Author Birthdays for July
Jean Stafford 107
Thursday, July 1st 1915James M. Cain 130
Friday, July 1st 1892George Sand 218
Sunday, July 1st 1804Wislawa Szymborska 99
Monday, July 2nd 1923Hermann Hesse 145
Monday, July 2nd 1877William Le Queux 158
Saturday, July 2nd 1864Dave Barry 75
Thursday, July 3rd 1947Tom Stoppard 85
Saturday, July 3rd 1937M.F.K. Fisher 114
Friday, July 3rd 1908Franz Kafka 139
Tuesday, July 3rd 1883Charlotte Perkins Gilman 162
Tuesday, July 3rd 1860Richard Rhodes 85
Sunday, July 4th 1937Nathaniel Hawthorne 218
Wednesday, July 4th 1804Craig Nova 77
Thursday, July 5th 1945Jean Cocteau 133
Poet, Novelist, Playwright
Friday, July 5th 1889Kathryn Hulme 122
Friday, July 6th 1900Robert Heinlein 115
Sunday, July 7th 1907J.F. Powers 105
Sunday, July 8th 1917Richard Aldington 130
Friday, July 8th 1892Dean Koontz 77
Monday, July 9th 1945Oliver Sacks 89
Sunday, July 9th 1933Fanny Fern 111
Sunday, July 9th 1911Alice Munro 91
Friday, July 10th 1931John Wyndham 119
Friday, July 10th 1903Marcel Proust 151
Novelist
Monday, July 10th 1871Harold Bloom 92
Friday, July 11th 1930E. B. White 123
Tuesday, July 11th 1899Donald E. Westlake 89
Wednesday, July 12th 1933Pablo Neruda 118
Tuesday, July 12th 1904Henry David Thoreau 205
Saturday, July 12th 1817Woody Guthrie 110
Sunday, July 14th 1912Richard Pini 72
Comic Book Writer
Saturday, July 15th 1950Richard Russo 73
Novelist
Friday, July 15th 1949Iris Murdoch 103
Novelist
Tuesday, July 15th 1919Linda Salzman 82
Tuesday, July 16th 1940Caroline Blackwood 91
Thursday, July 16th 1931Anita Brookner 94
Monday, July 16th 1928J. Michael Straczynski 68
Saturday, July 17th 1954James Purdy 99
Tuesday, July 17th 1923Christina Stead 120
Thursday, July 17th 1902Jared Hess 43
Screenwriter
Wednesday, July 18th 1979Alfian Sa'at 45
Poet, Playwright
Monday, July 18th 1977Alan Morrison 48
Poet
Thursday, July 18th 1974M.J. Alexander 61
Poet, Playwright
Tuesday, July 18th 1961Hunter S. Thompson 83
Journalist
Tuesday, July 18th 1939Yevgeny Yevtushenko 89
Poet, Novelist
Tuesday, July 18th 1933Margaret Laurence 96
Novelist
Sunday, July 18th 1926Robert Sloman 96
Screenwriter
Sunday, July 18th 1926Clifford Odets 116
Playwright, Screenwriter
Wednesday, July 18th 1906Jessamyn West 120
Novelist
Friday, July 18th 1902Nathalie Sarraute 122
Novelist
Wednesday, July 18th 1900Rose Hartwick Thorpe 172
Poet
Thursday, July 18th 1850Tristan Corbière 177
Poet
Friday, July 18th 1845William Makepeace Thackeray 211
Novelist
Thursday, July 18th 1811Garth Nix 59
Novelist
Friday, July 19th 1963Aya Kitō 60
Memoirist
Thursday, July 19th 1962Srđa Trifković 68
Journalist
Monday, July 19th 1954Jayne Anne Phillips 70
Novelist
Saturday, July 19th 1952Jayson Stark 71
Journalist
Thursday, July 19th 1951Joseph Hansen 99
Novelist
Thursday, July 19th 1923William A. Rusher 99
Columnist
Thursday, July 19th 1923Miltos Sachtouris 103
Poet
Saturday, July 19th 1919Eve Merriam 106
