October LitBirthdays

October 1 Majrooh Sultanpuri (Asrar Hussain Khan) Jimmy Carter	October 2 Annie Leibovitz Mahatma Gandhi	October 3 Alvin Toffler John Patrick Shanley
October 4 Rene (Mable Neighbour) Cloke Anne Rice Kazuki Takahashi Adam Hollanek	October 5 Magda Szabó Bernie Mac Zoran Živković	October 6 Ariane Dreyfus Ayten Mutlu David Brin
October 7 Andreea Iacob Sherman Alexie, Jr. Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones)	October 8 Ha Joon Chang Harvey Lawrence Pekar Yechezkel (Ezekiel) Landau	October 9 Jody Williams Ivo Andric Georgi Tenev
October 10 Dilsa Demirbag Sten Ken Saro-Wiwa Frederick Barthelme	October 11 Elmore Leonard Thích Nhất Hạnh Amos Gitai	October 12 Ding Ling (Jiang Bingzhi 蒋冰之) Richard Gregory Rafael Ábalos Richard Price
October 13 Christine Nöstlinger Selima Hill Lenny Bruce	October 14 Hannah Arendt Erik Johan Stagnelius Edward Estlin Cummings	October 15 Biljana Srbljanović Hans Lindahl Mario Puzo
October 16 George Washington Williams George Turner Bob Weir	October 17 Alexandrine Tinné Eminem (Marshall Bruce Mathers III) Jupiter Hammon	October 18 Juan Tamariz Thomas Love Peacock Jan Erik Vold
October 19 Agnès Jaoui John le Carré Miguel Ángel Asturias	October 20 Dorothea Rosa Herliany Art Buchwald Claudio Bergamin	October 21 Ursula Le Guin Salomé Ureña de Henríquez Simon Gray
October 22 Doris Lessing John Wesley Harding (Wesley Stace) Deepak Chopra	October 23 Antjie Krog Al Yankovic Michael Crichton	October 24 Emma Donoghue Ziraldo Alves Pinto Alexandra David-Néel
October 25 Suheir Hammad Anne Tyler Zadie Smith Geoffrey Chaucer Christos Tsiolkas	October 26 Shan Sa Carlo Lucarelli Infinito 2017	October 27 Nawal El Saadawi (Arabic: نوال السعداوى‎) Albert Wendt Francis Fukuyama
October 28 Ayi Kwei Armah Frédéric C. Martel Louis Jenkins	October 29 Frans de Waal Zbigniew Herbert Derek Miller	October 30 Robert Caro Louis Malle Marcello Gagliani Caputo
October 31 Susan Orlean Roy Aragon John Keats

September LitBirthdays

September

September 1 Nelson George Lily Tomlin James Reaney Eleanor Hibbert – Victoria Holt	September 2 Tetsuo Hara 原 哲夫 William C. Rhoden Tim Key Tom Glazer	September 3 Naomi Lewis Mort Walker Spike Feresten Eduardo Galeano Mahjoor (Ghulam Ahmad)
September 4 Joan Aiken Richard Wright Antonin Artaud Damon Kyle Wayans	September 5 Arthur Koestler Robert Fergusson Bob Newhart Werner Herzog	September 6 Robyn Davidson Sergio Aragonés Edward Einhorn Christopher Brookmyre Robert Maynard Pirsig
September 7 (Janet) Taylor Caldwell Houshang Moradi Kermani Elia Kazan	September 8 Michael Frayn Jack Prelutsky Boris Ryzhy Kimberly Peirce	September 9 Sonia Sanchez Aleksandar Hemon
September 10 Shlomo Sand Andrei Makine Franz Werfel	September 11 Katri Vala D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence	September 12 Kristin Hunter Lattany Stanislav Lem Louis Macneice
September 13 Tom Holt Roald Dahl	September 14 Ekiwah Adler Beléndez Ivan Klima Hans Faverey	September 15 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Agatha Christie Dan Lungu Marie Arana Liselotte Welskopf-Henrich (Elizabeth Charlotte Welskopf)
September 16 Prasoon Joshi	September 17 Igor Štiks Hope Larson Ken Kesey	September 18 Samuel Johnson Agnes de Mille
September 19 Maud Sulter Oksana Zabuzhko Damon Knight	September 20 Judith Thompson Upton Sinclair Charlie Kaufman	September 21 Édouard Glissant H.G. Wells Frédéric Beigbeder Stephen King
September 22 Rene O. Villanueva György Faludy Ashokamitran	September 23 Madhav Prasad Ghimire Pauline Réage (Anne Desclos) Joshua Foer	September 24 Nia Vardalos Eavan Boland F. Scott Fitzgerald
September 25 Shel Silverstein Maj Sjöwall Lu Xun Andrzej Stasiuk William Faulkner	September 26 Jane Smiley Raoul Cauvin T.S. Eliot Zhang Tianyi	September 27 Grazia Deledda Josef Škvorecký Romano Scarpa
September 28 Rosario Ferré Confucius Pierre Ryckmans (Simon Leys)	September 29 Steve Tesich Gábor Csupó Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra	September 30 Ta-Nehisi Coates Eileen Chang (Zhang Ailing) Laura Esquivel Elie Wiesel Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī

