Author Birthdays for May
Wes Anderson 54
Screenwriter
Thursday, May 1st 1969Yasmina Reza 64
Novelist, Playwright
Friday, May 1st 1959Joel Rosenberg 69
Novelist
Saturday, May 1st 1954Sergio Infante 76
Poet
Thursday, May 1st 1947Bobbie Ann Mason 83
Novelist
Wednesday, May 1st 1940Jacques Languirand 92
Playwright, Essayist, Novelist
Friday, May 1st 1931Terry Southern 99
Screenwriter
Thursday, May 1st 1924Joseph Heller 100
Novelist
Tuesday, May 1st 1923Vladimir Colin 102
Novelist
Sunday, May 1st 1921Wilfred Watson 112
Poet, Playwright
Monday, May 1st 1911Yiannis Ritsos 114
Poet
Saturday, May 1st 1909Giovannino Guareschi 115
Journalist
Friday, May 1st 1908Sterling Allen Brown 122
Poet
Wednesday, May 1st 1901Antal Szerb 122
Non-Fiction
Wednesday, May 1st 1901Clément Pansaers 138
Poet
Friday, May 1st 1885Harry Leon Wilson 156
Novelist
Wednesday, May 1st 1867Marcel Prévost 161
Novelist, Playwright
Thursday, May 1st 1862Laza Lazarević 172
Short Stories, Non-Fiction
Thursday, May 1st 1851Henry Demarest Lloyd 176
Journalist
Saturday, May 1st 1847Guido Gezelle 193
Poet
Saturday, May 1st 1830José de Alencar 194
Novelist, Playwright
Friday, May 1st 1829James Clarence Mangan 220
Poet
Sunday, May 1st 1803Joseph Addison 351
Essayist, Poet, Playwright
Sunday, May 1st 1672Jean de Joinville 799
Biographer
Wednesday, May 1st 1224Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 50
Screenwriter
Wednesday, May 2nd 1973Maury Allen 91
Journalist, Columnist
Monday, May 2nd 1932Jamal Abro 99
Short Stories
Friday, May 2nd 1924A. M. Rosenthal 101
Columnist
Tuesday, May 2nd 1922Dr. Spock 120
Non-Fiction
Saturday, May 2nd 1903E. E. Smith 133
Novelist
Friday, May 2nd 1890Gottfried Benn 137
Novelist, Poet, Essayist
Sunday, May 2nd 1886Hedda Hopper 138
Columnist
Saturday, May 2nd 1885Jurgis Baltrušaitis 150
Poet
Friday, May 2nd 1873Clyde Fitch 158
Playwright
Tuesday, May 2nd 1865Theodor Herzl 163
Journalist
Wednesday, May 2nd 1860Jerome K. Jerome 164
Novelist
Monday, May 2nd 1859Novalis 251
Novelist, Poet
Saturday, May 2nd 1772William Inge 110
Saturday, May 3rd 1913Norman Corwin 113
Tuesday, May 3rd 1910Niccolo Machiavelli 554
Monday, May 3rd 1469David Guterson 67
Friday, May 4th 1956Graham Swift 74
Wednesday, May 4th 1949Josh Weinstein 57
Screenwriter
Thursday, May 5th 1966Scott Westerfeld 60
Novelist
Sunday, May 5th 1963Michael Palin 80
Screenwriter, Children's Literature
Wednesday, May 5th 1943Ignacio Ramonet 80
Journalist
Wednesday, May 5th 1943Ervin Lázár 87
Children's Literature
Tuesday, May 5th 1936Bernard Pivot 88
Journalist
Sunday, May 5th 1935Douglas Marland 89
Screenwriter
Saturday, May 5th 1934Greg 92
Comic Book Writer
Tuesday, May 5th 1931Miklós Radnóti 114
Poet
Wednesday, May 5th 1909Charles Exbrayat 117
Novelist
Saturday, May 5th 1906James Beard 120
Non-Fiction
Tuesday, May 5th 1903Christopher Morley 133
Novelist, Poet, Essayist, Journalist
Monday, May 5th 1890Nellie Bly 159
Journalist
Thursday, May 5th 1864Henryk Sienkiewicz 177
