Author Birthdays for August
James St. James 57
Novelist
Monday, August 1st 1966Madison Smartt Bell 66
Novelist
Thursday, August 1st 1957Howard Kurtz 70
Journalist
Saturday, August 1st 1953Jim Carroll 73
Poet, Novelist
Tuesday, August 1st 1950Mark Alan Stamaty 76
Children's Literature
Friday, August 1st 1947Étienne Roda-Gil 82
Screenwriter
Friday, August 1st 1941Ram Loevy 83
Screenwriter
Thursday, August 1st 1940Ernst Jandl 98
Poet
Saturday, August 1st 1925Anne Hébert 107
Novelist, Poet
Tuesday, August 1st 1916Herman Melville 204
Novelist
Sunday, August 1st 1819Richard Henry Dana Jr. 208
Novelist
Tuesday, August 1st 1815Luis Vélez de Guevara 444
Playwright, Novelist
Wednesday, August 1st 1579Caleb Carr 68
Tuesday, August 2nd 1955Isabel Allende 81
Sunday, August 2nd 1942James Baldwin 99
Saturday, August 2nd 1924Aino Kallas 145
Friday, August 2nd 1878Steven Millhauser 80
Tuesday, August 3rd 1943Leon Uris 99
Sunday, August 3rd 1924P. D. James 103
Tuesday, August 3rd 1920Clifford D. Simak 119
Wednesday, August 3rd 1904Rupert Brooke 136
Wednesday, August 3rd 1887John August 53
Screenwriter
Tuesday, August 4th 1970Dennis Lehane 58
Novelist
Wednesday, August 4th 1965Tim Winton 63
Novelist
Thursday, August 4th 1960Allison Hedge Coke 65
Poet
Monday, August 4th 1958Billy Bob Thornton 68
Screenwriter
Thursday, August 4th 1955Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi 100
Humorist
Saturday, August 4th 1923Helen Thomas 103
Journalist, Columnist
Wednesday, August 4th 1920Iceberg Slim 105
Novelist
Sunday, August 4th 1918Robert Hayden 110
Poet
Monday, August 4th 1913Witold Gombrowicz 119
Novelist, Playwright
Thursday, August 4th 1904Knut Hamsun 164
Novelist
Thursday, August 4th 1859Percy Bysshe Shelley 231
Poet
Saturday, August 4th 1792François Hédelin 419
Playwright
Wednesday, August 4th 1604Ron Silliman 77
Poet
Monday, August 5th 1946Wendell Berry 89
Novelist, Poet
Sunday, August 5th 1934Conrad Potter Aiken 134
Novelist, Poet
Monday, August 5th 1889Guy de Maupassant 173
Short Stories
Monday, August 5th 1850Ivar Aasen 210
Poet, Playwright
Thursday, August 5th 1813Karenna Gore Schiff 50
Journalist
Monday, August 6th 1973Diane di Prima 89
Poet
Monday, August 6th 1934Piers Anthony 89
Novelist
Monday, August 6th 1934Chalmers Johnson 92
Non-Fiction
Thursday, August 6th 1931Elisabeth Beresford 97
Children's Literature
Friday, August 6th 1926Norman Wexler 97
Screenwriter
Friday, August 6th 1926Constance Heaven 112
Novelist
Sunday, August 6th 1911John Middleton Murry 134
Novelist, Poet, Essayist
Tuesday, August 6th 1889Scott Nearing 140
Non-Fiction
Monday, August 6th 1883Louella Parsons 142
Columnist
Saturday, August 6th 1881Charles Fort 149
Novelist, Non-Fiction
Thursday, August 6th 1874Paul Claudel 155
Poet, Playwright
Thursday, August 6th 1868Thomas Alexander Browne 197
Novelist
Sunday, August 6th 1826Alfred Lord Tennyson 214
Poet
Sunday, August 6th 1809Luc de Clapiers 308
Essayist
Tuesday, August 6th 1715John Birmingham 59
Novelist
Friday, August 7th 1964Vladimir Sorokin 68
Novelist, Playwright
Sunday, August 7th 1955Anne Fadiman 70
Novelist
