Famous Author’s Birthdays December

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. – Mark Twain

Author Birthdays for December
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  • John Crowley
    Tuesday, December 1st 1942
  • Billy Childish
    Tuesday, December 1st 1959
  • Jan Brett
    Thursday, December 1st 1949
  • Daniel Pennac
    Friday, December 1st 1944
  • Tahar Ben Jelloun
    Friday, December 1st 1944
  • Henry Williamson
    Sunday, December 1st 1895
  • Rex Stout
    Wednesday, December 1st 1886
  • Woody Allen
    Sunday, December 1st 1935
  • Yael Dayan
    Saturday, December 2nd 1939
  • Nigel Calder
    Wednesday, December 2nd 1931
  • Iakovos Kambanelis
    Saturday, December 2nd 1922
  • Charles H. Wesley
    Wednesday, December 2nd 1891
  • Ann Patchett
    Monday, December 2nd 1963
  • George Saunders
    Tuesday, December 2nd 1958
  • Elizabeth Berg
    Thursday, December 2nd 1948
  • Botho Strauss
    Saturday, December 2nd 1944
  • T. Coraghessan Boyle
    Thursday, December 2nd 1948
  • Joseph Conrad
    Thursday, December 3rd 1857
  • Ludvig Holberg
    Sunday, December 3rd 1684
  • Zlata Filipovic
    Wednesday, December 3rd 1980
  • Grace Andreacchi
    Friday, December 3rd 1954
  • F. Sionil José
    Wednesday, December 3rd 1924
  • Franz Josef Degenhardt
    Thursday, December 3rd 1931
  • Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio
    Sunday, December 4th 1927
  • Cornell Woolrich
    Friday, December 4th 1903
  • E.J. Kahn, Jr.
    Monday, December 4th 1916
  • Katharine Susannah Prichard
    Tuesday, December 4th 1883
  • Thomas Carlyle
    Friday, December 4th 1795
  • Rainer Maria Rilke
    Saturday, December 4th 1875
  • Samuel Butler
    Friday, December 4th 1835
  • Lydia Millet
    Thursday, December 5th 1968
  • Peter Pohl
    Thursday, December 5th 1940
  • Calvin Trillin
    Thursday, December 5th 1935
  • John Berendt
    Tuesday, December 5th 1939
  • Rose Wilder Lane
    Sunday, December 5th 1886
  • Hans Hellmut Kirst
    Saturday, December 5th 1914
  • Ellis Parker Butler
    Sunday, December 5th 1869
  • Joan Didion
    Wednesday, December 5th 1934
  • James Lee Burke
    Saturday, December 5th 1936
  • Ira Gershwin
    Sunday, December 6th 1896
  • Osbert Sitwell
    Tuesday, December 6th 1892
  • Evelyn Underhill
    Monday, December 6th 1875
  • Arthur Henry Adams
    Friday, December 6th 1872
  • Baldassare Castiglione
    Friday, December 6th 1478
  • Peter Handke
    Sunday, December 6th 1942
  • Joyce Kilmer
    Monday, December 6th 1886
  • Elizabeth Yates
    Wednesday, December 6th 1905
  • Andrea Claudio Galluzzo
    Sunday, December 7th 1969
  • Willa Cather
    Sunday, December 7th 1873
  • Tatamkulu Afrika
    Tuesday, December 7th 1920
  • Kersti Merilaas
    Sunday, December 7th 1913
  • Joyce Cary
    Friday, December 7th 1888
  • Harry Chapin
    Monday, December 7th 1942
  • Noam Chomsky
    Friday, December 7th 1928
  • Paul Adam
    Sunday, December 7th 1862
  • Carmen Martín Gaite
    Tuesday, December 8th 1925
  • Kati-Claudia Fofonoff
    Monday, December 8th 1947
  • Bill Bryson
    Saturday, December 8th 1951
  • Amanda McKittrick Ros
    Saturday, December 8th 1860
  • Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
    Saturday, December 8th 1832
  • John Banville
    Saturday, December 8th 1945
  • Louis de Bernieres
    Wednesday, December 8th 1954
  • Mary Gordon
    Thursday, December 8th 1949
  • Jackie Kessler
    Tuesday, December 8th 1970
  • James Thurber
    Saturday, December 8th 1894
  • Joel Chandler Harris
    Tuesday, December 9th 1845
  • Ödön von Horváth
    Monday, December 9th 1901
  • Dalton Trumbo
    Saturday, December 9th 1905
  • Ashleigh Brilliant
    Saturday, December 9th 1933
  • Leonie Fuller Adams
    Saturday, December 9th 1899
  • John Milton
    Tuesday, December 9th 1608
  • George Grossmith
    Thursday, December 9th 1847
  • Joanna Trollope
    Thursday, December 9th 1943
  • Jean de Brunhoff
    Saturday, December 9th 1899
  • Ki Longfellow
    Saturday, December 9th 1944
  • Jerome Beatty Jr.
