May 1
Joseph Heller
Bobbie Ann Mason
May 4
Thomas Kinsella
Graham Swift
David Guterson
Don Wood
May 5
Karl Marx
Nellie Bly
Leo Leonni
May 6
Randall Jarell
Ted Lewin
Barbara McClintock
May 7
Robert Browning
Archibald MacLeish
Nonny Hogrogian
Michael Rosen
May 8
Edmund Wilson
Irene Hunt
Louise Meriwether
Milton Metzer
Thomas Pynchon
May 9
JM Barrie
Richard Adams
William Pene DuBois
Eleanor Estes
Mona Van Duyn
May 10
Christopher Paul Curtis
May 11
Stanley Elkin
May 12
Dante Gabriel Rosetti
Farley Mowat
Blue Balliett
Jennifer Armstrong
Edward Lear
May 13
Daphne Du Maurier
Norma Klein
Armistead Maupin
May 14
Hal Borland
Eoin Colfer
George Selden
May 15
- Frank Baum
Katherine Ann Porter
Mikhail Bulgakov
David Almond
JS Lewis
Kadir Nelson
Norma Fox Mazer
Paul Zindel
May 16
Studs Terkel
Adrienne Rich
Bruce Coville
Margaret Rey
May 17
Gary Paulsen
May 18
Bertrand Russell
Diane Duane
Sarah Ellis
Debbie Dadey
Lillian Hoban
May 19
Lorraine Hansberry
Nora Ephron
May 20
Honoré de Balzac
Mary Pope Osborne
May 21
Dante Alighieri
Alexander Pope
Harold Robbins
Jeremy Tankard
Robert Creeley
May 22
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Peter Matthiessen
Arnold Lobel
May 23
Scott O’Dell
Margaret Wise Brown
Susan Cooper
May 24
William Trevor
Joseph Brodsky
May 25
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Theodore Roethke
Robert Ludlum
Raymond Carver
Jamaica Kincaid
May 26
Lisbeth Zwerger
May 27
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Rachel Carson
Herman Wouk
Tony Hillerman
Marijane Meaker
John Barth
May 28
Ian Fleming
Walker Percy
May Swenson
May 29
Andrew Clements
May 30
Countee Cullen
Brock Cole
May 31
Walt Whitman
Harry Mazer
Al Young
