Happy Birthday!

February 1
Langston Hughes
Jerry Spinelli
Meg Cabot

February 2
James Joyce
Ayn Rand
Judith Viorst
Ina Garten

February 3
Gertrude Stein
James A. Michener
Paul Auster

February 4
MacKinlay Kantor
Betty Friedan
Stewart O’Nan
Russell Hoban

February 5
William S. Burroughs
David Weisner

February 7
Charles Dickens
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Sinclair Lewis

February 8
Jules Verne
Kate Chopin
Elizabeth Bishop
John Grisham
Barbara Joose
Donna Jo Napoli

February 9
J. M. Coetzee
Alice Walker

February 10
Boris Pasternak
Lucy Cousins
E.L. Konigsburg
Mark Teague

February 11
Jane Yolen

February 12
Judy Blume
David Small
Jacqueline Woodson

February 13
Elaine Pagels
Janet Taylor Lisle
Simms Taback

February 14
Phyllis Root
Paul O. Zelinsky
Frederick Douglass

February 15
Matt Groening
Norman Bridwell
Jan Spivey Gilchrist

February 16
Richard Ford

February 18
Wallace Stegner
Toni Morrison
Audre Lorde

February 19
Amy Tan

February 20
Richard Matheson

February 21
Anaïs Nin
Ha Jin
Chuck Palahniuk

February 22
Hugo Ball
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sean O’Faolain
Morley Callaghan
Edward Gorey

February 23
John Sandford
Walter Wick

February 24
Etel Adnan
Wilhelm Carl Grimm

February 25
Anthony Burgess
Cynthia Voigt

February 26
Christopher Marlowe
Victor Hugo

February 27
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
John Steinbeck
N. Scott Momaday
Uri Shulevitz

February 28
Walter Tevis
Megan McDonald
John Tenniel

Happy Birthday!

January 1

E.M. Forster

J.D. Salinger

January 2

Isaac Asimov

William Scott

January 3

Cicero

J.R.R. Tolkien

January 4

Jacob Grimm

Max Eastman

Katie Davis

Phyliss Reynolds Naylor

January 5

W. D. Snodgrass

Umberto Eco

Lynne Cherry

Seanan McGuire

January 6

Carl Sandburg

Khalil Gibran

Alan Watts

E.L. Doctorow

January 7

Zora Neale Hurston

Gerald Malcolm Durrell

January 8

Wilkie Collins

Stephen Hawking

Nancy Bond

January 9

Henry B. Fuller

Simone de Beauvoir

Walter R. Brooks

January 10

Philip Levine

Jared Carter

January 11

Alan Paton

Manfred B. Lee

Robert C. O’Brien

January 12

Edmund Burke

Jack London

Haruki Murakami

Walter Mosley

Charles Perrault

Iza Trapani

David Mitchell

January 13

Horatio Alger Jr

Carolyn Heilbrun

Jay McInerney

Michael Bond

January 14

John dos Passos

Tillie Olsen

Mary Robison

Hugh Lofting

January 15

Molière

Osip Mandelstam

Ernest J. Gaines

Frank Conroy

January 16

Robert Service

Susan Sontag

Inger Christensen

Kate McMullen

January 17

Benjamin Franklin

Anne Brontë

William Stafford

John Bellairs

Robert Cormier

January 18

A.A. Milne

Arthur Ransome

January 19

Edgar Allan Poe

Alexander Woollcott

Patricia Highsmith

Julian Barnes

January 20

Joy Adamson

Sawako Ariyoshi

January 22

Sir Francis Bacon

August Strindberg

Joseph Wambaugh

Rafe Martin

January 23

Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)

Derek Walcott

Katharine Holabird

January 24

William Congreve

Edith Wharton

January 25

Robert Burns

W. Somerset Maugham

Virginia Woolf

Gloria Naylor

January 26

Angela Davis

Jules Feiffer

Mary Mapes Dodge

January 27

Lewis Carroll

Mordecai Richler

January 28

Colette

Valentin Katayev

David Lodge

Vera B. Williams

January 29

Thomas Paine

Anton Chekhov

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Edward Abbey

Rosemary Wells

January 30

Barbara Tuchman

Shirley Hazzard

Richard Brautigan

Michael Dorris

Lloyd Alexander

Polly Horvath

January 31

Zane Grey

John O’Hara

Norman Mailer

Kenzaburō Ōe

Happy birthday, Emily Dickinson!

