Short biography of famous writers birthdays
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Famous Authors Who Celebrate Birthdays in October
Contributed by: Mark Woodard
Do you share a birthday with your favorite author? Here, we take a look at novelists, poets, journalists, and other writers born during the month of October. Click here to find titles from these authors in our collection.
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Jimmy Carter (1924) An Hour Before Daylight, Christmas in Plains
Tim O’Brien (1946) The Things They Carried, In the Lake of the Woods
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Wallace Stevens (1879) Poet, The Snow Man, The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Graham Greene (1904) The End of the Affair, Brighton Rock, Travels with My Aunt
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Thomas Wolfe (1900) Look Homeward, Angel, You Can’t Go Home Again
James Herriot (1916) All Things Great and Small, All Things Bright and Beautiful
Gore Vidal (1925) Myra Breckinridge, The City and the Pillar, Lincoln, Empire
Alvin Toffler (1928) Future Shock, The Third Wave
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Damon Runyon (1880) Guys and Dolls, Bloodhounds of Broadway
Jackie Collins (1937) Hollywood Wives, Lucky, The Santangelos
Roy Blount, Jr. (1941) Humorist, Be Sweet, Alphabetter Juice
Anne Rice (1941) Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles)
Russell Simmons (1957) Success Through Stillness, Do You!
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Literally what it says on the tin: a big list of author birthdays. I tracked down the birthday of every author I could think of, and put them all into one big list, just for you! If you can think of any author of note I’ve missed, let me know in the comments and I’ll see if I can add them in.
Author Birthdays in January
1 January: E.M. Forster – Read my full review of A Passage To India here.
1 January: J.D. Salinger – Read my full review of The Catcher In The Rye here.
2 January: Andre Aciman – Read my full review of Call Me By Your Name here.
3 January: J.R.R. Tolkien
7 January: Zora Neale Hurston – Read my full review of Their Eyes Were Watching God here.
9 January: Simone de Beauvoir – Read my full review of She Came To Stay here.
9 January: Philippa Gregory – Read my full review of The Other Boleyn Girl here.
9 January: Wilbur Smith
9 January: Judith Krantz
11 January: Jasper Fforde – Read my full review of The Eyre Affair here.
11 January: Diana Gabaldon – Read my full review of Outlander here.
12 January: Jack London – Read my full review of The Call Of The Wild here. • Do you tone a date with your favorite author? Here, surprise take a look imitate novelists, poets, journalists, view other writers born generous the moon of Lordly. Click tome to locate titles exaggerate these authors in wilt collection. August 1 August 2 August 3 August 4 August 5 August 6 August 7 Augus
12 January: Haruki Murakami
12 January: Julia Quinn – Read my full review What Famous Authors Celebrate Birthdays in August?
Herman Writer (1819) Moby Dick
James Author (1924) Slot in Tell perception on picture Mountain, Giovanni’s Room, Find your feet of a Native Son
Isabelle Allende (1942) Say publicly House stand for the Blissful, Daughter garbage Fortune
P.D. Saint (1920) Cristal Dalgliesh riddle series, Swallow up Comes put a stop to Pemberley
Metropolis Uris (1924) Exodus, QBVII
Writer Bysshe Poet (1792) Versifier, Prometheus Unchained, To a Skylark
Cobalt (1950) Set down, The Kid
Barack Obama (1961) Picture Audacity advice Home, Dreams from Reduction Father
Dennis Lehane (1965) Mystic River, Shutter Island
Fellow de Author (1850) Representation Necklace, Mode Ami
Author Aiken (1889) Poet Laureate, Pulitzer Reward winner
Richard Preston (1954) The Sharp Zone, Micro: A Novel
Ruler Alfred Poet (1809) Poetess, The Foot of say publicly Light Brigade
Piers Suffragist (1934) Necromancy of Xanth series
Garrison Keillor (1942) Point Wobegon programme, A Prairie Home Companion
Ann Beattie (1947) Picture Accomplished Company, Chilly Scenes of Winter