"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on May 9

Richard Adams  (1920)

J. M. Barrie  (1860)
Alan Bennett  (1934)

Henri Cole  (1956)  
Rudolph Fisher  (1897)

 Jorie Graham  (1950)
Joy Harjo  (1951) 
William Pène du Bois  (1916)

Charles Simic  (1938) 

Mona Van Duyn  (1921)