Author Birthdays for May
Wes Anderson 55
Screenwriter
Thursday, May 1st 1969Yasmina Reza 65
Novelist, Playwright
Friday, May 1st 1959Joel Rosenberg 70
Novelist
Saturday, May 1st 1954Sergio Infante 77
Poet
Thursday, May 1st 1947Bobbie Ann Mason 84
Novelist
Wednesday, May 1st 1940Jacques Languirand 93
Playwright, Essayist, Novelist
Friday, May 1st 1931Terry Southern 100
Screenwriter
Thursday, May 1st 1924Joseph Heller 101
Novelist
Tuesday, May 1st 1923Vladimir Colin 103
Novelist
Sunday, May 1st 1921Wilfred Watson 113
Poet, Playwright
Monday, May 1st 1911Yiannis Ritsos 115
Poet
Saturday, May 1st 1909Giovannino Guareschi 116
Journalist
Friday, May 1st 1908Sterling Allen Brown 123
Poet
Wednesday, May 1st 1901Antal Szerb 123
Non-Fiction
Wednesday, May 1st 1901Clément Pansaers 139
Poet
Friday, May 1st 1885Harry Leon Wilson 157
Novelist
Wednesday, May 1st 1867Marcel Prévost 162
Novelist, Playwright
Thursday, May 1st 1862Laza Lazarević 173
Short Stories, Non-Fiction
Thursday, May 1st 1851Henry Demarest Lloyd 177
Journalist
Saturday, May 1st 1847Guido Gezelle 194
Poet
Saturday, May 1st 1830José de Alencar 195
Novelist, Playwright
Friday, May 1st 1829James Clarence Mangan 221
Poet
Sunday, May 1st 1803Joseph Addison 352
Essayist, Poet, Playwright
Sunday, May 1st 1672Jean de Joinville 800
Biographer
Wednesday, May 1st 1224Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 51
Screenwriter
Wednesday, May 2nd 1973Maury Allen 92
Journalist, Columnist
Monday, May 2nd 1932Jamal Abro 100
Short Stories
Friday, May 2nd 1924A. M. Rosenthal 102
Columnist
Tuesday, May 2nd 1922Dr. Spock 121
Non-Fiction
Saturday, May 2nd 1903E. E. Smith 134
Novelist
Friday, May 2nd 1890Gottfried Benn 138
Novelist, Poet, Essayist
Sunday, May 2nd 1886Hedda Hopper 139
Columnist
Saturday, May 2nd 1885Jurgis Baltrušaitis 151
Poet
Friday, May 2nd 1873Clyde Fitch 159
Playwright
Tuesday, May 2nd 1865Theodor Herzl 164
Journalist
Wednesday, May 2nd 1860Jerome K. Jerome 165
Novelist
Monday, May 2nd 1859Novalis 252
Novelist, Poet
Saturday, May 2nd 1772William Inge 111
Saturday, May 3rd 1913Norman Corwin 114
Tuesday, May 3rd 1910Niccolo Machiavelli 555
Monday, May 3rd 1469David Guterson 68
Friday, May 4th 1956Graham Swift 75
Wednesday, May 4th 1949Josh Weinstein 58
Screenwriter
Thursday, May 5th 1966Scott Westerfeld 61
Novelist
Sunday, May 5th 1963Michael Palin 81
Screenwriter, Children's Literature
Wednesday, May 5th 1943Ignacio Ramonet 81
Journalist
Wednesday, May 5th 1943Ervin Lázár 88
Children's Literature
Tuesday, May 5th 1936Bernard Pivot 89
Journalist
Sunday, May 5th 1935Douglas Marland 90
Screenwriter
Saturday, May 5th 1934Greg 93
Comic Book Writer
Tuesday, May 5th 1931Miklós Radnóti 115
Poet
Wednesday, May 5th 1909Charles Exbrayat 118
Novelist
Saturday, May 5th 1906James Beard 121
Non-Fiction
Tuesday, May 5th 1903Christopher Morley 134
Novelist, Poet, Essayist, Journalist
Monday, May 5th 1890Nellie Bly 160
Journalist
Thursday, May 5th 1864Henryk Sienkiewicz 178
