18th 1414
  • Jonathan Coe  62

    Saturday, August 19th 1961
  • Bodil Malmsten  79

    Saturday, August 19th 1944
  • Frank McCourt  93

    Tuesday, August 19th 1930
  • Quentin Bell  113

    Friday, August 19th 1910
  • James Gould Cozzens  120

    Wednesday, August 19th 1903
  • Ogden Nash  121

    Tuesday, August 19th 1902
  • Samuel Richardson  334

    Friday, August 19th 1689
  • Íñigo López de Mendoza  625

    Sunday, August 19th 1398
  • Marcus Mastin  48

    Wednesday, August 20th 1975
  • Greg Egan  62

    Sunday, August 20th 1961
  • Greg Bear  72

    Monday, August 20th 1951
  • Vasily Aksyonov  91

    Saturday, August 20th 1932
  • Jacqueline Susann  102

    Saturday, August 20th 1921
  • William Lindsay Gresham  114

    Friday, August 20th 1909
  • Vilhelm Moberg  125

    Saturday, August 20th 1898
  • Tarjei Vesaas  126

    Friday, August 20th 1897
  • H. P. Lovecraft  133

    Wednesday, August 20th 1890
  • Edgar Guest  142

    Saturday, August 20th 1881
  • Boleslaw Prus  176

    Friday, August 20th 1847
  • Ivan Stang  70

    Friday, August 21st 1953
  • Robert Stone  86

    Saturday, August 21st 1937
  • Christopher Robin Milne  103

    Saturday, August 21st 1920
  • M. M. Kaye  115

    Friday, August 21st 1908
  • Aubrey Beardsley  151

    Wednesday, August 21st 1872
  • Emilio Salgari  161

    Thursday, August 21st 1862
  • Diane Setterfield  59

    Saturday, August 22nd 1964
  • Diane Setterfield  59

    Saturday, August 22nd 1964
  • Will Shetterly  68

    Monday, August 22nd 1955
  • Þórarinn Eldjárn  74

    Monday, August 22nd 1949
  • E. Annie Proulx  88

    Thursday, August 22nd 1935
  • James Kirkwood, Jr.  99

    Friday, August 22nd 1924
  • Ray Bradbury  103
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 22nd 1920
  • Dorothy Parker  130

    Tuesday, August 22nd 1893
  • James Kirke Paulding  245

    Saturday, August 22nd 1778
  • Georges de Scudéry  422

    Wednesday, August 22nd 1601
  • Nelson DeMille  80

    Monday, August 23rd 1943
  • Lewis Nordan  84
    Novelist
    Wednesday, August 23rd 1939
  • Will Cuppy  139

    Saturday, August 23rd 1884
  • Alexander Grin  143

    Monday, August 23rd 1880
  • Edgar Lee Masters  154

    Monday, August 23rd 1869
  • John Green  46

    Wednesday, August 24th 1977
  • Chris Offutt  65

    Sunday, August 24th 1958
  • Orson Scott Card  72

    Friday, August 24th 1951
  • Oscar Hijuelos  72

    Friday, August 24th 1951
  • Paulo Coelho  76

    Sunday, August 24th 1947
  • Howard Jacobson  81

    Monday, August 24th 1942
  • A. S. Byatt  87

    Monday, August 24th 1936
  • David Ireland  96

    Wednesday, August 24th 1927
  • James Tiptree, Jr.  108

    Tuesday, August 24th 1915
  • Jorge Luis Borges  124

    Thursday, August 24th 1899
  • Jean Rhys  133

    Sunday, August 24th 1890
  • Earl Derr Biggers  139

    Sunday, August 24th 1884
  • Max Beerbohm  151

    Saturday, August 24th 1872
  • Tim Burton  65
    Screenwriter
    Monday, August 25th 1958
  • Martin Amis  74

