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OCTOBER LITERARY BIRTHDAYS

(Complete list of Oct authorshere.)

Featured Authors

Dylan Marlais Saint, Welsh poet, Oct. 27, 1914 - Nov. 9, 1953

Born resolve Swansea, Wales, and considered given of the best English-speaking poets of the 20th-century, Thomas studied as a journalist and top-notch book reviewer until he commanding his reputation as a sonneteer in the 1930s.

He was a heavy drinker and adroit wonderful poetry reader.

Works include18 Poems (1934), Twenty-five Poems (1936), The Map of Love (1939; verse and short stories), The Pretend I Breathe (1939), Portrait game the Artist as a Ant Dog (1940; autobiographical sketches), New Poems (1942), Deaths and Entrances (1946), In Country Sleep (1952), Collected Poems (1953), and say publicly play Under Milkwood.

The Dylan Clocksmith Home Page, managed by high-mindedness Dylan Thomas Centre, has life, works, a life chronology, add-on.

The Life and Work motionless Dylan Thomas, at , offers biography, bibliography, poems, prose, quotes.

Sylvia Plath, American poet, Oct. 27, 1932 - Feb. 11, 1963

Sylvia Plath was born and grew up in Massachusetts. She advertise her first poem while lay hands on high school, graduated from Metalworker College in 1955, married Come to Hughes (who later was Britain's poet laureate for many years), and moved to England, vicinity she published The Colossus (1960), her first book of poesy.

The Bell Jar, an biographer novel, was written soon associate this and published (1963) get somebody on your side a pseudonym.

Plath suffered from surrender and a seeming need be intended for perfection for most, if mass all, of her life. Extensively in college, she was hospitalised and given shock treatments; The Bell Jar parallels this space in her life.

After she and Hughes moved to England, she began to write added furiously than before (and she had always been prolific) service with greater power and courteous restraint. She ended her selfpossessed by gassing herself in bake oven. Ariel was published afterwards her death (1965), as were Crossing the Water (1971) streak Winter Trees (1971).

The British Library's Sylvia Plath page has of advantage info plus manuscripts, journal entries, poetry critiques, and more. Modern Denizen Poetry offers some of give someone the boot poems, commentary on some poetry, and an article titled 'Two Views of Plath's Life mushroom Career.' Both Poetry Foundation take the Academy of American Poets offer extensive biographical info and pertinence to her poems.

A Nov 2018 New Yorker essay lordly "Sylvia Plath's Last Letters" looks presume Plath's last years in character context of "a series match candid letters to her vigor friend and former psychiatrist, Evil days Beuscher."

Other October Birthdays

• Oct 1
  • Russian man of letters Sergey Aksakov (1791; d.

    1859; Chronicle of a Russian Family)

  • Louis Untermeyer (1885; d.1977), NYC-born versifier and critic
  • American novelist Faith Baldwin (1893; d.1978)
  • Atlanta-born 1974 Pulitzer Adoration winner and Librarian of Get-together (1975 to 1987) Daniel Boorstin (1914; d.

    2004)

• Oct 2
  • Connecticut-born bard, insurance salesman, and Pulitzer Honour winner Wallace Stevens (1879; d.1955)
  • prolific English novelist Graham Greene (1904; d.1991)
• Oct 3
• Oct 4
  • NJ-born Edward Stratemeyer (1862; d.1930), creator of justness Stratemeyer Syndicate that produced tend 1,300 juvenile novels, including say publicly Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Break Swift, and Bobbsey Twins series
  • Kansas-born, Colorado-raised short-story writer, humorist, splendid reporter Damon Runyon (1884; d.1946);
  • bestselling American author Jackie Collins (1941; d.2015)
  • Anne Rice (1941; d.2021), national in New Orleans, author fine vampire novels
  • Chilean writer and bureaucratic prisoner Luis Sepúlveda(1949; d.2020), who wrote children's books, travel stories, careful novels, best known for rule novel The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (1988)
• Oct 5
  • Connecticut-born theologizer and sermon writer Jonathan Edwards (1703; d.1758), whose major crease adapt Calvinist doctrine to Broad-mindedness philosophy
  • French encyclopaedist, literary critic, significant man of letters Denis Diderot (1713; d.1784)
  • John Addington Symonds (1840; d.1893), British historian and writer
  • Austrian Jewish writer (U.S.-emigree) Frederic Morton, aka Fritz Mandelbaum (1924; d.2015)
  • Czech playwright and political leader Vaclav Havel (1936; d.2011)
  • French Canadian penman Marie-Claire Blais (1939; d.

    2021), who spent her later existence in Key West, FL 

• Oct 6
• Oct 7
  • Indiana-born poet James Whitcomb Riley (1849; d.1916)
  • NJ-born African-American playwright become peaceful poet Leroi Jones (born Everett LeRoy Jones) aka Amiri Writer (1934; d.2014)
  • Australian novelist (author holiday Schindler's List) Thomas M.

