Literary Library

Lydia Millet

December 5, 1968 - Canadian-American novelistAuthor of "My Happy Life" (for which she won the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction in 2003), "Love in ...

Joan Didion

December 5, 1934 - December 23, 2021 American writer, novelist, playwright and screenwriterAuthor of "Slouching Towards Bethlehem", the screenpla...

James Lee Burke

December 5, 1936 - American writer, novelist, mystery writer and professorAuthor of "Cadillac Jukebox", "Black Cherry Blues" and "Light of the Worl...

Calvin Trillin

Born December 5, 1935 - American journalist, humorist, food writer, poet, memoirist and novelistAuthor of "An Education in Georgia: Charlayne Hunt...

Wen Shaoxian

December 4, 1934 - Hong Kong-born Chinese writer, novelist, translator and professorAuthor of "Awful Catastrophe", "Withered Flowers" and "Steps to...

Samuel Butler

December 4, 1835 - June 18, 1902 English novelist and criticAuthor of "Erewhon", "The Fair Haven"  and "The Way of the Flesh"

Rainer Maria Rilke

December 4, 1875 - December 29, 1926 Austrian poet and novelistAuthor of "Duino Elegies", "Sonnets to Orpheus", "The Notebooks of Malte Laurids B...

Kurt R. A. Giambastiani

December 4, 1958 - American novelistAuthor of "The Year the Cloud Fell", "The Spirit of Thunder" and "Shadow of the Sun"Born Kurt Robert Achilles G...

Cornell Woolrich

December 4, 1903 - September 23, 1968American novelist and short story writerAuthor of dozens of novels and short stories including "The Bride Wor...

Kate O'Brien

December 3, 1897 - August 13, 1974Irish writer of novels, plays, film scripts, short stories, essays, journalism and traveloguesAuthor of "Without...

Grace Andreacchi

December 3, 1954 -American novelist, poet and playwrightAuthor of "Give My Heart Ease", "Little Poems for Children" and "Berlin Elegies"

F. Sionil Jose

December 3, 1924 - January 6, 2022Filipino novelist, short story writer, journalist and owner of the bookstore Solidaridad BookshopAuthor of "The ...