August LitBirthdays

August

August 1 Herman Melville Francis Scott Key	August 2 Bei Dao James Baldwin Isabel Allende	August 3 Juliana Horatia Ewing Lauren Liebenberg Leon Uris
August 4 Robert Hayden Helen Thomas Barack Obama	August 5 Guy de Maupassant Abbé Pierre Wendell Berry	August 6 M. Night Shyamalan Alfred Tennyson Louella Parsons
August 7 Vladimir Georgiyevich Sorokin Ben Bradlee Jr. Garrison Keillor	August 8 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Mel Tillis	August 9 Marvin Minsky Tove Jansson Jean Piaget Izaak Walton
August 10 Abay Ibrahim Qunanbayuli Jerzy Pilch	August 11 Jim Lee Alex Haley	August 12 Chris Bohjalian Sue Monk Kidd
August 13 Kamila Shamsie Amélie Nothomb Dan Fogelberg	August 14 Bryce Courtenay Steve Martin Danielle Steel Gary Larson	August 15 Julia Child Sri Aurobindo Mikao Usui
August 16 Valeria Luiselli Diana Wynne Jones Charles Bukowski	August 17 Herta Müller Gene (Geneva) Stratton-Porter	August 18 Elsa Morante Brian Aldiss
August 19 Jerzy Andrzejewski Frank McCourt Ogden Nash	August 20 Musa Geshaev H.P. Lovecraft	August 21 Jules Michelet Friz Freleng
August 22 Irmtraud Morgner Ray Bradbury	August 23 Nazik al-Mala’ika Ephraim Kishon	August 24 Yan Lianke Ali Smith Jorge Luis Borges Stephen Fry
August 25 Charles Wright Taslima Nasrin	August 26 Mother Teresa Earl Biggers Barbara Ehrenreich	August 27 Antonia Fraser Lisa Yee
August 28 Janet Frame Vonda McIntyre Tasha Tudor Ai Weiwei	August 29 René Depestre Hajime Isayama Nancy Holder	August 30 Camilla Läckberg Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Anastasia Tasou
August 31 Amrita Pritam Rituparno Ghosh Dorrit Willumsen Nene Thomas

July LitBirthdays

July 1 Twyla Tharp Irna Phillips Juan Carlos Onetti	July 2 Wisława Szymborska Evelyn Lau Wibo (“Wim” Willem Louis Joseph Boost)	July 3 Alan Schwarz Julian Assange Franz Kafka
July 4 Guram Rcheulishvili Colin Welland Neil Simon Mao Dun Nathaniel Hawthorne Ann Landers	July 5 Armin Kõomägi Jody Lynn Nye Bill Watterson Veronica Guerin	July 6 Andrew Martin The Dalai Lama Louisa Tuthill
July 7 Lesego Rampolokeng David McCullough Helene Johnson Lillien Jane Martin	July 8 Tom Egeland Anna Quindlen	July 9 Barbara Cartland Masami Tsuda Anne Born
July 10 Mildred Wirt Benson Arja Uusitalo Alice Munro	July 11 Kenneth Hsien-yung Pai (白先勇; pinyin: Bái Xiānyǒng,) Suzanne Nadine Vega Amitav Ghosh	July 12 Oscar Hammerstein II Pablo Neruda
July 13 Helga Königsdorf Cameron Crowe Wole Soyinka	July 14 Natalia Ginzburg Isaac Bashevis Singer Angélique Kidjo Laura Numeroff	July 15 Jacques Rivière Dorothy Fields Iris Murdoch
July 16 Mari Evans Ross King Saint Clare of Assisi	July 17 Erle Stanley Gardner Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Hebrew: שמואל יוסף עגנון) Michael Francis Gilbert	July 18 Yevgeny Yevtushenko Alfian Sa’at Elizabeth Gilbert Nelson Mandela
July 19 Norman Manea Garth Nix A.J. (Archibald Joseph) Cronin Vladimir Mayakovsky	July 20 Simin Beh’bahāni (Persian: سیمین بهبهانی) Olga Hahn Neurath Imam Bukhari (Muhammed Al-Bukhari) (Elizabeth) Dilys Powell Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca)	July 21 Mohammed Dib Ernest Miller Hemingway Suso Cecchi d’Amico
July 22 Ala Ghawas Emma Lazarus Albert Brooks Enrique Laso	July 23 Milisav Popović Raymond Chandler Eugène François Vidocq	July 24 Alexandre Dumas Patrick Bruce (Pat) Oliphant Colleen Doran Banana Yoshimoto
July 25 Maria Gripe Josephine Tey (Elizabeth MacKintosh, AKA Gordon Daviot) Diam’s (Mélanie Georgiades)	July 26 George Bernard Shaw Aldous Huxley Carl G. Jung	July 27 Hilde Domin Elizabeth Hardwick Bobbie Gentry
July 28 Helen Beatrix Potter Francis Veber	July 29 Chester Himes Nathalie Handal Ruud Janssen	July 30 Barbara Kopple Salvador Novo Emily Jane Brontë
July 31 Pam Withers J. K. Rowling