Journalist, Novelist
Tuesday, May 5th 1846Soren Kierkegaard 211
Wednesday, May 5th 1813Jeffery Deaver 74
Saturday, May 6th 1950Randall Jarrell 110
Wednesday, May 6th 1914Gaston Leroux 156
Wednesday, May 6th 1868Sigmund Freud 168
Tuesday, May 6th 1856Elizabeth Drew Stoddard 201
Tuesday, May 6th 1823Peter Carey 81
Friday, May 7th 1943Angela Carter 84
Tuesday, May 7th 1940Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 97
Saturday, May 7th 1927Archibald MacLeish 132
Saturday, May 7th 1892Robert Browning 212
Thursday, May 7th 1812Pat Barker 81
Saturday, May 8th 1943Thomas Pynchon 87
Saturday, May 8th 1937Gary Snyder 94
Thursday, May 8th 1930Romain Gary 110
Friday, May 8th 1914Edmund Wilson 129
Wednesday, May 8th 1895Augusta Jane Evans 189
Novelist
Friday, May 8th 1835Audrey Schulman 61
Thursday, May 9th 1963Alan Bennett 90
Wednesday, May 9th 1934Jose Ortega y Gasset 141
Wednesday, May 9th 1883J. M. Barrie 164
Wednesday, May 9th 1860John Scalzi 55
Novelist
Saturday, May 10th 1969Jon Ronson 57
Journalist
Wednesday, May 10th 1967Jonathan Roberts 68
Screenwriter
Thursday, May 10th 1956John Diamond 71
Journalist
Sunday, May 10th 1953Thomas Tessier 77
Novelist
Saturday, May 10th 1947Caroline B. Cooney 77
Novelist
Saturday, May 10th 1947Barbara Taylor Bradford 91
Novelist
Wednesday, May 10th 1933Ettore Scola 93
Screenwriter
Sunday, May 10th 1931Antonine Maillet 95
Novelist, Playwright
Friday, May 10th 1929Nayantara Sahgal 97
Novelist
Tuesday, May 10th 1927Monica Dickens 109
Novelist
Monday, May 10th 1915Bel Kaufman 113
Novelist
Wednesday, May 10th 1911Olaf Stapledon 138
Novelist
Monday, May 10th 1886Ivan Cankar 148
Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Essayist
Wednesday, May 10th 1876Upendrakishore Ray 161
Children's Literature
Sunday, May 10th 1863Benito Pérez Galdós 181
Novelist
Wednesday, May 10th 1843Johann Peter Hebel 264
Short Stories, Poet
Saturday, May 10th 1760Jean Mairet 420
Playwright
Monday, May 10th 1604Dusán Mukics 43
Journalist
Monday, May 11th 1981Theresa Burke 68
Journalist
Friday, May 11th 1956Mike Lupica 72
Columnist
Sunday, May 11th 1952Jeremy Paxman 74
Journalist
Thursday, May 11th 1950Rachel Billington 82
Novelist
Monday, May 11th 1942Francisco Umbral 92
Journalist, Novelist, Essayist
Wednesday, May 11th 1932Stanley Elkin 94
Novelist, Short Stories, Essayist
Sunday, May 11th 1930Marco Ferreri 96
Screenwriter
Friday, May 11th 1928Richard Feynman 106
Non-Fiction
Saturday, May 11th 1918Camilo Jose Cela 108
Novelist
Thursday, May 11th 1916Saadat Hasan Manto 112
Short Stories
Saturday, May 11th 1912Rose Ausländer 123
Poet
Saturday, May 11th 1901Paulino Masip 125
Playwright, Novelist
Thursday, May 11th 1899János Batsányi 261
Poet
Wednesday, May 11th 1763L. Neil Smith 78
Novelist
Sunday, May 12th 1946George Carlin 87
Comedy Writer
Wednesday, May 12th 1937Andrei Voznesensky 91
Poet
Friday, May 12th 1933Marco Denevi 102
Novelist
Friday, May 12th 1922Farley Mowat 103
Novelist
