Author Birthdays for September
Scott Spencer 78
Novelist
Saturday, September 1st 1945Mustafa Balel 78
Novelist
Saturday, September 1st 1945C. J. Cherryh 81
Novelist
Tuesday, September 1st 1942Alan Dershowitz 85
Non-Fiction
Thursday, September 1st 1938Ron O'Neal 86
Screenwriter
Wednesday, September 1st 1937Wyatt Emory Cooper 96
Playwright, Screenwriter
Thursday, September 1st 1927Willem Frederik Hermans 102
Novelist
Thursday, September 1st 1921Liz Carpenter 103
Journalist
Wednesday, September 1st 1920Eleanor Hibbert 117
Novelist
Saturday, September 1st 1906Andrei Platonov 124
Novelist
Friday, September 1st 1899Blaise Cendrars 136
Novelist, Poet
Thursday, September 1st 1887Edgar Rice Burroughs 148
Novelist
Wednesday, September 1st 1875Innokenty Annensky 168
Poet
Saturday, September 1st 1855Daniel Defoe 363
Novelist
Wednesday, September 1st 1660Aimee Osbourne 40
Columnist
Friday, September 2nd 1983Chris Kuzneski 54
Novelist
Tuesday, September 2nd 1969John S. Hall 63
Poet
Friday, September 2nd 1960Walt Simonson 77
Comic Book Writer
Monday, September 2nd 1946Cleveland Amory 106
Non-Fiction
Sunday, September 2nd 1917Andreas Embirikos 122
Poet
Monday, September 2nd 1901Joseph Roth 129
Journalist, Novelist
Sunday, September 2nd 1894Ion Dragoumis 145
Non-Fiction
Monday, September 2nd 1878Hans Jæger 169
Non-Fiction
Saturday, September 2nd 1854Paul Bourget 171
Novelist
Thursday, September 2nd 1852Eugene Field 173
Children's Literature, Essayist
Monday, September 2nd 1850Lucretia Peabody Hale 203
Journalist, Novelist
Saturday, September 2nd 1820Esteban Echeverría 218
Poet
Monday, September 2nd 1805William Somervile 348
Poet
Monday, September 2nd 1675Kiran Desai 52
Novelist
Friday, September 3rd 1971Spike Feresten 59
Screenwriter
Thursday, September 3rd 1964Malcolm Gladwell 60
Journalist
Tuesday, September 3rd 1963Sergei Dovlatov 82
Novelist, Journalist
Wednesday, September 3rd 1941Eduardo Galeano 83
Novelist, Journalist
Tuesday, September 3rd 1940Caryl Churchill 85
Playwright
Saturday, September 3rd 1938Cherry Wilder 93
Novelist
Wednesday, September 3rd 1930Alison Lurie 97
Novelist
Friday, September 3rd 1926Mort Walker 100
Comic Book Writer
Monday, September 3rd 1923Marguerite Higgins 103
Journalist
Friday, September 3rd 1920Sally Benson 126
Screenwriter, Short Stories
Friday, September 3rd 1897Sarah Orne Jewett 174
Novelist
Monday, September 3rd 1849Yanka Dyagileva 57
Poet
Sunday, September 4th 1966Ferenc Sánta 96
Novelist, Screenwriter
Sunday, September 4th 1927Forrest Carter 98
Novelist
Friday, September 4th 1925Joan Aiken 99
Novelist
Thursday, September 4th 1924Per Olof Sundman 101
Novelist
Monday, September 4th 1922Syd Hoff 111
Children's Literature
Wednesday, September 4th 1912Richard Wright 115
Novelist
Friday, September 4th 1908Mary Renault 118
Novelist
Monday, September 4th 1905Antonin Artaud 127
Playwright
Friday, September 4th 1896Juliusz Słowacki 214
Poet, Playwright
Monday, September 4th 1809Constantijn Huygens 427
Poet
Wednesday, September 4th 1596Richard Marsland 47
Comedy Writer
Sunday, September 5th 1976Frederick Kempe 69
Journalist
Sunday, September 5th 1954Dario Bellezza 79
Poet, Playwright
Tuesday, September 5th 1944Jonathan Kozol 87
