1888 - Raymond Chandler
American author of detective fiction shares credit for developing the genre of the hard-boiled detective. His character Philip Marlowe was played on screen by actors like Humphrey Bogart, James Garner, Elliott Gould and Robert Mitchum.
1928 - Hubert, Jr. Selby
American author whose best-known works, Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream, were both made into films.
1947 - Gardner Dozois
American science fiction author and editor.
Died:
1979 - Joseph Kessel
1989 - Donald Barthelme
2001 - Eudora Welty
2002 - Chaim Potok
2009 - E. Lynn Harris
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