Author Birthdays for May

  • Wes Anderson  54
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, May 1st 1969
  • Yasmina Reza  64
    Novelist, Playwright
    Friday, May 1st 1959
  • Joel Rosenberg  69
    Novelist
    Saturday, May 1st 1954
  • Sergio Infante  76
    Poet
    Thursday, May 1st 1947
  • Bobbie Ann Mason  83
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 1st 1940
  • Jacques Languirand  92
    Playwright, Essayist, Novelist
    Friday, May 1st 1931
  • Terry Southern  99
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, May 1st 1924
  • Joseph Heller  100
    Novelist
    Tuesday, May 1st 1923
  • Vladimir Colin  102
    Novelist
    Sunday, May 1st 1921
  • Wilfred Watson  112
    Poet, Playwright
    Monday, May 1st 1911
  • Yiannis Ritsos  114
    Poet
    Saturday, May 1st 1909
  • Giovannino Guareschi  115
    Journalist
    Friday, May 1st 1908
  • Sterling Allen Brown  122
    Poet
    Wednesday, May 1st 1901
  • Antal Szerb  122
    Non-Fiction
    Wednesday, May 1st 1901
  • Clément Pansaers  138
    Poet
    Friday, May 1st 1885
  • Harry Leon Wilson  156
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 1st 1867
  • Marcel Prévost  161
    Novelist, Playwright
    Thursday, May 1st 1862
  • Laza Lazarević  172
    Short Stories, Non-Fiction
    Thursday, May 1st 1851
  • Henry Demarest Lloyd  176
    Journalist
    Saturday, May 1st 1847
  • Guido Gezelle  193
    Poet
    Saturday, May 1st 1830
  • José de Alencar  194
    Novelist, Playwright
    Friday, May 1st 1829
  • James Clarence Mangan  220
    Poet
    Sunday, May 1st 1803
  • Joseph Addison  351
    Essayist, Poet, Playwright
    Sunday, May 1st 1672
  • Jean de Joinville  799
    Biographer
    Wednesday, May 1st 1224
  • Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck  50
    Screenwriter
    Wednesday, May 2nd 1973
  • Maury Allen  91
    Journalist, Columnist
    Monday, May 2nd 1932
  • Jamal Abro  99
    Short Stories
    Friday, May 2nd 1924
  • A. M. Rosenthal  101
    Columnist
    Tuesday, May 2nd 1922
  • Dr. Spock  120
    Non-Fiction
    Saturday, May 2nd 1903
  • E. E. Smith  133
    Novelist
    Friday, May 2nd 1890
  • Gottfried Benn  137
    Novelist, Poet, Essayist
    Sunday, May 2nd 1886
  • Hedda Hopper  138
    Columnist
    Saturday, May 2nd 1885
  • Jurgis Baltrušaitis  150
    Poet
    Friday, May 2nd 1873
  • Clyde Fitch  158
    Playwright
    Tuesday, May 2nd 1865
  • Theodor Herzl  163
    Journalist
    Wednesday, May 2nd 1860
  • Jerome K. Jerome  164
    Novelist
    Monday, May 2nd 1859
  • Novalis  251
    Novelist, Poet
    Saturday, May 2nd 1772
  • William Inge  110

