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January
Writers Born 1 January:
- Catherine Drinker Bowen
- Claudia Rankine
- E.M. Forster
- Gina Berriault
- J.D. Salinger
- Mary Ann Shaffer
- Olivia Goldsmith
- Ouida
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- Anne Rivers Siddons
- Brian Friel
- Gail Schimmel
- Joseph Epstein
- Keith Gessen
- Philippa Gregory
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Wilbur Smith
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Writers Born 19 January:
- Eden Robinson
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Edwidge Danticat
- Julian Barnes
- Margaret George
- Nina Bawden
- Patricia Highsmith
Writers Born 20 January:
- Johannes V. Jensen
- Nancy Kress
- Nathaniel Parker Willis
- R. A. Salvatore
- Robert Olen Butler
- Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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February
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- Gertrude Stein
- Henning Mankell
- James Michener
- Paul Auster
- Ransom Riggs
- Richard Yates
- Rosamond Lehmann
- Sidney Lanier
- Victor LaValle
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- Audre Lorde
- Bebe Moore Campbell
- Frances Osborne
- George Pelecanos
- Jean M Auel
- Len Deighton
- Lisa See
- Prue Leith
- Toni Morrison
Writers Born 19 February:
- Amy Tan
- Carson McCullers
- Helen Fielding
- Jeff Kinney
- Jonathan Lethem
- Laurell K. Hamilton
- Marissa Meyer
- Patricia O’Conner
- Ryū Murakami
- Siri Hustvedt
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- Anais Nin
- Brander Matthews
- Chuck Palahniuk
- David Foster Wallace
- Erma Bombeck
- Håkan Nesser
- Jilly Cooper
- Jonathan Safran Foer
- W.H. Auden
Writers Born 22 February:
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Christian Nestell Bovee
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Edward Gorey
- Ishmael Reed
- Richard North Patterson
- Seán Ó Faoláin
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- Conn Iggulden
- Gillian Flynn
- Jane Hirshfield
- Laila Lalami
- Lesley Pearse
- Rainbow Rowell
- Wilhelm Carl Grimm
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- Alexandra Bracken
- Angelina Weld Grimké
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Irwin Shaw
- John Steinbeck
- Lawrence Durrell
- Peter De Vries
Writers Born 28 & 29 February:
- Colum McCann
- Daniel Handler
- Hermione Lee
- Marcel Pagnol
- Nicholas Christopher
- Stephen Spender
- Tessa Hadley
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- Daniel H. Wilson
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Patrick deWitt
- Stanisław Jerzy Lec
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- Åke Edwardson
- Frances Milton Trollope
- Henry Watson Fowler
- Johanna Lindsey
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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- Elizabeth Jane Howard
- Erica Jong
- Gregory Corso
- Richard Dawkins
- Robert Frost
- Tennessee Williams
- Viktor Frankl
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- Christopher Hitchens
- Eudora Welty
- John Braine
- Michel Faber
- Rae Armantrout
- Samuel Beckett
- Seamus Heaney
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- Chuck Wendig
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
- Henry Fielding
- Janet Evanovich
- John Waters
- Louise Glück
- Marie Phillips
- Paula Fox
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Wendy Mass
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- Anthony Trollope
- Clement Freud
- David Morrell
- Elizabeth Goudge
- Karan Mahajan
- Robert Penn Warren
- Sue Grafton
- William Goyen
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- Angela Carter
- David Hume
- Deborah Wiles
- James Runcie
- Joseph Joubert
- Peter Carey
- Robert Browning
- Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
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- Ariel Durant
- Arthur Kopit
- Barbara Taylor Bradford
- Christopher Paul Curtis
- Jon Ronson
- Suzan-Lori Parks
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- Douglas Preston
