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

Svetlana Alexievich  (1948)
Andrew Marvell  (1621)

Saint-John Perse  (1887)

Walt Whitman  (1819)
Al Young  (1939)

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

Hal Clement  (1922)
Countee Cullen  (1903)

Abraham Verghese  (1955)

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

Max Brand  (1892)
G. K. Chesterton  (1874)
Andrew Clements  (1949)

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

Muriel Barbery  (1969)

Maeve Binchy  (1940)

Bernardine Evaristo  (1959)

Ian Fleming  (1908)

Thomas Moore  (1779)
Walker Percy  (1916)

Terry Pratchett  (1948)

May Swenson  (1913)

Patrick White  (1912)

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

John Barth  (1930)

Frank Bidart  (1939)

Rachel Carson  (1907)

Louis-Ferdinand Céline  (1894)

John Cheever  (1912)

Dashiell Hammett  (1894)

Tony Hillerman  (1925)
Marijane Meaker  (1927)

Edmund Morris  (1940)

Maggie O'Farrell  (1972)

Linda Pastan  (1932)

Herman Wouk  (1915)

 

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

Maxwell Bodenheim  (1892)

Robert Chambers  (1865)

Alan Hollinghurst  (1954)

Caitlin Kiernan  (1964)

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

Raymond Carver  (1938)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803)
Jamaica Kincaid  (1949)
Robert Ludlum  (1927) 

Theodore Roethke  (1908)

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

Joseph Brodsky  (1940)

Michael Chabon  (1963)
Bob Dylan  (1941) 
Mikhail Sholokhov (1905)

William Trevor  (1928)

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

Margaret Wise Brown  (1910)

Ursula Hegi  (1946)

Thomas Hood  (1799)

Jane Kenyon  (1947)

Par Lagerkvist  (1891)
Scott O'Dell  (1898)

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

Arthur Conan Doyle  (1859)

Arnold Lobel  (1933)

Peter Matthiessen  (1927)

Garry Wills  (1934)

 

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

Robert Creeley  (1926)
Alexander Pope  (1688)

Harold Robbins  (1916)

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

Margery Allingham  (1904)

Honoré de Balzac  (1799)

Walter Isaacson  (1952)

Jon Meacham  (1969)
Ottessa Moshfegh  (1981)
Mary Pope Osborne  (1949)

Sigrid Undset  (1882)

 

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

Nora Ephron  (1941)
  Lorraine Hansberry (1930)  

Jodi Picoult  (1966)

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

Diane Duane  (1952)
Omar Khayyam  (1048)

Bertrand Russell  (1872)

W. G. Sebald  (1944)

Lionel Shriver  (1957)

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

Gary Paulsen  (1939)

Dorothy Richardson  (1873)

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

Bruce Coville  (1950)
Douglas Southall Freeman  (1886) 
Adrienne Rich  (1929)

Studs Terkel  (1912)

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

L. Frank Baum  (1856)

Mikhail Bulgakov  (1891)
Max Frisch  (1911)
Laura Hillenbrand  (1967) 
Norma Fox Mazer  (1931)

Katherine Anne Porter  (1890)
Paul Zindel  (1936)

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

Hal Borland  (1900)
Eoin Colfer  (1965)

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

Roch Carrier  (1937)

Jerome Charyn  (1937)
Bruce Chatwin  (1940)

Daphne du Maurier  (1907)
Rachel Ingalls  (1940)
Kathleen Jamie  (1962) 
Norma Klein  (1938)

Armistead Maupin  (1944)
Francine Pascal  (1938)
Henry Crabb Robinson  (1775)

Roger Zelazny  (1937)

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

Rosellen Brown  (1939)
Leslie Charteris  (1907)

Edward Lear  (1812)
Farley Mowat  (1921)
Albert L. Murray  (1916)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti  (1828)

L. Neil Smith  (1946)