Thursday, May 12th 1921Albert Murray 108
Novelist
Friday, May 12th 1916Howard K. Smith 110
Journalist
Tuesday, May 12th 1914James Bacon 110
Columnist
Tuesday, May 12th 1914Bertus Aafjes 110
Poet
Tuesday, May 12th 1914Leslie Charteris 117
Novelist
Sunday, May 12th 1907Benjamin Farjeon 186
Novelist, Playwright
Saturday, May 12th 1838Edward Lear 212
Poet
Tuesday, May 12th 1812Armistead Maupin 80
Novelist
Saturday, May 13th 1944Eve Babitz 81
Novelist
Thursday, May 13th 1943Bruce Chatwin 84
Novelist, Travel Writer
Monday, May 13th 1940Roger Zelazny 87
Novelist
Thursday, May 13th 1937Daphne du Maurier 117
Novelist, Playwright
Monday, May 13th 1907Arthur Sullivan 182
Playwright
Friday, May 13th 1842Alphonse Daudet 184
Novelist
Wednesday, May 13th 1840Eoin Colfer 59
Novelist
Friday, May 14th 1965David Quantick 63
Journalist
Sunday, May 14th 1961Christine Brennan 66
Columnist
Wednesday, May 14th 1958Rudi Šeligo 89
Novelist, Playwright, Essayist
Tuesday, May 14th 1935Barbara Branden 95
Non-Fiction
Tuesday, May 14th 1929Herbert W. Franke 97
Novelist
Saturday, May 14th 1927Solange Chaput-Rolland 105
Journalist
Wednesday, May 14th 1919Hal Borland 124
Novelist, Journalist
Monday, May 14th 1900Louis Verneuil 131
Playwright
Sunday, May 14th 1893Alexander Kaufmann 207
Poet
Wednesday, May 14th 1817Lauren Myracle 55
Thursday, May 15th 1969Paul Zindel 88
Friday, May 15th 1936Clifton Fadiman 120
Essayist
Sunday, May 15th 1904Katherine Anne Porter 134
Thursday, May 15th 1890Arthur Schnitzler 162
Thursday, May 15th 1862L. Frank Baum 168
Thursday, May 15th 1856Eduard von Keyserling 169
Novelist, Playwright
Tuesday, May 15th 1855Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 335
Poet
Sunday, May 15th 1689Omar Khayyám 976
Poet
Monday, May 15th 1048Adrienne Rich 95
Thursday, May 16th 1929Louis "Studs" Terkel 112
Thursday, May 16th 1912Jane Moore 62
Journalist
Thursday, May 17th 1962F. Paul Wilson 78
Friday, May 17th 1946David Cope 83
Non-Fiction
Saturday, May 17th 1941Gary Paulsen 85
Novelist
Wednesday, May 17th 1939Dennis Potter 89
Friday, May 17th 1935Merle Miller 105
Novelist
Saturday, May 17th 1919Henri Barbusse 151
Novelist
Saturday, May 17th 1873Dorothy Richardson 151
Novelist, Journalist
Saturday, May 17th 1873Jacint Verdaguer 179
Poet
Saturday, May 17th 1845Virginie Loveling 188
Poet, Novelist
Tuesday, May 17th 1836Tina Fey 54
Screenwriter
Monday, May 18th 1970Nina Björk 57
Journalist
Thursday, May 18th 1967Diane Duane 72
Novelist
Sunday, May 18th 1952Yi Munyol 76
Novelist
Tuesday, May 18th 1948W. G. Sebald 80
Novelist
Thursday, May 18th 1944Jeanie MacPherson 137
Screenwriter
Wednesday, May 18th 1887Bertrand Russell 152
Non-Fiction
Saturday, May 18th 1872Francis Bellamy 169
Novelist
Friday, May 18th 1855John Wilson 239
Poet
Wednesday, May 18th 1785Jodi Picoult 58
Novelist
Thursday, May 19th 1966Gregory Poirier 63
Screenwriter
Friday, May 19th 1961Nora Ephron 83
Screenwriter, Novelist, Playwright
Monday, May 19th 1941Ruskin Bond 90
