August LitBirthdays

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

June LitBirthdays 2020

June

June 1 Casper de Vries Marie Knight Naguib Surur Mircea Cărtărescu	June 2 Xiao Hong Dorothy West	June 3 Pedro Mir (Irwin) Allen Ginsberg
June 4 Jacques Roumain Margrit Schriber	June 5 Elena Piscopia Pu Songling Federico Garcia Lorca Michael Scott Moore	June 6 Isaiah Berlin Alexander (or Aleksandr) (Sergeyevich) Pushkin
June 7 Louise Erdrich (Karen Louise Erdrich) Gwendolyn Brooks Nikki Giovanni Orhan Pamuk	June 8 Karin Alvtegen Tim Berners-Lee Sara Paretsky Marguerite Yourcenar Alicia Boole Stott	June 9 André Juillard George Axelrod Cole Porter
June 10 Maurice Sendak Benjamin Millepied Samartha Vashishtha Saul Bellow Terence Rattigan	June 11 Siavash Ghomayshi Yasunari Kawabata	June 12 Tess Gerritsen Anne Frank
June 13 Anis Mojgani Dorothy Leigh Sayers William Butler Yeats	June 14 Ernesto Che Guevara John Thomson Margaret Bourke-White Mona Simpson	June 15 Ibn-e-Insha (ابن انشاء) Ice Cube (O’Shea Jackson)

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June 16 Lamont Dozier Joyce Carol Oates	June 17 Jeph Jacques	June 18 Lidia Jorge Sammy Cahn Paul McCartney
June 19 Aung San Suu Kyi Pauline Kael Salman Rushdie	June 20 Enn Vetemaa Amos Tutuola Anna Laetitia Barbauld	June 21 John Agard Benazir Bhutto Jean-Paul Sartre Mary McCarthy
June 22 Moana Maniapoto Abbas Kiarostami Persian: عباس کیارستمی Kaarina Helakisa Sándor Weöres Dan Brown	June 23 Steven Dietz Anna Akhmatova Alfred Kinsey Patrick Monahan	June 24 Julia Kristeva Anita Desai Saint John of the Cross Mercedes Lackey
June 25 Ricky Gervais George Orwell Anthony Bourdain Yann Martel	June 26 Ya’akov Cohen (also spelled Cahan) (Hebrew: יעקב כהן) Yves Beauchemin Noriaki Kubo (The Kubo) Pearl S. Buck	June 27 Paul L. Dunbar Bob Keeshan Helen Keller Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
June 28 Mariko Nanba (南波真理子) Aimee Bender Jean-Jacques Rousseau Sophie Hannah	June 29 Frédéric Dard Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Toure)	June 30 José Emilio Pacheco David Frum James Goldman

May LitBirthdays

May

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 Khwaja Abdullah Ansari Boris J. Kochanowsky	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	May 8 Beth Henley Gary Snyder Sirkka Hämäläinen	May 9 Nada El-Hage Lucian Blaga
May 10 Nayantara Sahgal Olga Bancic	May 11 Andre Gregory John Michael Hayes Irving Berlin	May 12 Claribel Alegria Wu Wenjun Andrey Andreyevich Voznesensky
May 13 Daphne du Maurier Clive Barnes Stephen Colbert	May 14 Eoin Colfer Sofia Carmina Coppola Che Guevara Luis Llorens Torres	May 15 L. Frank Baum Katherine Anne Porter Jakucho Setouchi

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May 16 Olga Berggolts Studs Terkel	May 17 Jien (Jichin-daikasho) Dennis Potter	May 18 Tina Fey Omar Khayyam
May 19 Malcolm X (Malcolm Little) Elena Poniatowska Lorraine Hansberry	May 20 Sirivennela (Chembolu SeethaRama Sastry) Honoré de Balzac	May 21 (Liv) Marit Bergman Manly Wade Wellman
May 22 Hergé (Georges Remi) Betty Williams Bernie Taupin Arthur Conan Doyle	May 23 Carl Linnaeus Sebastian Cordero Walter Reisch Pär Lagerkvist	May 24 Mikhail (Aleksandrovich) Sholokhov Patti LaBelle Joseph Brodsky Bob Dylan
May 25 Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Ludlum Naim Frashëri	May 26 Peggy Lee (Norma Egstrom) Frankie Manning Nobuhiro Watsuki	May 27 Andrei Georgiyevich Bitov John Cheever Rachel Carson Dashiell Hammett
May 28 Muriel Barbery Patrick White Ian Fleming	May 29 Leah Goldberg (לאה גולדברג; ) G.K. Chesterton Abdul Rahman Munif ( عبد الرحمن منيف‎)	May 30 Vizma Belševica Agnes Varda
May 31 Svetlana Alexievich Judith Wright Walt Whitman