LitBirthdays May 2013 – Week 4

“Somebody loves you, Baby”

(Patti LaBelle, born May 24)

May 22 Betty Williams Bernie Taupin Georges Remi / Hergé Arthur Conan Doyle	May 23 Sebastian Cordero Walter Reisch Pär Lagerkvist Carl Linnaeus	May 24 Patti LaBelle Joseph Brodsky Mikhail (Aleksandrovich) Sholokhov Bob Dylan
May 25 Alastair Campbell Naim Frashëri Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Ludlum	May 26 Peggy Lee (Norma Egstrom) Nobuhiro Watsuki Frankie Manning Stevie (Stephanie Lynn) Nicks	May 27 Andrei Georgiyevich Bitov John Cheever Rachel Carson Dashiell Hammett
May 28 Muriel Barbery Patrick White Ian Fleming John Fogerty	May 29 Leah Goldberg (לאה גולדברג; ) G.K. Chesterton	May 30 Agnes Varda Vizma Belševica
May 31 Svetlana Alexievich Judith Wright Walt Whitman

LitBirthdays May 2013 – Week 3

May is Creative Beginnings month

May 15 Asala Nasri L. Frank Baum Katherine Anne Porter	May 16 Olga Berggolts Studs Terkel	May 17 Jien (Jichin-daikasho) Dennis Potter	May 18 Tina Fey Omar Khayyam
May 19 Elena Poniatowska Malcolm X (Malcolm Little) Lorraine Hansberry	May 20 Sirivennela (Chembolu SeethaRama Sastry) Honoré de Balzac	May 21 (Liv) Marit Bergman Manly Wade Wellman

LitBirthdays May 2013 – Week 2

May is Creative Beginnings month

May 8 Beth Henley Gary Snyder Sirkka Hämäläinen	May 9 Nada El-Hage Lucian Blaga Ghostface Killah	May 10 Nayantara Sahgal Bono (Paul David Hewson) Olga Bancic
May 11 Andre Gregory John Michael Hayes Irving Berlin	May 12 Wu Wenjun Claribel Alegria Andrey Andreyevich Voznesensky
May 13 Stephen Colbert Clive Barnes Daphne du Maurier	May 14 Eoin Colfer Sofia Carmina Coppola Che Guevara Luis Llorens Torres

LitBirthdays May 2013 – Week 1

May is Creative Beginnings month

May 1 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Judy Collins Ignazio Silone (Secondino Tranquilli) Helen Bamber	May 2 Satyajit Ray Ichiyo Higuchi (Higuchi Natsu) Kwon-taek Im May 2 is Holocaust Remembrance Day	May 3 Betty Comden Leslie Marmon Silko Yehuda Amichai
May 4 Rüdiger Nehberg Rey Valera Khwaja Abdullah Ansari	May 5 Thomas Boberg Elizabeth Cochrane (Nellie Bly) Soren Kierkegaard Tammy Wynette	May 6 George Clooney Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman Sujata Bhatt Sigmund Freud
May 7 William Dempsey Valgardson Volker Braun Rabindranath Tagore Robert Browning