November 5 Writer Birthdays
November 5th, 2016 (01:01 pm)
November 5 Writer Birthdays
- 1849 - Rui Barbosa, Brazilian writer, politician, and abolitionist.
- 1850 - Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet, best known for her work, "Solitude," which contains the lines, "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone."
- 1857 - Ida Tarbell, American author, teacher, and investigative journalist whose work led to the breakup of the Standard Oil monopoly.
- 1885 - Will Durant, American writer and historian, known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning 11-volume work on the history of civilization, written with his wife Ariel; he was also an activist for women's suffrage and labor rights.
- 1926 - John Berger, Booker Prize-winning English art critic, painter, novelist, and poet.
- 1927 - Thomas Gibbons Aylesworth, American author and editor of books for children and young adults.
- 1935 - Christopher Hovelle Wood, English novelist and screenwriter who adapted two James Bond novels for the screen and wrote historical fiction, semi-autobiographical fiction, adventure stories, and comic erotica; some of his work is under the pseudonym Timothy Lea.
- 1943 - Sam Shepard, Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright, actor, and film director.
- 1944 - Carole Nelson Douglas, American novelist and short-story writer best known for her mystery novels.
- 1953 - Joyce Maynard, American author and memoirist who was criticized for writing about her relationship with J.D. Salinger.
- 1971 - Rana Dasgupta, British/Indian novelist and essayist.
- 1982 - Uzodinma Iweala, U.S./Nigerian novelist, essayist, and medical student.
Happy Birthday to all of today's Birthday authors!