Novelist, Short Stories, Children's Literature
Saturday, May 19th 1934Paul Erdman 92
Novelist, Non-Fiction
Thursday, May 19th 1932Lorraine Hansberry 94
Monday, May 19th 1930Karel van het Reve 103
Essayist
Thursday, May 19th 1921Merriam Modell 116
Novelist
Tuesday, May 19th 1908Anna Brownell Jameson 230
Non-Fiction
Monday, May 19th 1794William Michaelian 68
Novelist
Sunday, May 20th 1956Ingvar Ambjørnsen 68
Novelist
Sunday, May 20th 1956Michel Vastel 84
Journalist
Monday, May 20th 1940John Lucarotti 98
Screenwriter
Thursday, May 20th 1926Wolfgang Borchert 103
Playwright
Friday, May 20th 1921Gardner Fox 113
Comic Book Writer
Saturday, May 20th 1911Annie M. G. Schmidt 113
Children's Literature
Saturday, May 20th 1911Dorita Fairlie Bruce 139
Wednesday, May 20th 1885Sigrid Undset 142
Saturday, May 20th 1882Hector Malot 194
Novelist
Thursday, May 20th 1830Honore de Balzac 225
Monday, May 20th 1799James Phelan 45
Monday, May 21st 1979Georgiy Gongadze 55
Journalist
Wednesday, May 21st 1969Richard Appel 61
Screenwriter
Tuesday, May 21st 1963Jeffrey Toobin 64
Non-Fiction
Saturday, May 21st 1960Elizabeth Buchan 76
Novelist
Friday, May 21st 1948Robert Creeley 98
Friday, May 21st 1926Harold Robbins 108
Novelist
Sunday, May 21st 1916Manly Wade Wellman 121
Novelist
Thursday, May 21st 1903Suzanne Lilar 123
Essayist, Novelist, Playwright
Tuesday, May 21st 1901Manuel Pérez y Curis 140
Poet
Wednesday, May 21st 1884Alexander Pope 336
Friday, May 21st 1688Graham Linehan 56
Screenwriter
Wednesday, May 22nd 1968Peter Matthiessen 97
Novelist
Sunday, May 22nd 1927Jean-Louis Curtis 107
Novelist
Tuesday, May 22nd 1917Vance Packard 110
Journalist
Friday, May 22nd 1914Hergé 117
Comic Book Writer
Wednesday, May 22nd 1907Paul Viiding 120
Poet
Sunday, May 22nd 1904Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 165
Sunday, May 22nd 1859Tsubouchi Shōyō 165
Playwright
Sunday, May 22nd 1859Catulle Mendès 183
Poet
Saturday, May 22nd 1841Gérard de Nerval 216
Poet
Sunday, May 22nd 1808Mitchell Albom 66
Novelist
Friday, May 23rd 1958Jane Kenyon 77
Poet
Friday, May 23rd 1947Jack McCarthy 85
Poet
Tuesday, May 23rd 1939Peter Preston 86
Journalist
Monday, May 23rd 1938M. Scott Peck 88
Non-Fiction
Saturday, May 23rd 1936Friedrich Achleitner 94
Poet
Friday, May 23rd 1930Karlheinz Deschner 100
Non-Fiction
Friday, May 23rd 1924James Blish 103
Novelist
Monday, May 23rd 1921Robert Bernstein 105
Comic Book Writer, Playwright
Friday, May 23rd 1919Celestine Sibley 110
Columnist
Saturday, May 23rd 1914Margaret Wise Brown 114
Children's Literature
Monday, May 23rd 1910Scott O'Dell 126
Novelist, Children's Literature
Monday, May 23rd 1898Pär Lagerkvist 133
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
Saturday, May 23rd 1891Margaret Fuller 214
Journalist
Wednesday, May 23rd 1810Giuseppe Parini 295
Satirist, Poet
Monday, May 23rd 1729Michael Chabon 61
Friday, May 24th 1963Walter Moers 67
Friday, May 24th 1957Bob Dylan 83
