•
January 9 –
Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist philosopher (died
1986) •
January 16 –
Pavel Nilin, Soviet novelist and playwright (died
1981) •
January 18 –
Jacob Bronowski, Polish-born scientist and poet (died
1974) •
January 20 •
Fleur Cowles, American journalist, editor and illustrator (died
2009) •
Jean S. MacLeod, Scottish-English romantic novelist (died
2011) •
February 1 –
Leonard Gribble, English novelist (died
1985) •
February 4 –
Julian Bell, English poet (killed
1937) •
February 11 –
Philip Dunne, American screenwriter, director, and producer (died
1992) •
February 29 –
Dee Brown, American novelist and historian (died
2002) •
March 2 –
Olivia Manning, English playwright and novelist (died
1980) •
March 5 –
Irving Fiske, American playwright, WPA writer, and speaker; co-founder of
Quarry Hill Creative Center (died
1990), •
March 6 – Dame
Felicitas Corrigan, English writer and Benedictine nun (died
2003) •
March 8 –
Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh, Indian-born Bahraini poet (died
2002) •
March 22 –
Louis L'Amour, American author (died
1988) •
April 12 –
Ida Pollock, British romantic novelist (died
2013) •
May 17 –
Frederic Prokosch, American novelist and poet (died
1989) •
May 20 –
Aleksei Arbuzov, Soviet playwright (died
1986) •
May 25 –
Theodore Roethke, American poet (died
1963) •
May 27 –
Peggy Ramsay, born Margaret Venniker, Australian-born British theatrical agent (died
1991) •
May 28 –
Ian Fleming, English espionage novelist (died
1964) •
June 1 –
Julie Campbell Tatham, American children's writer (died
1999) •
June 14 –
Kathleen Raine, English poet, scholar, and translator (died
2003) •
June 25 –
John Sommerfield, English communist writer (died
1991) •
June 27 –
João Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian novelist (died
1967) •
June 30 •
Winston Graham, English novelist (died
2003) •
Rob Nieuwenhuys, Dutch writer (died
1999) •
July 7 –
Laurie Fitzhardinge, Australian historian and librarian (died
1993) •
July 10 –
Carl Richard Jacobi, American journalist and author (died
1997) •
July 23 –
Elio Vittorini, Italian author (died
1966) •
August 21 –
M. M. Kaye, Indian-born English novelist and autobiographer (died
2004) •
August 23 –
Arthur Adamov, French Absurdist playwright (died
1970) •
August 28 •
Robert Merle, French novelist (died
2004) •
Marguerite Young, American novelist, poet and biographer (died
1995) •
August 31 –
William Saroyan, American writer (d.
1981) •
September 4 –
Richard Wright, African-American novelist and poet (died
1960) •
September 9 –
Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist (suicide
1950) •
September 15 –
Miško Kranjec, Slovenian writer (died
1983) •
September 17 –
John Creasey, English crime writer (died
1973) •
October 5 –
Joshua Logan, American stage and film writer and director (died
1988) •
October 13 –
Robert Liddell, English biographer, novelist and poet (died
1992) •
October 17 –
Leon Kalustian, Romanian journalist, essayist and memoirist (died
1990) •
October 23 –
Abdurakhman Avtorkhanov, Chechen historian (died
1997) •
October 24 –
Phyllis Shand Allfrey (Phyllis Byam Shand), Dominican writer (died
1986) •
October 25 –
Edmond Pidoux, Swiss writer (died
2004) •
November 8 –
Zhou Yang, Chinese literary theorist (died
1989) •
November 8 –
Martha Gellhorn, American journalist (suicide
1998) •
November 9 –
Lucian Boz, Romanian and Australian literary critic (died
2003) •
November 20 –
Alistair Cooke, English-born American journalist (died
2004) •
November 21 –
Elizabeth George Speare, American children's writer (died
1994) •
November 23 –
Nelson S. Bond, American author, playwright and scriptwriter (died
2006) •
November 28 •
Claude Lévi-Strauss, Belgian-born French anthropologist (died
2009) •
Mary Oppen, American poet, activist and photographer (died
1990) •
November 30 –
Buddhadeb Bosu, Bengali poet and writer (died
1974) •
December 14 –
Mária Szepes, Hungarian novelist and screenwriter (died
2007) •
December 22 –
Giovanni Luigi Bonelli, Italian comic book author and writer (died
2001) •
December 25 –
Quentin Crisp, English gay icon, author and raconteur (died
1999) ==Deaths==