Journalist, Novelist
Tuesday, May 5th 1846Soren Kierkegaard 210
Wednesday, May 5th 1813Jeffery Deaver 73
Saturday, May 6th 1950Randall Jarrell 109
Wednesday, May 6th 1914Gaston Leroux 155
Wednesday, May 6th 1868Sigmund Freud 167
Tuesday, May 6th 1856Elizabeth Drew Stoddard 200
Tuesday, May 6th 1823Peter Carey 80
Friday, May 7th 1943Angela Carter 83
Tuesday, May 7th 1940Ruth Prawer Jhabvala 96
Saturday, May 7th 1927Archibald MacLeish 131
Saturday, May 7th 1892Robert Browning 211
Thursday, May 7th 1812Pat Barker 80
Saturday, May 8th 1943Thomas Pynchon 86
Saturday, May 8th 1937Gary Snyder 93
Thursday, May 8th 1930Romain Gary 109
Friday, May 8th 1914Edmund Wilson 128
Wednesday, May 8th 1895Augusta Jane Evans 188
Novelist
Friday, May 8th 1835Audrey Schulman 60
Thursday, May 9th 1963Alan Bennett 89
Wednesday, May 9th 1934Jose Ortega y Gasset 140
Wednesday, May 9th 1883J. M. Barrie 163
Wednesday, May 9th 1860John Scalzi 54
Novelist
Saturday, May 10th 1969Jon Ronson 56
Journalist
Wednesday, May 10th 1967Jonathan Roberts 67
Screenwriter
Thursday, May 10th 1956John Diamond 70
Journalist
Sunday, May 10th 1953Thomas Tessier 76
Novelist
Saturday, May 10th 1947Caroline B. Cooney 76
Novelist
Saturday, May 10th 1947Barbara Taylor Bradford 90
Novelist
Wednesday, May 10th 1933Ettore Scola 92
Screenwriter
Sunday, May 10th 1931Antonine Maillet 94
Novelist, Playwright
Friday, May 10th 1929Nayantara Sahgal 96
Novelist
Tuesday, May 10th 1927Monica Dickens 108
Novelist
Monday, May 10th 1915Bel Kaufman 112
Novelist
Wednesday, May 10th 1911Olaf Stapledon 137
Novelist
Monday, May 10th 1886Ivan Cankar 147
Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Essayist
Wednesday, May 10th 1876Upendrakishore Ray 160
Children's Literature
Sunday, May 10th 1863Benito Pérez Galdós 180
Novelist
Wednesday, May 10th 1843Johann Peter Hebel 263
Short Stories, Poet
Saturday, May 10th 1760Jean Mairet 419
Playwright
Monday, May 10th 1604Dusán Mukics 42
Journalist
Monday, May 11th 1981Theresa Burke 67
Journalist
Friday, May 11th 1956Mike Lupica 71
Columnist
Sunday, May 11th 1952Jeremy Paxman 73
Journalist
Thursday, May 11th 1950Rachel Billington 81
Novelist
Monday, May 11th 1942Francisco Umbral 91
Journalist, Novelist, Essayist
Wednesday, May 11th 1932Stanley Elkin 93
Novelist, Short Stories, Essayist
Sunday, May 11th 1930Marco Ferreri 95
Screenwriter
Friday, May 11th 1928Richard Feynman 105
Non-Fiction
Saturday, May 11th 1918Camilo Jose Cela 107
Novelist
Thursday, May 11th 1916Saadat Hasan Manto 111
Short Stories
Saturday, May 11th 1912Rose Ausländer 122
Poet
Saturday, May 11th 1901Paulino Masip 124
Playwright, Novelist
Thursday, May 11th 1899János Batsányi 260
Poet
Wednesday, May 11th 1763L. Neil Smith 77
Novelist
Sunday, May 12th 1946George Carlin 86
Comedy Writer
Wednesday, May 12th 1937Andrei Voznesensky 90
Poet
Friday, May 12th 1933Marco Denevi 101
Novelist
Friday, May 12th 1922Farley Mowat 102
Novelist
Thursday, May 12th 1921Albert Murray 107
