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January

J. D. Salinger 01
E. M. Forster 01
Isaac Asimov 02
J. R. R. Tolkien 03
Friedrich Dürrenmatt 05
E. L. Doctorow 06
Jack London 12
Susan Sontag 16
A. A. Milne 18
Federico Fellini 20
Edith Wharton 24
Lewis Carroll 27
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette 28
Anton Chekhov 29
Barbara Tuchman 30
Norman Mailer 31

February

S. J. Perelman 01
James Joyce 02
James Michener 03
Robert Coover 04
William S. Burroughs 05
Charles Dickens 07
Sidney Sheldon 11
Richard Ford 16
Amy Tan 19
Samuel Pepys 23
Anthony Burgess 25
Victor Hugo 27

March

Ralph Ellison 01
Tom Wolfe 02
James Ellroy 04
Frank Norris 05
Gabriel García Márquez 06
Ring Lardner 06
John McPhee 08
Vita Sackville-West 09
Jack Kerouac 12
Paul Eliot Green 17
John Updike 18
Philip Roth 19
Henrik Ibsen 20
Louis L'Amour 22
Lawrence Ferlinghetti 24
Flannery O'Connor 25
Thorne Smith 27
John Fowles 31

April

Emile Zola 02
Washington Irving 03
Arthur Hailey 05
Donald Barthelme 07
Paul Theroux 10
Eudora Welty 13
Henry James 15
Thornton Wilder 17
Charlotte Brontë 21
Henry Fielding 22
William Shakespeare 23
Sue Grafton 24
Marcus Aurelius 26
Harper Lee 28

May

William Inge 03
Orson Welles 06
Peter Carey 07
Harry Crews 07
Thomas Pynchon 08
Richard Adams 09
J. M. Barrie 09
Mari Sandoz 11 
Farley Mowat 12
Katherine Anne Porter 15
Studs Terkel 16
Dorothy M. Richardson 17
Frank Capra 18
Lorraine Hansberry 19
Honoré de Balzac 20
Garry Wills 22
William Trevor 24
   R. Waldo Emerson 25
Raymond Carver 25
Dashiell Hammett 27
John Cheever 27
Ian Fleming 28
 
G. K. Chesterton 29
Howard Hawks 30
Walt Whitman 31

June

Thomas Hardy 02
Allen Ginsberg 03
Larry McMurtry 03
Thomas Mann 06
Saul Bellow 10
William Styron 11
Anne Frank 12
Djuna Barnes 12
John Hersey 17
Salman Rushdie 19
Lizzie Borden 20
Billy Wilder 22
Dan Brown 22
Ambrose Bierce 24
George Orwell 25
Pearl Buck 26
Jean-Jacques Rousseau 28
Irving Wallace 30

July

George Sand 01
Franz Kafka 03
Nathaniel Hawthorne 04
Jean Cocteau 05
Robert A. Heinlein 07
Barbara Cartland 09
Dean Koontz 09
Marcel Proust 10
E. B. White 11
Henry David Thoreau 12
Isaac Bashevis Singer 14
Iris Murdoch 15
Hunter S. Thompson 18
Ernest Hemingway 21
Tom Robbins 22
Raymond Chandler 23
John D. MacDonald 24
George Bernard Shaw 26
Bharati Mukherjee 27
Beatrix Potter 28
J. K. Rowling 31

August

Herman Melville 01
James Baldwin 02
Leon Uris 03
Percy Shelley 04
Guy de Maupassant 05
Marjorie K. Rawlings 08
P. L. Travers 09
Alex Haley 11
William Maxwell 16
Mae West 17
Gene Roddenberry 19
Jacqueline Susann 20
E. Annie Proulx 22
Dorothy Parker 22
Ray Bradbury 22
Malcolm Cowley 24
Oscar Hijuelos 24
C. S. Forester 27
Mary Shelley 30
Robert Crumb 30
William Saroyan 31

September

Edgar Rice Burroughs 01
Alison Lurie 03
Robert M. Pirsig 06
Grace Metalious 08
Leo Tolstoy 09
H. L. Mencken 12
Agatha Christie 15
James F. Cooper 15
Robert Benchley 15
John Gay 16
Samuel Johnson 18
William Golding 19
Upton Sinclair 20
H. G. Wells 21
Stephen King 21
Erich von Stroheim 22
Euripides 23
F. Scott Fitzgerald 24
William Faulkner 25
Shel Silverstein 25
Jane Smiley 26
Truman Capote 30

October

Daniel J. Boorstin 01
Graham Greene 02
James Herriot 03
Thomas Wolfe 03
Anne Rice 04
Caroline Gordon 06
Frank Herbert 08
Harold Pinter 10
Conrad Richter 13
Arna Bontemps 13
E. E. Cummings 14
P. G. Wodehouse 15
Oscar Wilde 16
Eugene O'Neill 16
Arthur Miller 17
Art Buchwald 20
Doris Lessing 22
Moss Hart 24
Anne Tyler 25
Pat Conroy 26
Evelyn Waugh 28
James Boswell 29

November

Stephen Crane 01
Sam Shepard 05
Albert Camus 07
Margaret Mitchell 08
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 11
Fyodor Dostoevsky 11
Astrid Lindgren 14
Shelby Foote 17
Martin Scorsese 17
Margaret Atwood 18
George Eliot 22
Robert Barnard 23
Laurence Sterne 24
James Agee 27
Mark Twain 30

December

Joseph Conrad 03
Thomas Carlyle 04
Willa Cather 07
James Thurber 08
Mary Gordon 08
Dalton Trumbo 09
Alexander Solzhenitsyn 11
Grace Paley 11
Gustave Flaubert 12
Ross Macdonald 13
Jane Austen 16
Ford Madox Ford 17
Kenneth Rexroth 22
Mary Higgins Clark 24
Rod Serling 25
Henry Miller 26
Manuel Puig 28
Robert Ruark 29
Rudyard Kipling 30

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