"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)

 

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

Alexandre Dumas, père  (1802)
Zelda Fitzgerald  (1900)

Robert Graves  (1895)

John D. MacDonald  (1916)

Madeline Miller  (1978)

Henrik Pontoppidan  (1857)

 

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

Raymond Chandler  (1888)

Vikram Chandra  (1961)
Lauren Groff  (1978)
John Nichols  (1940)

Coventry Patmore  (1823)
Hubert Selby Jr.  (1928)

 

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

Stephen Vincent Benét  (1898)

Margery Williams Bianco  (1881)

S. E. Hinton  (1948)
Emma Lazarus  (1849)

Tom Robbins  (1936)
David Shields  (1956)

 

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

Michael Connelly  (1956)
Hart Crane  (1899)

Tess Gallagher  (1943)

John Gardner  (1933)

Ernest Hemingway  (1899)
Marshall McLuhan  (1911)
Sarah Waters  (1966)

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

Thomas Berger  (1924)
Henry Dumas  (1934)
Erik Axel Karlfeldt  (1864)

Cormac McCarthy  (1933)

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

Stephen Coonts  91946)
A. J. Cronin  (1896)
Alice Dunbar Nelson  (1875)
Garth Nix  (1963)
Jayne Anne Phillips  (1952)

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

Joseph Ellis  (1943)

Elizabeth Gilbert  (1969)
Nathalie Sarraute  (1900)

William Makepeace Thackeray  (1811)

Hunter S. Thompson  (1937)
Jessamyn West  (1902)
Yevgeny Yevtyshenko  (1933)
 

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

Shmuel Yosef Agnon  (1888)

Erle Stanley Gardner  (1889)
Christiane Rochefort  (1917)

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

Reinaldo Arenas  (1943)
Anita Brookner  (1928)

Tony Kushner  (1956)

Erich Segal  (1937)

Carol Shields  (1935)

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

Thomas Bulfinch  (1796)

Clive Cussier  (1931)

Lydia Davis  (1947)
Clement Clarke Moore  (1779)
Iris Murdoch  (1919)

Richard Russo  (1949)

 

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

Joe Keenan  (1958)
Arthur Laurents  (1917) 

Christopher Priest  (1943)

Brian Selznick  (1966)

Irving Stone  (1903)

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

Isaac Babel  (1894)

John Clare  (1793)

Wole Soyinka  (1934)

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

James E. Gunn  (1923)

Pablo Neruda  (1904)

Henry David Thoreau  (1817)

Donald E. Westlake  (1933)