Author Birthdays for July
Jean Stafford 108
Thursday, July 1st 1915James M. Cain 131
Friday, July 1st 1892George Sand 219
Sunday, July 1st 1804Wislawa Szymborska 100
Monday, July 2nd 1923Hermann Hesse 146
Monday, July 2nd 1877William Le Queux 159
Saturday, July 2nd 1864Dave Barry 76
Thursday, July 3rd 1947Tom Stoppard 86
Saturday, July 3rd 1937M.F.K. Fisher 115
Friday, July 3rd 1908Franz Kafka 140
Tuesday, July 3rd 1883Charlotte Perkins Gilman 163
Tuesday, July 3rd 1860Richard Rhodes 86
Sunday, July 4th 1937Nathaniel Hawthorne 219
Wednesday, July 4th 1804Craig Nova 78
Thursday, July 5th 1945Jean Cocteau 134
Poet, Novelist, Playwright
Friday, July 5th 1889Kathryn Hulme 123
Friday, July 6th 1900Robert Heinlein 116
Sunday, July 7th 1907J.F. Powers 106
Sunday, July 8th 1917Richard Aldington 131
Friday, July 8th 1892Dean Koontz 78
Monday, July 9th 1945Oliver Sacks 90
Sunday, July 9th 1933Fanny Fern 112
Sunday, July 9th 1911Alice Munro 92
Friday, July 10th 1931John Wyndham 120
Friday, July 10th 1903Marcel Proust 152
Novelist
Monday, July 10th 1871Harold Bloom 93
Friday, July 11th 1930E. B. White 124
Tuesday, July 11th 1899Donald E. Westlake 90
Wednesday, July 12th 1933Pablo Neruda 119
Tuesday, July 12th 1904Henry David Thoreau 206
Saturday, July 12th 1817Woody Guthrie 111
Sunday, July 14th 1912Richard Pini 73
Comic Book Writer
Saturday, July 15th 1950Richard Russo 74
Novelist
Friday, July 15th 1949Iris Murdoch 104
Novelist
Tuesday, July 15th 1919Linda Salzman 83
Tuesday, July 16th 1940Caroline Blackwood 92
Thursday, July 16th 1931Anita Brookner 95
Monday, July 16th 1928J. Michael Straczynski 69
Saturday, July 17th 1954James Purdy 100
Tuesday, July 17th 1923Christina Stead 121
Thursday, July 17th 1902Jared Hess 44
Screenwriter
Wednesday, July 18th 1979Alfian Sa'at 46
Poet, Playwright
Monday, July 18th 1977Alan Morrison 49
Poet
Thursday, July 18th 1974M.J. Alexander 62
Poet, Playwright
Tuesday, July 18th 1961Hunter S. Thompson 84
Journalist
Tuesday, July 18th 1939Yevgeny Yevtushenko 90
Poet, Novelist
Tuesday, July 18th 1933Margaret Laurence 97
Novelist
Sunday, July 18th 1926Robert Sloman 97
Screenwriter
Sunday, July 18th 1926Clifford Odets 117
Playwright, Screenwriter
Wednesday, July 18th 1906Jessamyn West 121
Novelist
Friday, July 18th 1902Nathalie Sarraute 123
Novelist
Wednesday, July 18th 1900Rose Hartwick Thorpe 173
Poet
Thursday, July 18th 1850Tristan Corbière 178
Poet
Friday, July 18th 1845William Makepeace Thackeray 212
Novelist
Thursday, July 18th 1811Garth Nix 60
Novelist
Friday, July 19th 1963Aya Kitō 61
Memoirist
Thursday, July 19th 1962Srđa Trifković 69
Journalist
Monday, July 19th 1954Jayne Anne Phillips 71
Novelist
Saturday, July 19th 1952Jayson Stark 72
Journalist
Thursday, July 19th 1951Joseph Hansen 100
Novelist
Thursday, July 19th 1923William A. Rusher 100
Columnist
Thursday, July 19th 1923Miltos Sachtouris 104
Poet
Saturday, July 19th 1919Eve Merriam 107