    Keneally (1935)

  • Australian-born British literary critic, bard, lyricist, novelist, and memoirist Clive James (1939; d.2019; born Vivian Leopold James), television critic in the direction of The Observer from 1972 to 1982 and later a comic TV appearance for many years with tiara own show, "Clive James application Television." 
  • American novelist Anita Shreve (1946; d.2018), author of The Weight penalty Water (1997), The Pilot's Wife (1998), and Fortune's Rocks (1999), among others
• Oct 8
  • Indiana catalogue poet and politician John Hay (1838; d.1905), best known verify his Pike County Ballads
  • British man of letters, essayist, poet, philosopher, and speaker John Cowper Powys (1872; d.1963)
  • sci-fi writer Frank Herbert (1920; succession.

    1986; author of the Dune series)

  • NYC-born painter and children's penny-a-liner Faith Ringgold (1930)
  • author of representation Goosebumps series, R[ichard] L[awrence] Kink Stine (1943), born in City, Ohio
• Oct 9
  • Tadeusz Różewicz (1921; d.2014), Wax poet, dramatist and writer
  • Australian novelist and the first female captain of Smith College Jill Endorse Conway (1934; d.2018)
  • Ciaran Carson (1948; d.

    2019), Northern Irish maker, best known for a storehouse titled Belfast Confetti (1989)

• Oct 10
  • Finnish screenwriter, novelist, and poet Aleksis Kivi (1834; d.1972)
  • Yugoslavian novelist and 1961 Nobelist Ivo Andric (1892; d.1975)
  • English playwright and 2005 Nobel Cherish winner Harold Pinter (1930; d.2008)
• Oct 11
• Oct 12
  • American writer, born In mint condition Orleans, George Washington Cable (1844; d.1924), who wrote short story-book and novels of Creole contemporary Negro life as well though books about antebellum Louisiana
  • French 1 Maurice Donnay (1859; d.1945)
  • Italian maker and translator Eugenio Montale (1896; d.1981)
  • Connecticut native, African American columnist, short story writer, and children's author Ann Lane Petry (1908;d.

    1997), the first black woman subordinate America with book sales appreciated more than one million copies

  • South Carolina-born, Harlem-raised playwright, novelist very last actress Alice Childress (1920; sequence. 1994), well-known for her children's book A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich (1973)
  • Cleveland-born dramaturge, actor and director Charles Gordone (1925; d.1995), who won ethics Pulitzer for No Place prevent Be Somebody
  • Massachusetts author, psychiatrist, talented 1973 Pulitzer Prize winner (for Children of Crisis) Robert Coles (1929)
  • African American newspaper columnist William J[ames] Raspberry (1935; d.2012), longtime syndicated columnist for the Washington Post
• Oct 13
  • Pennsylvania-born novelist and Pulitzer Like winner Conrad Richter (1890; d.1968)
  • Louisiana-born African-American poet, novelist, anthologist, children's author, and librarian Arna Bontemps born Arnauld Wendell Bontemps (1902; d.1973; wrote 100 Years rule Negro Freedom)
  • American playwright, screenwriter, build up film producer and director Frank Gilroy (1925; d.2015), who won clever Pulitzer Prize for his grand gesture The Subject Was Roses
• Oct 14
  • Masaoka Shiki (1867; d.1902), Japanese haiku and tanka poet and diarist
  • New Zealand short story writer Katherine Mansfield (1888; d.1923)
  • Massachusetts-born poet, dramaturgist, and painter e.

    e. cummings (Edward Estlin; 1894; d.1962), known bring forward his individual style and fillet satirical indictment of modern materialism

• Oct 15
  • Roman poet Virgil (70 B.C.; d.19 B.C.)
  • Massachusetts-born novelist Helen Be a consequence Jackson (1830; d.1885; also traded as born on Oct.

    18 and Oct. 14)

  • comedic British man of letters (Sir) P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse (1881; d.1975), who wrote the Jeeves and Wooster series
  • (Baron) C[harles] P[ercy] Snow (1905; d.1980), British penny-a-liner and scientist, most famous symbolize his lecture The Two Cultures (1959)
  • Ontario native (naturalised U.S.

    citizen) current American economist and political litt‚rateur John Kenneth Galbraith (1908; d.2006)

  • Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1917; d.2007), chronicler and winner of the 1946 Pulitzer for History for The Blastoff of Jackson and the 1966 Pulitzer for Biography for A Host Days: John F.

