James St. James  46
Novelist
Monday, August 1st 1966

Madison Smartt Bell  55
Novelist
Thursday, August 1st 1957

Howard Kurtz  59
Journalist
Saturday, August 1st 1953

Jim Carroll  62
Poet, Novelist
Tuesday, August 1st 1950

Mark Alan Stamaty  65
Children’s Literature
Friday, August 1st 1947

Étienne Roda-Gil  71
Screenwriter
Friday, August 1st 1941

Ram Loevy  72
Screenwriter
Thursday, August 1st 1940

Ernst Jandl  87
Poet
Saturday, August 1st 1925

Anne Hébert  96
Novelist, Poet
Tuesday, August 1st 1916

Herman Melville  193
Novelist
Sunday, August 1st 1819

Richard Henry Dana Jr.  197
Novelist
Tuesday, August 1st 1815

Luis Vélez de Guevara  433
Playwright, Novelist
Wednesday, August 1st 1579

Caleb Carr  57

Tuesday, August 2nd 1955

Isabel Allende  70

Sunday, August 2nd 1942

James Baldwin  88

Saturday, August 2nd 1924

Aino Kallas  134

Friday, August 2nd 1878

Steven Millhauser  69

Tuesday, August 3rd 1943

Leon Uris  88

Sunday, August 3rd 1924

P. D. James  92

Tuesday, August 3rd 1920

Clifford D. Simak  108

Wednesday, August 3rd 1904

Rupert Brooke  125

Wednesday, August 3rd 1887

John August  42
Screenwriter
Tuesday, August 4th 1970

Dennis Lehane  47
Novelist
Wednesday, August 4th 1965

Tim Winton   52
Novelist
Thursday, August 4th 1960

Allison Hedge Coke  54
Poet
Monday, August 4th 1958

Billy Bob Thornton  57
Screenwriter
Thursday, August 4th 1955

Mushtaq Ahmad Yusufi  89
Humorist
Saturday, August 4th 1923

Helen Thomas   92
Journalist, Columnist
Wednesday, August 4th 1920

Iceberg Slim  94
Novelist
Sunday, August 4th 1918

Robert Hayden  99
Poet
Monday, August 4th 1913

Witold Gombrowicz  108
Novelist, Playwright
Thursday, August 4th 1904

Knut Hamsun  153
Novelist
Thursday, August 4th 1859

Percy Bysshe Shelley  220
Poet
Saturday, August 4th 1792

François Hédelin  408
Playwright
Wednesday, August 4th 1604

Ron Silliman  66
Poet
Monday, August 5th 1946

Wendell Berry  78
Novelist, Poet
Sunday, August 5th 1934

Conrad Potter Aiken  123
Novelist, Poet
Monday, August 5th 1889

Guy de Maupassant  162
Short Stories
Monday, August 5th 1850

Ivar Aasen  199
Poet, Playwright
Thursday, August 5th 1813

Karenna Gore Schiff  39
Journalist
Monday, August 6th 1973

Diane di Prima  78
Poet
Monday, August 6th 1934

Piers Anthony  78
Novelist
Monday, August 6th 1934

Chalmers Johnson  81
Non-Fiction
Thursday, August 6th 1931

Elisabeth Beresford  86
Children’s Literature
Friday, August 6th 1926

Norman Wexler  86
Screenwriter
Friday, August 6th 1926

Constance Heaven  101
Novelist
Sunday, August 6th 1911

John Middleton Murry  123
Novelist, Poet, Essayist
Tuesday, August 6th 1889

Scott Nearing  129
Non-Fiction
Monday, August 6th 1883

Louella Parsons  131
Columnist
Saturday, August 6th 1881

Charles Fort  138
Novelist, Non-Fiction
Thursday, August 6th 1874

Paul Claudel  144
Poet, Playwright
Thursday, August 6th 1868

Thomas Alexander Browne  186
Novelist
Sunday, August 6th 1826

Alfred Lord Tennyson  203
Poet
Sunday, August 6th 1809

Luc de Clapiers  297
Essayist
Tuesday, August 6th 1715

John Birmingham  48
Novelist
Friday, August 7th 1964

Vladimir Sorokin  57
Novelist, Playwright
Sunday, August 7th 1955

Anne Fadiman  59
Novelist
Friday, August 7th 1953

Marty Appel  64
Biographer
Saturday, August 7th 1948

Garrison Keillor  70
Humorist
Friday, August 7th 1942

Charles E. Rice  81
Non-Fiction
Friday, August 7th 1931

Romeo Muller  84