Jan Brett (The Mitten, Berlioz the Bear)  12/1

David Macaulay (The Way We Work, The Way Things Work) 12/2

Christina Rossetti (Goblin Market, Remember) 12/5

Harve Zemach (Duffy and the Devil: A Cornish Tale, Small Boy is Listening) 12/5

Padraic Colum (The King of Ireland’s Son, The Six Who Were Left in a Shoe) 12/8

James Thurber (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Catbird Seat) 12/8

Edward Tunis  (The Tavern at the Ferry, Frontier Living) 12/8

Jerome Beatty (Bob Fulton’s Amazing Soda-Pop Stretcher: An International Spy Story, Maria Looney on the Red Planet) 12/9

Jean de Brunhoff (Babar) 12/9

Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus stories) 12/9

Emily Dickinson (American poet) 12/10

Cornelia Funke (Inkheart trilogy, Dragon Rider, The Thief Lord) 12/10

George MacDonald (Phantases, Devid Elginbrod, Mary Marston) 12/10

Mary Norton (The Borrowers series)  12/10

Ernest Shepard (illustrator for Winnie-the-Pooh, The Modern Struwwelpeter) 12/10

Ben Lucien Burman (Catfish Bend series, The Four Lives of Mundy Tolliver) 12/12

Barbara Emberley (Drummer Hoff) 12/12

Leonard Weisgard (Suki the Siamese Pussy, Whose Little Bird Am I?, Who Dreams of Cheese? ) 12/13

Rosemary Sutcliff (Heroes and History, Eagle of the Ninth series, Warrior Scarlet) 12/14

Ann Nolan Clark (My Mother’s House) 12/15

Quentin Blake (Mrs. Armitage on Wheels, You’re Only Young Twice, Fantasic Daisy Artichoke) 12/16

Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A Space Odyssey, The Songs of Distant Earth, The Coast of Coral) 12/16

Peter Dickinson (Tulku, City of Gold) 12/16

Marie Hall Ets (Nine Days to Christmas, Just Me, In the Forest) 12/16

Marilyn Sachs (The Bears’ House, The Four Ugly Cats in Apartment 3D) 12/18

Eve Bunting (Someone is Hiding on Alcatraz Island, The Summer of Riley, Fly Away Home) 12/19

Eleanor H Porter (Pollyanna, The Story of Marco) 12/19

Richard Atwater (Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Rickety Rhymes of Riq) 12/20

M.B. Goffstein (Fish for Supper) 12/20

William O Steele (The Perilous Road, Wilderness Journey) 12/22

Avi (Abigail Takes the Wheel, Sometimes I Think I Hear My Name) 12/23

(Mary) Noel Streatfield (A Vicarage Family, The Circus is Coming, Shoes series) 12/24

Johnny Gruelle (Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy series) 12/25

Ella Young (The Tangle-Coasted Horse and Other Tales, Marzilian) 12/26

Ingri Parin D’Aulaire (Leif the Lucky, d’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths) 12/27

Diane Stanley (Shaka King of the Zulus, Moe the Dog in Tropical Paradise) 12/27

Carol Ryrie Brink (Caddie Woodlawn, The Pink Motel) 12/28

Molly Bang (The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher, When Sophie Gets Angry – Really, Really Angry) 12/29

EW Hildick (Jack McGurk series, Ghost Squad series) 12/20

Rudyard Kipling (Just So Stories, Riki-Tiki-Tavi, Gunga Din) 12/30

Mercer Mayer (Little Critter series; A Boy, A Dog, and a Frog; There’s a Nightmare in my Closet) 12/30