Novelist
Friday, May 12th 1916Howard K. Smith 109
Journalist
Tuesday, May 12th 1914James Bacon 109
Columnist
Tuesday, May 12th 1914Bertus Aafjes 109
Poet
Tuesday, May 12th 1914Leslie Charteris 116
Novelist
Sunday, May 12th 1907Benjamin Farjeon 185
Novelist, Playwright
Saturday, May 12th 1838Edward Lear 211
Poet
Tuesday, May 12th 1812Armistead Maupin 79
Novelist
Saturday, May 13th 1944Eve Babitz 80
Novelist
Thursday, May 13th 1943Bruce Chatwin 83
Novelist, Travel Writer
Monday, May 13th 1940Roger Zelazny 86
Novelist
Thursday, May 13th 1937Daphne du Maurier 116
Novelist, Playwright
Monday, May 13th 1907Arthur Sullivan 181
Playwright
Friday, May 13th 1842Alphonse Daudet 183
Novelist
Wednesday, May 13th 1840Eoin Colfer 58
Novelist
Friday, May 14th 1965David Quantick 62
Journalist
Sunday, May 14th 1961Christine Brennan 65
Columnist
Wednesday, May 14th 1958Rudi Šeligo 88
Novelist, Playwright, Essayist
Tuesday, May 14th 1935Barbara Branden 94
Non-Fiction
Tuesday, May 14th 1929Herbert W. Franke 96
Novelist
Saturday, May 14th 1927Solange Chaput-Rolland 104
Journalist
Wednesday, May 14th 1919Hal Borland 123
Novelist, Journalist
Monday, May 14th 1900Louis Verneuil 130
Playwright
Sunday, May 14th 1893Alexander Kaufmann 206
Poet
Wednesday, May 14th 1817Lauren Myracle 54
Thursday, May 15th 1969Paul Zindel 87
Friday, May 15th 1936Clifton Fadiman 119
Essayist
Sunday, May 15th 1904Katherine Anne Porter 133
Thursday, May 15th 1890Arthur Schnitzler 161
Thursday, May 15th 1862L. Frank Baum 167
Thursday, May 15th 1856Eduard von Keyserling 168
Novelist, Playwright
Tuesday, May 15th 1855Lady Mary Wortley Montagu 334
Poet
Sunday, May 15th 1689Omar Khayyám 975
Poet
Monday, May 15th 1048Adrienne Rich 94
Thursday, May 16th 1929Louis "Studs" Terkel 111
Thursday, May 16th 1912Jane Moore 61
Journalist
Thursday, May 17th 1962F. Paul Wilson 77
Friday, May 17th 1946David Cope 82
Non-Fiction
Saturday, May 17th 1941Gary Paulsen 84
Novelist
Wednesday, May 17th 1939Dennis Potter 88
Friday, May 17th 1935Merle Miller 104
Novelist
Saturday, May 17th 1919Henri Barbusse 150
Novelist
Saturday, May 17th 1873Dorothy Richardson 150
Novelist, Journalist
Saturday, May 17th 1873Jacint Verdaguer 178
Poet
Saturday, May 17th 1845Virginie Loveling 187
Poet, Novelist
Tuesday, May 17th 1836Tina Fey 53
Screenwriter
Monday, May 18th 1970Nina Björk 56
Journalist
Thursday, May 18th 1967Diane Duane 71
Novelist
Sunday, May 18th 1952Yi Munyol 75
Novelist
Tuesday, May 18th 1948W. G. Sebald 79
Novelist
Thursday, May 18th 1944Jeanie MacPherson 136
Screenwriter
Wednesday, May 18th 1887Bertrand Russell 151
Non-Fiction
Saturday, May 18th 1872Francis Bellamy 168
Novelist
Friday, May 18th 1855John Wilson 238
Poet
Wednesday, May 18th 1785Jodi Picoult 57
Novelist
Thursday, May 19th 1966Gregory Poirier 62
Screenwriter
Friday, May 19th 1961Nora Ephron 82
Screenwriter, Novelist, Playwright
Monday, May 19th 1941Ruskin Bond 89
Novelist, Short Stories, Children's Literature
