Literary Library
Mary Calhoun
by Angela Beck
August 3, 1926 - October 27, 2015American journalist and children's book authorAuthor of "Making the Mississippi Shout", "Honestly, Katie John!" a...
Leon Uris
by Angela Beck
August 3, 1924 - June 21, 2003American author of historical fictionAuthor of "Exodus", "Trinity" and "A God in Ruins" #literarycalendar#birthdays#...
Hayden Carruth
by Angela Beck
August 3, 1921 - September 29, 2008American poet, literary critic and professorAuthor of "Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey" (for which he won the Nati...
Ernie Pyle
by Angela Beck
August 3, 1900 - April 18, 1945American journalistAuthor of "Home Country", "Here Is Your War" and "Brave Men"Won a Pulitzer Prize for journalism ...
Diane Wakoski
by Angela Beck
August 3, 1937 - American poetAuthor of "The Motorcycle Betrayal Poems", "Dancing On the Grave of a Son of a Bitch" and "Emerald Ice" #literarycal...
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...
Stephen Sandy
by Angela Beck
August 2, 1934 - November 7, 2016American poet and professorAuthor of "The Thread", "Weathers Permitting" and "Netsuke Days: Poems" #literarycalen...
Mitchell Smith
by Angela Beck
August 2, 1935 - American crime fiction and science fiction novelistAuthor of "Stone City", "Due North" and "Reprisal" #literarycalendar#birthdays#...
John Kieran
by Angela Beck
August 2, 1892 - December 9, 1981American author, journalist and amateur naturalistAuthor of "A Natural History of New York City", "Not Under Oath...
James Baldwin
by Angela Beck
August 2, 1924 - December 1, 1987African-American novelist, playwright, poet and social criticAuthor of "Go Tell It on the Mountain", "Notes of a ...
Isabel Allende
by Angela Beck
August 2, 1942 -Chilean novelistAuthor of "The House of the Spirits", "Paula" and "City of the Beasts"Won Chile's National Prize for Literature in...