May 4

Born:

1940 - Robin Cook
American physician and novelist who combines medical fiction with the thriller genre.

1941 - George Will
American conservative writer whose works tend to cover politics or baseball.

1949 - Graham Swift
English writer of magical realism, winner of the 1996 Booker Prize for Last Orders.

1956 - David Guterson
American author best known for Snow Falling on Cedars, which was made into a feature film.

1979 - Kristin Harmel
American author whose books tend to fall into the chick lit genre.




Died:
1924 - E. Nesbit
1950 - William Rose Benét