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