Poet, Playwright
Wednesday, July 19th 1916A. J. Cronin 126
Novelist
Sunday, July 19th 1896Vladimir Mayakovsky 129
Poet, Playwright
Wednesday, July 19th 1893Ferdinand Brunetière 173
Essayist
Thursday, July 19th 1849Gottfried Keller 203
Novelist
Monday, July 19th 1819Heinrich Christian Boie 278
Poet
Sunday, July 19th 1744Dan Shaughnessy 69
Journalist
Monday, July 20th 1953Thomas Friedman 69
Journalist
Monday, July 20th 1953Adrian Păunescu 79
Poet, Journalist
Tuesday, July 20th 1943Periklis Korovesis 81
Journalist
Sunday, July 20th 1941Uwe Johnson 88
Novelist
Friday, July 20th 1934Cormac McCarthy 89
Novelist
Thursday, July 20th 1933Giannis Agouris 92
Journalist
Sunday, July 20th 1930Frantz Fanon 97
Non-Fiction
Monday, July 20th 1925Thomas Berger 98
Novelist
Sunday, July 20th 1924Stanisław Albinowski 99
Journalist
Friday, July 20th 1923George Johnston 110
Journalist, Novelist
Saturday, July 20th 1912Erik Axel Karlfeldt 158
Poet
Wednesday, July 20th 1864Sir George Trevelyan 184
Biographer
Friday, July 20th 1838Augustin Daly 184
Playwright
Friday, July 20th 1838Petrarch 718
Poet
Sunday, July 20th 1304Sarah Waters 56
Novelist
Thursday, July 21st 1966Michael Connelly 66
Novelist
Saturday, July 21st 1956Ed Hinton 74
Journalist
Wednesday, July 21st 1948William S. Burroughs, Jr. 75
Poet
Monday, July 21st 1947Tess Gallagher 79
Poet, Playwright
Wednesday, July 21st 1943John Gardner 89
Novelist
Friday, July 21st 1933Marshall McLuhan 111
Non-Fiction
Friday, July 21st 1911Ernest Hemingway 123
Novelist
Friday, July 21st 1899Hart Crane 128
Poet
Saturday, July 21st 1894Hans Fallada 129
Novelist
Friday, July 21st 1893Frances Parkinson Keyes 137
Novelist
Tuesday, July 21st 1885Paul Reuter 206
Journalist
Sunday, July 21st 1816Matthew Prior 358
Poet
Monday, July 21st 1664Don Van Natta, Jr. 58
Journalist
Wednesday, July 22nd 1964Paul Quarrington 69
Novelist, Playwright
Wednesday, July 22nd 1953S. E. Hinton 74
Novelist
Thursday, July 22nd 1948Paul Schrader 76
Screenwriter
Monday, July 22nd 1946Tom Robbins 86
Novelist
Wednesday, July 22nd 1936Bryan Forbes 96
Screenwriter
Thursday, July 22nd 1926Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah 107
Essayist
Thursday, July 22nd 1915Wayne Robbins 108
Short Stories
Wednesday, July 22nd 1914Ormond Robbins 108
Novelist
Wednesday, July 22nd 1914Stephen Vincent Benet 124
Poet, Short Stories, Novelist
Friday, July 22nd 1898León de Greiff 127
Poet
Monday, July 22nd 1895Janusz Korczak 144
Children's Literature
Monday, July 22nd 1878Frederick Rolfe - Baron Corvo 162
Novelist
Sunday, July 22nd 1860Emma Lazarus 173
Poet
Sunday, July 22nd 1849Mikhail Shcherbatov 289
Non-Fiction
Wednesday, July 22nd 1733Joel Stein 51
Journalist
Friday, July 23rd 1971Thea Dorn 52
Novelist
Thursday, July 23rd 1970Gardner Dozois 75
Short Stories
Wednesday, July 23rd 1947Lisa Alther 78
Novelist
Sunday, July 23rd 1944Claude Fournier 91
Screenwriter