    Thursday, August 25th 1949
  • Charles Ghigna - "Father Goose"  77

    Sunday, August 25th 1946
  • Frederick Forsyth  85

    Thursday, August 25th 1938
  • Thea Astley  98

    Tuesday, August 25th 1925
  • Brian Moore  102

    Thursday, August 25th 1921
  • Bret Harte  187

    Thursday, August 25th 1836
  • Naïm Kattan  95

    Sunday, August 26th 1928
  • Julio Cortazar  109

    Wednesday, August 26th 1914
  • Christopher Isherwood  119

    Friday, August 26th 1904
  • Jules Romains  138

    Wednesday, August 26th 1885
  • Guillaume Apollinaire  143

    Thursday, August 26th 1880
  • John Buchan  148

    Thursday, August 26th 1875
  • Zona Gale  149

    Wednesday, August 26th 1874
  • Jeanette Winterson  64

    Thursday, August 27th 1959
  • Tom Lanoye  65

    Wednesday, August 27th 1958
  • Antonia Fraser  91

    Saturday, August 27th 1932
  • Ira Levin  94

    Tuesday, August 27th 1929
  • Norah Lofts  119

    Saturday, August 27th 1904
  • C. S. Forester  124

    Sunday, August 27th 1899
  • Lloyd C. Douglas  146

    Monday, August 27th 1877
  • Theodore Dreiser  152

    Sunday, August 27th 1871
  • Ivan Franko  167
    Poet
    Wednesday, August 27th 1856
  • Rita Dove  71
    Poet
    Thursday, August 28th 1952
  • Janet Frame  99
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 28th 1924
  • Fernando Fernán Gómez  102
    Novelist, Playwright
    Sunday, August 28th 1921
  • Jack Kirby  106
    Comic Book Writer
    Tuesday, August 28th 1917
  • Jack Vance  107
    Novelist
    Monday, August 28th 1916
  • Boris Pahor  110
    Novelist
    Thursday, August 28th 1913
  • Robertson Davies  110
    Novelist, Playwright
    Thursday, August 28th 1913
  • John Betjeman  117
    Poet
    Tuesday, August 28th 1906
  • Andrei Platonov  124
    Novelist
    Monday, August 28th 1899
  • Vance Palmer  138
    Novelist
    Friday, August 28th 1885
  • Sheridan Le Fanu  209
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 28th 1814
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  274
    Poet, Novelist
    Thursday, August 28th 1749
  • Michael P. Kube-McDowell  69
    Novelist
    Sunday, August 29th 1954
  • Karen Hesse  71
    Children's Literature
    Friday, August 29th 1952
  • Temple Grandin  76
    Non-Fiction, Essayist
    Friday, August 29th 1947
  • Lise Payette  92
    Columnist
    Saturday, August 29th 1931
  • Thom Gunn  94
    Poet
    Thursday, August 29th 1929
  • Luther Davis  107
    Playwright, Screenwriter
    Tuesday, August 29th 1916
  • Maurice Maeterlinck  161
    Poet, Playwright, Essayist
    Friday, August 29th 1862
  • Edward Carpenter  179
    Poet
    Thursday, August 29th 1844
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.  214
    Poet
    Tuesday, August 29th 1809
  • Anna Politkovskaya  65
    Journalist
    Saturday, August 30th 1958
  • Molly Ivins  79
    Columnist
    Wednesday, August 30th 1944
  • R. Crumb  80
    Comicbook Writer
    Monday, August 30th 1943
  • Laurent de Brunhoff  98
    Children's Literature
    Sunday, August 30th 1925
  • Charmian Clift  100
    Essayist
    Thursday, August 30th 1923
  • John Gunther  122
    Journalist
    Friday, August 30th 1901
  • Marcelo H. del Pilar  173
    Journalist
    Friday, August 30th 1850
  • Agoston Haraszthy  211
    Non-Fiction
    Sunday, August 30th 1812
  • Mary Shelly  226
    Novelist
    Wednesday, August 30th 1797
  • Joseph Dennie  255
    Journalist, Essayist
    Tuesday, August 30th 1768
  • Raymond P. Hammond  59
    Poet
    Monday, August 31st 1964
  • Julie Brown  65
    Screenwriter
    Sunday, August 31st 1958
  • Gary Webb  68
    Journalist
    Wednesday, August 31st 1955
  • György Károly  70
    Poet
    Monday, August 31st 1953
  • Lowell Ganz  75
    Screenwriter
    Tuesday, August 31st 1948
  • Jerome Corsi  77
    Non-Fiction
    Saturday, August 31st 1946
  • Martin Bell  85
    Journalist
    Wednesday, August 31st 1938
  • Amrita Pritam  104
    Poet, Novelist
    Sunday, August 31st 1919
  • Daniel Schorr  107
    Journalist
    Thursday, August 31st 1916
  • Edward Brongersma  112
    Journalist
    Thursday, August 31st 1911
  • Ferenc Fejtő  114
    Journalist
    Tuesday, August 31st 1909
  • William Saroyan  115
    Novelist, Playwright
    Monday, August 31st 1908
  • William Shawn  116
    Journalist, Editor
    Saturday, August 31st 1907
  • Félix-Antoine Savard  127
    Poet, Novelist
    Monday, August 31st 1896
  • Albert Facey  129
    Memoirist
    Friday, August 31st 1894
  • DuBose Heyward  138
    Novelist
    Monday, August 31st 1885
  • Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin  181
    Journalist
    Wednesday, August 31st 1842
  • Théophile Gautier  212
    Poet, Novelist
    Saturday, August 31st 1811
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    2 Comments to Author Birthdays for August

    1. Linda DeLia says:

      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!

    2. aparna sharma says:

      thankful 2 u!
      such a fabulous work

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