- Honoré de Balzac
- Justin Cartwright
- Margery Allingham
- Mary Pope Osborne
- Michèle Roberts
- Sigrid Undset
- Walter Isaacson
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- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Eve Ensler
- Jamaica Kincaid
- John Gregory Dunne
- Madeleine Thien
- Octavia Spencer
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Raymond Carver
- Robert Ludlum
- Vera Nazarian
- W.P. Kinsella
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- Dashiell Hammett
- Harlan Ellison
- Herman Wouk
- John Cheever
- Julia Ward Howe
- Marijane Meaker
- Sharon Bolton
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- Douglas Stuart
- Jane Green
- John Connolly
- Lynne Truss
- Saint-John Perse
- Svetlana Alexievich
- Walt Whitman
June
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- Chuck Klosterman
- David Hare
- Evan Marshall
- Gayle Forman
- Geoff Dyer
- Ivy Compton-Burnett
- Jennifer McMahon
- Ken Follett
- Lauren Beukes
- Margaret Drabble
- Rick Riordan
Writers Born 6 June:
- Alexander Pushkin
- Akwaeke Emezi
- Maxine Kumin
- Mignon McLaughlin
- Sarah Dessen
- Thomas Mann
- V.C. Andrews
Writers Born 7 June:
- Elif Batuman
- Elizabeth Bowen
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Harry Crews
- Jesse Ball
- Louise Erdrich
- Nikki Giovanni
- Orhan Pamuk
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- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Jerzy Kosiński
- Joan Silber
- John Edgar Wideman
- Lisa Cron
- Peter Mayle
- René Char
- Vivian Gornick
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- Anna Laetitia Barbauld
- Charles W. Chesnutt
- Josephine Winslow Johnson
- Paul Muldoon
- Robert Crais
- Vikram Seth
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- Alice McDermott
- Anita Diamant
- E. R. Braithwaite
- Helen Keller
- Lucille Clifton
- Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Teju Cole
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- David Eddings
- Jeff VanderMeer
- Jill McCorkle
- Kathy Reichs
- Margaret Walker
- Renée Ahdieh
- Robert A Heinlein
- V. E. Schwab
- Zoë Heller
Writers Born 8 July:
- Alex van Tonder
- Alison McGhee
- Anna Quindlen
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
- Erin Morgenstern
- Jean de La Fontaine
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- Amitav Ghosh
- Bobbie Louise Hawkins
- E.B. White
- Frederick Buechner
- Helen Creswell
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- Marie Lu
- Min Jin Lee
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- Elizabeth Gilbert
- Elizabeth Jennings
- Hunter S. Thompson
- Jessamyn West
- Margaret Laurence
- William Makepeace Thackeray
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- Aldous Huxley
- André Maurois
- Antonio Machado
- Bernice Rubens
- Carl Jung
- George Bernard Shaw
- Nicholas Evans
Writers Born 27 July:
- Bharati Mukherjee
- Cassandra Clare
- Elizabeth Hardwick
- Jack Higgins
- Kate Elliott
- Joseph Mitchell
- Victoria Aveyard
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August
Writers Born 1 August:
- Andrea Cremer
- David Gemmell
- Herman Melville
- M. R. James
- Robert James Waller
- Rose Macaulay
- Warsan Shire
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- Chris Bohjalian
- Jacinto Benavente
- Katherine Boo
- Linda Newbery
- Robert Southey
- Sue Monk Kidd
- William Goldman
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- Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- Charles Bukowski
- Diana Wynne Jones
- Georgette Heyer
- Jennifer Donnelly
- Valeria Luiselli
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- A.S. Byatt
- Alexander McCall Smith
- Ali Smith
- Jean Rhys
- John Green
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Malcolm Cowley
- Orson Scott Card
- Paulo Coelho
- Stephen Fry
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- Jack Vance
- Janet Frame
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- John Betjeman
- Rita Dove
- Robertson Davies
- Tasha Tudor
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September