Screenwriter
Tuesday, August 7th 1928

Sue Kaufman  86
Novelist
Saturday, August 7th 1926

Georg Stiernhielm  414
Poet
Friday, August 7th 1598

Alonso de Ercilla  479
Poet
Monday, August 7th 1533

Jostein Gaarder  60

Friday, August 8th 1952

Randy Shilts  61

Wednesday, August 8th 1951

Terry Nation  82

Friday, August 8th 1930

Nina Berberova  111

Thursday, August 8th 1901

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings  116

Saturday, August 8th 1896

Sara Teasdale  128

Friday, August 8th 1884

Emilie Flygare-Carlén  205

Saturday, August 8th 1807

Jonathan Kellerman  63

Tuesday, August 9th 1949

Graeme C. Gibson  78

Thursday, August 9th 1934

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi  79

Wednesday, August 9th 1933

Daniel Keyes  85

Tuesday, August 9th 1927

Frank M. Robinson  86

Monday, August 9th 1926

Philip Larkin  90

Wednesday, August 9th 1922

Tove Jansson  98

Sunday, August 9th 1914

P. L. Travers  113

Wednesday, August 9th 1899

Leonid Andreyev  141

Wednesday, August 9th 1871

John Dryden  381

Saturday, August 9th 1631

Mark Doty  59

Monday, August 10th 1953

Barry Unsworth  82

Sunday, August 10th 1930

Jorge Amado  100

Saturday, August 10th 1912

Ward Moore  109

Monday, August 10th 1903

Curt Siodmak  110

Sunday, August 10th 1902

Panait Istrati  128

Sunday, August 10th 1884

Alfred Döblin  134

Saturday, August 10th 1878

David Brooks  51
Journalist
Friday, August 11th 1961

Tom Miller  65
Travel Writer
Monday, August 11th 1947

Marilyn vos Savant  66
Columnist
Sunday, August 11th 1946

Andre Dubus  76
Short Stories
Tuesday, August 11th 1936

Fernando Arrabal  80
Playwright, Screenwriter
Thursday, August 11th 1932

Alex Haley  91
Novelist
Thursday, August 11th 1921

Angus Wilson  99
Novelist
Monday, August 11th 1913

Enid Blyton  115
Children’s Literature
Wednesday, August 11th 1897

Louise Bogan  115
Poet
Wednesday, August 11th 1897

Eiji Yoshikawa  120
Novelist
Thursday, August 11th 1892

Hugh MacDiarmid  120
Poet
Thursday, August 11th 1892

Oliver W. F. Lodge  134
Poet
Sunday, August 11th 1878

Anthony Swofford  42
Novelist
Wednesday, August 12th 1970

Ann M. Martin  57
Children’s Literature
Friday, August 12th 1955

Jim Beaver  62
Playwright, Screenwriter
Saturday, August 12th 1950

Réjean Ducharme  71
Novelist, Playwright
Tuesday, August 12th 1941

Walter Dean Myers  75
Children’s Literature
Thursday, August 12th 1937

William Goldman  81
Novelist, Playwright,Screenwriter
Wednesday, August 12th 1931

Wallace Markfield  86
Novelist
Thursday, August 12th 1926

Zerna Sharp  123
Children’s Literature
Monday, August 12th 1889

Keith Murdoch  127
Journalist
Wednesday, August 12th 1885

Radclyffe Hall  132
Poet, Novelist
Thursday, August 12th 1880

Mary Roberts Rinehart  136
Novelist
Saturday, August 12th 1876

Jacinto Benavente  146
Playwright
Sunday, August 12th 1866

Katharine Lee Bates  153
Poet, Children’s Literature
Friday, August 12th 1859

Robert Southey  238
Poet
Friday, August 12th 1774

Piper Reese  12
Journalist
Sunday, August 13th 2000

Will Clarke  42
Novelist
Thursday, August 13th 1970

Amélie Nothomb  45
Novelist
Sunday, August 13th 1967

Sean Hood  46
Screenwriter
Saturday, August 13th 1966

Tom Perrotta  51
Novelist
Sunday, August 13th 1961

Goldwin Smith  189
Journalist
Wednesday, August 13th 1823

Vladimir Odoevsky  209
Short Stories, Children’s Literature
Saturday, August 13th 1803

