Literary Library

Valerie Sayers

by Angela Beck
August 8, 1952 - American novelistAuthor of "Due East", ""How I Got Him Back" and "The Distance Between Us" #literarycalendar#birthdays#authorsbirt...
Novel Novelist

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

by Angela Beck
August 8, 1896 - December 14, 1953American novelist and short-story writerAuthor of "The Yearling" (for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Ficti...
Novel Novelist Pulitzer Prize Short Story

Elizabeth Ann Tallent

by Angela Beck
August 8, 1954 - American novelist, short-story writer, essayist and academicAuthor of "Museum Pieces", "Honey" and "Mendocino Fire" #literarycalen...
Academic Essayist Essays Novel Novelist Short Story University

Ann Beattie

by Angela Beck
August 7, 1947 - American novelist and short-story writerAuthor of "Chilly Scenes of Winter", "The New Yorker Stories" and "Walks With Men" #liter...
Novel Novelist Short Story

Wendell Berry

by Angela Beck
August 5, 1934 - American novelist, poet, essayist and environmental activistAuthor of "The Unsettling of America", "Jayber Crow" and "The Peace o...
Activist Environment Environmental Environmentalist Natural World Naturalist Nature Novel Novelist Poem Poems Poet Poetry

Per Wahloo

by Angela Beck
August 5, 1926 - June 22, 1975Swedish novelistAuthor of "Roseanna", "The Man Who Went Up in Smoke" and "The Laughing Policeman"Created (with his wi...
Detective Novel Novelist Sweden Swedish

Conrad Aiken

by Angela Beck
August 5, 1899 - August 17, 1973American poet, novelist and short-story writerAuthor of "The House of Dust", "Preludes for Memnon" and "Ushant"Won...
Library of Congress Novel Novelist Poem Poems Poet Poet Laureate Pulitzer Prize Short Story

William Henry Hudson

by Angela Beck
August 4, 1841 - August 18, 1922Argentinian-born English novelist and naturalistAuthor of "Green Mansions", ""Afoot in England" and ""Far Away and...
Argentina Argentine Argentinian British England English Great Britain Hudson River Natural World Naturalist Nature Novel Novelist

Assia Djebar

by Angela Beck
August 4, 1936 - February 6, 2015Algerian novelist, poet, playwright and short-story writerAuthor of "Women of Algiers in Their Apartment", "Alger...
Algeria Algerian Dramatist Novel Novelist Play Plays Playwright Poem Poems Poet Poetry Short Story Theater Theatre

Walter Kirn

by Angela Beck
August 3, 1962 - American novelist, literary critic and essayistAuthor of "Up in the Air", "Mission to America" and "Blood Will Out" #literarycale...
Critic Essayist Essays Literary Critic Novel Novelist

Annette Sanford

by Angela Beck
August 3, 1929 - American novelistAuthor of "Lasting Attachments", "Crossing Shattuck Bridge" and "Eleanor and Abel"Wrote under the pseudonyms Mary...
Lisa St. John Mary Carroll Meg Dominique Novel Novelist

Mitchell Smith

by Angela Beck
August 2, 1935 - American crime fiction and science fiction novelistAuthor of "Stone City", "Due North" and "Reprisal" #literarycalendar#birthdays#...
Crime Fiction Novel Novelist Science Fiction SciFi