December 2 Writer Birthdays
December 2nd, 2017 (07:00 am)
December 2 Writer Birthdays
- 1897 - Rewi Alley, writer, educator, and social reformer.
- 1909 - Joseph P. Lash, American political activist, Eleanor Roosevelt biographer, and author who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
- 1910 - Russell Lynes, art historian, critic, and author who was also managing editor of Harper’s Magazine.
- 1914 - Adolph Green, American lyricist and playwright.
- 1929 - Dan Jenkins, American author and sportswriter.
- 1929 - Leon Litwack, Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian.
- 1935 - David Hackett Fisher, Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian.
- 1937 - Brian Lumley, English author.
- 1939 - Yaël Dayan, Israeli political activist, novelist, and journalist.
- 1946 - David Macaulay, bestselling British-born American author and illustrator.
- 1948 - Elizabeth Berg, bestselling American novelist, playwright, registered nurse, and rock-band singer whose books have won many awards.
- 1948 - T.C. Boyle, American novelist and short-story writer.
- 1950 - Benedict Fitzgerald, controversial screenwriter.
- 1728 - Ferdinando Galiani, influential Italian economist & writer.
- 1868 - Francis Jammes, French poet.
- 1885 - Níkos Kazantazakís, Greek novelist.
- 1944 - Botho Strauss, Germany playwright, novelist, and essayist.
- 1958 - George Saunders, American writer of essays, short stories, and children’s books.
- 1963 - Ann Patchett, American novelist who won the Orange Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award.
- 1971 - Jüri Reinvere, Estonian poet and composer.
