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

Don Coldsmith  (1926)
Daniel Handler  (1970) 
Ben Hecht  (1894)
Colum McCann  (1965) 
Vyacheslav Ivanov  (1866)
Michel de Montaigne  (1533)
Stephen Spender  (1909)
Walter Tevis  (1928)
 

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

Peter De Vries  (1910)
Lawrence Durrell  (1912) 
James T. Farrell  (1904)

Joshilyn Jackson  (1968)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  (1807) 

N. Scott Momaday  (1934) 
Irwin Shaw  (1913)

John Steinbeck  (1902)

 

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

Jean Bruller  (1902)
Elizabeth George  (1949) 

Victor Hugo  (1802)
Christopher Marlowe  (baptized, 1564)
John George Nicolay  (1832)
Theodore Sturgeon  (1918)

 

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

Anthony Burgess  (1917)
Frank Chin  (1940)

Karl Friedrich May  (1842)
Shiva Naipaul  (1945)
George Schuyler  (1895)

Frank G. Slaughter  (1908)

 

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

Etel Adnan  (1925)
Judith Butler  (1956)
Mary Ellen Chase  (1887)
Maxine Chernoff  (1952)
August Derleth  (1909)

Giillian Flynn  (1971)

Wilhelm Grimm  (1786

Yuval Noah Harari  (1976)

Jane Hirshfield  (1953)
Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski  (1885)
George Moore  (1852)

Rainbow Rowell  (1973)

 

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

Bernard Cornwell  (1944)
W.E.B. Du Bois  (1868)
Erich Kästner  (1899)
Haki R. Madhubuti  (1942)

Samuel Pepys  (1633) 

John Sandford  (1944)
William L. Shirer  (1904)

 

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

Hugo Ball  (1886)
Jane Bowles  (1917)
Morley Callaghan  (1903)
François Cavanna  (1923)
Edward Gorey  (1925) 
Seán Ó Faoláin  (1900)
Philip Kerr  (1956)
James Russell Lowell  (1819)

Edna St. Vincent Millay  (1892) 
Shaw Neilson  (1872)

Richard North Patterson  (1947) 

Ishmael Reed  (1938)
Jules Renard  (1864)
Giorgos Seferis  (1900)

 

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

W. H. Auden  (1907) 
Erma Bombeck  (1927)

Jonathan Safran Foer  (1977) 

Ha Jin  (1956) 

Anais Nin  (1903) 

Chuck Palahniuk  (1962) 

Jeffrey Shaara  (1952) 

David Foster Wallace  (1962)
José Zorilla  (1817)

 

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

Georges Bernanos  (1888)
Pierre Boulle  (1912) 
Pieter Cornelis Boutens  (1870)
Russel Crouse  (1893)

Alan Furst  (1958) 

Richard Matheson  (1926)
Shiga Naoya  (1883)
Hesketh Pearson  (1887)

Sally Rooney  (1991)

 

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

Kay Boyle  (1902)

André Breton  (1896)

Stephen Dobyns  (1941)

Homer Hickam  (1943)

Siri Hustvedt  (1955)

Jeff Kinney  (1971) 

Jonathan Lethem  (1964) 

Carson McCullers  (1917)
José Eustasio Rivera  (1888)

Amy Tan  (1952)

 

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

Sholem Aleichem  (1859)
Jean M. Auel  (1936) 

Nikos Kazantzakis  (1883)
Audre Lorde  (1934)

Toni Morrison  (1931) 

Lisa See  (1955) 

Wallace Stegner  (1909)

 

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

Meena Alexander  (1951)
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer  (1836)
Dorothy Canfield Fisher  (1879)
Jack Gilbert  (1925) 

Ronald Knox  (1888) 

Andre Norton  (1912) 
Banjo Paterson  (1864)

Chaim Potok  (1929) 

Ruth Rendell  (1930) 

Margaret Truman  (1924)
Mo Yan  (1955)

 

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

Henry Adams  (1838)
Van Wyck Brooks  (1886)

Richard Ford  (1944) 
Johann Jakob Wilhelm Heinse  (1746)

Nikolai Leskov  (1831)
Octave Mirbeau  (1948)
Hal Porter  (1911)

 

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

Susan Brownmiller  (1935)
Galileo Galilei  (1564
Matt Groening  (1954)
Douglas Hofstadter  (1945)
Miranda July  (1974)
Sax Rohmer  (1883)
Art Spiegelman  (1948)

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

Carl Bernstein  (1944)
Frank Harris  (1855)
A.M. Klein  (1909)

 

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

Henry Alford  (1962)
Ali El-Maak  (1937)

Eleanor Farjeon  (1881)
Ricardo Guiraldes  (1886)
Margaret Halsey  (1910)

Samantha Irby  (1980)

Elaine Pagels  (1943) 
William Roughead  (1870)

Georges Simenon  (1903)

 

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

Judy Blume  (1938) 

Thomas Campion  (1567) 

Charles Darwin  (1809)
Deborah Garrison  (1965)
Cotton Mather  (1663)
George Meredith  (1828)

 

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

Lydia Maria Child  (1802)
Philip Dunne  (1908)
Roy Fuller  (1912)
Pico Iyer  (1957)

Sidney Sheldon  (1917) 

Joy Williams  (1944) 

Jane Yolen  (1939)

 

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

Fleur Adcock  (1934)
Bertolt Brecht  (1898)
Charles Lamb  (1775)
Mary McGarry Morris  (1943)

Boris Pasternak  (1890)
Asne Seierstad  (1970)
John Suckling  (1609)
William Allen White  (1868)

 

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

George Ade  (1866)
Brendan Behan  (1923) 

J. M. Coetzee  (1940)
Frans Michael Franzén  (1772)
Brian Greene  (1963)

Amy Lowell  (1874) 
Hilda van Stockum  (1908)

Alice Walker  (1944)