January Author Birthdays

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 Brontë (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!