April 7 Writer Birthdays
April 7th, 2017 (11:35 am)
April 7 Writer Birthdays
- 1770 - William Wordsworth, English poet considered one of the founders of the Romantic movement.
- 1803 - Flora Tristan, socialist writer, activist, and one of the founders of modern feminism; grandmother to painter Paul Gauguin.
- 1889 - Gabriela Mistral, pseudonym of Chilean poet and feminist Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature; also an educator and a diplomat.
- 1897 - Walter Winchell, journalist, broadcaster and columnist.
- 1928 - James White, Northern Irish science-fiction author.
- 1931 - Donald Barthelme, American journalist and author of postmodernist short fiction and children's literature; National Book Award winner.
- 1938 - Iris Johansen, American author of crime fiction and romance novels.
- 1939 - Francis Ford Coppola, Oscar-winning screenwriter, director, and producer.
- 1939 - David Frost, British journalist, TV personality, and author, best known to U.S. audiences for a series of interviews with former President Richard Nixon.