Thursday, July 23rd 1931Guy Fournier 91
Playwright, Screenwriter
Thursday, July 23rd 1931Hubert Selby, Jr. 94
Novelist
Monday, July 23rd 1928Gérard Brach 95
Screenwriter
Saturday, July 23rd 1927Gavin Lambert 98
Screenwriter, Novelist
Wednesday, July 23rd 1924Cyril M. Kornbluth 99
Novelist
Monday, July 23rd 1923Davis Grubb 103
Novelist
Wednesday, July 23rd 1919M. H. Abrams 110
Non-Fiction
Tuesday, July 23rd 1912Raymond Chandler 134
Novelist
Monday, July 23rd 1888Mark Andrew Smith 43
Comic Book Writer
Tuesday, July 24th 1979John Rosengren 58
Non-Fiction
Friday, July 24th 1964Colleen Doran 59
Comic Book Writer
Wednesday, July 24th 1963Marc Jampole 72
Poet, Journalist
Monday, July 24th 1950Arliss Ryan 72
Novelist
Monday, July 24th 1950Geoff McQueen 75
Screenwriter
Thursday, July 24th 1947Alfred Balk 92
Journalist
Thursday, July 24th 1930Madeleine Ferron 100
Novelist
Monday, July 24th 1922John D. MacDonald 106
Novelist
Monday, July 24th 1916Robert Graves 127
Poet, Novelist
Wednesday, July 24th 1895Jun'ichirō Tanizaki 136
Novelist
Saturday, July 24th 1886Edward Plunkett 144
Novelist, Playwright
Wednesday, July 24th 1878Oswald Chambers 148
Non-Fiction
Friday, July 24th 1874E. F. Benson 155
Novelist
Wednesday, July 24th 1867Vicente Acosta 155
Poet
Wednesday, July 24th 1867Frank Wedekind 158
Playwright
Sunday, July 24th 1864Henrik Pontoppidan 165
Novelist
Friday, July 24th 1857William Gillette 169
Playwright
Sunday, July 24th 1853Alexandre Dumas 220
Novelist
Saturday, July 24th 1802Jovica Tasevski-Eternijan 46
Poet
Sunday, July 25th 1976Claude Zidi 88
Screenwriter
Wednesday, July 25th 1934Alice Parizeau 92
Novelist, Journalist
Friday, July 25th 1930Midge Decter 95
Journalist
Monday, July 25th 1927Maria Gripe 99
Children's Literature
Wednesday, July 25th 1923Elias Canetti 117
Novelist, Playwright
Tuesday, July 25th 1905Denys Watkins-Pitchford 117
Children's Literature
Tuesday, July 25th 1905Max Dauthendey 155
Poet
Thursday, July 25th 1867Pieter Langendijk 339
Playwright, Poet
Sunday, July 25th 1683Rick Bragg 63
Journalist
Sunday, July 26th 1959Hart Hanson 65
Screenwriter
Friday, July 26th 1957Bernice Rubens 94
Novelist
Thursday, July 26th 1928Ibn-e-Safi 94
Novelist, Poet
Thursday, July 26th 1928Ana Maria Matute 96
Novelist
Monday, July 26th 1926Jan Berenstain 99
Children's Literature
Thursday, July 26th 1923Jean Shepherd 101
Short Stories
Tuesday, July 26th 1921Paul Gallico 125
Novelist
Monday, July 26th 1897Aldous Huxley 128
Novelist
Thursday, July 26th 1894André Maurois 137
Novelist
Sunday, July 26th 1885Antonio Machado 147
Poet
Monday, July 26th 1875Carl Jung 147
Non-Fiction
Monday, July 26th 1875George Bernard Shaw 166
Playwright
Saturday, July 26th 1856Cat Bauer 67
Wednesday, July 27th 1955Kathleen Norris 75
Sunday, July 27th 1947Bharati Mukherjee 82
Saturday, July 27th 1940Jack Higgins 93
Saturday, July 27th 1929Elizabeth Hardwick 106
