Literary Library

Caroline Kennedy

November 27, 1957 - American author, attorney and diplomatAuthor of "In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights in Action" (co-authored with Ellen Alderma...

Luther Standing Bear

December (?) 1868 - February 20, 1939 Sicangu and Oglala Lakota Chief and Native American author, educator, philosopher and actor Author of "My Pe...

William Cowper

November 26, 1731 - April 25, 1800English poet and hymnodistAuthor of the poems "Light Shining Out of Darkness", "The Negro's Complaint" and "On R...

Tina Turner

November 26, 1939 - American-born Swiss singer, songwriter, author and actressAuthor of "I, Tina" (written with Kurt Loder), "Tina Turner: A Love ...

Sharon Tyler Herbst

November 26, 1942 - January 26, 2007American cook book and culinary book author and food & travel journalistBest known for "The Food Lover's Co...

Marilynne Robinson

November 26, 1943 - American novelist and essayistAuthor of "Housekeeping" (for which she was on the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction shortlist in 1982)...

Jonathan Weiner

November 26, 1953 - American author of nonfiction booksAuthor of "The Beak of the Finch" (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfictio...

Eugene Ionesco

November 26, 1909 - March 28, 1994Romanian-French playwright and novelistAuthor of the plays "Rhinoceros", "Exit the King" and "The Bald Soprano"N...

Dennis Ross

November 26, 1948 - American diplomat and authorAuthor of "The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Flight for Middle East Peace", "Myths, Illusi...

Charles M. Schultz

November 26, 1922 - February 12, 2000American cartoonist and creator of the Peanuts comic stripPublished the Peanuts comic strip for almost 50 yea...

Shelagh Delaney

November 25, 1938 - November 20, 2011English dramatist and screenwriterAuthor of "A Taste of Honey", "The Lion in Love" and "Charlie Bubbles"

P. D. Eastman

November 25, 1909 - January 7, 1986American screenwriter, children's book author & illustrator and Disney animatorAuthor and illustrator of doz...