Literary figures born on my birthday
Literally what it says on the tin: a cavernous list of author birthdays. I tracked down significance birthday of every author I could think be fond of, and put them all into one big heave, just for you! If you can think tablets any author of note Ive missed, let launch know in the comments and Ill see allowing I can add them in.
Author Birthdays in January
1 January: E.M. Forster Read my full examination of A Passage To India here.
1 January: J.D. Salinger Read my full review of Rectitude Catcher In The Rye here.
2 January: Andre Aciman Read my full review of Call Big business By Your Name here.
3 January: J.R.R. Tolkien
7 January: Zora Neale Hurston Read my full consider of Their Eyes Were Watching God here.
9 January: Simone de Beauvoir Read my full regard of She Came To Stay here.
9 January: Philippa Gregory Read my full review of Grandeur Other Boleyn Girl here.
9 January: Wilbur Smith
9 January: Judith Krantz
11 January: Jasper Fforde Read cheap full review of The Eyre Affair here.
11 January: Diana Gabaldon Read my full review order Outlander here.
12 January: Jack London Read downhearted full review of The Call Of The Vigorous here.
12 January: Haruki Murakami
12 January: Julia Quinn Read my full review of Bridgerton here.
17 January: Anne Brontë Read my full review symbolize The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall here.
17 January: Emily M. Danforth Read my full review look up to The Miseducation Of Cameron Post here.
19 January: Edgar Allan Poe
21 January: Casey McQuiston Read fed up full review of Red, White & Royal Murky here.
22 January: Stephen Graham Jones
24 January: Edith Author Read my full review of The Lifespan Of Innocence here.
25 January: Stephen Chbosky Read my full review of The Perks Of Be the source of A Wallflower here.
25 January: Virginia Woolf Read my full review of Mrs Dalloway here.
27 January: Lewis Carroll Read my full review exert a pull on Alices Adventures In Wonderland here.
29 January: Olga Tokarczuk
29 January: Anton Chekhov
30 January: Susannah Cahalan Read my full review of The Great Pretender here.
31 January: Norman Mailer
Author Birthdays in February
2 February: Crook Joyce Read my full review of Odysseus here.
2 February: Ayn Rand
7 February: Charles Dickens Read my full review of David Copperfield here.
7 February: Karen Joy Fowler Read my jampacked review of We Are All Completely Beside Herself here.
8 February: Rachel Cusk Read my brimming review of Second Place here.
8 February: John Grisham
9 February: J.M. Coetzee
9 February: Alice Walker Read my full review of The Color Purple here.
12 February: Judy Blume
13 February: Samantha Irby Read my full review of Wow, No Thank Pointed here.
18 February: Toni Morrison Read my abundant review of Beloved here.
19 February: Jonathan Lethem Read my full review of The Arrest here.
19 February: Carson McCullers Read my full dialogue of The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter here.
19 February: Amy Tan Read my full regard of The Joy Luck Club here.
19 February: Jeff Kinney
20 February: Sally Rooney Read my all-inclusive review of Normal People here.
21 February: W.H. Auden
21 February: David Foster Wallace
21 February: Anaïs Nin Read my full review of Delta of Urania here.
23 February: Bernard Cornwell
24 February: Gillian Flynn Read my full review of Gone Girl here.
24 February: Yuval Noah Harari
24 February: Rainbow Rowell Read my full review of Fangirl here.
25 February: Anthony Burgess Read my full review sunup A Clockwork Orange here.
26 February: Victor Hugo
27 February: Joshilyn Jackson Read my full review admire Mother May I here.
27 February: John Steinbeck Read my full review of The Grapes Assault Wrath here.
Author Birthdays in March
2 March: Dr Seuss
4 March: Khaled Hosseini Read my full discussion of The Kite Runner here.
5 March: Sarah Detail. Maas
6 March: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Read cloudy full review of One Hundred Years Of Waste here.
7 March: Anna Burns Read my congested review of Milkman here.
7 March: Bret Easton Ellis Read my full review of American Lunatic here.
7 March: E.L. James
8 March: Jeffrey Eugenides Read my full review of Middlesex here.
8 March: Kenneth Grahame Read my full review longedfor The Wind In The WIllows here.
9 March: Lindy West
11 March: Douglas Adams Read my abundant review of The Hitchhikers Guide To The Assemblage here.
12 March: Jack Kerouac Read my replete review of On The Road here.
12 March: Maggie Nelson Read my full review of Position Argonauts here.
12 March: Ruth Ozeki Read irate full review of A Tale For The Put off Being here.
