August author birthdays! Did I miss one of your favorites? Let me know so I can add it!

August 1

Herman Melville

Amy Friedman

Madison Smartt Bell

August 2

James Baldwin

Isabel Allende

Beverly Coyle

Holling C Holling

 

August 3

PD James

Leon Uris

Marvin Bell

Mary Calhoun

Walter Kirn

 

August 4

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Knut Hamsun

Mary While Calstom

 

August 5

Guy deMaupassant

Conrad Aiken

Wendell Berry

 

August 6

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Norma Farber

Piers Anthony

Barbara Cooney

 

August 7

Garrisson Keillor

Betsy Byars

 

August 8

Sara Teasdale

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Valerie Sayers

 

August 9

John Dryden

Philip Larkin

Daniel Keyes

Johnathan Kellerman

Seymour Simon

Pamela L Travers

 

August 10

Suzanne Collins

 

August 11

Alex Haley

Andre Dubus

Joanna Cole

Don Freeman

 

August 12

Edith Hamilton

William Goldman

Walter Dean Meyers

Gail Parent

Ruth Stiles Gannett

 

August 14

Russell Baker

William Kittredge

Alice Provensen

 

August 15

Sir Walter Scott

Edith Nesbit

Stieg Larsson

Mary Jo Salter

August 16

Wallace Thurman

William Maxwell

Charles Bukowski

Diana Wynne Jones

 

August 17

Ted Hughes

VS Naipaul

 

August 18

Paula Danziger

Brian Pinkney

 

August 19

Samuel Richardson

Ogden Nash

James Gould Cozzens

 

August 20

HP Lovecraft

Jacqueline Susann

Jeff Brown

 

August 21

XJ Kennedy

Robert Stone

Arthur Yorinks

 

August 22

Dorothy Parker

Ray Bradbury

Annie Proulx

 

August 23

Edgar Lee Masters

Robert Irwin

Melanie Rae Thon

 

August 24

Jorge Luis Borges

Jean Rhys

AS Byatt

 

August 25

CHarles Wright

Lane Smith

August 26

Christoper Isherwood

Julio Cortázar

Barbara Ehrenreich

 

August 27

Theodore Dreiser

CS Forster

Ira Levin

William Least Heat-Moon

Lisa Yee

Suzy Cline

Ann Rinaldi

Sarah Stewart

 

August 28

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sir John Betjeman

Janet Frame

Rita Dove

Robert Duvoisin

Allen Say

Tasha Tudor

 

August 29

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Preston Sturges

Karen Hesse

 

August 30

Mary Shelley

Virginia Lee Burton

Helen Craig