Writers Born 1 September:
- Blaise Cendrars
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Jean Burden
- Jesse Kellerman
- Marguerite Gardiner
- Nelson George
- Timothy Zahn
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- Adriana Trigiani
- Alison Lurie
- Jenny Han
- Kiran Desai
- Lawrence Clark Powell
- Malcolm Gladwell
- Sarah Orne Jewett
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- Brian Andreas
- Cheryl Strayed
- Deena Metzger
- Gail Carson Levine
- John Creasey
- Ken Kesey
- William Carlos Williams
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- Ingrid Jonker
- Keorapetse William Kgositsile
- Laurie R. King
- Penelope Mortimer
- Rebecca Skloot
- William Golding
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Writers Born 8 October:
- Claire Messud
- Frank Herbert
- Jaclyn Moriarty
- John Cowper Powys
- Lincoln Michel
- Michael Korda
- R.L. Stine
Writers Born 9 October:
- Belva Plain
- Guillermo del Toro
- Jacqueline Carey
- John Sutherland
- K. A. Applegate
- Sol Plaatje
- Sophie van Llewyn
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- Antjie Krog
- Aravind Adiga
- James Hendry
- Laurie Halse Anderson
- Matthew Quick
- Michael Crichton
- Naomi Alderman
- Trudi Canavan
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- Adam Mars-Jones
- Andrew Motion
- Beryl Markham
- John L’Heureux
- Marisha Pessl
- Pat Conroy
- Shan Sa
- Siphiwo Mahala
- Stacy Schiff
Writers Born 27 October:
- Anthony Doerr
- Desiderius Erasmus
- Dylan Thomas
- Jonathan Stroud
- Maxine Hong Kingston
- Sylvia Plath
- Zadie Smith
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- Adelaide Anne Procter
- Ezra Pound
- Gertrude Atherton
- James Laughlin
- Louis Malle
- Paul Valéry
- Timothy Findley
- Zoë Akins
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November
Writers Born 1 November:
Writers Born 2 November:
- David Whyte
- Jules-Amédée Barbey d’Aurevilly
- Lois McMaster Bujold
- Shere Hite
- Taiye Selasi
- Thomas Mallon
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- Christopher Wood
- Eugene V. Debs
- John Berger
- Joyce Maynard
- Richard Holmes
- Sam Shepard
- Uzodinma Iweala
Writers Born 6 November:
- Berlie Doherty
- Colson Whitehead
- James Jones
- Karin Fossum
- Maria Shriver
- Michael Cunningham
- Stephen Watson
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Writers Born 8 November:
- Bram Stoker
- Joshua Ferris
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Lauren Oliver
- Margaret Mitchell
- Martha Gellhorn
- Samantha Shannon
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Writers Born 10 November:
- Caroline Kepnes
- Fernanda Eberstadt
- Friedrich von Schiller
- Holly Black
- J. California Cooper
- Jack Ketchum
- James Broughton
- Marlene van Niekerk
- Neil Gaiman
Writers Born 11 November:
- Carlos Fuentes
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Kathy Lette
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Nicola Morgan
- Mary Gaitskill
- Miriam Tlali
Writers Born 12 November:
- Damon Galgut
- Janette Turner Hospital
- Katharine Weber
- Michael Ende
- Naomi Wolf
- Richelle Mead
- Roland Barthes
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- Carole Nelson Douglas
- Gerhart Hauptmann
- J. G. Ballard
- Liane Moriarty
- Marianne Moore
- Richmal Crompton
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- Alistair Cooke
- Deborah Eisenberg
- Don DeLillo
- Jaime Lowe
- Nadine Gordimer
- Orlando Figes
- Selma Lagerlöf
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- David Mamet
- David Nicholls
- Jonathan Swift
- L. M. Montgomery
- Mark Twain
- Tayari Jones
- Winston Churchill
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- Arthur C. Clarke
- Jane Austen
- Margaret Mead
- Noel Coward
- Philip K. Dick
- Sylvia Brownrigg
- V. S. Pritchett
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- Adam Haslett
- Belinda Bauer
- Eric Van Lustbader
- Gillian Cross
- Juan Ramón Jiménez
- Mary Higgins Clark
- Matthew Arnold
- Nicholas Meyer
- Stephenie Meyer
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