1915 - Ross McDonald
Pen name of American-Canadian crime fiction writer Kenneth Millar, known for his Lew Archer series.
1916 - Leonard Weisgard
American illustrator whose work on Margaret Wise Brown's The Little Island won him the 1948 Caldecott Medal.
1927 - James Wright
American poet whose 1972 Collected Poems won a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
1949 - R.A MacAvoy
American fantasy author whose books draw on Celtic and Zen themes.
1952 - Jean Rouaud
French author who won the Prix Goncourt in 1990 for Fields of Glory (Les Champs d'honneur.)
1954 - Emma Bull
American science fiction and fantasy author whose first novel, War for the Oaks, is a pioneering work in urban fantasy.
1954 - Tamora Pierce
American author of young adult fantasy fiction.
Died:
1784 - Samuel Johnson
1947 - Henry James
1973 - Henry Green
1995 - Ann Nolan Clark
1996 - Edward Blishen
1997 - Don E. Fehrenbacher
2004 - Bernarda Bryson
2011 - T.J. Bass
2011 - Russell Hoban
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