Literary Birthdays Blog

LitBirthdays May 2013 – Week 4

litbirthdays — Wed, 22 May 2013 08:38:21 +0000

“Somebody loves you, Baby”

(Patti LaBelle, born May 24)

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

litbirthdays — Wed, 15 May 2013 07:15:10 +0000

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

litbirthdays — Wed, 08 May 2013 14:15:53 +0000

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

Tagged: authors birthdays, famous writers birthdays, writers birthdays

LitBirthdays May 2013 – Week 1

litbirthdays — Wed, 01 May 2013 08:14:45 +0000

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

Tagged: authors birthdays, famous writers birthdays

LitBirthdays April 2013 – Week 4

litbirthdays — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:24:23 +0000

April is poetry month

April 22

April 23

Michael Moore

Fadil Hadzic

William Shakespeare

April 24

Eric Bogosian (

Carl (Friedrich Georg) Spitteler (pseudonym Carl Felix Tandem)

April 25

Grace Rasp Nuri

Albert Uderzo

April 26

April 27

Edwin Morgan

Cecil Day Lewis (pseudonym Nicholas Blake)

Russell T Davies

April 28

Carolyn Forché

(Nelle) Harper Lee

Jay Leno

April 29

Egon Erwin Kisch

Jerry Seinfeld

April 30

Jaroslav Hašek

Willie Nelson

Aatish Kapadia

Tagged: authors birthdays

LitBirthdays April 2013 – Week 3

litbirthdays — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:11:41 +0000

April is poetry month

April 15

Benjamin Zephaniah

Leonardo da Vinci

Henry James

(David) Wiley Miller

April 16

Gerry Rafferty

Diane Middlebrook

Anatole France (Jacques Anatole Thibault)

April 17

Ray Kluun

Giusy Ferreri

Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)

April 18

Rithy Panh

Costas [or Kostas] Ferris

George Henry Lewes

April 19

Sandro Petraglia

Maria Ember

Etheridge Knight

April 20

Asia Alfasi

Erna Brodber

John Paul Stevens

April 21

Elaine May

Queen Elizabeth II

Kole Omotosho

Tagged: authors birthdays, famous writers birthdays, poets birthdays, world literature, writers birthdays

LitBirthdays April 2013 – Week 2

litbirthdays — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 09:05:01 +0000

April is poetry month

April 8

Robert Toru

Trina Schart Hyman

April 9

George David Weiss

Paule Marshall (Paule Burke)

April 10

Peter Morgan

George William Russell

John M. (Mike) Ford

April 11

Clive Exton

Attila József

April 12

Thomas Dybdahl

Tama Janowitz

Gary Soto

Tom Clancy

April 13

Drago Jančar

Eudora Welty

Seamus Heaney

April 14

Loretta Lynn

Daniel Clowes

Erich von Däniken

Tagged: authors birthdays, famous writers birthdays

LitBirthdays April 2013 – Week 1

litbirthdays — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 09:53:13 +0000

April is poetry month

April 1

April 2

Joanna Chmielewska

Émile François Zola

April 3

Herb Caen

Washington Irving

Unni Lindell

April 4

Andrei Tarkovsky

Maya Angelou

April 5

Amalia Guglielminetti

Booker T. Washington

April 6

Leonora Carrington

Lowell Thomas

April 7

Daniel Ellsberg

Gabriela Mistral (Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga)

Tagged: authors birthdays, famous birthdays, poets birthdays, writers birthdays

LitBirthdays – March 2013 Week 4

litbirthdays — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:24:57 +0000

Don’t let that horse

eat that violin
cried Chagall’s mother

But he
kept right on
painting

["Don't Let That Horse..." by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, born March 24, 1919]

March 22

Beverley Knight

Louis L’Amour Lawrence Dearborn LaMoore

March 23

Plantu (Jean Plantureux)

Emmy Noether

Akira Kurosawa

March 24

Kate (Catherine Merrial) Webb

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

March 25

Gloria Steinem

Toni Cade Bambara

Thom Loverro

March 26

Bob Woodward

Robert Frost

Tennessee Williams

March 27

Julia Alvarez

Budd (Seymour Wilson) Schulberg

Ai Qing (艾青) (Jiang Haicheng)

Michael Aris

Abelardo Castillo

March 28

Jennifer Weiner

Dimcho Debelianov (Димчо Дебелянов)

Maxim Gorky (Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov)

Lauren Weisberger

March 29

Vangelis (Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou) (Greek: Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου)

Andrija Maurović

Lennart Meri

March 30

Thierry Cabot

Céline Dion

Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay (Bangla: শরদিন্দু বন্দোপাধ্যায়)

Moses Maimonides

March 31

Octavio Paz

Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut

René Descartes

Tagged: authors birthdays

LitBirthdays March 2013 – Week 3

litbirthdays — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:04:50 +0000

March 15

Ben Okri

Veronica Maggio

Will.i.am

Madelyn Pugh

March 16

Zoe Jenny

Sully Prudhomme

Richard Matthew Stallman

James Madison

March 17

Lorenzo Da Ponte

Keren Ann Zeidel (Hebrew: קרן אן זיידל‎)

Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake)

March 18

Queen Latifah

Luc Besson

Christa Wolf,

John Updike

March 19

John Burnside

Valerio Zurlini

Philip Roth

March 20

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

Vera Panova

Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell

March 21

Ved Mehta

Phyllis McGinley

Tagged: authors birthdays, famous writers birthdays, writers birthdays

Literary Birthdays Blog

LitBirthdays May 2013 – Week 4

“Somebody loves you, Baby”

May 22

May 23

May 24

May 25

May 26

May 27

May 28

May 29

May 30

May 31

LitBirthdays May 2013 – Week 3

May is Creative Beginnings month

May 15

May 16

May 17

May 18

May 19

May 20

May 21

LitBirthdays May 2013 – Week 2

May is Creative Beginnings month

May 8

May 9

May 10

May 11

May 12

May 13

May 14

LitBirthdays May 2013 – Week 1

May is Creative Beginnings month

May 1

May 2

May 3

May 4

May 5

May 6

May 7

LitBirthdays April 2013 – Week 4

April is poetry month

April 22

April 23

April 24

April 25

April 26

April 27

April 28

April 29

April 30

LitBirthdays April 2013 – Week 3

April is poetry month

April 15

April 16

April 17

April 18

April 19

April 20

April 21

LitBirthdays April 2013 – Week 2

April is poetry month

April 8

April 9

April 10

April 11

April 12

April 13

April 14

LitBirthdays April 2013 – Week 1

April is poetry month

April 1

April 2

April 3

April 4

April 5

April 6

April 7

LitBirthdays – March 2013 Week 4

March 22