    Saturday, May 3rd 1913
  • Norman Corwin  113

    Tuesday, May 3rd 1910
  • Niccolo Machiavelli  554

    Monday, May 3rd 1469
  • David Guterson  67

    Friday, May 4th 1956
  • Graham Swift  74

    Wednesday, May 4th 1949
  • Josh Weinstein  57
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, May 5th 1966
  • Scott Westerfeld  60
    Novelist
    Sunday, May 5th 1963
  • Michael Palin  80
    Screenwriter, Children's Literature
    Wednesday, May 5th 1943
  • Ignacio Ramonet  80
    Journalist
    Wednesday, May 5th 1943
  • Ervin Lázár  87
    Children's Literature
    Tuesday, May 5th 1936
  • Bernard Pivot  88
    Journalist
    Sunday, May 5th 1935
  • Douglas Marland  89
    Screenwriter
    Saturday, May 5th 1934
  • Greg  92
    Comic Book Writer
    Tuesday, May 5th 1931
  • Miklós Radnóti  114
    Poet
    Wednesday, May 5th 1909
  • Charles Exbrayat  117
    Novelist
    Saturday, May 5th 1906
  • James Beard  120
    Non-Fiction
    Tuesday, May 5th 1903
  • Christopher Morley  133
    Novelist, Poet, Essayist, Journalist
    Monday, May 5th 1890
  • Nellie Bly  159
    Journalist
    Thursday, May 5th 1864
  • Henryk Sienkiewicz  177
    Journalist, Novelist
    Tuesday, May 5th 1846
  • Soren Kierkegaard  210

    Wednesday, May 5th 1813
  • Jeffery Deaver  73

    Saturday, May 6th 1950
  • Randall Jarrell  109

    Wednesday, May 6th 1914
  • Gaston Leroux  155

    Wednesday, May 6th 1868
  • Sigmund Freud  167

    Tuesday, May 6th 1856
  • Elizabeth Drew Stoddard  200

    Tuesday, May 6th 1823
  • Peter Carey  80

    Friday, May 7th 1943
  • Angela Carter  83

    Tuesday, May 7th 1940
  • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala  96

    Saturday, May 7th 1927
  • Archibald MacLeish  131

    Saturday, May 7th 1892
  • Robert Browning  211

    Thursday, May 7th 1812
  • Pat Barker  80

    Saturday, May 8th 1943
  • Thomas Pynchon  86

    Saturday, May 8th 1937
  • Gary Snyder  93

    Thursday, May 8th 1930
  • Romain Gary  109

    Friday, May 8th 1914
  • Edmund Wilson  128

    Wednesday, May 8th 1895
  • Augusta Jane Evans  188
    Novelist
    Friday, May 8th 1835
  • Audrey Schulman  60