Saturday, May 19th 1934Paul Erdman 91
Novelist, Non-Fiction
Thursday, May 19th 1932Lorraine Hansberry 93
Monday, May 19th 1930Karel van het Reve 102
Essayist
Thursday, May 19th 1921Merriam Modell 115
Novelist
Tuesday, May 19th 1908Anna Brownell Jameson 229
Non-Fiction
Monday, May 19th 1794William Michaelian 67
Novelist
Sunday, May 20th 1956Ingvar Ambjørnsen 67
Novelist
Sunday, May 20th 1956Michel Vastel 83
Journalist
Monday, May 20th 1940John Lucarotti 97
Screenwriter
Thursday, May 20th 1926Wolfgang Borchert 102
Playwright
Friday, May 20th 1921Gardner Fox 112
Comic Book Writer
Saturday, May 20th 1911Annie M. G. Schmidt 112
Children's Literature
Saturday, May 20th 1911Dorita Fairlie Bruce 138
Wednesday, May 20th 1885Sigrid Undset 141
Saturday, May 20th 1882Hector Malot 193
Novelist
Thursday, May 20th 1830Honore de Balzac 224
Monday, May 20th 1799James Phelan 44
Monday, May 21st 1979Georgiy Gongadze 54
Journalist
Wednesday, May 21st 1969Richard Appel 60
Screenwriter
Tuesday, May 21st 1963Jeffrey Toobin 63
Non-Fiction
Saturday, May 21st 1960Elizabeth Buchan 75
Novelist
Friday, May 21st 1948Robert Creeley 97
Friday, May 21st 1926Harold Robbins 107
Novelist
Sunday, May 21st 1916Manly Wade Wellman 120
Novelist
Thursday, May 21st 1903Suzanne Lilar 122
Essayist, Novelist, Playwright
Tuesday, May 21st 1901Manuel Pérez y Curis 139
Poet
Wednesday, May 21st 1884Alexander Pope 335
Friday, May 21st 1688Graham Linehan 55
Screenwriter
Wednesday, May 22nd 1968Peter Matthiessen 96
Novelist
Sunday, May 22nd 1927Jean-Louis Curtis 106
Novelist
Tuesday, May 22nd 1917Vance Packard 109
Journalist
Friday, May 22nd 1914Hergé 116
Comic Book Writer
Wednesday, May 22nd 1907Paul Viiding 119
Poet
Sunday, May 22nd 1904Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 164
Sunday, May 22nd 1859Tsubouchi Shōyō 164
Playwright
Sunday, May 22nd 1859Catulle Mendès 182
Poet
Saturday, May 22nd 1841Gérard de Nerval 215
Poet
Sunday, May 22nd 1808Mitchell Albom 65
Novelist
Friday, May 23rd 1958Jane Kenyon 76
Poet
Friday, May 23rd 1947Jack McCarthy 84
Poet
Tuesday, May 23rd 1939Peter Preston 85
Journalist
Monday, May 23rd 1938M. Scott Peck 87
Non-Fiction
Saturday, May 23rd 1936Friedrich Achleitner 93
Poet
Friday, May 23rd 1930Karlheinz Deschner 99
Non-Fiction
Friday, May 23rd 1924James Blish 102
Novelist
Monday, May 23rd 1921Robert Bernstein 104
Comic Book Writer, Playwright
Friday, May 23rd 1919Celestine Sibley 109
Columnist
Saturday, May 23rd 1914Margaret Wise Brown 113
Children's Literature
Monday, May 23rd 1910Scott O'Dell 125
Novelist, Children's Literature
Monday, May 23rd 1898Pär Lagerkvist 132
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
Saturday, May 23rd 1891Margaret Fuller 213
Journalist
Wednesday, May 23rd 1810Giuseppe Parini 294
Satirist, Poet
Monday, May 23rd 1729Michael Chabon 60
Friday, May 24th 1963Walter Moers 66
Friday, May 24th 1957Bob Dylan 82
Saturday, May 24th 1941Joseph Brodsky 83
Friday, May 24th 1940William Trevor 95