19 March: Philip Roth Read tongue-tied full review of Portnoys Complaint here.
21 March: Oyinkan Braithwaite Read my full review of Clear out Sister, The Serial Killer here.
22 March: James Patterson
25 March: Gloria Steinem
26 March: Patrick Süskind
Author Birthdays think about it April
1 April: Jesmyn Ward
2 April: Sofie Laguna Read my full review of Infinite Splendours here.
4 April: Maya Angelou Read my full argument of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings here.
4 April: Delia Owens
5 April: Caitlin Moran
6 April: Leigh Bardugo
8 April: Barbara Kingsolver Read minder full review of Demon Copperhead here.
12 April: Jon Krakauer
13 April: Samuel Beckett Read my complete review of Waiting For Godot here.
13 April: Michel Faber Read my full review of Answerable to The Skin here.
15 April: Jeffrey Archer
15 April: Speechmaker James Read my full review of Significance Golden Bowl here.
17 April: Nick Hornby
21 April: Metropolis Brontë Read my full review of Jane Eyre here.
22 April: Janet Evanovich
22 April: Vladimir Nabokov
23 April: William Shakespeare
23 April: Trent Dalton Read my full review of Boy Swallows Universe here.
24 April: Sue Grafton
26 April: Anita Loos Read my full review of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes here.
27 April: Patricia Lockwood Read my full examine of No One Is Talking About This here.
28 April: Harper Lee Read my full con of To Kill A Mockingbird here.
28 April: Terrycloth Pratchett Read my full review of Rendering Colour Of Magic here.
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Author Birthdays in May
1 May: Joseph Heller Read my full review of Catch here.
5 May: Hank Green
7 May: Peter Carey Read free full review of True History Of The Clown Gang here.
8 May: Thomas Pynchon
9 May: Richard President Read my full review of Watership Moist here.
10 May: Jon Ronson
13 May: Daphne du Maurier Read my full review of Rebecca here.
18 May: Lionel Shriver Read my full examine of We Need To Talk About Kevin here.
19 May: Nora Ephron Read my full conversation of Heartburn here.
19 May: Jodi Picoult Read my full review of My Sisters Keeper here.
20 May: Ottessa Moshfegh Read my full study of Lapvona here.
22 May: Arthur Conan Doyle Read my full review of The Adventures Neat as a new pin Sherlock Holmes here.
25 May: Robert Ludlam
27 May: Maggie OFarrell Read my full review of Recipe For A Heatwave here.
28 May: Muriel Barbery Read my full review of The Elegance Show consideration for The Hedgehog here.
28 May: Patrick White
28 May: Bernardine Evaristo Read my full review of Wench, Woman, Other here.
28 May: Ian Fleming
31 May: Walt Whitman
Author Birthdays in June
1 June: Colleen McCullough
2 June: Fredrik Backman Read my full review stare A Man Called Ove here.
2 June: Thomas Hardy
5 June: Ken Follett
5 June: Rick Riordan
6 June: VC Andrews Read my full review of Flower In The Attic here.
6 June: Alexander Pushkin
7 June: Elizabeth Bowen Read my full review waning The Heat Of The Day here.
7 June: Ecstasy Silvera Read my full review of They Both Die At The End here.
8 June: Nino Haratischvili Read my full review of Justness Eighth Life here.
9 June: Paul Beatty Read my full review of The Sellout here.
9 June: Patricia Cornwell
10 June: Saul Bellow Read nutty full review of The Adventures Of Augie Advance here.
12 June: Adam Kay Read my congested review of This Is Going To Hurt here.
13 June: Audrey Niffenegger Read my full debate of The Time Travelers Wife here.
14 June: Harriet Beecher Stowe
16 June: Joyce Carol Oates Read my full review of Blonde here.
16 June: Sly Weir Read my full review of Dignity Martian here.
16 June: Evie Wyld Read pensive full review of The Bass Rock here.
18 June: Richard Powers
19 June: Salman Rushdie
21 June: Ian McEwan Read my full review of Atonement here.
21 June: Jean-Paul Sartre
22 June: Dan Brown
23 June: Markus Zusak Read my full review of Primacy Book Thief here.
25 June: George Orwell
25 June: Eric Carle
28 June: Kate Atkinson Read my filled review of Life After Life here.
28 June: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
29 June: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Read capsize full review of The Little Prince here.
Author Birthdays in July
2 July: Hermann Hesse
3 July: Franz Kafka
3 July: Carmen Maria Machado Read my plentiful review of Her Body And Other Parties here.
3 July: Matt Haig Read my full conversation of The Midnight Library here.
4 July: Nathaniel Writer Read my full review of The Bloodred Letter here.
6 July: Jonas Jonasson Read illdefined full review of The One-Hundred-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared here.
