Author Birthdays for June

  • Khawar Rizvi  74
    Poet
    Wednesday, June 1st 1938
  • Colleen McCullough  75
    Novelist
    Tuesday, June 1st 1937
  • Bill Deedes  99
    Journalist
    Sunday, June 1st 1913
  • John Van Druten  111
    Playwright
    Saturday, June 1st 1901
  • Charles Kay Ogden  123
    Non-Fiction
    Saturday, June 1st 1889
  • John Masefield  134
    Poet, Children’s Literature
    Saturday, June 1st 1878
  • Ferdinand Raimund  222
    Playwright
    Tuesday, June 1st 1790
  • Dante Alighieri  747
    Poet
    Monday, June 1st 1265
  • Carol Shields  77

    Sunday, June 2nd 1935
  • Lester del Rey  97

    Wednesday, June 2nd 1915
  • Barbara Rym  99

    Monday, June 2nd 1913
  • Karl Adolph Gjellerup  155
    Poet, Novelist
    Tuesday, June 2nd 1857
  • Thomas Hardy  172

    Tuesday, June 2nd 1840
  • Marquis de Sade  272

    Thursday, June 2nd 1740
  • Larry McMurtry  76

    Wednesday, June 3rd 1936
  • Marion Zimmer Bradley  82

    Tuesday, June 3rd 1930
  • Allen Ginsberg  86

    Thursday, June 3rd 1926
  • Buddy Wakefield  38
    Poet
    Tuesday, June 4th 1974
  • Joe Hill  40
    Novelist
    Sunday, June 4th 1972
  • John Hockenberry  56
    Journalist
    Monday, June 4th 1956
  • Val McDermid  57
    Novelist
    Saturday, June 4th 1955
  • Wendy Pini  61
    Comic Book Writer
    Monday, June 4th 1951
  • Kenneth G. Ross  71
    Playwright, Screenwriter
    Wednesday, June 4th 1941
  • Robert Fulghum  75
    Essayist, Novelist
    Friday, June 4th 1937
  • Maurice Shadbolt  80
    Novelist
    Saturday, June 4th 1932
  • Ruth Westheimer  84
    Non-Fiction
    Monday, June 4th 1928
  • Elizabeth Jolley  89
    Novelist
    Monday, June 4th 1923
  • Patience Strong  105
    Poet
    Tuesday, June 4th 1907
  • Jacques Roumain  105
    Novelist, Poet
    Tuesday, June 4th 1907
  • Mabel Lucie Attwell  133
    Children’s Literature
    Wednesday, June 4th 1879
  • Apollon Maykov  191
    Poet
    Monday, June 4th 1821
  • Ken Follett  63

    Sunday, June 5th 1949
  • Margaret Drabble  73

    Monday, June 5th 1939
  • Alfred Kazin  97

    Saturday, June 5th 1915
  • Federico Garcia Lorca  114

    Sunday, June 5th 1898
  • Geraldine McCaughrean  61
    Novelist
    Wednesday, June 6th 1951
  • Stephen Dixon  76

    Saturday, June 6th 1936
  • Harry Crews  77

    Thursday, June 6th 1935
  • Maxine Kumine  87

    Saturday, June 6th 1925
  • Thomas Mann  137

    Sunday, June 6th 1875
  • Alexander Pushkin  213

    Thursday, June 6th 1799
  • Louise Erdrich  58

    Monday, June 7th 1954
  • Orhan Pamuk  60

    Saturday, June 7th 1952
  • Elizabeth Bowen  113

    Wednesday, June 7th 1899
  • Sara Paretsky  65

    Sunday, June 8th 1947
  • John W. Campbell  102

    Wednesday, June 8th 1910
  • James Kelman  66

    Sunday, June 9th 1946
  • Maurice Sendak  84
    Children’s Literature
    Sunday, June 10th 1928
  • Saul Bellow  97

