Literary Library

Frank Marshall Davis

December 31, 1905 - July 16, 1987African-American journalist, poet, political & labor movement activist, editor and businessmanAuthor of "Black...

Rudyard Kipling

December 30, 1865 - January 18, 1936English journalist, poet, novelist and short story writerAuthor of "The Jungle Book", "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi", "Whi...

Mark Hertsgaard

December 29, 1956 - American journalist, environmental correspondent and non-fiction authorAuthor of "Earth Odyssey: Around the World in Search of...

Jenny Lawson

December 29, 1973 - American journalist, author and bloggerAuthor of "Let's Pretend This Never Happened", "Furiously Happy" and "Broken (In the Bes...

Gilbert Adair

December 29, 1944 - December 8, 2011Scottish novelist, poet, film critic and journalistAuthor of "The Holy Innocents" (for which he won the Author'...

Sarah Vowell

December 27, 1969 - American author, journalist, essayist, social commentator and actressAuthor of "Radio On: A Listener's Diary", "Take the Canno...

Cokie Roberts

December 27, 1943 - September 17, 2019American journalist, political reporter & analyst and authorAuthor of "Founding Mothers: The Women Who R...

Evan Osnos

December 24, 1976 - American journalist and author Author of "Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China" (for which he wo...

Adam Haslett

December 24, 1970 -American fiction writer, journalist and short-story writerAuthor of "You Are Not a Stranger Here" (for which he was a finalist ...

C. Y. Lee

December 23, 1915 - November 8, 2018Chinese-American novelist, short-story writer, journalist, translator and playwrightAuthor of "The Flower Drum...

Peter Manso

December 22, 1940 - April 7, 2021American biographer and journalistAuthor of "Vroom: Conversations with the Grand Prix Champions", "Brando: The Bio...

John Binns

December 22, 1772 - June 16, 1860Dublin-born American journalist and writerAuthor of "A Catalogue of Books, for 1795, Containing Several Valuable ...