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

George William Bagby  (1828)
Merrill Markoe  (1948)

Sharon Kay Penman  (1945)
Tom Perrotta  (1961)

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

Jacinto Benavente  (1866)

William Goldman  (1931)
Edith Hamilton  (1867)

Donald Justice  (1925)

Sue Monk Kidd  (1948)

Ann M. Martin  (1955)
 J. D. McClatchy  (1945)
Walter Dean Myers  (1937)
Gail Parent  (1940)
Robert Southey  (1774)

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

Enid Blyton  (1897)
Louise Bogan  (1897)

Andre Dubus  (1936)

Alex Haley  (1921)

Michelle Moran  (1980)

Anthony Swofford  (1970)

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on August 10

Jorge Amado  (1912)
Laurence Binyon  (1869)
Suzanne Collins  (1962)

Mark Doty  (1953)
Dorothy B. Hughes  (1904)
Joyce Sutphen  (1949)

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

John Dryden  (1631)
Jonathan Kellerman  (1949)
Daniel Keyes  (1927)

Philip Larkin  (1922)

P. L. Travers  (1899)
Izaak Walton  (1593)
 

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on August 8

Sarah Dunant  (1950)

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings  (1896)
Valerie Sayers  (1952)

Randy Shilts  (1951)

Elizabeth Tallent  (1954)

Sara Teasdale  (1884)

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on August 7

John Birmingham  (1964)

Anne Fadiman  (1953)

Garrison Keillor  (1942)

Jane Kramer  (1938)

 

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on August 6

Piers Anthony  (1934)
Barbara Cooney  (1917)

Diane di Prima  (1934)
Norma Farber  (1909)
Charles Fort  (1874)

Richard Hofstadter  (1916)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson  (1809)

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on August 5

Conrad Aiken  (1889)

David Baldacci  (1960)

Wendell Berry  (1934)

Guy de Maupassant  (1850)
 

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on August 4

Knut Hamsun  (1895)
Robert Hayden  (1919)

Dennis Lehane  (1965)

Percy Bysshe Shelley  (1792)

Tim Winton  (1960) 

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on August 3

Marvin Bell  (1937)
Hayden Carruth  (1921)
Juliana Horatia Ewing  (1841)
P. D. James  (1920)

Walter Kirn  (1962)

Steven Millhauser  (1943)

Leon Uris  (1924)

Diane Wakoski  (1937)

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on August 2

Isabel Allende  (1942)

James Baldwin  (1924)

Caleb Carr  (1955)

James Fallows  (1949)

Ernie Pyle  (1900)

Lawrence Wright  (1947)

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on August 1

Madison Smartt Bell  (1957)
Jim Carroll  (1949)

Anne Hébert  (1916)

Paul Horgan  (1903)

Herman Melville  (1819)

 

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on July 31

Kim Addonizio  (1954)

Lynne Reid Banks  (1929)

Susan Cheever  (1943)
Brett Halliday  (1904)

Primo Levi  (1919)

J. K. Rowling  (1965)

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

Emily Bronte  (1818)
Archer Mayor  (1950)
Patrick Modiano  (1945) 
Celeste Ng  (1980) 

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

Eyvind Johnson  (1900)

Stanley Kunitz  (1905)
Chang-rae Lee  (1965)

T. J. Stiles  (1964)

Booth Tarkington  (1869)

Alexis de Tocqueville  (1805)

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

John Ashbery  (1927)
Natalie Babbitt  (1932)
Shirley Ann Grau  (1929)

Gerard Manley Hopkins  (1844)
 Malcolm Lowry  (1909)

Beatrix Potter  (1866)
William T. Vollmann  (1959)

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

Hilaire Belloc  (1870)
Giosue Carducci  (1835)

Alexandre Dumas, fils  (1824)
Elizabeth Hardwick  (1916)

Jack Higgins  (1929)
Bharati Mukherjee  (1940)
Robert Rankin  (1949)

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

Janice Berenstain  (1923)

Aldous Huxley  (1894)

George Bernard Shaw  (1856)
Jean Shepherd  (1921) 
Lawrence Watt Evans  (1954)

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

Elias Canetti  (1905)
Midge Decter  (1927) 
David Madden  (1933)

George Peele  (1556)

Josephine Tey  (1896)