    Thursday, June 10th 1915
  • Athol Fugard  80

    Saturday, June 11th 1932
  • William Styron  87

    Thursday, June 11th 1925
  • Sonia Manzano  62

    Monday, June 12th 1950
  • Brigid Brophy  83

    Wednesday, June 12th 1929
  • Anne Frank  83

    Wednesday, June 12th 1929
  • Djuna Barnes  120
    Novelist
    Sunday, June 12th 1892
  • Audrey Niffenegger  49

    Thursday, June 13th 1963
  • Maurice G. Dantec  53

    Saturday, June 13th 1959
  • Whitley Strieber  67

    Wednesday, June 13th 1945
  • Dorothy L. Sayers  119

    Tuesday, June 13th 1893
  • William Butler Yeats  147

    Tuesday, June 13th 1865
  • John Edgar Wideman  71

    Saturday, June 14th 1941
  • Jerzy Kosinski  79

    Wednesday, June 14th 1933
  • Yasunari Kawabata  113

    Wednesday, June 14th 1899
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe  201

    Friday, June 14th 1811
  • Chris Morris  50
    Satirist, Screenwriter
    Friday, June 15th 1962
  • Ana Castillo  59

    Monday, June 15th 1953
  • Amy Clampitt  92

    Tuesday, June 15th 1920
  • Joyce Carol Oates  74

    Thursday, June 16th 1938
  • Ron Padgett  70

    Wednesday, June 17th 1942
  • John Hersey  98

    Wednesday, June 17th 1914
  • Richard Powers  55

    Tuesday, June 18th 1957
  • Amy Bloom  59

    Thursday, June 18th 1953
  • Chris Van Allsburg  63

    Saturday, June 18th 1949
  • Gail Godwin  75

    Friday, June 18th 1937
  • Salman Rushdie  65

    Thursday, June 19th 1947
  • Tobias Wolff  67

    Tuesday, June 19th 1945
  • E. Lynn Harris  57

    Monday, June 20th 1955
  • Vikram Seth  60

    Friday, June 20th 1952
  • Lillian Hellman  107

    Tuesday, June 20th 1905
  • Ian McEwan  64

    Monday, June 21st 1948
  • Francoise Sagan  77

    Friday, June 21st 1935
  • Mary McCarthy  100

    Friday, June 21st 1912
  • Jean-Paul Sartre  107

    Wednesday, June 21st 1905
  • Dan Brown  48

    Monday, June 22nd 1964
  • Joanna Scott  52

    Wednesday, June 22nd 1960
  • Octavia Butler  65

    Sunday, June 22nd 1947
  • Erich Maria Remarque  114

    Wednesday, June 22nd 1898
  • Julian Hawthorne  166

    Monday, June 22nd 1846
  • David Leavitt  51

    Friday, June 23rd 1961
  • Alexandru Odobescu  178

    Monday, June 23rd 1834
  • Lawrence Block  74

    Friday, June 24th 1938
  • Anita Desai  75

    Thursday, June 24th 1937
  • Ambrose Bierce  170

    Friday, June 24th 1842
  • Rebecca Harding Davis  181

    Friday, June 24th 1831
  • Nicholas Mosley  89

    Monday, June 25th 1923
  • George Orwell  109

    Thursday, June 25th 1903
  • Moses Hadas  112

    Monday, June 25th 1900
  • Robert Erskine Childers  142

    Saturday, June 25th 1870
  • Frank O’Hara  86

    Sunday, June 27th 1926
  • Mark Helprin  65

    Saturday, June 28th 1947
  • Eric Ambler  103

    Monday, June 28th 1909
  • Floyd Dell  125

    Tuesday, June 28th 1887
  • Luigi Pirandello  145

    Friday, June 28th 1867
  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery  112

    Friday, June 29th 1900
  • Czeslaw Milosz  101

    Friday, June 30th 1911
  • William Hamilton Maxwell  220
    Novelist
    Saturday, June 30th 1792
  • John Gay  327

    Saturday, June 30th 1685
  • John Gay  327

    Saturday, June 30th 1685


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    1. Thank you for compiling such an extraordinarily comprehensive site. I work at a library and I only wished I’d found you before. Thanks again!

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