    Thursday, May 9th 1963
  • Alan Bennett  89

    Wednesday, May 9th 1934
  • Jose Ortega y Gasset  140

    Wednesday, May 9th 1883
  • J. M. Barrie  163

    Wednesday, May 9th 1860
  • John Scalzi  54
    Novelist
    Saturday, May 10th 1969
  • Jon Ronson  56
    Journalist
    Wednesday, May 10th 1967
  • Jonathan Roberts  67
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, May 10th 1956
  • John Diamond  70
    Journalist
    Sunday, May 10th 1953
  • Thomas Tessier  76
    Novelist
    Saturday, May 10th 1947
  • Caroline B. Cooney  76
    Novelist
    Saturday, May 10th 1947
  • Barbara Taylor Bradford  90
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 10th 1933
  • Ettore Scola  92
    Screenwriter
    Sunday, May 10th 1931
  • Antonine Maillet  94
    Novelist, Playwright
    Friday, May 10th 1929
  • Nayantara Sahgal  96
    Novelist
    Tuesday, May 10th 1927
  • Monica Dickens  108
    Novelist
    Monday, May 10th 1915
  • Bel Kaufman  112
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 10th 1911
  • Olaf Stapledon  137
    Novelist
    Monday, May 10th 1886
  • Ivan Cankar  147
    Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Essayist
    Wednesday, May 10th 1876
  • Upendrakishore Ray  160
    Children's Literature
    Sunday, May 10th 1863
  • Benito Pérez Galdós  180
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 10th 1843
  • Johann Peter Hebel  263
    Short Stories, Poet
    Saturday, May 10th 1760
  • Jean Mairet  419
    Playwright
    Monday, May 10th 1604
  • Dusán Mukics  42
    Journalist
    Monday, May 11th 1981
  • Theresa Burke  67
    Journalist
    Friday, May 11th 1956
  • Mike Lupica  71
    Columnist
    Sunday, May 11th 1952
  • Jeremy Paxman  73
    Journalist
    Thursday, May 11th 1950
  • Rachel Billington  81
    Novelist
    Monday, May 11th 1942
  • Francisco Umbral  91
    Journalist, Novelist, Essayist
    Wednesday, May 11th 1932
  • Stanley Elkin  93
    Novelist, Short Stories, Essayist
    Sunday, May 11th 1930
  • Marco Ferreri  95
    Screenwriter
    Friday, May 11th 1928
  • Richard Feynman  105
    Non-Fiction
    Saturday, May 11th 1918
  • Camilo Jose Cela  107
    Novelist
    Thursday, May 11th 1916
  • Saadat Hasan Manto  111
    Short Stories
    Saturday, May 11th 1912
  • Rose Ausländer  122
    Poet
    Saturday, May 11th 1901
  • Paulino Masip  124
    Playwright, Novelist
    Thursday, May 11th 1899
  • János Batsányi  260
    Poet
    Wednesday, May 11th 1763
  • L. Neil Smith  77
    Novelist
    Sunday, May 12th 1946
  • George Carlin  86
    Comedy Writer
    Wednesday, May 12th 1937
  • Andrei Voznesensky  90
    Poet
    Friday, May 12th 1933
  • Marco Denevi  101
    Novelist
    Friday, May 12th 1922
  • Farley Mowat  102
    Novelist
    Thursday, May 12th 1921
  • Albert Murray  107
    Novelist
    Friday, May 12th 1916
  • Howard K. Smith  109
    Journalist
    Tuesday, May 12th 1914
  • James Bacon  109
    Columnist
    Tuesday, May 12th 1914
  • Bertus Aafjes  109
    Poet
    Tuesday, May 12th 1914
  • Leslie Charteris  116
    Novelist
    Sunday, May 12th 1907
  • Benjamin Farjeon  185
    Novelist, Playwright
    Saturday, May 12th 1838
  • Edward Lear  211
    Poet
    Tuesday, May 12th 1812
  • Armistead Maupin  79
    Novelist
    Saturday, May 13th 1944
  • Eve Babitz  80
    Novelist
    Thursday, May 13th 1943
  • Bruce Chatwin  83
    Novelist, Travel Writer
    Monday, May 13th 1940
  • Roger Zelazny  86
    Novelist
    Thursday, May 13th 1937
  • Daphne du Maurier  116
    Novelist, Playwright
    Monday, May 13th 1907
  • Arthur Sullivan  181
    Playwright
    Friday, May 13th 1842
  • Alphonse Daudet  183
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 13th 1840
  • Eoin Colfer  58
    Novelist
    Friday, May 14th 1965
  • David Quantick  62
    Journalist
    Sunday, May 14th 1961
  • Christine Brennan  65
    Columnist
    Wednesday, May 14th 1958
  • Rudi Šeligo  88
    Novelist, Playwright, Essayist
    Tuesday, May 14th 1935
  • Barbara Branden  94
    Non-Fiction
    Tuesday, May 14th 1929
  • Herbert W. Franke  96
    Novelist
    Saturday, May 14th 1927
  • Solange Chaput-Rolland  104
    Journalist
    Wednesday, May 14th 1919
  • Hal Borland  123
    Novelist, Journalist
    Monday, May 14th 1900
  • Louis Verneuil  130
    Playwright
    Sunday, May 14th 1893
  • Alexander Kaufmann  206
    Poet
    Wednesday, May 14th 1817
  • Lauren Myracle  54

    Thursday, May 15th 1969
  • Paul Zindel  87

    Friday, May 15th 1936
  • Clifton Fadiman  119
    Essayist
    Sunday, May 15th 1904
  • Katherine Anne Porter  133