Friday, August 7th 1953Marty Appel 75
Biographer
Saturday, August 7th 1948Garrison Keillor 81
Humorist
Friday, August 7th 1942Charles E. Rice 92
Non-Fiction
Friday, August 7th 1931Romeo Muller 95
Screenwriter
Tuesday, August 7th 1928Sue Kaufman 97
Novelist
Saturday, August 7th 1926Georg Stiernhielm 425
Poet
Friday, August 7th 1598Alonso de Ercilla 490
Poet
Monday, August 7th 1533Jostein Gaarder 71
Friday, August 8th 1952Randy Shilts 72
Wednesday, August 8th 1951Terry Nation 93
Friday, August 8th 1930Nina Berberova 122
Thursday, August 8th 1901Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 127
Saturday, August 8th 1896Sara Teasdale 139
Friday, August 8th 1884Emilie Flygare-Carlén 216
Saturday, August 8th 1807Jonathan Kellerman 74
Tuesday, August 9th 1949Graeme C. Gibson 89
Thursday, August 9th 1934Tetsuko Kuroyanagi 90
Wednesday, August 9th 1933Daniel Keyes 96
Tuesday, August 9th 1927Frank M. Robinson 97
Monday, August 9th 1926Philip Larkin 101
Wednesday, August 9th 1922Tove Jansson 109
Sunday, August 9th 1914P. L. Travers 124
Wednesday, August 9th 1899Leonid Andreyev 152
Wednesday, August 9th 1871John Dryden 392
Saturday, August 9th 1631Mark Doty 70
Monday, August 10th 1953Barry Unsworth 93
Sunday, August 10th 1930Jorge Amado 111
Saturday, August 10th 1912Ward Moore 120
Monday, August 10th 1903Curt Siodmak 121
Sunday, August 10th 1902Panait Istrati 139
Sunday, August 10th 1884Alfred Döblin 145
Saturday, August 10th 1878David Brooks 62
Journalist
Friday, August 11th 1961Tom Miller 76
Travel Writer
Monday, August 11th 1947Marilyn vos Savant 77
Columnist
Sunday, August 11th 1946Andre Dubus 87
Short Stories
Tuesday, August 11th 1936Fernando Arrabal 91
Playwright, Screenwriter
Thursday, August 11th 1932Alex Haley 102
Novelist
Thursday, August 11th 1921Angus Wilson 110
Novelist
Monday, August 11th 1913Enid Blyton 126
Children's Literature
Wednesday, August 11th 1897Louise Bogan 126
Poet
Wednesday, August 11th 1897Eiji Yoshikawa 131
Novelist
Thursday, August 11th 1892Hugh MacDiarmid 131
Poet
Thursday, August 11th 1892Oliver W. F. Lodge 145
Poet
Sunday, August 11th 1878Anthony Swofford 53
Novelist
Wednesday, August 12th 1970Ann M. Martin 68
Children's Literature
Friday, August 12th 1955Jim Beaver 73
Playwright, Screenwriter
Saturday, August 12th 1950Réjean Ducharme 82
Novelist, Playwright
Tuesday, August 12th 1941Walter Dean Myers 86
Children's Literature
Thursday, August 12th 1937William Goldman 92
Novelist, Playwright,Screenwriter
Wednesday, August 12th 1931Wallace Markfield 97
Novelist
Thursday, August 12th 1926Zerna Sharp 134
Children's Literature
Monday, August 12th 1889Keith Murdoch 138
Journalist
Wednesday, August 12th 1885Radclyffe Hall 143
Poet, Novelist
Thursday, August 12th 1880Mary Roberts Rinehart 147
Novelist
Saturday, August 12th 1876Jacinto Benavente 157
Playwright
Sunday, August 12th 1866Katharine Lee Bates 164
Poet, Children's Literature
Friday, August 12th 1859Robert Southey 249
Poet
Friday, August 12th 1774Piper Reese 23
Journalist
Sunday, August 13th 2000Will Clarke 53
Novelist
Thursday, August 13th 1970Amélie Nothomb 56
Novelist
