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

1. 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

 

April 1

Edmond Rostand

Augusta Baker

Samuel Ray Delaney

 

April 2

Hans Christian Andersen

Émile Zola

Sue Townsend

 

April 3

George Herbert

Washington Irving

Jane Goodall

 

April 4

Robert Emmet Sherwood

Marguerite Duras

Maya Angelou

Joanna Reis

 

April 5

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Booker T Washington

Robert Bloch

Anthony Horowitz

Richard Peck

 

April 6

Graeme Base

 

April 7

Charles Baudelaire

Paule Marshall

 

April 8

Trina Schart Hyman

 

April 9

Margaret Peterson Haddix

 

April 10

William Hazlitt

Joseph Pulitzer

Paul Theroux

Martin Waddell

 

April 11

Glenway Wescott

Leo Rosten

Gary Soto

 

April 12

Beverly Cleary

Tom Clancy

Scott Turow

 

April 13

Nella Larsen

Marguerite Henry

Samuel  Beckett

Eudora Welty

Lee Bennett Hopkins

Erik Christian Haugaard

 

April 14

James Branch Cabell

Arnold Toynbee

 

April 15

Henry James

Waverly Root

Jacqueline Briggs Martn

 

April 16

Anatole France

Gertrude Chandler Warner

John Millington Synge

Garth Williams

Kingsley Amis

 

April 17

Karen Blixen

Thornton Wilder

Cynthia Ozick

 

April 18

Richard Harding Davis

 

April 19

Etheridge Knight

 

April 20

Mary Hoffman

 

April 21

Charlotte Bronté

Thomas McMahon

Kole Omsotoso

Barbara Park

 

April 22

Henry Fielding

Ellen Glasgow

Eileen Christelow

James Norman Hall

Vladimir Nabokov

Louise Glück

Paula Fox

 

April 23

William Shakespeare

Edwin Markham

JP Donleavy

Charles Johnson

 

April 24

Anthony Trollope

Robert Penn Warren

Sue Grafton

 

April 25

Padget Powell

Maud Hart Lovelace

 

April 26

Marcus Aurelius

Bernard Malamud

Patricia Reilly Giff

 

April 27

Edward Gibbon

Jessie Redmon Fauset

Ludwig Bemelmans

John Burningham

Nancy Shaw

Steven D’amico

August Wilson

 

April 28

Harper Lee

Lois Duncan

Terry Pratchett

Carolyn Forché

Amy Hest

 

April 29

William Randolph Hearst

Jill Paton Walsh

Yusef Komunyakaa

 

April 30

Alice B Toklas

Annie Dillard