Thursday, May 24th 1928Luc Sante 69
Tuesday, May 25th 1954Jamaica Kincaid 74
Novelist
Wednesday, May 25th 1949Raymond Carver 85
Short Stories, Poet
Wednesday, May 25th 1938John Gregory Dunne 91
Novelist
Wednesday, May 25th 1932Robert Ludlum 96
Novelist
Wednesday, May 25th 1927Edward Bulwer-Lytton 220
Novelist
Wednesday, May 25th 1803Ralph Waldo Emerson 220
Poet
Wednesday, May 25th 1803Caitlín R. Kiernan 59
Novelist
Tuesday, May 26th 1964Alan Hollinghurst 69
Novelist
Wednesday, May 26th 1954Lyudmila Petrushevskaya 85
Novelist, Playwright
Thursday, May 26th 1938Phyllis Gotlieb 97
Novelist
Wednesday, May 26th 1926Henriette Roosenburg 107
Journalist
Friday, May 26th 1916Moondog 107
Poet
Friday, May 26th 1916Antonia Forest 108
Children's Literature
Wednesday, May 26th 1915Pierre Daninos 110
Humorist
Monday, May 26th 1913Henry Ephron 111
Playwright, Screenwriter
Sunday, May 26th 1912Maxwell Bodenheim 131
Poet, Novelist
Thursday, May 26th 1892Edmond de Goncourt 201
Sunday, May 26th 1822Harlan Ellison 89
Sunday, May 27th 1934John Barth 93
Tuesday, May 27th 1930Marijane Meaker 96
Friday, May 27th 1927Tony Hillerman 98
Wednesday, May 27th 1925Herman Wouk 108
Thursday, May 27th 1915John Cheever 111
Monday, May 27th 1912Dashiell Hammett 129
Sunday, May 27th 1894Arnold Bennett 156
Monday, May 27th 1867Barney Rosset 101
Sunday, May 28th 1922Walker Percy 107
Sunday, May 28th 1916Patrick White 111
Tuesday, May 28th 1912Ian Fleming 115
Thursday, May 28th 1908Andrew Clements 74
Children's Literature
Sunday, May 29th 1949Andre Brink 88
Novelist
Wednesday, May 29th 1935Paul R. Ehrlich 91
Non-Fiction
Sunday, May 29th 1932Lars Bo 99
Novelist
Thursday, May 29th 1924Bernard Clavel 100
Novelist
Tuesday, May 29th 1923T.H. White 117
Novelist
Tuesday, May 29th 1906Alfonsina Storni 131
Poet
Sunday, May 29th 1892Max Brand 131
Novelist
Sunday, May 29th 1892G. K. Chesterton 149
Novelist
Friday, May 29th 1874Michael Piller 75
Screenwriter
Sunday, May 30th 1948Hal Clement 101
Novelist
Tuesday, May 30th 1922Pita Amor 105
Poet
Thursday, May 30th 1918Joseph Stein 111
Playwright
Thursday, May 30th 1912Harry Bernstein 113
Memoirest
Monday, May 30th 1910Countee Cullen 120
Poet
Saturday, May 30th 1903Cornelia Otis Skinner 124
Playwright
Tuesday, May 30th 1899Randolph Bourne 137
Essayist
Sunday, May 30th 1886Félix Arnaudin 179
Poet
Thursday, May 30th 1844Robin Wasserman 45
Children's Literature
Wednesday, May 31st 1978John Connolly 55
Novelist
Friday, May 31st 1968Lynne Truss 68
Non-Fiction, Journalist, Essayist
Tuesday, May 31st 1955Bernard Goldberg 78
Journalist
Thursday, May 31st 1945Al Young 84
Novelist, Poet
Wednesday, May 31st 1939Robie Macauley 104
Novelist
Saturday, May 31st 1919George R. Stewart 128
Novelist
Friday, May 31st 1895Konstantin Paustovsky 131
Novelist, Poet
Tuesday, May 31st 1892Walt Whitman 204
Poet
Monday, May 31st 1819Ludwig Tieck 250
Poet
Monday, May 31st 1773
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