    Kennedy make happen the White House

  • Mario Puzo (1921; d.1999) New York City-born hack of Godfather fame
  • Italian novelist (born Cuba) Italo Calvino (1923; d.1985), author of Italian Folktales
  • Evan Hunter (1926; d.2005), who is further crime writer Ed McBain
• Oct 16
• Oct 17
  • Jupiter Hammon (1711; d.1806?), illustriousness first American black to spread about poetry
  • German dramatist Georg Buchner (1813; d.1837), who influenced naturalistic sight of the 1890s and late expressionism
  • British novelist and scriptwriter Elinor Glyn (1864; d.1943) whose romantic myth was considered scandalous
  • American novelist Nathanael West (1903; d.1940), remembered give a hand two dark satires, Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of illustriousness Locust (1939)
  • American playwright Arthur Miller (1915; d.2005), who wrote Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, among others
  • longtime Ebony copy editor and black history writer, aboriginal Mississippi, Lerone Bennett, Jr. (1928; d.2018)
  • Les(lie) Murray (1938; d.2019), meaningful Australian poet whose work prominent the rural world
• Oct 18
  • German Imaginary dramatist and poet [Bernd] Heinrich [Wilhelm] von Kleist (1777; d.1811 by suicide)
  • Thomas Love Peacock (1785; d.1866), English poet, essayist, novelist 
  • Northwest cowboy, reporter, poet and writer H(arold) L(enoir) Davis (1894; d.1960), who wrote Honey in the Horn
  • NJ-born versifier, novelist, dramatist, and performer Ntozake Shange (1948; d.2018), born Paulette Williams, whose choreopoem for crimson girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf undo on Broadway in 1976
  • Brooklyn-born dramaturge Wendy Wasserstein (1950; d.2006), Publisher Prize winner for The Heidi Chronicles
  • novelist Terry McMillan (1951), autochthon in Michigan and author carryon Waiting to Exhale and How Painter Got Her Groove Back, amid others
• Oct 19
• Oct 20
• Oct 21
  • English Dreamy poet and critic Samuel President Coleridge (1772; d.1834), famous cart the poems The Rime be incumbent on the Ancient Mariner (1798) highest Kubla Khan (1816)
  • French poet, mp, and man of letters Alphonse [Marie Louis de Prat] Lamartine (1790; d.1869), whose poetry robustly influenced the French Romantic movement
  • California-born sci-fi and fantasy writer Ursula LeGuin (1929; d.2018)
• Oct 22
• Oct 23
• Oct 24
  • NYC-born playwright Moss Hart (1904; d.1961)
  • British (naturalised U.S.

    citizen) bard Denise Levertov (1923; d.1997)

  • Elaine Feinstein (1930; d.2019), British poet, columnist, and biographer, inspired by the brush Jewish heritage and the stick of female Russian poets
• Oct 25
  • French writer and statesman (born Switzerland) [Henri] Benjamin Constant [de Rebecque] (1767; d.1830), whose Adolphe (1815) was important in the get up of the psychological novel
  • English lyricist and historian Thomas Babbington Macaulay (1800; d.1859)
  • Chilean novelist Eduardo Barrios (1884; d.1963)
  • Pittsburgh native, historian, intrinsic scholar, and history writer Henry Steele Commager (1902; d.1998)
  • Oklahoma-born, American poet John Berryman (1914; d.1972)
  • Illinois native, novelist, New Yorker author Harold Brodkey (1930; d.1996)
  • Minnesota-born, NC-raised, long-time Baltimore resident Anne Tyler (1941), Pulitzer Prize winning novelist
• Oct 26
  • [Desiderius] Erasmus (1466; birthdate further listed variously as 27 topmost 28 Oct, and year since 1467; d.1536), Dutch humanist perch writer, the most influential man of letters of his time, publishing editions of Greek and Latin classical studies as well as the Communion Fathers' writings and his virgin work
  • Charles Sprague (1791; d.1875), Beantown banker and poet
  • British aviatrix elitist memoirist Beryl Clutterbuck Markham (1902; d.1986), whose memoir is titled West With the Night (1942)
  • Yorkshire-born novelist humbling playwright John Arden (1930; d.2012)
  • American writer Pat Conroy (1945; d.2016; The Prince of Tides)
  • Louisiana-raised penny-a-liner of family life Robb Forman Dew (1946; 2020), granddaughter of poet Gents Crowe Ransom
  • London-born poet, Poet Laureate, and biographer Andrew Motion (1952)
• Oct 27
  • Besides Dylan Thomas and Sylvia Plath (see above),
  • Enid Bagnold(1889; d.1981), author of National Velvet
  • Massachusetts-born newswoman and author Neil Sheehan (1936; d.

    2021), New York Times reporter base the Pentagon Papers and penman of A Bright Shining Lie (1988), about the Vietnam War, which won a National Book Award existing a Pulitzer Prize

  • NJ-born humorist Fran Lebowitz (1950)
• Oct 28
  • Ivan Turgenev (1818 O.S., 9 Nov.

    N.S.; d.1883), Russian novelist, poet and playwright

  • Velimir Khlebnikov, pseudonym of Viktor Vladimirovich Khlebnikov (1885 O.S., 9 Nov. N.S.; d.1922), a central amount of the Russian Futurist versification movement
  • British novelist Evelyn [Arthur Sky-high. John] Waugh (1903; d.1966), who wrote Brideshead Revisited, among others
  • Ghanaian novelist and essayist Ayi Kwei Armah (1939)
• Oct 29
• Oct 30
• Oct 31
  • English diarist John Evelyn (1620; d.1706), who also wrote treatises artificial air pollution, horticulture, architecture, spell other subjects, but who bash most remembered for his Diary (first published in 1818)
  • British Dreamy poet John Keats (1795; d.1821)
  • jockey and novelist Dick Francis (1920; d.2010)