Saturday, May 24th 1941Joseph Brodsky 84
Friday, May 24th 1940William Trevor 96
Thursday, May 24th 1928Luc Sante 70
Tuesday, May 25th 1954Jamaica Kincaid 75
Novelist
Wednesday, May 25th 1949Raymond Carver 86
Short Stories, Poet
Wednesday, May 25th 1938John Gregory Dunne 92
Novelist
Wednesday, May 25th 1932Robert Ludlum 97
Novelist
Wednesday, May 25th 1927Edward Bulwer-Lytton 221
Novelist
Wednesday, May 25th 1803Ralph Waldo Emerson 221
Poet
Wednesday, May 25th 1803Caitlín R. Kiernan 60
Novelist
Tuesday, May 26th 1964Alan Hollinghurst 70
Novelist
Wednesday, May 26th 1954Lyudmila Petrushevskaya 86
Novelist, Playwright
Thursday, May 26th 1938Phyllis Gotlieb 98
Novelist
Wednesday, May 26th 1926Henriette Roosenburg 108
Journalist
Friday, May 26th 1916Moondog 108
Poet
Friday, May 26th 1916Antonia Forest 109
Children's Literature
Wednesday, May 26th 1915Pierre Daninos 111
Humorist
Monday, May 26th 1913Henry Ephron 112
Playwright, Screenwriter
Sunday, May 26th 1912Maxwell Bodenheim 132
Poet, Novelist
Thursday, May 26th 1892Edmond de Goncourt 202
Sunday, May 26th 1822Harlan Ellison 90
Sunday, May 27th 1934John Barth 94
Tuesday, May 27th 1930Marijane Meaker 97
Friday, May 27th 1927Tony Hillerman 99
Wednesday, May 27th 1925Herman Wouk 109
Thursday, May 27th 1915John Cheever 112
Monday, May 27th 1912Dashiell Hammett 130
Sunday, May 27th 1894Arnold Bennett 157
Monday, May 27th 1867Barney Rosset 102
Sunday, May 28th 1922Walker Percy 108
Sunday, May 28th 1916Patrick White 112
Tuesday, May 28th 1912Ian Fleming 116
Thursday, May 28th 1908Andrew Clements 75
Children's Literature
Sunday, May 29th 1949Andre Brink 89
Novelist
Wednesday, May 29th 1935Paul R. Ehrlich 92
Non-Fiction
Sunday, May 29th 1932Lars Bo 100
Novelist
Thursday, May 29th 1924Bernard Clavel 101
Novelist
Tuesday, May 29th 1923T.H. White 118
Novelist
Tuesday, May 29th 1906Alfonsina Storni 132
Poet
Sunday, May 29th 1892Max Brand 132
Novelist
Sunday, May 29th 1892G. K. Chesterton 150
Novelist
Friday, May 29th 1874Michael Piller 76
Screenwriter
Sunday, May 30th 1948Hal Clement 102
Novelist
Tuesday, May 30th 1922Pita Amor 106
Poet
Thursday, May 30th 1918Joseph Stein 112
Playwright
Thursday, May 30th 1912Harry Bernstein 114
Memoirest
Monday, May 30th 1910Countee Cullen 121
Poet
Saturday, May 30th 1903Cornelia Otis Skinner 125
Playwright
Tuesday, May 30th 1899Randolph Bourne 138
Essayist
Sunday, May 30th 1886Félix Arnaudin 180
Poet
Thursday, May 30th 1844Robin Wasserman 46
Children's Literature
Wednesday, May 31st 1978John Connolly 56
Novelist
Friday, May 31st 1968Lynne Truss 69
Non-Fiction, Journalist, Essayist
Tuesday, May 31st 1955Bernard Goldberg 79
Journalist
Thursday, May 31st 1945Al Young 85
Novelist, Poet
Wednesday, May 31st 1939Robie Macauley 105
Novelist
Saturday, May 31st 1919George R. Stewart 129
Novelist
Friday, May 31st 1895Konstantin Paustovsky 132
Novelist, Poet
Tuesday, May 31st 1892Walt Whitman 205
Poet
Monday, May 31st 1819Ludwig Tieck 251
Poet
Monday, May 31st 1773