•
January 10 –
E. Arnot Robertson, English novelist and broadcaster (died
1961) •
February 11 –
Alan Paton, South African novelist and activist (died
1988) •
February 13 –
Georges Simenon, Belgian crime writer (died
1989) •
February 17 –
Sadegh Hedayat, Iranian-born novelist (suicide
1951) •
February 21 •
Anaïs Nin, French-American novelist and diarist (died
1977) •
Raymond Queneau, French poet (died
1976) •
February 22 –
Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (died
1990) •
February 24 •
Vladimir Bartol, Slovene author (died
1967) •
Irène Némirovsky, Russian-born French novelist (died
1942) •
June 8 –
Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian novelist (died
1987) •
June 18 –
Raymond Radiguet, French author (died
1923) •
June 25 –
George Orwell, English novelist and journalist (died
1950) •
July 3 –
Oliver Stonor, English novelist (died
1987) •
July 10 –
John Wyndham, English science fiction writer (died
1969) •
September 5 –
János Kemény, American-born Transylvanian Hungarian writer (died
1971) •
September 9 –
Edward Upward, English novelist and short story writer (died
2009) •
September 10 –
Cyril Connolly, English critic and writer (died
1974) •
September 14 –
Mart Raud, Estonian poet, playwright and writer (died
1980) •
October 17 •
G. E. Trevelyan, English novelist (died
1941) •
Nathanael West, American novelist and screenwriter (died
1940) •
October 28 –
Evelyn Waugh, English novelist and critic (died
1966) •
December 6 (November 23
OS) –
Gaito Gazdanov, Russian-born novelist (died 1971) •
December 10 •
Mary Norton, English children's writer (died
1992) •
William Plomer (Robert Pagan), South African-born novelist, poet and literary editor (died
1973) •
December 13 –
Todhunter Ballard, American novelist (died
1980) •
December 24 –
Nancy Brysson Morrison, Scottish novelist (died
1986) •
December 29 –
Sergiu Dan, Romanian novelist and journalist (died
1976) •
Uncertain dates –
Kathleen Lindsay, prolific English-born romance novelist (died
1973) ==Deaths==