Authors in History (Part 15)

Historical Events

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Famous Birthdays

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• 1945-10-26 Demetris Th. Gotsis, Greek poet and author, born in Thessaloniki, Greece
• 1945-11-12 Michael Bishop, American sci-fi author (Nebula, Stolen Faces)
• 1945-11-12 Tracy Kidder, American journalist and author
• 1945-11-20 Rachid Mimouni, Algerian author, born in Boudouaou, Algeria (d. 1995)
• 1945-11-26 Ethan Russell, American photographer and author (photographed covers for the Beatles, Rolling Stones and The Who), born in Mt. Kisco, New York
• 1945-12-12 Karl Edward Wagner, American sci-fi author (Bloodstone, Night Winds), born in Knoxville, Tennessee (d. 1994)

• 1945-12-17 Jacqueline Wilson, English author
• 1946-01-20 Susan Vreeland, American author (The Passion of Artemisia), born in Racine, Wisconsin (d. 2017)
• 1946-02-26 Phyllis Eisenstein, American sci-fi author (Sorcerer's Son, Born to Exile), born in Chicago, Illinois
• 1946-03-12 Peter Whalley, British television writer and author
• 1946-03-22 Rudy Rucker, American sci-fi author (Wetware) and one of the founders of cyberpunk, born in Louisville, Kentucky
• 1946-03-23 Alan Bleasdale, English author, playwright and scriptwriter (Are You Lonesome Tonight), born in Liverpool
• 1946-05-12 L. Neil Smith, American sci-fi author
• 1946-05-25 Janet Morris, American sci-fi author (Golden Sword, Tempus), born in Boston, Massachusetts
• 1946-06-08 Elizabeth A. Lynn, American sci-fi author (Watchtower, Red Hawk), born in NYC, New York
• 1946-06-12 John Steinbeck IV, American journalist, author and son of John Steinbeck, born in New York City
• 1946-06-18 Russell Ash, British author ('the human Google'), born in Surrey, England
• 1946-06-21 Trond Kirkvaag, Norwegian comedian and author, born in Oslo, Norway (d. 2007)
• 1946-07-03 Michael Shea, American sci-fi author (World Fantasy Award: Nifft the Lean, Growlimb), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2014)
• 1946-08-15 Tony Robinson, English actor, comedian and author, born in Homerton, London
• 1946-08-25 Charles Ghigna (Father Goose), American poet and children's books author (Tickle Day: Poems from Father Goose), born in Bayside, New York
• 1946-09-09 Christopher Francis Palmer, British composer, orchestrator, and musicologist, born in Norfolk, England (d. 1995)
• 1946-09-15 Howard Waldrop, American sci-fi author
• 1946-11-10 Jack Ketchum [Dallas William Mayr], American horror fiction author (Off Season, Red, The Woman), born in Livingston, New Jersey (d. 2018)
• 1946-11-18 Alan Dean Foster, American sci-fi author (Midworld, Flinx in Flux)
• 1946-12-16 Adriaan van Dis, Dutch author (Promised Country), born in Bergen aan Zee, Netherlands
• 1946-12-19 Rosemary Conley, English businesswoman, author and broadcaster
• 1947-01-08 Don Bendell, American author & former Green Beret, born in Akron, Ohio
• 1947-01-10 George Alec Effinger, American sci-fi author (Nick of Time), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2002)
• 1947-01-16 Magdalen Nabb, British author, born in Lancashire, United Kingdom (d. 2007)
• 1947-01-23 Gatewood Galbraith, American author & attorney, born in Carlisle, Kentucky (d. 2012)
• 1947-02-03 Paul Auster, American author/poet/director (Mr Vertigo, Smoke)
• 1947-03-06 Teru Miyamoto, Japanese author
• 1947-03-10 Laurie Langenbach, Dutch author
• 1947-03-17 James Morrow, American author

• 1947-04-02 Camille Paglia, American author and social critic, born in Endicott, New York
• 1947-04-12 Tom Clancy, American author (Rainbow Six, The Hunt for Red October), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 2013)
• 1947-04-18 Kathy Acker, American experimental novelist (Blood and Guts in High School), born in NYC, New York (d. 1997)
• 1947-04-20 Andrew Tobias, American journalist and author (The Best Little Boy in the World), born in NYC, New York
• 1947-05-10 Caroline Cooney, American author
• 1947-05-10 Thomas Tessier, American author
• 1947-05-13 Stephen R Donaldson, American sci-fi author (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Lord Foul's Bane), born in Cleveland, Ohio
• 1947-06-22 Octavia E[stelle] Butler, American sci-fi author (Hugo, Wild Seed)
• 1947-07-03 Dave Barry, American humorist and author, born in Armonk, New York
• 1947-07-07 Howard Rheingold, American author
• 1947-07-31 Ian Beck, British children's illustrator and author, who illustrated Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" album cover, born in Brighton, East Sussex

