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

Truman Capote  (1924)

Ta-Nehisi Coates  (1975)
Laura Esquivel  (1950)
Téa Obreht  (1985)
J. I. M. Stewart  (1906)
S. M. Stirling  (1953)

W. S. Merwin  (1927) 

Elie Wiesel  (1928)

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

Stan Berenstain  (1923) 
Miguel de Cervantes  (1547) 

Colin Dexter  (1930) 

Jon Fosse  (1959)

Elizabeth Gaskell  (1810)

Barbara Mertz  (1927)
  

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

Victor Jara  (1932)

Herman Melville  (1819) 

Prosper Mérimée  (1803)
Edith Pargeter  (1913)
Elmer Rice  (1892)
Kate Douglas Wiggin  (1856)
 

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

Louis Auchincloss  (1917)
Grazia Deledda  (1871)
William Empson  (1906)
Joyce Johnson  (1935)
Irvine Welsh  (1958)
Kay Ryan  (1945)

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

T. S. Eliot  (1888) 
Mark Haddon  (1962)

Jane Smiley  (1949)

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

William Faulkner  (1897)

Kristin Hannah  (1960) 
Bell Hooks  (1952)
Shel Silverstein  (1930)
Gloria Jean Watkins (bell hooks)  (1952) 
 

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

Eavan Boland  (1944)
Alexis De Veaux  (1948)

F. Scott Fitzgerald  (1896)
Frances Harper  (1825) 
Wilson Rawls  (1913)
Horace Walpole  (1717)

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

Jerry B. Jenkins  (1949)
Emma Orczy  (1865)

Jaroslav Seifert  (1901)

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

Rosamunde Pilcher  (1924)
Frank Sullivan  (1892)
Fay Weldon  (1931)
 

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

Leonard Cohen  (1934) 
David Cook  (1940) 
Fannie Flagg  (1941)  

Stephen King  (1947) 
Marsha Norman  (1947)

Kay Ryan  (1945) 

H. G. Wells  (1866)

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

Donald Hall  (1928) 
George R. R. Martin  (1948)
Upton Sinclair  (1878)

Angie Thomas  (1988)
Tiphanie Yanique  (1978)
 

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

Roger Angell  (1920)
Gilles Archambault  (1933)
Hartley Coleridge  (1796)

William Golding  (1911)
Mike Royko  (1932)

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

Drew Gilpin Faust  (1947) 
Chris Hedges  (1956)

Samuel Johnson  (1709)
William March  (1893)
Alberto Alvaro Rios  (1952)
Anna Deavere Smith  (1950)
Paul Zimmer  (1934)

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

Carl Dennis  (1939) 
Brian Henry  (1972)

Ken Kesey  (1935) 
Frank O'Connor  (1903)

Robert B. Parker  (1932) 
Mary Stewart  (1916)

Cheryl Strayed  (1968)  

William Carlos Williams  (1883)

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

Julia Donaldson  (1948)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.  (1950)
John Gay  (1685)
Justin Haythe  (1973)
Nancy Huston  (1953) 
John Knowles  (1926)
Francis Parkman  (1823) 
H. A. Rey  (1898)
Frans Eemil Sillanpaa  (1888)
 

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

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  (1977)

Robert Benchley  (1889)
Valerie Bloom  (1956) 
Ron Carlson  (1947)

Agatha Christie  (1890) 
James Fenimore Cooper  (1789) 
Sophie Dahl  (1977)

François de La Rochefoucauld  (1613)

Robert McCloskey  (1914) 

Norman Spinrad  (1940)
Howard Waldrop  (1946)
 

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

Geraldine Brooks  (1955) 
Robert McCloskey  (1914)
Hamlin Garland  (1860) 
Kate Millett  (1934)
Francisco de Quevedo  (1580)
Justin Richards  (1961) 
John Steptoe  (1950)
 

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

Sherwood Anderson  (1876)

Roald Dahl  (1916)
Mette Ivie Harrison (1970)
Tom Holt  (1961)
Emily Jenkins  (1967)
Adrienne Kennedy  (1931)

J. B. Priestley  (1894)
Gail Tsukiyama  (1957)

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

Louis MacNeice  (1907)

H. L. Mencken  (1880)
Michael Ondaatje  (1943)

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

David Broder  (1929)
O. Henry  (1862) 
D. H. Lawrence  (1885) 
Thomas K. McCraw  (1940)
Jessica Mitford  (1917)