Pamela Bianco (Playtime in Cherry Street, The Look-Inside Easter Egg) 12/31

November Author Birthdays

Nicholasa Mohr (Nilda, A Matter of Pride and Other Stories)  11/1

Gyo Fujikawa (Millie’s Secret, Welcome is a Wonderful World)  11/3

Sterling North (Rascal, Midnight and Jeremiah)  11/4

Armstrong Sperry (Call It Courage)  11/7

Benjamin Bova (THX 1138 [with George Lucas], The Winds of Altair)  11/8

Marianna Mayer (Vasilisa the Brave, Baba Yaga)  11/8

Bram Stoker (Dracula)  11/8

Kate Seredy (The White Stag)  11/10

Marjorie Benchley (Nate the Great series, Rollo and Juliet)  11/12

Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island) 11/13

Astrid Lindgren (Pippi Longstocking) 11/14

William Steig (Shrek, CDB, Doctor De Soto)  11/14

Nancy Tafuri (Have You Seen My Duckling?)  11/14

David McCord (An Acre for Education, One At a Time) 11/15

Daniel Pinkwater (The Hoboken Chicken Emergency, The Big Orange Splot)  11/15

Miroslav Sasek (This is Paris, Mike and the Modelmakers) 11/18

Carlo Lorenzini – wrote as Carlo Collodi (Pinocchio)  11/24

Sylvia Engdahl (Stewards of the Flame, Journey Between Worlds)  11/24

Yoshiko Uchida (Journey to Topaz: The Story of a Japanese American Evacuation) 11/24

Crescent Dragonwagon (To Take a Dare, The Cornbread Gospels)  11/25

P.D. Eastman (Are You My Mother? Go, Dog, Go!)  11/25

Marc Brown (Arthur series)  11/25

Doris Gates (A Fair Wind for Troy)  11/26

Charles Shulz (Peanuts)  11/26

Tomi Ungerer (Rigor Mortis, The Joy of Frogs) 11/28

Louisa May Alcott (Little Women, Little Men)  11/29

Madeleine L’Engle (A Wind in the Door, A Wrinkle in Time) 11/29

C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters)  11/29

Lucy Maud Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables)  11/30

Johnathan Swift (Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal)  11/30

Mark Twain (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)  11/30

Some October author birthdays!

Natalie Savage Carlson (The Family Under the Bridge, Runaway Marie Louise)  10/3

Molly Cone (Come Back, Salmon) 10/3

Marilyn Singer (Face Relations: Eleven Stories About Seeing Beyond Color, Several Kinds of Silence) 10/3

Robert Lawson (Ben and Me, They Were Strong and Good, Mr. Revere and I)  10/4

Munro Leaf (The Story of Ferdinand, How to Behave and Why)  10/4

Donald Sobol (Encyclopedia Brown series) 10/4

Louise Fitzhugh (Harriet the Spy, Suzuki Beane)  10/5

Gene Zion (Harry the Dirty Dog)  10/5

Thor Heyerdahl (Kon-Tiki, Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island)  10/6

Lee Kingman (Pierre Pidgeon)  10/6

Alice Dalgiesh (The Courage of Sarah Noble, The Silver Pencil)  10/7

Barthe DeClements (How Do You Lose Those Ninth Grade Blues?)  10/8

Frank Herbert (Dune)  10/8

R.L. Stine (Goosebumps series) 10/8

Johanna Hurwitz (Busybody Nora) 10/9

James Marshall (George and Martha, Miss Nelson is Missing!) 10/10

Arna Bontemps (God Sends Sunday: A Novel, Young Booker: Booker T. Washington’s Early Days)  10/13

Lois Lenski (Phebe Fairchild, Ocean-born Mary) 10/14

Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest)  10/16

Ed Emberley (Ed Emberley’s Big Green Drawing Book; Go Away, Big Green Monster)  10/19

Crockett Johnson (Harold and the Purple Crayon)  10/20

Ursula LeGuin (The Compass Rose, The Wizard of Earthsea)  10/21

Marjorie Flack (Angus and the Ducks, The Story About Ping)  10/23

Steven Kellogg (Pinkerton & Friends, The Pickle Plan) 10/26

Enid Bagnold (National Velvet, The Chalk Garden) 10/27