Non-Fiction
Saturday, September 5th 1936Luis Alcoriza 105
Screenwriter
Thursday, September 5th 1918Frank Yerby 107
Novelist
Tuesday, September 5th 1916Nicanor Parra 109
Poet
Saturday, September 5th 1914Leila Mackinlay 113
Novelist
Monday, September 5th 1910Josué de Castro 115
Non-Fiction
Saturday, September 5th 1908Arthur Koestler 118
Novelist
Tuesday, September 5th 1905Victorien Sardou 192
Playwright
Monday, September 5th 1831Goffredo Mameli 196
Poet
Wednesday, September 5th 1827A. K. Tolstoy 206
Poet, Novelist, Playwright
Friday, September 5th 1817Robert Fergusson 273
Poet
Saturday, September 5th 1750Tommaso Campanella 455
Non-Fiction, Poet
Thursday, September 5th 1568China Miéville 51
Novelist
Wednesday, September 6th 1972Christopher Brookmyre 55
Novelist
Friday, September 6th 1968Christopher Nolan 58
Poet, Novelist
Monday, September 6th 1965Alice Sebold 60
Novelist
Friday, September 6th 1963Jennifer Egan 61
Novelist
Thursday, September 6th 1962Raymond Benson 68
Novelist
Tuesday, September 6th 1955Donna Haraway 79
Non-Fiction
Wednesday, September 6th 1944Dan Cragg 84
Novelist, Essayist
Wednesday, September 6th 1939Robert M. Pirsig 95
Novelist
Thursday, September 6th 1928Carmen Laforet 102
Novelist
Tuesday, September 6th 1921Julien Green 123
Novelist
Thursday, September 6th 1900Felix Salten 154
Novelist
Monday, September 6th 1869William Lane 162
Journalist
Friday, September 6th 1861Frances Wright 228
Non-Fiction
Sunday, September 6th 1795Diane Farr 50
Memoirest
Friday, September 7th 1973Eric Hill 96
Wednesday, September 7th 1927Edith Sitwell 136
Wednesday, September 7th 1887Elinor Wylie 138
Monday, September 7th 1885C. J. Dennis 147
Thursday, September 7th 1876Aleksandr Kuprin 153
Wednesday, September 7th 1870Tristan Bernard 157
Friday, September 7th 1866Angela Rawlings 45
Poet
Friday, September 8th 1978Christopher Klim 61
Novelist
Saturday, September 8th 1962Terry Tempest Williams 68
Non-Fiction
Thursday, September 8th 1955Jon Scieszka 69
Children's Literature
Wednesday, September 8th 1954Michael Shermer 69
Non-Fiction
Wednesday, September 8th 1954Ann Beattie 76
Novelist
Monday, September 8th 1947Jack Prelutsky 83
Children's Literature
Sunday, September 8th 1940Michael Frayn 90
Playwright, Novelist
Friday, September 8th 1933Robert W. Firestone 93
Non-Fiction
Monday, September 8th 1930Grace Metalious 99
Novelist
Monday, September 8th 1924Rasul Gamzatov 100
Poet
Saturday, September 8th 1923Gianni Brera 104
Novelist, Journalist
Monday, September 8th 1919Jane Arbor 120
Novelist
Tuesday, September 8th 1903Siegfried Sassoon 137
Poet
Wednesday, September 8th 1886Alfred Jarry 150
Playwright
Monday, September 8th 1873Wilhelm Raabe 192
Novelist
Thursday, September 8th 1831Frédéric Mistral 193
Poet
Wednesday, September 8th 1830Clarence Cook 195
Non-Fiction
Monday, September 8th 1828Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg 209
Non-Fiction
Thursday, September 8th 1814Eduard Mörike 219
Poet
Saturday, September 8th 1804N. F. S. Grundtvig 240
Non-Fiction
Monday, September 8th 1783August Wilhelm Schlegel 256
Poet
Tuesday, September 8th 1767John Sheffield 376
Poet
Sunday, September 8th 1647Ludovico Ariosto 549
Poet