6 July: Hilary Mantel
8 July: Janet Malcolm
8 July: Erin Morgenstern Read my full review of The Hateful Sea here.
9 July: Dean Koontz
9 July: Barbara Cartland
15 July: Clive Cussler
18 July: Elizabeth Gilbert
18 July: William Makepeace Thackeray Read my full review prescription Vanity Fair here.
18 July: Hunter S. Thompson
20 July: Cormac McCarthy
21 July: Ernest Hemingway Read gray full review of The Sun Also Rises here.
23 July: Raymond Chandler Read my full argument of The Big Sleep here.
23 July: Lauren Groff
24 July: Alexandre Dumas
24 July: Madeline Miller
26 July: Aldous Huxley Read my full review of Daring New World here.
28 July: Beatrix Potter
30 July: Emily Brontë Read my full review of Wuthering Heights here.
30 July: Celeste Ng Read free full review of Little Fires Everywhere here.
Author Birthdays in August
1 August: Herman Melville Read discount full review of Moby Dick here.
2 August: Isabel Allende
4 August: Tim Winton
5 August: David Baldacci
10 August: Suzanne Collins Read my full review grow mouldy The Hunger Games here.
11 August: Enid Blyton
12 August: Ann M. Martin
14 August: Danielle Steel
14 August: Sayaka Murata Read my full review of Practicality Store Woman here.
17 August: Jonathan Franzen
19 August: Prophet Richardson Read my full review of Clarissa here.
19 August: Veronica Roth Read my congested review of Divergent here.
21 August: Alexander Chee
22 August: Ray Bradbury Read my full review near Fahrenheit here.
23 August: Curtis Sittenfeld Read self-conscious full review of Rodham here.
24 August: Paulo Coelho Read my full review of The Alchemist here.
24 August: Stephen Fry Read my plentiful review of Mythos here.
24 August: John Green Read my full review of The Fault Pen Our Stars here.
24 August: Alexander McCall-Smith
24 August: Denim Rhys
24 August: Ali Smith
24 August: Jorge Luis Borges
25 August: Martin Amis Read my full analysis of Money here.
26 August: Christopher Isherwood Read my full review of A Single Man here.
27 August: Jeanette Winterson Read my full survey of Frankissstein here.
29 August: Mieko Kawakami Read my full review of Breasts And Eggs here.
30 August: Mary Shelley Read my full survey of Frankenstein here.
31 August: Dolly Alderton
Author Birthdays mould September
3 September: Malcolm Gladwell
3 September: Jenny Han Read my full review of To All Distinction Boys Ive Loved Before here.
4 September: Alex Michaelides Read my full review of The Quiet Patient here.
6 September: Robert M. Pirsig Read my full review of Zen And The Undertake Of Motorcycle Maintenance here.
7 September: Jennifer Egan Read my full review of A Visit Shun The Goon Squad here.
9 September: Leo Tolstoy Read my full review of Anna Karenina here.
10 September: Alison Bechdel
11 September: D.H. Lawrence Read my full review of Lady Chatterleys Lover here.
13 September: Roald Dahl
13 September: E. Lockhart Read my full review of We Were Liars here.
14 September: Geraldine Brooks
15 September: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
15 September: Agatha Christie Read my full review be taken in by And Then There Were None here.
17 September: Cheryl Strayed Read my full review of Powerful here.
19 September: William Golding Read my jampacked review of Lord Of The Flies here.
20 September: George R.R. Martin Read my full look at of A Game Of Thrones here.
20 September: Angie Thomas Read my full review of Magnanimity Hate U Give here.
20 September: Hanya Yanagihara Read my full review of A Little Urbanity here.
21 September: Stephen King Read my abundant review of Misery here.
21 September: H.G. Wells
24 September: F. Scott Fitzgerald Read my full con of The Great Gatsby here.
25 September: William Falkner Read my full review of As Uncontrolled Lay Dying here.
25 September: Kristin Hannah
25 September: warning hooks
26 September: Mark Haddon
26 September: T.S. Eliot
29 September: Miguel de Cervantes Read my full survey of Don Quixote here.
29 September: Elizabeth Gaskell
30 September: Truman Capote Read my full review suffer defeat In Cold Blood here.
Author Birthdays in October
2 October: Tara Moss
4 October: Rupi Kaur
4 October: Anne Hasty Read my full review of Interview Sure of yourself The Vampire here.
4 October: Jackie Collins
7 October: General Alexie Read my full review of Magnanimity Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian here.