    Saturday, December 9th 1916
  • Jan Kresadlo
    Thursday, December 9th 1926
  • Jacquelyn Mitchard
    Thursday, December 10th 1953
  • Cornelia Funke
    Wednesday, December 10th 1958
  • Nelly Sachs
    Thursday, December 10th 1891
  • Emily Dickinson
    Friday, December 10th 1830
  • Mercer Mayer
    Friday, December 10th 1943
  • George MacDonald
    Friday, December 10th 1824
  • Reginald Rose
    Friday, December 10th 1920
  • Clarice Lispector
    Friday, December 10th 1920
  • Rumer Godden
    Tuesday, December 10th 1907
  • Pierre Louÿs
    Saturday, December 10th 1870
  • Diana Palmer
    Wednesday, December 11th 1946
  • Naguib Mahfouz
    Monday, December 11th 1911
  • Harriet Adams
    Sunday, December 11th 1892
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    Wednesday, December 11th 1918
  • Thomas McGuane
    Monday, December 11th 1939
  • Grace Paley
    Monday, December 11th 1922
  • Jim Harrison
    Saturday, December 11th 1937
  • Ronald McKie
    Saturday, December 11th 1909
  • Robert Henriques
    Monday, December 11th 1905
  • Gustave Flaubert
    Wednesday, December 12th 1821
  • Vassilis Alexakis
    Sunday, December 12th 1943
  • Chinghiz Aitmatov
    Wednesday, December 12th 1928
  • Patrick O’Brian
    Saturday, December 12th 1914
  • Hans Keilson
    Sunday, December 12th 1909
  • Manès Sperber
    Tuesday, December 12th 1905
  • Thomas Powers
    Thursday, December 12th 1940
  • John Osborne
    Thursday, December 12th 1929
  • Heinrich Heine
    Wednesday, December 13th 1797
  • Emma Bull
    Monday, December 13th 1954
  • James Wright
    Tuesday, December 13th 1927
  • Ross Macdonald
    Monday, December 13th 1915
  • Kenneth Patchen
    Wednesday, December 13th 1911
  • Shirley Jackson
    Thursday, December 14th 1916
  • Gerard Reve
    Friday, December 14th 1923
  • Amy Hempel
    Friday, December 14th 1951
  • Muriel Rukeyser
    Monday, December 15th 1913
  • Arthur C. Clarke
    Sunday, December 16th 1917
  • Jane Austen
    Saturday, December 16th 1775
  • Randall Garrett
    Friday, December 16th 1927
  • George Santayana
    Wednesday, December 16th 1863
  • Philip K. Dick
    Sunday, December 16th 1928
  • Noël Coward
    Saturday, December 16th 1899
  • Jules de Goncourt
    Friday, December 17th 1830
  • Penelope Fitzgerald
    Sunday, December 17th 1916
  • Ford Madox Ford
    Wednesday, December 17th 1873
  • William Safire
    Tuesday, December 17th 1929
  • Saki
    Sunday, December 18th 1870
  • Cyril Collard
    Thursday, December 19th 1957
  • Italo Svevo
    Thursday, December 19th 1861
  • Salvador Elizondo
    Monday, December 19th 1932
  • John Fletcher
    Thursday, December 20th 1579
  • Sandra Cisneros
    Monday, December 20th 1954
  • Nalo Hopkinson
    Tuesday, December 20th 1960
  • Hortense Calisher
    Wednesday, December 20th 1911
  • Seicho Matsumoto
    Tuesday, December 21st 1909
  • Heinrich Böll
    Friday, December 21st 1917
  • Anthony Powell
    Thursday, December 21st 1905