Tuesday, September 8th 1474Paul Goodman 112
Saturday, September 9th 1911Cesare Pavese 115
Wednesday, September 9th 1908Phyllis A. Whitney 120
Wednesday, September 9th 1903James Hilton 123
Sunday, September 9th 1900Brassai 124
Saturday, September 9th 1899Mary Hunter Austin 155
Wednesday, September 9th 1868Joseph Henry Shorthouse 189
Tuesday, September 9th 1834Leo Tolstoy 195
Tuesday, September 9th 1828Zhang Chengzhi 75
Friday, September 10th 1948Stephen Jay Gould 82
Wednesday, September 10th 1941Mary Oliver 88
Tuesday, September 10th 1935Miguel Serrano 106
Monday, September 10th 1917Cyril Connolly 120
Thursday, September 10th 1903Georges Bataille 126
Friday, September 10th 1897Franz Werfel 133
Wednesday, September 10th 1890H.D. 137
Friday, September 10th 1886Jeppe Aakjær 157
Monday, September 10th 1866Hannah Webster Foster 265
Sunday, September 10th 1758Philip Ardagh 62
Monday, September 11th 1961Andrew Macdonald 90
Monday, September 11th 1933Jessica Mitford 106
Tuesday, September 11th 1917William Thomas Walsh 132
Friday, September 11th 1891D. H. Lawrence 138
Friday, September 11th 1885O. Henry 161
Thursday, September 11th 1862Vjenceslav Novak 164
Sunday, September 11th 1859Fitz Hugh Ludlow 187
Sunday, September 11th 1836James Frey 54
Friday, September 12th 1969Jon Clinch 69
Sunday, September 12th 1954Michael Ondaatje 80
Sunday, September 12th 1943Stanislaw Lem 102
Monday, September 12th 1921H. L. Mencken 143
Sunday, September 12th 1880Tõnu Õnnepalu 61
Thursday, September 13th 1962Roald Dahl 107
Wednesday, September 13th 1916J. B. Priestley 129
Thursday, September 13th 1894Frances Newman 140
Thursday, September 13th 1883Sherwood Anderson 147
Wednesday, September 13th 1876Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach 193
Monday, September 13th 1830Bernard MacLaverty 81
Monday, September 14th 1942Kate Millett 89
Friday, September 14th 1934Ivan Klima 92
Monday, September 14th 1931Larry Collins 94
Saturday, September 14th 1929Martin Caidin 96
Wednesday, September 14th 1927Michel Butor 97
Tuesday, September 14th 1926Abioseh Nicol 99
Sunday, September 14th 1924Mario Benedetti 103
Tuesday, September 14th 1920Hamlin Garland 163
Friday, September 14th 1860Howard Waldrop 77
Sunday, September 15th 1946Chelsea Quinn Yarbro 81
Tuesday, September 15th 1942Robert McCloskey 109
Tuesday, September 15th 1914Adolfo Bioy Casares 109
Tuesday, September 15th 1914Betty Neels 113
Thursday, September 15th 1910Gunnar Ekelof 116
Sunday, September 15th 1907J. Slauerhoff 125
Thursday, September 15th 1898Agatha Christie 133
Monday, September 15th 1890Robert Benchley 134
Sunday, September 15th 1889Sharat Chandra Chatterji 147
Friday, September 15th 1876James Fenimore Cooper 234
Tuesday, September 15th 1789Justin Haythe 50
Sunday, September 16th 1973Nick Sagan 53
Wednesday, September 16th 1970Walt Becker 55
Monday, September 16th 1968Nancy Huston 70
Wednesday, September 16th 1953Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 73
Saturday, September 16th 1950James Alan McPherson 80
Thursday, September 16th 1943Breyten Breytenbach 84
Saturday, September 16th 1939John Knowles 97
Thursday, September 16th 1926Laurence J. Peter 104
Tuesday, September 16th 1919H. A. Rey 125
