Author Birthdays for June
Khawar Rizvi 85
Poet
Wednesday, June 1st 1938Colleen McCullough 86
Novelist
Tuesday, June 1st 1937Bill Deedes 110
Journalist
Sunday, June 1st 1913John Van Druten 122
Playwright
Saturday, June 1st 1901Charles Kay Ogden 134
Non-Fiction
Saturday, June 1st 1889John Masefield 145
Poet, Children's Literature
Saturday, June 1st 1878Ferdinand Raimund 233
Playwright
Tuesday, June 1st 1790Dante Alighieri 758
Poet
Monday, June 1st 1265Carol Shields 88
Sunday, June 2nd 1935Lester del Rey 108
Wednesday, June 2nd 1915Barbara Rym 110
Monday, June 2nd 1913Karl Adolph Gjellerup 166
Poet, Novelist
Tuesday, June 2nd 1857Thomas Hardy 183
Tuesday, June 2nd 1840Marquis de Sade 283
Thursday, June 2nd 1740Larry McMurtry 87
Wednesday, June 3rd 1936Marion Zimmer Bradley 93
Tuesday, June 3rd 1930Allen Ginsberg 97
Thursday, June 3rd 1926Buddy Wakefield 49
Poet
Tuesday, June 4th 1974Joe Hill 51
Novelist
Sunday, June 4th 1972John Hockenberry 67
Journalist
Monday, June 4th 1956Val McDermid 68
Novelist
Saturday, June 4th 1955Wendy Pini 72
Comic Book Writer
Monday, June 4th 1951Kenneth G. Ross 82
Playwright, Screenwriter
Wednesday, June 4th 1941Robert Fulghum 86
Essayist, Novelist
Friday, June 4th 1937Maurice Shadbolt 91
Novelist
Saturday, June 4th 1932Ruth Westheimer 95
Non-Fiction
Monday, June 4th 1928Elizabeth Jolley 100
Novelist
Monday, June 4th 1923Jacques Roumain 116
Novelist, Poet
Tuesday, June 4th 1907Patience Strong 116
Poet
Tuesday, June 4th 1907Mabel Lucie Attwell 144
Children's Literature
Wednesday, June 4th 1879Apollon Maykov 202
Poet
Monday, June 4th 1821Ken Follett 74
Sunday, June 5th 1949Margaret Drabble 84
Monday, June 5th 1939Alfred Kazin 108
Saturday, June 5th 1915Federico Garcia Lorca 125
Sunday, June 5th 1898Geraldine McCaughrean 72
Novelist
Wednesday, June 6th 1951Stephen Dixon 87
Saturday, June 6th 1936Harry Crews 88
Thursday, June 6th 1935Maxine Kumine 98
Saturday, June 6th 1925Thomas Mann 148
Sunday, June 6th 1875Alexander Pushkin 224
Thursday, June 6th 1799Louise Erdrich 69
Monday, June 7th 1954Orhan Pamuk 71
Saturday, June 7th 1952Elizabeth Bowen 124
Wednesday, June 7th 1899Sara Paretsky 76
Sunday, June 8th 1947John W. Campbell 113
Wednesday, June 8th 1910David Koepp 60
Screenwriter
Sunday, June 9th 1963Aaron Sorkin 62
Playwright, Screenwriter
Friday, June 9th 1961Patricia Cornwell 67
Novelist
Saturday, June 9th 1956Gregory Maguire 69
Novelist
Wednesday, June 9th 1954Deyda Hydara 77
Journalist
Sunday, June 9th 1946James Kelman 77
Novelist
Sunday, June 9th 1946Joe Haldeman 80
Novelist
Wednesday, June 9th 1943Charles Webb 84
Novelist
Friday, June 9th 1939Keith Laumer 98
Novelist
Tuesday, June 9th 1925George Axelrod 101
Playwright, Screenwriter
Friday, June 9th 1922John Gillespie Magee, Jr. 101
Poet
Friday, June 9th 1922Jurij Brězan 107
Novelist
Friday, June 9th 1916Bertha von Suttner 180
Novelist
Friday, June 9th 1843Maurice Sendak 95
Children's Literature
Sunday, June 10th 1928Saul Bellow 108
Thursday, June 10th 1915Athol Fugard 91
Saturday, June 11th 1932William Styron 98
Thursday, June 11th 1925Sonia Manzano 73