Poet, Playwright
Wednesday, July 19th 1916A. J. Cronin 127
Novelist
Sunday, July 19th 1896Vladimir Mayakovsky 130
Poet, Playwright
Wednesday, July 19th 1893Ferdinand Brunetière 174
Essayist
Thursday, July 19th 1849Gottfried Keller 204
Novelist
Monday, July 19th 1819Heinrich Christian Boie 279
Poet
Sunday, July 19th 1744Dan Shaughnessy 70
Journalist
Monday, July 20th 1953Thomas Friedman 70
Journalist
Monday, July 20th 1953Adrian Păunescu 80
Poet, Journalist
Tuesday, July 20th 1943Periklis Korovesis 82
Journalist
Sunday, July 20th 1941Uwe Johnson 89
Novelist
Friday, July 20th 1934Cormac McCarthy 90
Novelist
Thursday, July 20th 1933Giannis Agouris 93
Journalist
Sunday, July 20th 1930Frantz Fanon 98
Non-Fiction
Monday, July 20th 1925Thomas Berger 99
Novelist
Sunday, July 20th 1924Stanisław Albinowski 100
Journalist
Friday, July 20th 1923George Johnston 111
Journalist, Novelist
Saturday, July 20th 1912Erik Axel Karlfeldt 159
Poet
Wednesday, July 20th 1864Sir George Trevelyan 185
Biographer
Friday, July 20th 1838Augustin Daly 185
Playwright
Friday, July 20th 1838Petrarch 719
Poet
Sunday, July 20th 1304Sarah Waters 57
Novelist
Thursday, July 21st 1966Michael Connelly 67
Novelist
Saturday, July 21st 1956Ed Hinton 75
Journalist
Wednesday, July 21st 1948William S. Burroughs, Jr. 76
Poet
Monday, July 21st 1947Tess Gallagher 80
Poet, Playwright
Wednesday, July 21st 1943John Gardner 90
Novelist
Friday, July 21st 1933Marshall McLuhan 112
Non-Fiction
Friday, July 21st 1911Ernest Hemingway 124
Novelist
Friday, July 21st 1899Hart Crane 129
Poet
Saturday, July 21st 1894Hans Fallada 130
Novelist
Friday, July 21st 1893Frances Parkinson Keyes 138
Novelist
Tuesday, July 21st 1885Paul Reuter 207
Journalist
Sunday, July 21st 1816Matthew Prior 359
Poet
Monday, July 21st 1664Don Van Natta, Jr. 59
Journalist
Wednesday, July 22nd 1964Paul Quarrington 70
Novelist, Playwright
Wednesday, July 22nd 1953S. E. Hinton 75
Novelist
Thursday, July 22nd 1948Paul Schrader 77
Screenwriter
Monday, July 22nd 1946Tom Robbins 87
Novelist
Wednesday, July 22nd 1936Bryan Forbes 97
Screenwriter
Thursday, July 22nd 1926Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah 108
Essayist
Thursday, July 22nd 1915Wayne Robbins 109
Short Stories
Wednesday, July 22nd 1914Ormond Robbins 109
Novelist
Wednesday, July 22nd 1914Stephen Vincent Benet 125
Poet, Short Stories, Novelist
Friday, July 22nd 1898León de Greiff 128
Poet
Monday, July 22nd 1895Janusz Korczak 145
Children's Literature
Monday, July 22nd 1878Frederick Rolfe - Baron Corvo 163
Novelist
Sunday, July 22nd 1860Emma Lazarus 174
Poet
Sunday, July 22nd 1849Mikhail Shcherbatov 290
Non-Fiction
Wednesday, July 22nd 1733Joel Stein 52
Journalist
Friday, July 23rd 1971Thea Dorn 53
Novelist
Thursday, July 23rd 1970Gardner Dozois 76
Short Stories
Wednesday, July 23rd 1947Lisa Alther 79
Novelist
Sunday, July 23rd 1944Claude Fournier 92
Screenwriter
