Is your birthday in January? Scroll down the list to find out which novelist/author shares your birth date.
January 1 - E.M. Forster (1879 1970)
January 1 - Joe Orton (1933 1967)
January 1 - Ernest Tidyman (1928 1984)
January 2 - Charles Beaumont (1929 1967)
January 2 - Issac Asimov (1920-1992)
January 3 - Alex Wheatle (1963 - )
January 3 - J.R.R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
January 4 - Carl Sandburg (1878 1967)
January 4 - Mark Leyner (1956 - )
January 6 - Jacobo Timerman (1923 1999)
January 7 - Zora Neal Hurston (1891 - 1960)
January 8 - Wilkie Collins (1824 - 1889)
January 9 - Wilbur Addison Smith (1933 - )
January 9 - John Dunning (1942 - )
January 12 - John Griffith London (1876 1916)
January 12 - William Nicholson (1948 - )
January 13 - Lorrie Moore (1957 - )
January 15 - Robert Silverberg (1935 - )
January 16 - Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004)
January 17 - Anne Brontλ (1820 1849)
January 17 - Ellen Wood (1814 1887)
January 18 - A.A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
January 19 - Edgar Allen Poe (1809 - 1849)
January 19 - Julian Barnes (1946 - )
January 20 - Sandra Cisneros (1954 - )
January 21 - Louis Menand (1952 - )
January 23 - Anya Seton (1906 1990)
January 24 - Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (1776 1822)
January 24 - Frances Moore Brooke (1724 1789)
January 25 - Robert Burns (1759 1796)
January 25 - William Somerset Maugham (1874 1965)
January 25 - James Gordon Farrell (1935 1979)
January 25 - Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882 1941)
January 26 - Shannon Hale (1974 - )
January 27 - Donald Michael Thomas, known as D. M. Thomas (1935 - )
January 28 - John Perkins (1945 - )
January 28 - Alan Alda (1936 - )
January 30 - Lloyd Chudley Alexander (1924 2007)
January 30 - Gregory Benford (1941 - )
January 30 - Allan W. Eckert (1931 2011)
January 31 - John Henry O'Hara (1905 1970)
January 31 - Zane Grey (1872 1939)
If you know of any author(s) that was not mentioned, please do let me know and I'll have them added right away!