October 1 - Tim O'Brien (1946 - )
October 4 - Rudy Henry Wiebe (1934 - )
October 4 - Anne Rice (1941 - )
October 7 - Thomas Keneally (1935 - )
October 9 - Ivo Andre (1892 - 1975)
October 10 - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870 - 1953)
October 10 - Claude Simon (1913 - 2005)
October 11 - Francois Mauriac (1885 - 1970)
October 12 - Eugenio Montale (1896 - 1981)
October 13 - Conrad Michael Richter (1890 - 1968)
October 15 - Italo Calvino (1923 - 1985)
October 16 - Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888 - 1953)
October 16 - Gunter Wilhelm Grass (1927 - )
October 16 - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
October 18 - Henri-Louis Bergson (1859 - 1941)
October 19 - Miguel Asturias (1899 - 1974)
October 20 - Elfriede Jelinek (1946 - )
October 21 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
October 21 - Ursula K. Le Guin (1929 - )
October 22 - Doris Lessing (1919 - )
October 24 - Brenda Ueland (1860 - 1985)
October 25 - Anne Tyler (1941 - )
October 27 - Maxine Hong Kingston (1940 - )
October 30 - Timothy Findley (1930 - 2002)
October 30 - Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
October 30 - Fjodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881)
October 31 - John Keats (1795 - 1821)
If you know of an author not mentioned please email me and let me know.
M. E. Wood lives in Eastern Ontario, Canada. If you are going to find this eclectic reader and writer anywhere it is probably at her computer. For more information visit her official website.