William Wotton  346
Non-Fiction
Friday, August 13th 1666

Brannon Braga  47
Screenwriter
Saturday, August 14th 1965

Danielle Steel  65
Novelist
Thursday, August 14th 1947

Lee Hoffman  80
Novelist
Sunday, August 14th 1932

Alice Adams  86
Novelist
Saturday, August 14th 1926

René Goscinny  86
Comic Book Writer
Saturday, August 14th 1926

Russell Baker  87
Journalist, Essayist
Friday, August 14th 1925

B. A. Santamaria  97
Journalist
Saturday, August 14th 1915

Alice Rivaz  111
Novelist
Wednesday, August 14th 1901

John Galsworthy  145
Novelist, Playwright
Wednesday, August 14th 1867

Ernest Thayer  149
Poet
Friday, August 14th 1863

Robert Hayman  437
Poet
Thursday, August 14th 1575

Rob Thomas  47
Novelist, Screenwriter
Sunday, August 15th 1965

Victor Shenderovich  54
Playwright, Screenwriter
Friday, August 15th 1958

Simon Baron-Cohen  54
Non-Fiction
Friday, August 15th 1958

Mary Jo Salter  58
Poet
Sunday, August 15th 1954

Stieg Larsson  58
Novelist, Journalist
Sunday, August 15th 1954

Garry Disher  63
Novelist, Children’s Literature
Monday, August 15th 1949

Linda Ellerbee  68
Journalist
Tuesday, August 15th 1944

Janusz Zajdel  74
Novelist
Monday, August 15th 1938

Sami Michael  86
Novelist
Sunday, August 15th 1926

Robert Bolt  88
Playwright, Screenwriter
Friday, August 15th 1924

Benedict Kiely  93
Novelist
Friday, August 15th 1919

Aleks Çaçi  96
Essayist
Tuesday, August 15th 1916

Jan Brzechwa  114
Poet, Children’s Literature
Monday, August 15th 1898

Edna Ferber  127
Novelist
Saturday, August 15th 1885

Sri Aurobindo  140
Poet
Thursday, August 15th 1872

E. Nesbit  154
Poet, Children’s Literature
Sunday, August 15th 1858

Thomas-Alfred Bernier  168
Journalist
Thursday, August 15th 1844

Thomas de Quincey  227
Novelist
Monday, August 15th 1785

Sir Walter Scott  241
Novelist
Thursday, August 15th 1771

Matthias Claudius  272
Poet
Monday, August 15th 1740

Luigi Pulci  580
Poet
Wednesday, August 15th 1432

Diana Wynne Jones  78
Novelist
Thursday, August 16th 1934

Charles Bukowski  92
Poet, Novelist
Monday, August 16th 1920

William Keepers Maxwell, Jr.  104
Novelist
Sunday, August 16th 1908

Georgette Heyer  110
Novelist
Saturday, August 16th 1902

Albert Cohen  117
Novelist
Friday, August 16th 1895

Nicola Kraus  38

Saturday, August 17th 1974

Jonathan Franzen  53

Monday, August 17th 1959

Eric Schlosser  53

Monday, August 17th 1959

Alexander Theroux  73

Thursday, August 17th 1939

V. S. Naipaul  80

Wednesday, August 17th 1932

Ted Hughes  82

Sunday, August 17th 1930

John Hawkes  87

Monday, August 17th 1925

Evan Connell  88

Sunday, August 17th 1924

Gene Stratton-Porter  149

Monday, August 17th 1863

Brian Aldiss  87

Tuesday, August 18th 1925

Alain Robbe-Grillet  90

Friday, August 18th 1922

Nettie Palmer  127
Poet
Tuesday, August 18th 1885

Jami  598

Thursday, August 18th 1414

Jonathan Coe  51

Saturday, August 19th 1961

Bodil Malmsten  68

Saturday, August 19th 1944

Frank McCourt  82

Tuesday, August 19th 1930

Quentin Bell  102

Friday, August 19th 1910

James Gould Cozzens  109

Wednesday, August 19th 1903

Ogden Nash  110

Tuesday, August 19th 1902

Samuel Richardson  323

Friday, August 19th 1689

Íñigo López de Mendoza  614

Sunday, August 19th 1398

Marcus Mastin  37

Wednesday, August 20th 1975

Greg Egan  51

Sunday, August 20th 1961