Thursday, July 23rd 1931Guy Fournier 92
Playwright, Screenwriter
Thursday, July 23rd 1931Hubert Selby, Jr. 95
Novelist
Monday, July 23rd 1928Gérard Brach 96
Screenwriter
Saturday, July 23rd 1927Gavin Lambert 99
Screenwriter, Novelist
Wednesday, July 23rd 1924Cyril M. Kornbluth 100
Novelist
Monday, July 23rd 1923Davis Grubb 104
Novelist
Wednesday, July 23rd 1919M. H. Abrams 111
Non-Fiction
Tuesday, July 23rd 1912Raymond Chandler 135
Novelist
Monday, July 23rd 1888Mark Andrew Smith 44
Comic Book Writer
Tuesday, July 24th 1979John Rosengren 59
Non-Fiction
Friday, July 24th 1964Colleen Doran 60
Comic Book Writer
Wednesday, July 24th 1963Marc Jampole 73
Poet, Journalist
Monday, July 24th 1950Arliss Ryan 73
Novelist
Monday, July 24th 1950Geoff McQueen 76
Screenwriter
Thursday, July 24th 1947Alfred Balk 93
Journalist
Thursday, July 24th 1930Madeleine Ferron 101
Novelist
Monday, July 24th 1922John D. MacDonald 107
Novelist
Monday, July 24th 1916Robert Graves 128
Poet, Novelist
Wednesday, July 24th 1895Jun'ichirō Tanizaki 137
Novelist
Saturday, July 24th 1886Edward Plunkett 145
Novelist, Playwright
Wednesday, July 24th 1878Oswald Chambers 149
Non-Fiction
Friday, July 24th 1874E. F. Benson 156
Novelist
Wednesday, July 24th 1867Vicente Acosta 156
Poet
Wednesday, July 24th 1867Frank Wedekind 159
Playwright
Sunday, July 24th 1864Henrik Pontoppidan 166
Novelist
Friday, July 24th 1857William Gillette 170
Playwright
Sunday, July 24th 1853Alexandre Dumas 221
Novelist
Saturday, July 24th 1802Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan 47
Poet
Sunday, July 25th 1976Claude Zidi 89
Screenwriter
Wednesday, July 25th 1934Alice Parizeau 93
Novelist, Journalist
Friday, July 25th 1930Midge Decter 96
Journalist
Monday, July 25th 1927Maria Gripe 100
Children's Literature
Wednesday, July 25th 1923Elias Canetti 118
Novelist, Playwright
Tuesday, July 25th 1905Denys Watkins-Pitchford 118
Children's Literature
Tuesday, July 25th 1905Max Dauthendey 156
Poet
Thursday, July 25th 1867Pieter Langendijk 340
Playwright, Poet
Sunday, July 25th 1683Rick Bragg 64
Journalist
Sunday, July 26th 1959Hart Hanson 66
Screenwriter
Friday, July 26th 1957Bernice Rubens 95
Novelist
Thursday, July 26th 1928Ibn-e-Safi 95
Novelist, Poet
Thursday, July 26th 1928Ana Maria Matute 97
Novelist
Monday, July 26th 1926Jan Berenstain 100
Children's Literature
Thursday, July 26th 1923Jean Shepherd 102
Short Stories
Tuesday, July 26th 1921Paul Gallico 126
Novelist
Monday, July 26th 1897Aldous Huxley 129
Novelist
Thursday, July 26th 1894André Maurois 138
Novelist
Sunday, July 26th 1885Antonio Machado 148
Poet
Monday, July 26th 1875Carl Jung 148
Non-Fiction
Monday, July 26th 1875George Bernard Shaw 167
Playwright
Saturday, July 26th 1856Cat Bauer 68
Wednesday, July 27th 1955Kathleen Norris 76
Sunday, July 27th 1947Bharati Mukherjee 83
Saturday, July 27th 1940Jack Higgins 94
Saturday, July 27th 1929Elizabeth Hardwick 107
