"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on April 30

John Boyne  (1971)

Annie Dillard  (1945)
Larry Niven  (1938)
John Crowe Ransom  (1888)
Alice B. Toklas  (1877)

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on April 29

C. P. Cavafy  (1863) 

Yusef Komunyakaa  (1947)
Gilbert La Rocque  (1943)

 

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on April 28

Robert Anderson  (1917)
Bill Blackbeard  (1926)
Lois Duncan  (1934)

Carolyn Forché  (1950) 

Harper Lee  (1926)
Alistair MacLean  (1922)

Terry Pratchett  (1948) 

Ian Rankin  (1960)
Alice Waters (1944)

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on April 27

Ludwig Bemelmans  (1898)
John Burningham  (1936)
Cecil Day-Lewis  (1904) 
Jessie Redman Fauset  (1882)

Edward Gibbon  (1737)

Patricia Lockwood  (1982) 

August Wilson  (1945) 

Mary Wollstonecraft  (1759)

 

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on April 26

Vicente Aleixandre  (1898)
Marcus Aurelius  (121 A.D.)
David Hume (1711)

Anita Loos  (1888)

Bernard Malamud  (1914) 

William Shakespeare (baptized, 1564)

 

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on April 25

Walter De La Mare  (1873)
Dinesh D’Souza  (1961) 
James Fenton  (1949)

Ted Kooser  (1939) 
Maud Hart Lovelace  (1892) 

J. Anthony Lukas  (1933) 
Padgett Powell  (1952)

 

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on April 24

Eric Bogosian  (1953)
Elizabeth Goudge  (1900)

Sue Grafton  (1940)
Karan Mahajan  (1984)

David Morrell  (1943) 
Gabriel Okara  (1921)
George Oppen  (1908)

Carl Spitteler  (1845) 

Anthony Trollope  (1815) 

Robert Penn Warren  (1905)

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on April 23

J. P. Donleavy  (1926)
Victoria Glendinning  (1937)
Charles R. Johnson  (1948)
Halldor Laxness  (1902)
Edwin Markham  (1852)
Ngaio Marsh  (1895)
 

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on April 22

Janet Evanovich  (1943) 

Henry Fielding  (1707)
Paula Fox (1923) 
Ellen Glasgow  (1873)

Louise Gluck  (1943) 
James Norman Hall  (1887) 
Ron Koertge  (1940)

Vladimir Nabokov  (1899)

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on April 21

Charlotte Bronte  (1816) 

Robert Brustein  (1927)
Alistair MacLean  (1922) 
Thomas A. McMahon  (1943)
Gladys Mitchell  (1901)
John Mortimer  (1923) 

John Muir  (1838)
Kole Omotosho  (1943)
Barbara Park  (1947)
 

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on April 20

Pietro Aretino  (1492)
Peter S. Beagle (1939)

Steve Erickson  (1950) 

Sebastian Faulks  (1953)
Michel Leiris  (1901)
Ian Watson (1943)
 

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on April 19

Neil Bissoondath  (1955) 

José Echegaray  (1832) 

Rivka Galchen  (1976) 

Etheridge Knight  (1931)
Sarah Kemble Knight  91668)
Sharon Pollock  (1936)
 

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on April 18

Joy Davidman  (1915)
Richard Harding Davis  (1864)
Bob Kaufman  (1925) 
George Henry Lewes  (1817)

 

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on April 17

Karen Blixen  (1885)  
Constantine Cavafy  (1863)
Isak Dinesen  (1885) 
Nick Hornby  (1957)
Cynthia Ozick  (1928)
Thornton Wilder  (1897)
 

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on April 16

Kingsley Amis  (1922) 
Sebastian Barker  (1945)
Carol Bly (1930)

Anatole France  (1844)
John Millington Synge  (1871)
Garth Williams  (1912)
Gertrude Chandler Warner  (1890)

 

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on April 15

Jeffrey Archer  (1940) 
Henry James  (1843)
Waverley Root  (1903)
Tomas Tranströmer  (1931)
 

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on April 14

James Branch Cabell  (1879)
Arnold Toynbee  (1889)
Wells Tower  (1973)

 

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on April 13

Rae Armantrout  (1947) 
Samuel Beckett  (1906)

Michel Faber  (1960) 
Seamus Heaney  (1939)
Marguerite Henry  (1902) 
Thomas Jefferson  (1743)
Nella Larsen  (1891)
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio  (1940) 
Eudora Welty  (1909)
 

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on April 12

Alan Ayckbourn  (1939)
Tom Clancy  (1947) 
Beverly Cleary  (1916)
Jack Gelber  (1932)
Jon Krakauer (1954)
Gary Soto  (1952)
Scott Turow  (1949)
 

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on April 11

Dorothy Allison  (1949) 
Thomas Harris  (1940) 
Leo Rosten  (1908)
Christopher Smart  (1722) 
Mark Strand  (1934)
Glenway Wescott  (1901)