May 4 - Graham Swift (1949 - )
May 4 - David Guterson (1956 - )
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May 5 - Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846 - 1916)
May 6 - Harry Martinson (1904 - 1978)
May 7 - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927 - )
May 7 - Peter Carey (1943 - )
May 7 - Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
May 7 - Wladyslaw Reymont (1867 - 1925)
May 8 - Pat Barker (1943 - )
May 8 - Thomas Pynchon (1937 - )
May 11 - Camilo Jose Cela (1916 - 2002)
May 15 - Katherine Ann Porter (1890 - 1980)
May 15 - L. Frank Baum (1856 - 1919)
May 18 - Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
May 20 - Sigrid Undset (1882 - 1949)
May 20 - Sally Cooper
May 22 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
May 23 - Scott O' Dell (1898 - 1989)
May 23 - Par Lagerkvist (1891 - 1974)
May 24 - Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1905 - 1984)
May 24 - Joseph Brodsky (1940 - 1996)
May 24 - Marian Engel (1933 - 1985)
May 25 - Douglas LePan (1914 - 1998)
May 25 - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
May 26 - Alan Hollinghurst (1954 - )
May 27 - John Cheever (1912 - 1982)
May 27 - John Barth (1930 - )
May 27 - Herman Wouk (1915 - )
May 28 - Patrick White (1912 - 1990)
May 28 - Walker Percy (1916 - 1990)
May 31 - Saint-John Perse (1887 - 1975)
May 31 - Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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.