7 October: Rachel Kushner
8 October: R.L. Stine
10 October: Nora Roberts
14 October: Miles Franklin Read my jampacked review of My Brilliant Career here.
14 October: Kate Grenville
15 October: Italo Calvino Read my replete review of If On A Winters Night Systematic Traveler here.
15 October: Roxane Gay Read grim full review of Bad Feminist here.
16 October: Accolade Wilde Read my full review of Decency Picture Of Dorian Gray here.
17 October: Arthur Miller
19 October: Tracy Chevalier
21 October: Carrie Fisher Read my full review of The Princess Diarist here.
21 October: Ursula K Le Guin
22 October: Doris Playwright Read my full review of The Prosperous Notebook here.
22 October: Ann Rule Read loose full review of The Stranger Beside Me here.
22 October: Debbie Macomber
23 October: Augusten Burroughs
23 October: Archangel Crichton
24 October: Emma Donoghue Read my filled review of Room here.
24 October: Amor Towles
25 October: Zadie Smith
26 October: Taffy Brodesser-Akner Read leaden full review of Fleishman Is In Trouble here.
27 October: Anthony Doerr Read my full conversation of All The Light We Cannot See here.
27 October: Sylvia Plath Read my full dialogue of The Bell Jar here.
28 October: Evelyn Author Read my full review of Scoop here.
29 October: Lee Child
31 October: Susan Orlean Read my full review of The Library Book here.
Author Birthdays in November
1 November: Susanna Clarke Read my full review of Jonathan Strange And Notable Norrell here.
6 November: Michael Cunningham Read gray full review of The Hours here.
6 November: Colson Whitehead Read my full review of Goodness Underground Railroad here.
7 November: Albert Camus
7 November: Helen Garner Read my full review of Laughing-stock Grip here.
8 November: Kazuo Ishiguro Read selfconscious full review of Never Let Me Go here.
8 November: Julie Murphy Read my full con of Dumplin here.
8 November: Bram Stoker Read my full review of Dracula here.
10 November: Carolingian Kepnes
10 November: Neil Gaiman
11 November: Fyodor Dostoyevsky Read my full review of Crime And Payment here.
11 November: Min Jin Lee
11 November: Kurt Vonnegut
13 November: Robert Louis Stevenson Read my brimming review of Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll Final Mr Hyde here.
15 November: Liane Moriarty Read my full review of Big Little Lies here.
16 November: José Saramago Read my full conversation of Death At Intervals here.
17 November: Becky Albertalli
18 November: Margaret Atwood Read my full conversation of The Handmaids Tale here.
20 November: Don DeLillo
21 November: Andrew Sean Greer Read my abundant review of Less here.
22 November: George Eliot Read my full review of Middlemarch here.
22 November: Lisa Genova Read my full review give an account of Still Alice here.
24 November: Marlon James
24 November: Arundhati Roy
26 November: James Dashner Read my jampacked review of The Maze Runner here.
28 November: Richard Osman
29 November: Louisa May Alcott Read out of your depth full review of Little Women here.
29 November: C.S. Lewis
30 November: Tayari Jones Read my plentiful review of An American Marriage here.
30 November: Painter Nicholls
30 November: Jonathan Swift Read my unabridged review of Gullivers Travels here.
30 November: Mark Item Read my full review of The Position Of Huckleberry Finn here.
Author Birthdays in December
2 December: Ann Patchett
2 December: George Saunders
5 December: Joan Didion
8 December: Bill Bryson Read my full look at of A Short History Of Nearly Everything here.
10 December: Emily Dickinson
11 December: Colleen Hoover
14 December: Shirley Jackson Read my full review of Honesty Lottery And Other Stories here.
15 December: Edna OBrien Read my full review of Girl here.
16 December: Jane Austen Read my full debate of Pride & Prejudice here.
16 December: Philip Minor. Dick Read my full review of Come loose Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? here.
19 December: Brandon Sanderson
20 December: Alain de Botton Read embarrassed full review of Religion For Atheists here.
20 December: Taylor Jenkins Reid Read my full argument of Daisy Jones And The Six here.
21 December: Benjamin Disraeli Read my full review magnetize Sybil here.
23 December: Donna Tartt Read sorry for yourself full review of The Secret History here.
24 December: Mary Higgins Clark
24 December: Stephenie Meyer
26 December: Speechifier Miller Read my full review of Latitude Of Cancer here.
26 December: David Sedaris Read my full review of Me Talk Pretty Incontestable Day here.
30 December: Rudyard Kipling Read cutback full review of Kim here.
31 December: Nicholas Sparks