Sunday, August 13th 1967Sean Hood 57
Screenwriter
Saturday, August 13th 1966Tom Perrotta 62
Novelist
Sunday, August 13th 1961Goldwin Smith 200
Journalist
Wednesday, August 13th 1823Vladimir Odoevsky 220
Short Stories, Children's Literature
Saturday, August 13th 1803William Wotton 357
Non-Fiction
Friday, August 13th 1666Brannon Braga 58
Screenwriter
Saturday, August 14th 1965Danielle Steel 76
Novelist
Thursday, August 14th 1947Lee Hoffman 91
Novelist
Sunday, August 14th 1932Alice Adams 97
Novelist
Saturday, August 14th 1926René Goscinny 97
Comic Book Writer
Saturday, August 14th 1926Russell Baker 98
Journalist, Essayist
Friday, August 14th 1925B. A. Santamaria 108
Journalist
Saturday, August 14th 1915Alice Rivaz 122
Novelist
Wednesday, August 14th 1901John Galsworthy 156
Novelist, Playwright
Wednesday, August 14th 1867Ernest Thayer 160
Poet
Friday, August 14th 1863Robert Hayman 448
Poet
Thursday, August 14th 1575Rob Thomas 58
Novelist, Screenwriter
Sunday, August 15th 1965Victor Shenderovich 65
Playwright, Screenwriter
Friday, August 15th 1958Simon Baron-Cohen 65
Non-Fiction
Friday, August 15th 1958Mary Jo Salter 69
Poet
Sunday, August 15th 1954Stieg Larsson 69
Novelist, Journalist
Sunday, August 15th 1954Garry Disher 74
Novelist, Children's Literature
Monday, August 15th 1949Linda Ellerbee 79
Journalist
Tuesday, August 15th 1944Janusz Zajdel 85
Novelist
Monday, August 15th 1938Sami Michael 97
Novelist
Sunday, August 15th 1926Robert Bolt 99
Playwright, Screenwriter
Friday, August 15th 1924Benedict Kiely 104
Novelist
Friday, August 15th 1919Aleks Çaçi 107
Essayist
Tuesday, August 15th 1916Jan Brzechwa 125
Poet, Children's Literature
Monday, August 15th 1898Edna Ferber 138
Novelist
Saturday, August 15th 1885Sri Aurobindo 151
Poet
Thursday, August 15th 1872E. Nesbit 165
Poet, Children's Literature
Sunday, August 15th 1858Thomas-Alfred Bernier 179
Journalist
Thursday, August 15th 1844Thomas de Quincey 238
Novelist
Monday, August 15th 1785Sir Walter Scott 252
Novelist
Thursday, August 15th 1771Matthias Claudius 283
Poet
Monday, August 15th 1740Luigi Pulci 591
Poet
Wednesday, August 15th 1432Diana Wynne Jones 89
Novelist
Thursday, August 16th 1934Charles Bukowski 103
Poet, Novelist
Monday, August 16th 1920William Keepers Maxwell, Jr. 115
Novelist
Sunday, August 16th 1908Georgette Heyer 121
Novelist
Saturday, August 16th 1902Albert Cohen 128
Novelist
Friday, August 16th 1895Nicola Kraus 49
Saturday, August 17th 1974Jonathan Franzen 64
Monday, August 17th 1959Eric Schlosser 64
Monday, August 17th 1959Alexander Theroux 84
Thursday, August 17th 1939V. S. Naipaul 91
Wednesday, August 17th 1932Ted Hughes 93
Sunday, August 17th 1930John Hawkes 98
Monday, August 17th 1925Evan Connell 99
Sunday, August 17th 1924Gene Stratton-Porter 160
Monday, August 17th 1863Brian Aldiss 98
Tuesday, August 18th 1925Alain Robbe-Grillet 101
Friday, August 18th 1922Nettie Palmer 138
Poet
Tuesday, August 18th 1885Jami 609
Thursday, August 18th 1414Jonathan Coe 62
Saturday, August 19th 1961Bodil Malmsten 79
Saturday, August 19th 1944Frank McCourt 93
Tuesday, August 19th 1930Quentin Bell 113
