March 13 Writer Birthdays
March 13th, 2014 (10:37 pm)
For several months I've been posting a daily list (well, almost daily) of writer birthdays on the Facebook page for the Little Free Library Of Alexandria and Hancock #9136. That's my very own Little Free Library, a little house full of books, sitting on a post in front of my own, people-sized house. It just occurred to me that I should repost the daily (sorta) writer birthday list here on this blog, as well. There's no time like the present, so I'll start with today's list.
March 13 Writer Birthdays
- 1822 - Moritz Grave von Strachwitz, German lyric poet.
- 1872 - Oswald Garrison Villard, American journalist, John Brown biographer & founder of the Anti-Imperialism League; his mother was suffragist Fanny Garrison Villard; his grandfather was abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison.
- 1884 - Oskar Loerke, German poet of the Expressionist & Magic Realist movements.
- 1884 - Emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss novelist, playwright, poet & biographer.
- 1884 - Hugh S. Walpole, New Zealand-born short-story writer, memoirist, playwright & bestselling author.
- 1892 - Janet Flanner, American journalist & writer; under the pen name "Genêt," she was the Paris correspondent for The New Yorker for 50 years.
- 1896 - Dorothy Aldis, children's book author & poet.
- 1897 - Marcel Thiry, French-speaking Belgian poet.
- 1911 - L. Ron Hubbard, science fiction author & founder of the Church of Scientology.
- 1921 - Al Jaffee, cartoonist & comic strip writer for MAD magazine.
- 1950 - Charles Krauthammer, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, columnist & physician.
- 1953 - Ridley Pearson, American author of suspense novels, thrillers & children's adventure books.