  • Frank Moorhouse
    Wednesday, December 21st 1938
  • Albert Payson Terhune
    Saturday, December 21st 1872
  • Intizar Hussain
    Friday, December 21st 1923
  • John Harvey
    Wednesday, December 21st 1938
  • Sara Coleridge
    Monday, December 22nd 1823
  • Eduard Uspenskiy
    Wednesday, December 22nd 1937
  • Kenneth Rexroth
    Friday, December 22nd 1905
  • Robert Bly
    Thursday, December 23rd 1926
  • Donna Tartt
    Monday, December 23rd 1963
  • Manuel Lopes
    Monday, December 23rd 1907
  • Norman Maclean
    Tuesday, December 23rd 1902
  • Avi
    Thursday, December 23rd 1937
  • Herbert Reinecker
    Thursday, December 24th 1914
  • Fritz Leiber
    Saturday, December 24th 1910
  • Nicholas Meyer
    Monday, December 24th 1945
  • Christopher Buckley
    Wednesday, December 24th 1952
  • Stephenie Meyer
    Monday, December 24th 1973
  • Thomas Murner
    Friday, December 24th 1475
  • Mary Higgins Clark
    Saturday, December 24th 1927
  • Juan Ramón Jiménez
    Saturday, December 24th 1881
  • Johnny Gruelle
    Friday, December 24th 1880
  • Jimmy Buffett
    Wednesday, December 25th 1946
  • Carlos Castaneda
    Friday, December 25th 1925
  • Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah
    Sunday, December 25th 1921
  • Quentin Crisp
    Friday, December 25th 1908
  • Dorothy Wordsworth
    Wednesday, December 25th 1771
  • Rod Serling
    Thursday, December 25th 1924
  • E. D. E. N. Southworth
    Sunday, December 26th 1819
  • René Bazin
    Monday, December 26th 1853
  • Jean Toomer
    Wednesday, December 26th 1894
  • Robert Muchamore
    Tuesday, December 26th 1972
  • David Sedaris
    Wednesday, December 26th 1956
  • Alejo Carpentier
    Monday, December 26th 1904
  • Henry Miller
    Saturday, December 26th 1891
  • Elizabeth Kostova
    Saturday, December 26th 1964
  • Wilfrid Sheed
    Saturday, December 27th 1930
  • Charles Olson
    Tuesday, December 27th 1910
  • Wendy Coakley-Thompson
    Tuesday, December 27th 1966
  • Carl Zuckmayer
    Sunday, December 27th 1896
  • Louis Bromfield
    Sunday, December 27th 1896
  • Onni Palaste
    Thursday, December 27th 1917
  • Cokie Roberts
    Monday, December 27th 1943
  • Sarah Jane Vowell
    Saturday, December 27th 1969
  • Simon Raven
    Wednesday, December 28th 1927
  • Manuel Puig
    Wednesday, December 28th 1932
  • Sam Levenson
    Thursday, December 28th 1911
  • Andy McNab
    Monday, December 28th 1959
  • Enys Tregarthen – Nellie Cornwall
    Monday, December 29th 1851
  • William Gaddis
    Friday, December 29th 1922
  • Rudyard Kipling
    Saturday, December 30th 1865
  • Edward Bunker
    Sunday, December 31st 1933
  • Bob Shaw
    Thursday, December 31st 1931
  • Connie Willis
    Monday, December 31st 1945
  • Susan Shwartz
    Saturday, December 31st 1949
  • Nicholas Sparks
    Friday, December 31st 1965
  • Horacio Quiroga
    Tuesday, December 31st 1878
  • Dal Stivens
    Sunday, December 31st 1911

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