    Thursday, May 15th 1890
  • Arthur Schnitzler  161

    Thursday, May 15th 1862
  • L. Frank Baum  167

    Thursday, May 15th 1856
  • Eduard von Keyserling  168
    Novelist, Playwright
    Tuesday, May 15th 1855
  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu  334
    Poet
    Sunday, May 15th 1689
  • Omar Khayyám  975
    Poet
    Monday, May 15th 1048
  • Adrienne Rich  94

    Thursday, May 16th 1929
  • Louis "Studs" Terkel  111

    Thursday, May 16th 1912
  • Jane Moore  61
    Journalist
    Thursday, May 17th 1962
  • F. Paul Wilson  77

    Friday, May 17th 1946
  • David Cope  82
    Non-Fiction
    Saturday, May 17th 1941
  • Gary Paulsen  84
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 17th 1939
  • Dennis Potter  88

    Friday, May 17th 1935
  • Merle Miller  104
    Novelist
    Saturday, May 17th 1919
  • Henri Barbusse  150
    Novelist
    Saturday, May 17th 1873
  • Dorothy Richardson  150
    Novelist, Journalist
    Saturday, May 17th 1873
  • Jacint Verdaguer  178
    Poet
    Saturday, May 17th 1845
  • Virginie Loveling  187
    Poet, Novelist
    Tuesday, May 17th 1836
  • Tina Fey  53
    Screenwriter
    Monday, May 18th 1970
  • Nina Björk  56
    Journalist
    Thursday, May 18th 1967
  • Diane Duane  71
    Novelist
    Sunday, May 18th 1952
  • Yi Munyol  75
    Novelist
    Tuesday, May 18th 1948
  • W. G. Sebald  79
    Novelist
    Thursday, May 18th 1944
  • Jeanie MacPherson  136
    Screenwriter
    Wednesday, May 18th 1887
  • Bertrand Russell  151
    Non-Fiction
    Saturday, May 18th 1872
  • Francis Bellamy  168
    Novelist
    Friday, May 18th 1855
  • John Wilson  238
    Poet
    Wednesday, May 18th 1785
  • Jodi Picoult  57
    Novelist
    Thursday, May 19th 1966
  • Gregory Poirier  62
    Screenwriter
    Friday, May 19th 1961
  • Nora Ephron  82
    Screenwriter, Novelist, Playwright
    Monday, May 19th 1941
  • Ruskin Bond  89
    Novelist, Short Stories, Children's Literature
    Saturday, May 19th 1934
  • Paul Erdman  91
    Novelist, Non-Fiction
    Thursday, May 19th 1932
  • Lorraine Hansberry  93

    Monday, May 19th 1930
  • Karel van het Reve  102
    Essayist
    Thursday, May 19th 1921
  • Merriam Modell  115
    Novelist
    Tuesday, May 19th 1908
  • Anna Brownell Jameson  229
    Non-Fiction
    Monday, May 19th 1794
  • William Michaelian  67
    Novelist
    Sunday, May 20th 1956
  • Ingvar Ambjørnsen  67
    Novelist
    Sunday, May 20th 1956
  • Michel Vastel  83
    Journalist
    Monday, May 20th 1940
  • John Lucarotti  97
    Screenwriter
    Thursday, May 20th 1926
  • Wolfgang Borchert  102
    Playwright
    Friday, May 20th 1921
  • Gardner Fox  112
    Comic Book Writer
    Saturday, May 20th 1911
  • Annie M. G. Schmidt  112
    Children's Literature
    Saturday, May 20th 1911
  • Dorita Fairlie Bruce  138

    Wednesday, May 20th 1885
  • Sigrid Undset  141

    Saturday, May 20th 1882
  • Hector Malot  193
    Novelist
    Thursday, May 20th 1830
  • Honore de Balzac  224