Greg Bear  61

Monday, August 20th 1951

Vasily Aksyonov  80

Saturday, August 20th 1932

Jacqueline Susann  91

Saturday, August 20th 1921

William Lindsay Gresham  103

Friday, August 20th 1909

Vilhelm Moberg  114

Saturday, August 20th 1898

Tarjei Vesaas  115

Friday, August 20th 1897

H. P. Lovecraft  122

Wednesday, August 20th 1890

Edgar Guest  131

Saturday, August 20th 1881

Boleslaw Prus  165

Friday, August 20th 1847

Ivan Stang  59

Friday, August 21st 1953

Robert Stone  75

Saturday, August 21st 1937

Christopher Robin Milne  92

Saturday, August 21st 1920

M. M. Kaye  104

Friday, August 21st 1908

Aubrey Beardsley  140

Wednesday, August 21st 1872

Emilio Salgari  150

Thursday, August 21st 1862

Diane Setterfield  48

Saturday, August 22nd 1964

Diane Setterfield  48

Saturday, August 22nd 1964

Will Shetterly  57

Monday, August 22nd 1955

Þórarinn Eldjárn  63

Monday, August 22nd 1949

E. Annie Proulx  77

Thursday, August 22nd 1935

James Kirkwood, Jr.  88

Friday, August 22nd 1924

Ray Bradbury  92
Novelist
Sunday, August 22nd 1920

Dorothy Parker  119

Tuesday, August 22nd 1893

James Kirke Paulding  234

Saturday, August 22nd 1778

Georges de Scudéry  411

Wednesday, August 22nd 1601

Nelson DeMille  69

Monday, August 23rd 1943

Lewis Nordan  73
Novelist
Wednesday, August 23rd 1939

Will Cuppy  128

Saturday, August 23rd 1884

Alexander Grin  132

Monday, August 23rd 1880

Edgar Lee Masters  143

Monday, August 23rd 1869

John Green  35

Wednesday, August 24th 1977

Chris Offutt  54

Sunday, August 24th 1958

Orson Scott Card  61

Friday, August 24th 1951

Oscar Hijuelos  61

Friday, August 24th 1951

Paulo Coelho  65

Sunday, August 24th 1947

Howard Jacobson  70

Monday, August 24th 1942

A. S. Byatt  76

Monday, August 24th 1936

David Ireland  85

Wednesday, August 24th 1927

James Tiptree, Jr.  97

Tuesday, August 24th 1915

Jorge Luis Borges  113

Thursday, August 24th 1899

Jean Rhys  122

Sunday, August 24th 1890

Earl Derr Biggers  128

Sunday, August 24th 1884

Max Beerbohm  140

Saturday, August 24th 1872

Tim Burton  54
Screenwriter
Monday, August 25th 1958

Martin Amis  63

Thursday, August 25th 1949

Charles Ghigna – “Father Goose”  66

Sunday, August 25th 1946

Frederick Forsyth  74

Thursday, August 25th 1938

Thea Astley  87

Tuesday, August 25th 1925

Brian Moore  91

Thursday, August 25th 1921

Bret Harte  176

Thursday, August 25th 1836

Naïm Kattan  84

Sunday, August 26th 1928

Julio Cortazar  98

Wednesday, August 26th 1914

Christopher Isherwood  108

Friday, August 26th 1904

Jules Romains  127

Wednesday, August 26th 1885

Guillaume Apollinaire  132

Thursday, August 26th 1880

John Buchan  137

Thursday, August 26th 1875

Zona Gale  138

Wednesday, August 26th 1874

Jeanette Winterson  53

Thursday, August 27th 1959

Tom Lanoye  54

Wednesday, August 27th 1958

Antonia Fraser  80

Saturday, August 27th 1932

Ira Levin  83

Tuesday, August 27th 1929

Norah Lofts  108

Saturday, August 27th 1904

C. S. Forester  113

Sunday, August 27th 1899

Lloyd C. Douglas  135

Monday, August 27th 1877

Theodore Dreiser  141

Sunday, August 27th 1871

Ivan Franko  156
Poet
Wednesday, August 27th 1856

Rita Dove  60
Poet
Thursday, August 28th 1952

Janet Frame  88
Novelist
Thursday, August 28th 1924

Fernando Fernán Gómez  91
