Is your birthday in August? Scroll down list to find out who shares your birth date.
August 1 - Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
August 2 - James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
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August 3 - Leon Uris (1924 - 2003)
August 4 - Percy Shelley (1792 - 1822)
August 4 - Knut Hamsun (1859 - 1952)
August 5 - Conrad Aiken (1889 - 1973)
August 6 - Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
August 8 - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896 - 1953)
August 9 - John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
August 9 - P. L. (Pamela Lyndon) Travers (1899 - 1996)
August 11 - Alex Haley (1921 - 1992)
August 12 - Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
August 12 - Edith Hamilton (1867 - 1963)
August 12 - Jacinto Benavente (1866 - 1954)
August 14 - John Galsworthy (1867 - 1933)
August 15 - Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
August 17 - Ted Hughes (1930 - 1998)
August 17 - V. S. Naipaul (1932 - )
August 17 - Jonathan Franzen (1959 - )
August 19 - James Gould Cozzens (1903 - 1978)
August 19 - Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
August 20 - Edgar Guest (1881 - 1959)
August 20 - Salvatore Quasimodo (1901 - 1968)
August 21 - Robert Stone (1937 - )
August 22 - Annie Proulx (1935 - )
August 22 - Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
August 24 - Orson Scott Card (1951 - )
August 24 - A. S. Byatt (1936 - )
August 25 - Brian Moore (1921 - 1999)
August 28 - Robertson Davies (1913 - 1995)
August 28 - Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
August 28 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
August 29 - Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949)
August 29 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809 - 1894)
August 30 - Mary Shelley (1797 - 1851)
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.