    Monday, May 20th 1799
  • James Phelan  44

    Monday, May 21st 1979
  • Georgiy Gongadze  54
    Journalist
    Wednesday, May 21st 1969
  • Richard Appel  60
    Screenwriter
    Tuesday, May 21st 1963
  • Jeffrey Toobin  63
    Non-Fiction
    Saturday, May 21st 1960
  • Elizabeth Buchan  75
    Novelist
    Friday, May 21st 1948
  • Robert Creeley  97

    Friday, May 21st 1926
  • Harold Robbins  107
    Novelist
    Sunday, May 21st 1916
  • Manly Wade Wellman  120
    Novelist
    Thursday, May 21st 1903
  • Suzanne Lilar  122
    Essayist, Novelist, Playwright
    Tuesday, May 21st 1901
  • Manuel Pérez y Curis  139
    Poet
    Wednesday, May 21st 1884
  • Alexander Pope  335

    Friday, May 21st 1688
  • Graham Linehan  55
    Screenwriter
    Wednesday, May 22nd 1968
  • Peter Matthiessen  96
    Novelist
    Sunday, May 22nd 1927
  • Jean-Louis Curtis  106
    Novelist
    Tuesday, May 22nd 1917
  • Vance Packard  109
    Journalist
    Friday, May 22nd 1914
  • Hergé  116
    Comic Book Writer
    Wednesday, May 22nd 1907
  • Paul Viiding  119
    Poet
    Sunday, May 22nd 1904
  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  164

    Sunday, May 22nd 1859
  • Tsubouchi Shōyō  164
    Playwright
    Sunday, May 22nd 1859
  • Catulle Mendès  182
    Poet
    Saturday, May 22nd 1841
  • Gérard de Nerval  215
    Poet
    Sunday, May 22nd 1808
  • Mitchell Albom  65
    Novelist
    Friday, May 23rd 1958
  • Jane Kenyon  76
    Poet
    Friday, May 23rd 1947
  • Jack McCarthy  84
    Poet
    Tuesday, May 23rd 1939
  • Peter Preston  85
    Journalist
    Monday, May 23rd 1938
  • M. Scott Peck  87
    Non-Fiction
    Saturday, May 23rd 1936
  • Friedrich Achleitner  93
    Poet
    Friday, May 23rd 1930
  • Karlheinz Deschner  99
    Non-Fiction
    Friday, May 23rd 1924
  • James Blish  102
    Novelist
    Monday, May 23rd 1921
  • Robert Bernstein  104
    Comic Book Writer, Playwright
    Friday, May 23rd 1919
  • Celestine Sibley  109
    Columnist
    Saturday, May 23rd 1914
  • Margaret Wise Brown  113
    Children's Literature
    Monday, May 23rd 1910
  • Scott O'Dell  125
    Novelist, Children's Literature
    Monday, May 23rd 1898
  • Pär Lagerkvist  132
    Poet, Playwright, Novelist
    Saturday, May 23rd 1891
  • Margaret Fuller  213
    Journalist
    Wednesday, May 23rd 1810
  • Giuseppe Parini  294
    Satirist, Poet
    Monday, May 23rd 1729
  • Michael Chabon  60