• 1947-08-24 Paulo Coelho, Brazilian author (The Alchemist), born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• 1947-09-19 Tanith Lee, British sci-fi author (Don't Bite the Sun), born in London

• 1947-10-09 Tony Zappone, American broadcaster and journalist, born in Tampa, Florida
• 1947-11-22 Valerie Wilson Wesley, American author
• 1947-12-22 Brian C. Daley, American sci-fi author (Exploits of Han Solo, Tron), born in Englewood, New Jersey

• 1948-02-03 Henning Mankell, Swedish playwright and author (Wallander novels), born in Stockholm (d. 2015)
• 1948-02-11 Susan Bernard, American author, actress (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!) Playboy playmate (Dec, 1966), born in Los Angeles, California
• 1948-02-12 Raymond Kurzweil, American inventor and author (Kurzweil reading machine, text-to-speech synthesis), born in NYC, New York
• 1948-02-16 Eckhart Tolle, Author and spiritual teacher
• 1948-02-29 Patricia [Anne] McKillip, American sci-fi author (Fool's Run)
• 1948-03-04 Lindy Chamberlain, Australian author
• 1948-03-15 Kate Bornstein, American author
• 1948-03-16 Margaret [Edith] Weis, American sci-fi author (Dragons of Spring Dawning)
• 1948-03-17 William [Ford] Gibson, Canadian sci-fi author (Neuromancer, Count Zero)
• 1948-03-20 Pamela Sargent, American sci-fi author (Venus of Dreams, Cloned Lives), born in Ithaca, New York
• 1948-03-31 David Eisenhower, author and grandson of President Eisenhower (married Julie Nixon), born in West Point, New York
• 1948-04-02 Joan D. Vinge, American sci-fi author (2 Hugos, Dune), born in Baltimore, Maryland
• 1948-04-21 Max Wyndham, 2nd Baron Egremont, English peer and author
• 1948-04-22 Carol Drinkwater, Anglo-Irish actress (Father, All Creatures Great & Small) and author (The Haunted School, Provence), born in London
• 1948-04-23 Pascal Quignard, French author (Les Ombres), born in Verneuil-sur-Avre, Eure, France

• 1948-05-31 Svetlana Alexievich, journalist and author (Noble Prize for Literature 2015), born in Stanislav, Ukraine
• 1948-06-23 Darhyl S. Ramsey, American author
• 1948-07-05 Julie Nixon Eisenhower, American author and the youngest daughter of Richard Nixon, born in Washington, D.C.
• 1948-07-22 S. E. Hinton, American author
• 1948-07-25 Brian Stableford, British sci-fi author (Day of Wrath), born in Shipley, Yorkshire
• 1948-08-02 Robert Holdstock, English sci-fi author (Ghost Dance, Labyrinth), born in Hythe, England (d. 2009)
• 1948-08-07 Marty Appel, American public relations executive and author, born in Brooklyn, New York
• 1948-08-28 Vonda N. McIntyre, American sci-fi author (Star Trek II, III, IV), born in Louisville, Kentucky
• 1948-09-08 Lynn [Lorraine] Abbey, American sci-fi author (Black Flame), born in Peekskill, New York
• 1948-09-20 George R. R. Martin, American fantasy and sci-fi author (A Song of Ice and Fire), born in Bayonne, New Jersey
• 1948-10-18 Ntozake Shange, American author
• 1948-11-24 Spider Robinson, Canadian sci-fi author (3 Hugo, Callahan's Secret)
• 1949-01-26 Jonathan Carroll, American author, born in New York
• 1949-01-27 Ethan Mordden, American author
• 1949-03-14 Michael Stedman, British World War I Historian and Author
• 1949-04-12 Scott Turow, American lawyer and author (Presumed Innocent), born in Chicago, Illinois

• 1949-05-03 Ken Hom, Chinese-American chef, author and BBC TV presenter (OBE for "services to culinary arts" 2009), born in Tucson, Arizona
• 1949-05-04 Graham Swift, British author (Waterland, Last Orders), born in London

• 1949-06-14 Harry Turtledove, American author (The Guns of the South), born in Los Angeles, California
• 1949-06-18 Chris Van Allsburg, American author and illustrator
• 1949-08-03 Reed Waller, American comic book author (Omaha the Cat Dancer)
• 1949-09-22 Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist and author (d. 1999)
• 1949-10-01 Isaac Bonewits, American author
• 1949-11-23 Gayl Jones, American author/poet (Corregidora, Song for Anninho)
• 1949-12-08 Mary Gordon, American author
• 1949-12-13 R. A. MacAvoy, American sci-fi author (Damiano's Lute, Raphael), born in Cleveland, Ohio

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