Friday, August 19th 1910James Gould Cozzens 120
Wednesday, August 19th 1903Ogden Nash 121
Tuesday, August 19th 1902Samuel Richardson 334
Friday, August 19th 1689Íñigo López de Mendoza 625
Sunday, August 19th 1398Marcus Mastin 48
Wednesday, August 20th 1975Greg Egan 62
Sunday, August 20th 1961Greg Bear 72
Monday, August 20th 1951Vasily Aksyonov 91
Saturday, August 20th 1932Jacqueline Susann 102
Saturday, August 20th 1921William Lindsay Gresham 114
Friday, August 20th 1909Vilhelm Moberg 125
Saturday, August 20th 1898Tarjei Vesaas 126
Friday, August 20th 1897H. P. Lovecraft 133
Wednesday, August 20th 1890Edgar Guest 142
Saturday, August 20th 1881Boleslaw Prus 176
Friday, August 20th 1847Ivan Stang 70
Friday, August 21st 1953Robert Stone 86
Saturday, August 21st 1937Christopher Robin Milne 103
Saturday, August 21st 1920M. M. Kaye 115
Friday, August 21st 1908Aubrey Beardsley 151
Wednesday, August 21st 1872Emilio Salgari 161
Thursday, August 21st 1862Diane Setterfield 59
Saturday, August 22nd 1964Diane Setterfield 59
Saturday, August 22nd 1964Will Shetterly 68
Monday, August 22nd 1955Þórarinn Eldjárn 74
Monday, August 22nd 1949E. Annie Proulx 88
Thursday, August 22nd 1935James Kirkwood, Jr. 99
Friday, August 22nd 1924Ray Bradbury 103
Novelist
Sunday, August 22nd 1920Dorothy Parker 130
Tuesday, August 22nd 1893James Kirke Paulding 245
Saturday, August 22nd 1778Georges de Scudéry 422
Wednesday, August 22nd 1601Nelson DeMille 80
Monday, August 23rd 1943Lewis Nordan 84
Novelist
Wednesday, August 23rd 1939Will Cuppy 139
Saturday, August 23rd 1884Alexander Grin 143
Monday, August 23rd 1880Edgar Lee Masters 154
Monday, August 23rd 1869John Green 46
Wednesday, August 24th 1977Chris Offutt 65
Sunday, August 24th 1958Orson Scott Card 72
Friday, August 24th 1951Oscar Hijuelos 72
Friday, August 24th 1951Paulo Coelho 76
Sunday, August 24th 1947Howard Jacobson 81
Monday, August 24th 1942A. S. Byatt 87
Monday, August 24th 1936David Ireland 96
Wednesday, August 24th 1927James Tiptree, Jr. 108
Tuesday, August 24th 1915Jorge Luis Borges 124
Thursday, August 24th 1899Jean Rhys 133
Sunday, August 24th 1890Earl Derr Biggers 139
Sunday, August 24th 1884Max Beerbohm 151
Saturday, August 24th 1872Tim Burton 65
Screenwriter
Monday, August 25th 1958Martin Amis 74
Thursday, August 25th 1949Charles Ghigna - "Father Goose" 77
Sunday, August 25th 1946Frederick Forsyth 85
Thursday, August 25th 1938Thea Astley 98
Tuesday, August 25th 1925Brian Moore 102
Thursday, August 25th 1921Bret Harte 187
Thursday, August 25th 1836Naïm Kattan 95
Sunday, August 26th 1928Julio Cortazar 109
Wednesday, August 26th 1914Christopher Isherwood 119
Friday, August 26th 1904Jules Romains 138
Wednesday, August 26th 1885Guillaume Apollinaire 143
Thursday, August 26th 1880John Buchan 148
Thursday, August 26th 1875Zona Gale 149
Wednesday, August 26th 1874Jeanette Winterson 64
Thursday, August 27th 1959Tom Lanoye 65
Wednesday, August 27th 1958Antonia Fraser 91
Saturday, August 27th 1932Ira Levin 94
Tuesday, August 27th 1929Norah Lofts 119
Saturday, August 27th 1904C. S. Forester 124