Novelist, Playwright
Sunday, August 28th 1921

Jack Kirby  95
Comic Book Writer
Tuesday, August 28th 1917

Jack Vance  96
Novelist
Monday, August 28th 1916

Boris Pahor  99
Novelist
Thursday, August 28th 1913

Robertson Davies  99
Novelist, Playwright
Thursday, August 28th 1913

John Betjeman  106
Poet
Tuesday, August 28th 1906

Andrei Platonov  113
Novelist
Monday, August 28th 1899

Vance Palmer  127
Novelist
Friday, August 28th 1885

Sheridan Le Fanu  198
Novelist
Sunday, August 28th 1814

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  263
Poet, Novelist
Thursday, August 28th 1749

Michael P. Kube-McDowell  58
Novelist
Sunday, August 29th 1954

Karen Hesse  60
Children’s Literature
Friday, August 29th 1952

Temple Grandin  65
Non-Fiction, Essayist
Friday, August 29th 1947

Lise Payette  81
Columnist
Saturday, August 29th 1931

Thom Gunn  83
Poet
Thursday, August 29th 1929

Luther Davis  96
Playwright, Screenwriter
Tuesday, August 29th 1916

Maurice Maeterlinck  150
Poet, Playwright, Essayist
Friday, August 29th 1862

Edward Carpenter  168
Poet
Thursday, August 29th 1844

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.  203
Poet
Tuesday, August 29th 1809

Anna Politkovskaya  54
Journalist
Saturday, August 30th 1958

Molly Ivins  68
Columnist
Wednesday, August 30th 1944

R. Crumb  69
Comicbook Writer
Monday, August 30th 1943

Laurent de Brunhoff  87
Children’s Literature
Sunday, August 30th 1925

Charmian Clift  89
Essayist
Thursday, August 30th 1923

John Gunther  111
Journalist
Friday, August 30th 1901

Marcelo H. del Pilar  162
Journalist
Friday, August 30th 1850

Agoston Haraszthy  200
Non-Fiction
Sunday, August 30th 1812

Mary Shelly  215
Novelist
Wednesday, August 30th 1797

Joseph Dennie  244
Journalist, Essayist
Tuesday, August 30th 1768

Raymond P. Hammond  48
Poet
Monday, August 31st 1964

Julie Brown  54
Screenwriter
Sunday, August 31st 1958

Gary Webb  57
Journalist
Wednesday, August 31st 1955

György Károly  59
Poet
Monday, August 31st 1953

Lowell Ganz  64
Screenwriter
Tuesday, August 31st 1948

Jerome Corsi  66
Non-Fiction
Saturday, August 31st 1946

Martin Bell  74
Journalist
Wednesday, August 31st 1938

Amrita Pritam  93
Poet, Novelist
Sunday, August 31st 1919

Daniel Schorr  96
Journalist
Thursday, August 31st 1916

Edward Brongersma  101
Journalist
Thursday, August 31st 1911

Ferenc Fejtő  103
Journalist
Tuesday, August 31st 1909

William Saroyan  104
Novelist, Playwright
Monday, August 31st 1908

William Shawn  105
Journalist, Editor
Saturday, August 31st 1907

Félix-Antoine Savard  116
Poet, Novelist
Monday, August 31st 1896

Albert Facey  118
Memoirist
Friday, August 31st 1894

DuBose Heyward  127
Novelist
Monday, August 31st 1885

Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin  170
Journalist
Wednesday, August 31st 1842

Théophile Gautier  201
Poet, Novelist
Saturday, August 31st 1811

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2 thoughts on “Author Birthdays for August”

1. Your work is fabulous! My friend and I are creating a Booklovers’ Calendar for 2012, and I’m using your sites for a last check for some of the dates for which we didn’t have our own authors (I was an English professor, though we are including popular authors as well as more classical ones.) Great sites!

2. thankful 2 u!
   such a fabulous work