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Nalo Hopkinson

December 20, 1960 - Jamaican-born Canadian novelist, short story writer and editorAuthor of "Brown Girl in the Ring" (for which she won the Locus ...

Steven Biko

December 18, 1946 - September 12, 1977South African anti-apartheid activist and writerAuthor of "I Write What I Like" and "The Testimony of Steven ...

Adeline Yen Mah

November 30, 1937 - Chinese-American author and physicianAuthor of "Falling Leaves", "Chinese Cinderella" and Watching the Tree"#literarycalendar#b...

Sue Miller

November 29, 1943 - American novelist and short-story writerAuthor of "The Good Mother", "While I Was Gone" and "The Senator's Wife"#literarycalend...

Eric Hill

September 7, 1927 - June 6, 2014English author and illustrator of children's booksAuthor of "Where's Spot", "Spot Goes to the Farm" and "Spot Says...

Gloria Jean Pinkney

American author of children's booksAuthor of "Back Home", "Sunday Outing" and "In the Forest of Your Remembrance: Thirty-Three Goodly News Tellings...

Bernard Most

September 2, 1937 - American children's book author and illustratorAuthor of "If the Dinosaurs Came Back", "My Very Own Octopus" and "The Littlest ...

Ed Young

November 28, 1931 - September 29, 2023Chinese-born American illustrator and author of children's booksAuthor of "The Emperor and the Kite" (writte...

Jeremy Siegel

November 14, 1945 - American professor of finance and authorAuthor of "Revolution on Wall Street: The Rise and Decline of the New York Stock Exchan...

Wing Tek Lum

November 11, 1946 - American poet and real estate agentAuthor of "Expounding the Doubtful Points" (for which he won an American Book Award in 1988)...

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

November 11, 1836 - March 19, 1907American writer, poet, critic and editorAuthor of "The Story of a Bad Boy", "Marjorie Daw" and "An Old Town by th...

Carlos Fuentes

November 11, 1928 - May 15, 2012Mexican novelist and essayistAuthor of "Auro", "The Death of Artemio Cruz" and "The Old Gringo"Won the Mexican Nati...