    Friday, May 24th 1963
  • Walter Moers  66

    Friday, May 24th 1957
  • Bob Dylan  82

    Saturday, May 24th 1941
  • Joseph Brodsky  83

    Friday, May 24th 1940
  • William Trevor  95

    Thursday, May 24th 1928
  • Luc Sante  69

    Tuesday, May 25th 1954
  • Jamaica Kincaid  74
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 25th 1949
  • Raymond Carver  85
    Short Stories, Poet
    Wednesday, May 25th 1938
  • John Gregory Dunne  91
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 25th 1932
  • Robert Ludlum  96
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 25th 1927
  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton  220
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 25th 1803
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson  220
    Poet
    Wednesday, May 25th 1803
  • Caitlín R. Kiernan  59
    Novelist
    Tuesday, May 26th 1964
  • Alan Hollinghurst  69
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 26th 1954
  • Lyudmila Petrushevskaya  85
    Novelist, Playwright
    Thursday, May 26th 1938
  • Phyllis Gotlieb  97
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 26th 1926
  • Henriette Roosenburg  107
    Journalist
    Friday, May 26th 1916
  • Moondog  107
    Poet
    Friday, May 26th 1916
  • Antonia Forest  108
    Children's Literature
    Wednesday, May 26th 1915
  • Pierre Daninos  110
    Humorist
    Monday, May 26th 1913
  • Henry Ephron  111
    Playwright, Screenwriter
    Sunday, May 26th 1912
  • Maxwell Bodenheim  131
    Poet, Novelist
    Thursday, May 26th 1892
  • Edmond de Goncourt  201

    Sunday, May 26th 1822
  • Harlan Ellison  89

    Sunday, May 27th 1934
  • John Barth  93

    Tuesday, May 27th 1930
  • Marijane Meaker  96

    Friday, May 27th 1927
  • Tony Hillerman  98

    Wednesday, May 27th 1925
  • Herman Wouk  108

    Thursday, May 27th 1915
  • John Cheever  111

    Monday, May 27th 1912
  • Dashiell Hammett  129

    Sunday, May 27th 1894
  • Arnold Bennett  156

    Monday, May 27th 1867
  • Barney Rosset  101

    Sunday, May 28th 1922
  • Walker Percy  107

    Sunday, May 28th 1916
  • Patrick White  111

    Tuesday, May 28th 1912
  • Ian Fleming  115

    Thursday, May 28th 1908
  • Andrew Clements  74
    Children's Literature
    Sunday, May 29th 1949
  • Andre Brink  88
    Novelist
    Wednesday, May 29th 1935
  • Paul R. Ehrlich  91
    Non-Fiction
    Sunday, May 29th 1932
  • Lars Bo  99
    Novelist
    Thursday, May 29th 1924
  • Bernard Clavel  100
    Novelist
    Tuesday, May 29th 1923
  • T.H. White  117
    Novelist
    Tuesday, May 29th 1906
  • Alfonsina Storni  131
    Poet
    Sunday, May 29th 1892
  • Max Brand  131
    Novelist
    Sunday, May 29th 1892
  • G. K. Chesterton  149
    Novelist
    Friday, May 29th 1874
  • Michael Piller  75
    Screenwriter
    Sunday, May 30th 1948
  • Hal Clement  101
    Novelist
    Tuesday, May 30th 1922
  • Pita Amor  105
    Poet
    Thursday, May 30th 1918
  • Joseph Stein  111
    Playwright
    Thursday, May 30th 1912
  • Harry Bernstein  113
    Memoirest
    Monday, May 30th 1910
  • Countee Cullen  120
    Poet
    Saturday, May 30th 1903
  • Cornelia Otis Skinner  124
    Playwright
    Tuesday, May 30th 1899
  • Randolph Bourne  137
    Essayist
    Sunday, May 30th 1886
  • Félix Arnaudin  179
    Poet
    Thursday, May 30th 1844
  • Robin Wasserman  45
    Children's Literature
    Wednesday, May 31st 1978
  • John Connolly  55
    Novelist
    Friday, May 31st 1968
  • Lynne Truss  68
    Non-Fiction, Journalist, Essayist
    Tuesday, May 31st 1955
  • Bernard Goldberg  78
    Journalist
    Thursday, May 31st 1945
  • Al Young  84
    Novelist, Poet
    Wednesday, May 31st 1939
  • Robie Macauley  104
    Novelist
    Saturday, May 31st 1919
  • George R. Stewart  128
    Novelist
    Friday, May 31st 1895
  • Konstantin Paustovsky  131
    Novelist, Poet
    Tuesday, May 31st 1892
  • Walt Whitman  204
    Poet
    Monday, May 31st 1819
  • Ludwig Tieck  250
    Poet
    Monday, May 31st 1773
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