Tuesday, December 1, 2009

December Literary Birthdays

Literary Birthdays for December include novelists Jane Austen and Gustave Flaubert, and poets John Milton and Emily Dickinson.
December 1 - Rex Stout (1886 - 1975)
December 2 - T.C. Boyle (1948 - )
December 2 - Ann Patchett (1963 - )
December 3 - Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
December 4 - Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 -1926)
December 5 - Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
December 5 - Joan Didion (1934 - )
December 8 - James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
December 9 - John Milton (1608 - 1674)
December 10 - Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
December 11 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918 -2008 )
December 11 - Naguib Mahfouz (1911 - 2006)
December 11 - Grace Paley (1922 - 2007)
December 12 - Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
December 14 - Shirley Jackson (1916 - 1965)
December 16 - Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
December 16 - Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - 2008)
December 16 - Philip K. Dick (1928 -1982)
December 17 - Ford Madox Ford (1873 - 1939)
December 17 - John Kennedy Toole (1937 - 1969)
December 21 - Heinrich Böll (1917 - 1985)
December 21 - Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
December 22 - Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869 - 1935)
December 24 - Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881 - 1958)
December 24 - Mary Higgins Clark (1929 - )
December 26 - Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
December 29 - William Gaddis (1922 - 1998)
December 30 - Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
December 30 - Paul Bowles (1910 - 1999)

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