Literary Library

Mary Calhoun

August 3, 1926 - October 27,  2015American journalist and children's book authorAuthor of "Making the Mississippi Shout", "Honestly, Katie John!" a...

Marvin Bell

August 3, 1937 - December 14, 2020American poet, editor and teacherAuthor of "The Book of the Dead Man", "Nightworks: Poems 1962 - 2000" and "Mars ...

Leon Uris

August 3, 1924 - June 21, 2003American author of historical fictionAuthor of "Exodus", "Trinity" and "A God in Ruins" #literarycalendar#birthdays#...

Hayden Carruth

August 3, 1921 - September 29, 2008American poet, literary critic and professorAuthor of "Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey" (for which he won the Nati...

Ernie Pyle

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

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

August 3, 1929 - American novelistAuthor of "Lasting Attachments", "Crossing Shattuck Bridge" and "Eleanor and Abel"Wrote under the pseudonyms Mary...

Stephen Sandy

August 2, 1934 - November 7, 2016American poet and professorAuthor of "The Thread", "Weathers Permitting" and "Netsuke Days: Poems" #literarycalen...

Mitchell Smith

August 2, 1935 - American crime fiction and science fiction novelistAuthor of "Stone City", "Due North" and "Reprisal" #literarycalendar#birthdays#...

John Kieran

August 2, 1892 - December 9, 1981American author, journalist and amateur naturalistAuthor of "A Natural History of New York City", "Not Under Oath...

James Baldwin

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

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...