July Literary Birthdays

Literary birthdays for July include Jean Cocteau, Hunter S. Thompson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, George Sand, Cormac McCarthy, Tom Stoppard, Herman Hesse, J.K. Rowling, and Ernest Hemingway.

July 1 - James M. Cain, American crime fiction writer (1892 – 1977)
July 1 - George Sand, French novelist (1804 - 1876)
July 2 - Hermann Hesse, German-born Swiss novelist and poet (1877 - 1962)
July 3 - Franz Kafka, Czech writer (1883 - 1924)
July 3 - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Connecticut-born writer and social activist (1860 – 1935)
July 3 - Tom Stoppard, British playwright (1937 - )
July 4 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist and short story writer (1804 - 1864)
July 4 - Lionel Trilling, American literary critic and essayist (1905 - 1975)
July 4 - Neil Simon, American playwright (1927 - )
July 5 - Jean Cocteau, French writer, artist, and filmmaker (1889 - 1963)
July 9 - Dean R. Koontz, American suspense writer (1945- )
July 10 - Alice Munro, Canadian short story writer (1931- )
July 10 - Marcel Proust, French novelist (1871 - 1922)
July 11 - E. B. White, American essayist, grammarian, and novelist (1899 – 1985)
July 12 - Henry David Thoreau, American writer and Transcendentalist (1817 - 1862)
July 12 - Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet (1904 - 1973)
July 12 - Donald Westlake, American mystery writer (1933 - 2008)
July 15 - Iris Murdoch, Irish-born British novelist (1919-1999)
July 17 - Erle Stanley Gardner American detective fiction writer (1889 - 1970)
July 18 - William Makepeace Thackeray, Victorian novelist (1811 - 1863)
July 18 - Clifford Odets, American playwright (1906 - 1963)
July 18 - Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist (1937 - 2005)
July 20 - Cormac McCarthy, American novelist (1933- )
July 21 - Ernest Hemingway, American writer (1899 - 1961)
July 22 - Stephen Vincent Benét, American poet, short story writer, and novelist (1898 – 1943)
July 23 - Raymond Chandler, American detective fiction writer (1888 - 1959)
July 23 - Hubert Selby, Jr., American novelist (1928 - 2004)
July 24 - Alexandre Dumas, French novelist (1802 - 1870)
July 26 - George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright (1856 - 1950)
July 26 - Aldous Huxley, British novelist and essayist(1894 - 1963)
July 28 - Beatrix Potter, British children's book author (1866 - 1943)
July 28 - John Ashbery, American poet (1927 - )
July 29 - Booth Tarkington, American novelist (1869 - 1946)
July 30 - Emily Brontë, British novelist (1818;d.1848)
July 31 - J. K. Rowling, British children's book author (1965 - )
July 31 - Primo Levi, Italian chemist, writer and Holocaust survivor (1919 - 1987)