Sunday, August 27th 1899Lloyd C. Douglas 146
Monday, August 27th 1877Theodore Dreiser 152
Sunday, August 27th 1871Ivan Franko 167
Poet
Wednesday, August 27th 1856Rita Dove 71
Poet
Thursday, August 28th 1952Janet Frame 99
Novelist
Thursday, August 28th 1924Fernando Fernán Gómez 102
Novelist, Playwright
Sunday, August 28th 1921Jack Kirby 106
Comic Book Writer
Tuesday, August 28th 1917Jack Vance 107
Novelist
Monday, August 28th 1916Boris Pahor 110
Novelist
Thursday, August 28th 1913Robertson Davies 110
Novelist, Playwright
Thursday, August 28th 1913John Betjeman 117
Poet
Tuesday, August 28th 1906Andrei Platonov 124
Novelist
Monday, August 28th 1899Vance Palmer 138
Novelist
Friday, August 28th 1885Sheridan Le Fanu 209
Novelist
Sunday, August 28th 1814Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 274
Poet, Novelist
Thursday, August 28th 1749Michael P. Kube-McDowell 69
Novelist
Sunday, August 29th 1954Karen Hesse 71
Children's Literature
Friday, August 29th 1952Temple Grandin 76
Non-Fiction, Essayist
Friday, August 29th 1947Lise Payette 92
Columnist
Saturday, August 29th 1931Thom Gunn 94
Poet
Thursday, August 29th 1929Luther Davis 107
Playwright, Screenwriter
Tuesday, August 29th 1916Maurice Maeterlinck 161
Poet, Playwright, Essayist
Friday, August 29th 1862Edward Carpenter 179
Poet
Thursday, August 29th 1844Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. 214
Poet
Tuesday, August 29th 1809Anna Politkovskaya 65
Journalist
Saturday, August 30th 1958Molly Ivins 79
Columnist
Wednesday, August 30th 1944R. Crumb 80
Comicbook Writer
Monday, August 30th 1943Laurent de Brunhoff 98
Children's Literature
Sunday, August 30th 1925Charmian Clift 100
Essayist
Thursday, August 30th 1923John Gunther 122
Journalist
Friday, August 30th 1901Marcelo H. del Pilar 173
Journalist
Friday, August 30th 1850Agoston Haraszthy 211
Non-Fiction
Sunday, August 30th 1812Mary Shelly 226
Novelist
Wednesday, August 30th 1797Joseph Dennie 255
Journalist, Essayist
Tuesday, August 30th 1768Raymond P. Hammond 59
Poet
Monday, August 31st 1964Julie Brown 65
Screenwriter
Sunday, August 31st 1958Gary Webb 68
Journalist
Wednesday, August 31st 1955György Károly 70
Poet
Monday, August 31st 1953Lowell Ganz 75
Screenwriter
Tuesday, August 31st 1948Jerome Corsi 77
Non-Fiction
Saturday, August 31st 1946Martin Bell 85
Journalist
Wednesday, August 31st 1938Amrita Pritam 104
Poet, Novelist
Sunday, August 31st 1919Daniel Schorr 107
Journalist
Thursday, August 31st 1916Edward Brongersma 112
Journalist
Thursday, August 31st 1911Ferenc Fejtő 114
Journalist
Tuesday, August 31st 1909William Saroyan 115
Novelist, Playwright
Monday, August 31st 1908William Shawn 116
Journalist, Editor
Saturday, August 31st 1907Félix-Antoine Savard 127
Poet, Novelist
Monday, August 31st 1896Albert Facey 129
Memoirist
Friday, August 31st 1894DuBose Heyward 138
Novelist
Monday, August 31st 1885Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin 181
Journalist
Wednesday, August 31st 1842Théophile Gautier 212
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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