Thursday, July 27th 1916Rayner Heppenstall 111
Thursday, July 27th 1911Julien Gracq 112
Wednesday, July 27th 1910Joseph Mitchell 114
Monday, July 27th 1908Hilaire Belloc 152
Wednesday, July 27th 1870Vladimir Korolenko 169
Wednesday, July 27th 1853Giosuè Carducci 187
Monday, July 27th 1835Alexandre Dumas, fils 198
Novelist
Tuesday, July 27th 1824James Piotr Montague 43
Journalist
Saturday, July 28th 1979William T. Vollman 63
Novelist
Tuesday, July 28th 1959Sarah Schulman 64
Novelist, Playwright
Monday, July 28th 1958John Feinstein 66
Journalist
Saturday, July 28th 1956Randall Wallace 73
Screenwriter
Thursday, July 28th 1949Fahmida Riaz 76
Poet
Sunday, July 28th 1946Jim Davis 77
Comic Book Writer
Saturday, July 28th 1945Tonia Marketaki 80
Screenwriter
Tuesday, July 28th 1942Francis Veber 85
Screenwriter, Playwright
Wednesday, July 28th 1937Natalie Babbitt 90
Children's Literature
Thursday, July 28th 1932Jean Roba 92
Comic Book Writer
Monday, July 28th 1930John Ashbery 95
Poet
Thursday, July 28th 1927Malcolm Lowry 113
Novelist, Poet
Wednesday, July 28th 1909Beatrix Potter 156
Children's Literature
Saturday, July 28th 1866Gerard Manley Hopkins 178
Poet
Sunday, July 28th 1844Fabre d'Églantine 272
Poet, Playwright
Tuesday, July 28th 1750Chang-Rae Lee 57
Thursday, July 29th 1965Dean Pitchford 71
Sunday, July 29th 1951Harry Mulisch 95
Novelist
Friday, July 29th 1927Edwin O'Connor 104
Monday, July 29th 1918Chester B. Himes 113
Thursday, July 29th 1909Stanley Kunitz 117
Saturday, July 29th 1905Eyvind Johnson 122
Sunday, July 29th 1900Don Marquis 144
Monday, July 29th 1878Eric Alfred Knudsen 150
Monday, July 29th 1872Booth Tarkington 153
Thursday, July 29th 1869Cherie Priest 47
Wednesday, July 30th 1975Kate Phillips 56
Saturday, July 30th 1966Patrick Modiano 77
Monday, July 30th 1945Alexander Trocchi 97
Thursday, July 30th 1925Willian Gass 98
Wednesday, July 30th 1924Emily Bronte 204
Thursday, July 30th 1818Samuel Rogers 259
Saturday, July 30th 1763Ahmad Akbarpour 52
Novelist
Friday, July 31st 1970Dave Wedge 52
Journalist
Friday, July 31st 1970J. K. Rowling 57
Novelist
Saturday, July 31st 1965Andrew Marr 63
Journalist
Friday, July 31st 1959João Barreiros 70
Novelist
Thursday, July 31st 1952Steve Miller 72
Short Stories
Monday, July 31st 1950Jonathan Dimbleby 78
Journalist, Non-Fiction
Monday, July 31st 1944Yvon Deschamps 87
Humorist
Wednesday, July 31st 1935Cees Nooteboom 89
Novelist
Monday, July 31st 1933Lynne Reid Banks 93
Novelist, Children's Literature
Wednesday, July 31st 1929Gilles Carle 94
Screenwriter
Tuesday, July 31st 1928Primo Levi 103
Novelist
Thursday, July 31st 1919Irv Kupcinet 110
Columnist
Wednesday, July 31st 1912Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn 113
Novelist, Non-Fiction
Saturday, July 31st 1909Brett Halliday 118
Novelist
Sunday, July 31st 1904Premchand 142
Novelist
Saturday, July 31st 1880Peter Rosegger 179
Poet
Monday, July 31st 1843