April Literary Birthdays

Literary Birthdays for April include William Shakespeare, Anthony Trollope, Charlotte Brontë, Hamden's own Thornton Wilder, Eudora Welty, August Wilson, Maya Angelou, Samuel Beckett, and Isak Dinesen.
April 1 - Edmond Rostand (1868 - 1918)
April 1 - Anne McCaffrey (1926 - )
April 1 - Milan Kundera (1929 - )
April 2 - Hans Christian Andersen (1805 - 1875)
April 2 - Emile Zola (1840 - 1902)
April 4 - Maya Angelou (1928)
April 3 - Washington Irving (1783 - 1859)
April 5 - Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
April 7 - William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
April 9 - Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
April 10 - David Halberstam (1934 - 2007)
April 12 - Beverly Cleary (1916 - )
April 12 - Tom Clancy (1947 - )
April 12 - Scott Turow (1949 - )
April 13 - Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989)
April 13 - Eudora Welty (1909 - 2001)
April 13 - Seamus Heaney (1939 - )
April 15 - Henry James (1843 - 1916)
April 16 - Kingsley Amis (1922 - 1995)
April 17 - Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975)
April 17 - Isak Dinesen (1885 - 1962)
April 21 - Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 1855)
April 22 - Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
April 23 - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
April 23 - Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977)
April 24 - Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882)
April 24 - Robert Penn Warren (1905 - 1989)
April 24 - Sue Grafton (1940)
April 26 - Bernard Malamud (1914 - 1986)
April 27 - August Wilson (1945 - 2005)
April 28 - Harper Lee (1926 - )
April 30 - Annie Dillard (1945 - )