Friday, September 16th 1898T. E. Hulme 140
Sunday, September 16th 1883Wendy Northcutt 60
Tuesday, September 17th 1963Lawrence Anthony 73
Non-Fiction
Sunday, September 17th 1950Ken Kesey 88
Tuesday, September 17th 1935Robert B. Parker 91
Saturday, September 17th 1932Frank O'Connor 120
Thursday, September 17th 1903William Carlos Williams 140
Monday, September 17th 1883Chris Hedges 67
Tuesday, September 18th 1956Francis Parker Yockey 106
Tuesday, September 18th 1917William March 130
Monday, September 18th 1893Samuel Johnson 314
Wednesday, September 18th 1709Susan Compo 68
Monday, September 19th 1955James Lipton 97
Sunday, September 19th 1926Damon Knight 101
Tuesday, September 19th 1922William Golding 112
Tuesday, September 19th 1911Mika Waltari 115
Saturday, September 19th 1908James Blaylock 73
Wednesday, September 20th 1950George R. R. Martin 75
Monday, September 20th 1948Keith Roberts 88
Friday, September 20th 1935Donald Hall 95
Thursday, September 20th 1928Geraldine Clinton Little 100
Thursday, September 20th 1923Stevie Smith 121
Saturday, September 20th 1902Charles Williams 137
Monday, September 20th 1886Maxwell Perkins 139
Saturday, September 20th 1884Upton Sinclair 145
Friday, September 20th 1878Kate Harrington 192
Tuesday, September 20th 1831Heather Brewer 50
Friday, September 21st 1973Ethan Coen 66
Saturday, September 21st 1957Stephen King 76
Sunday, September 21st 1947Fannie Flagg 79
Thursday, September 21st 1944Leonard Cohen 89
Friday, September 21st 1934H. G. Wells 157
Friday, September 21st 1866Rosamunde Pilcher 99
Monday, September 22nd 1924Dannie Abse 100
Saturday, September 22nd 1923Theodore Hook 235
Monday, September 22nd 1788John Home 301
Tuesday, September 22nd 1722Ana Marie Cox 51
Saturday, September 23rd 1972Peter David 67
Sunday, September 23rd 1956Anne Desclos - Pauline Réage 116
Monday, September 23rd 1907Jaroslav Seifert 122
Monday, September 23rd 1901Emma Orczy 158
Saturday, September 23rd 1865Mary Church Terrell 160
Wednesday, September 23rd 1863Szilvia Molnar 39
Monday, September 24th 1984Shamim Sarif 54
Wednesday, September 24th 1969Yves Navarre 83
Tuesday, September 24th 1940John Brunner 89
Monday, September 24th 1934F. Scott Fitzgerald 127
Thursday, September 24th 1896A. P. Herbert 133
Wednesday, September 24th 1890Charles Ferdinand Ramuz 145
Tuesday, September 24th 1878Horace Walpole 306
Friday, September 24th 1717William Faulkner 126
Saturday, September 25th 1897Mark Haddon 61
Wednesday, September 26th 1962Minette Walters 74
Monday, September 26th 1949Jane Smiley 74
Monday, September 26th 1949Andrea Dworkin 77
Thursday, September 26th 1946T. S. Eliot 135
Wednesday, September 26th 1888Joyce Johnson 88
Friday, September 27th 1935Jim Thompson 117
Thursday, September 27th 1906Grazia Deledda 152
Wednesday, September 27th 1871Stuart M. Kaminsky 89
Saturday, September 29th 1934Stan Berenstain 100
Saturday, September 29th 1923Miguel de Cervantes 476
Novelist, Poet, Playwright
Monday, September 29th 1547W. S. Merwin 96
Friday, September 30th 1927Truman Capote 99
Tuesday, September 30th 1924Gertrude Atherton 166
Wednesday, September 30th 1857Ferdinand von Saar 190
Monday, September 30th 1833