Monday, June 12th 1950Anne Frank 94
Wednesday, June 12th 1929Brigid Brophy 94
Wednesday, June 12th 1929Djuna Barnes 131
Novelist
Sunday, June 12th 1892Audrey Niffenegger 60
Thursday, June 13th 1963Maurice G. Dantec 64
Saturday, June 13th 1959Whitley Strieber 78
Wednesday, June 13th 1945Dorothy L. Sayers 130
Tuesday, June 13th 1893William Butler Yeats 158
Tuesday, June 13th 1865John Edgar Wideman 82
Saturday, June 14th 1941Jerzy Kosinski 90
Wednesday, June 14th 1933Yasunari Kawabata 124
Wednesday, June 14th 1899Harriet Beecher Stowe 212
Friday, June 14th 1811Chris Morris 61
Satirist, Screenwriter
Friday, June 15th 1962Ana Castillo 70
Monday, June 15th 1953Amy Clampitt 103
Tuesday, June 15th 1920Joyce Carol Oates 85
Thursday, June 16th 1938Ron Padgett 81
Wednesday, June 17th 1942John Hersey 109
Wednesday, June 17th 1914Richard Powers 66
Tuesday, June 18th 1957Amy Bloom 70
Thursday, June 18th 1953Chris Van Allsburg 74
Saturday, June 18th 1949Gail Godwin 86
Friday, June 18th 1937Salman Rushdie 76
Thursday, June 19th 1947Tobias Wolff 78
Tuesday, June 19th 1945E. Lynn Harris 68
Monday, June 20th 1955Vikram Seth 71
Friday, June 20th 1952Lillian Hellman 118
Tuesday, June 20th 1905Ian McEwan 75
Monday, June 21st 1948Francoise Sagan 88
Friday, June 21st 1935Mary McCarthy 111
Friday, June 21st 1912Jean-Paul Sartre 118
Wednesday, June 21st 1905Dan Brown 59
Monday, June 22nd 1964Joanna Scott 63
Wednesday, June 22nd 1960Octavia Butler 76
Sunday, June 22nd 1947Erich Maria Remarque 125
Wednesday, June 22nd 1898Julian Hawthorne 177
Monday, June 22nd 1846David Leavitt 62
Friday, June 23rd 1961Alexandru Odobescu 189
Monday, June 23rd 1834Lawrence Block 85
Friday, June 24th 1938Anita Desai 86
Thursday, June 24th 1937Ambrose Bierce 181
Friday, June 24th 1842Rebecca Harding Davis 192
Friday, June 24th 1831Nicholas Mosley 100
Monday, June 25th 1923George Orwell 120
Thursday, June 25th 1903Moses Hadas 123
Monday, June 25th 1900Robert Erskine Childers 153
Saturday, June 25th 1870J. J. Abrams 57
Screenwriter
Monday, June 27th 1966Dan Jurgens 64
Comic Book Writer
Saturday, June 27th 1959Anita Diamant 72
Novelist
Wednesday, June 27th 1951James P. Hogan 82
Novelist
Friday, June 27th 1941Ivan Doig 84
Novelist
Tuesday, June 27th 1939Kirkpatrick Sale 86
Non-Fiction
Sunday, June 27th 1937Lucille Clifton 87
Poet, Children's Literature
Saturday, June 27th 1936Frank O'Hara 97
Poet
Sunday, June 27th 1926Robert Aickman 109
Novelist
Saturday, June 27th 1914João Guimarães Rosa 115
Novelist
Saturday, June 27th 1908Catherine Cookson 117
Novelist
Wednesday, June 27th 1906Lafcadio Hearn 173
Journalist
Thursday, June 27th 1850Louise von François 206
Novelist
Friday, June 27th 1817Mark Helprin 76
Saturday, June 28th 1947Eric Ambler 114
Monday, June 28th 1909Floyd Dell 136
Tuesday, June 28th 1887Luigi Pirandello 156
Friday, June 28th 1867Antoine de Saint-Exupery 123
Friday, June 29th 1900Czeslaw Milosz 112
Friday, June 30th 1911William Hamilton Maxwell 231
Novelist
Saturday, June 30th 1792John Gay 338
Saturday, June 30th 1685
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