Thursday, July 27th 1916Rayner Heppenstall 112
Thursday, July 27th 1911Julien Gracq 113
Wednesday, July 27th 1910Joseph Mitchell 115
Monday, July 27th 1908Hilaire Belloc 153
Wednesday, July 27th 1870Vladimir Korolenko 170
Wednesday, July 27th 1853Giosuè Carducci 188
Monday, July 27th 1835Alexandre Dumas, fils 199
Novelist
Tuesday, July 27th 1824James Piotr Montague 44
Journalist
Saturday, July 28th 1979William T. Vollman 64
Novelist
Tuesday, July 28th 1959Sarah Schulman 65
Novelist, Playwright
Monday, July 28th 1958John Feinstein 67
Journalist
Saturday, July 28th 1956Randall Wallace 74
Screenwriter
Thursday, July 28th 1949Fahmida Riaz 77
Poet
Sunday, July 28th 1946Jim Davis 78
Comic Book Writer
Saturday, July 28th 1945Tonia Marketaki 81
Screenwriter
Tuesday, July 28th 1942Francis Veber 86
Screenwriter, Playwright
Wednesday, July 28th 1937Natalie Babbitt 91
Children's Literature
Thursday, July 28th 1932Jean Roba 93
Comic Book Writer
Monday, July 28th 1930John Ashbery 96
Poet
Thursday, July 28th 1927Malcolm Lowry 114
Novelist, Poet
Wednesday, July 28th 1909Beatrix Potter 157
Children's Literature
Saturday, July 28th 1866Gerard Manley Hopkins 179
Poet
Sunday, July 28th 1844Fabre d'Églantine 273
Poet, Playwright
Tuesday, July 28th 1750Chang-Rae Lee 58
Thursday, July 29th 1965Dean Pitchford 72
Sunday, July 29th 1951Harry Mulisch 96
Novelist
Friday, July 29th 1927Edwin O'Connor 105
Monday, July 29th 1918Chester B. Himes 114
Thursday, July 29th 1909Stanley Kunitz 118
Saturday, July 29th 1905Eyvind Johnson 123
Sunday, July 29th 1900Don Marquis 145
Monday, July 29th 1878Eric Alfred Knudsen 151
Monday, July 29th 1872Booth Tarkington 154
Thursday, July 29th 1869Cherie Priest 48
Wednesday, July 30th 1975Kate Phillips 57
Saturday, July 30th 1966Patrick Modiano 78
Monday, July 30th 1945Alexander Trocchi 98
Thursday, July 30th 1925Willian Gass 99
Wednesday, July 30th 1924Emily Bronte 205
Thursday, July 30th 1818Samuel Rogers 260
Saturday, July 30th 1763Ahmad Akbarpour 53
Novelist
Friday, July 31st 1970Dave Wedge 53
Journalist
Friday, July 31st 1970J. K. Rowling 58
Novelist
Saturday, July 31st 1965Andrew Marr 64
Journalist
Friday, July 31st 1959João Barreiros 71
Novelist
Thursday, July 31st 1952Steve Miller 73
Short Stories
Monday, July 31st 1950Jonathan Dimbleby 79
Journalist, Non-Fiction
Monday, July 31st 1944Yvon Deschamps 88
Humorist
Wednesday, July 31st 1935Cees Nooteboom 90
Novelist
Monday, July 31st 1933Lynne Reid Banks 94
Novelist, Children's Literature
Wednesday, July 31st 1929Gilles Carle 95
Screenwriter
Tuesday, July 31st 1928Primo Levi 104
Novelist
Thursday, July 31st 1919Irv Kupcinet 111
Columnist
Wednesday, July 31st 1912Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn 114
Novelist, Non-Fiction
Saturday, July 31st 1909Brett Halliday 119
Novelist
Sunday, July 31st 1904Premchand 143
Novelist
Saturday, July 31st 1880Peter Rosegger 180
Poet
Monday, July 31st 1843