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Bookish Birthdays for May

May 3
  • Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), Italian writer and statesman
May 5
  • Illustrator and author Leo Lionni (1910-1999)
May 7
  • British poet Robert Browning (1812-1889)
May 9
  • Peter Pan creator Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937), Scottish novelist and playwright
  • New Jersey-born William Pène du Bois (1916-1993), author of Newbery Award winner The Twenty-One Balloons
  • British novelist and Watership Down author Richard Adams (b.1920)
May 12
  • Nonsense poet Edward Lear (1812-1888)
May 15
  • Oz creator L. Frank Baum (1856-1919)
  • Children's writer Norma Fox Mazer (b.1931)
  • YA writer Paul Zindel (b.1936)
May 16
  • Kids' author Bruce Coville (b.1950)
May 17
  • Sometime NM kids' author Gary Paulsen (b.1939)
May 18
  • Manhattan-born (lives in Ireland) adult and young adult fantasy/sci-fi writer Diane Duane (b.1952)
May 20
  • French novelist Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)
May 21
  • Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
May 22
  • Sherlock Holmes' alter ego, Scottish-born physician, novelist, historian, and general odd-ball Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
May 23
  • Los Angeles-born Newbery Medal winner Scott O'Dell (1898-1989)
  • Prolific children's author Margaret Wise Brown (1910-1952)
May 25
  • Boston-born transcendentalist, essayist, philosopher, and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
May 27
  • Godfather of the Western mystery, UNM professor, writer and journalist Tony Hillerman (1925-2008)
May 28
  • The name is. . . Ian Fleming (1908-1964), also the under-recognized author of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car
May 29
  • Prolific British essayist, literary critic, novelist, and poet, and short-story writer, and creator of detective Father Brown, Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
  • British (born in India) novelist T. H. White (1906-1964), best known for his Arthurian legend novels
  • New Jersey native Andrew Clements (b.1949), children's book writer
May 31
  • American poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
For a complete see the Library Booklists.

Bookish Birthdays for June

June 2
  • English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
June 3
  • Beat poet Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997)
  • Texas novelist Larry McMurtry (b.1936)
June 5
  • Andalusian poet and dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936)
  • The best busy children's author ever Richard Scarry (1919-1994)
June 6
  • Russian writer Aleksandr Pushkin (1799-1837)
  • Prolific children's author Cynthia Rylant (b.1954)
June 7
  • American poet & civil rights promoter Nikki Giovanni (b.1943)
June 10
  • Russian science writer Immanuel Velikovsky (1895-1979)
  • Iconic children's author Maurice Sendak (1928-2012)
June 11
  • South African anti-apartheid playwright Athol Fugard (b.1932)
June 12
  • Charles Kingsley (1819-1875), author of the well-known children's story The Water Babies and one of the few clergymen of his time to accept Darwin's theory of evolution
  • Heidi author Johanna Spyri (1829-1901)
  • Holocaust victime Anne Frank (1929-1945)
June 13
  • Irish poet & folklorist William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
June 14
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin writer Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
June 15
  • Creator of the beloved Redwall series, Brian Jacques (1939-2011)
June 16
  • Novelist Joyce Carol Oates (b.1938)
June 18
  • Caldecott medalist Chris Van Allsburg (b.1949)
June 19
  • Exiled Indian writer Salman Rushdie (b.1947)
June 20
  • Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932), the first important African-American novelist
June 21
  • Existentialist philosopher and author Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
June 22
  • English romantic novelist Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925)
June 25
  • British futurist George Orwell (1903-1950)
  • Massachusetts children's book illustrator Eric Carle (b.1929)
June 26
  • Writer & humanitarian Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)
June 28
  • Swiss 'Father of the Romanticism' and author Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
June 29
  • French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)
June 29
  • Popular American children's author and illustrator David McPhail (b.1940)
For a complete see the Library Booklists.

Bookish Birthdays for July

July 4
  • American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)
July 7
  • Missouri-born science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein (1907-1988)
  • Native American novelist Louise Erdrich (b.1954)
July 8
  • French poet and fable-writer Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695)
July 11
  • New England writer E. B. White (1899-1985)
July 12
  • Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), American writer and Transcendentalist
  • Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), Chilean poet and Nobel Prize winner
July 18
  • Victorian novelist William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
July 20
  • Rhode Island-born, New Mexico author Cormac McCarthy (b.1933)
July 22
  • The great Papa Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
July 23
  • New Mexico writer John Nichols (b.1940)
  • Chicago-born mystery writer and creator of Philip Marlowe Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)
July 24
  • Three Musketeers creator Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870)
July 26
  • Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
  • British novelist and essayist Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
July 28
  • British children's author Beatrix Potter (1866-1943)
July 30
  • Emily Bronte (1818-1848), whose only novel was Wuthering Heights
July 31
  • The inimitable J. K. Rowling (b.1965), without whom we would have no bookstore!
For a complete see the Library Booklists.

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