Literary Library

Norman Maclean

December 23, 1902 - August 2, 1990American author and scholarBest known for his novel "A River Runs Through It" as well as "Young Men and Fire" an...

Megan Mayhew Bergman

December 23, 1979 - American short-story writer, columnist and professorAuthor of "Almost Famous Women: Stories" and "Birds of a Lesser Paradise: S...

Martin Opitz

December 23, 1597 - August 20, 1639German poet and novelistAuthor of "Acht Bucher deutscher Poematum", "Geistliche Poemata" and "The Idyll of the...

Harriet Monroe

December 23, 1860 - September 26, 1936American editor, scholar, literary critic, poet, publisher, editor and art patronAuthor of "John Wellborn Ro...

Giuseppi Tomasi di Lampedusa

December 23, 1896 - July 23, 1957Italian writer, novelist and PrinceAuthor of "The Leopard", "The Professor" and "Places of My Infancy: A Memory"W...

Donna Tartt

December 23, 1963 - American novelist and short-story & non-fiction writerAuthor of "The Secret History", "The Little Friend" (for which she w...

Christa Worthington

December 23, 1956 - January 6, 2002American fashion writerAuthor of "Clothes", "Scarves" and "Accessories"Was murdered in her home in 2002

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

December 23, 1804 - October 13, 1869French literary critic and authorAuthor of "Port Royal", "Nouveaux Lundis" and "Mes Poisons"

Carol Ann Duffy

December 23, 1955 - British poet, playwright and profesorAuthor of "Standing Female Nude", "Selling Manhattan" (for which she won the Somerset Mau...

C. Y. Lee

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

Avi

December 23, 1937 - Author of more than 60 books for children and young adultsincluding "Don't You Know There's A War On", "Perloo the Bold" and "T...

Suzanne L. Marchand

December 22, 1961 - American intellectual, cultural historian and professorAuthor of "Down from Olympus: Archaeology and Philhellenism in Germany, ...