Literally what it says on the tin: a big list of author birthdays. I tracked down the birthday of every author I could think of, and put them all into one big list, just for you! If you can think of any author of note I’ve missed, let me know in the comments and I’ll see if I can add them in.
Author Birthdays in January
1 January: E.M. Forster – Read my full review of A Passage To India here.
1 January: J.D. Salinger – Read my full review of The Catcher In The Rye here.
2 January: Andre Aciman – Read my full review of Call Me By Your Name here.
3 January: J.R.R. Tolkien
7 January: Zora Neale Hurston – Read my full review of Their Eyes Were Watching God here.
9 January: Simone de Beauvoir – Read my full review of She Came To Stay here.
9 January: Philippa Gregory – Read my full review of The Other Boleyn Girl here.
9 January: Wilbur Smith
9 January: Judith Krantz
11 January: Jasper Fforde
11 January: Diana Gabaldon – Read my full review of Outlander here.
12 January: Jack London – Read my full review of The Call Of The Wild here.
12 January: Haruki Murakami
12 January: Julia Quinn – Read my full review of Bridgerton here.
17 January: Anne Brontë – Read my full review of The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall here.
17 January: Emily M. Danforth – Read my full review of The Miseducation Of Cameron Post here.
19 January: Edgar Allan Poe
21 January: Casey McQuiston – Read my full review of Red, White & Royal Blue here.
22 January: Stephen Graham Jones
24 January: Edith Wharton – Read my full review of The Age Of Innocence here.
25 January: Stephen Chbosky – Read my full review of The Perks Of Being A Wallflower here.
25 January: Virginia Woolf – Read my full review of Mrs Dalloway here.
27 January: Lewis Carroll – Read my full review of Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland here.
29 January: Olga Tokarczuk
29 January: Anton Chekhov
30 January: Susannah Cahalan – Read my full review of The Great Pretender here.
31 January: Norman Mailer
Author Birthdays in February
2 February: James Joyce – Read my full review of Ulysses here.
2 February: Ayn Rand
7 February: Charles Dickens – Read my full review of David Copperfield here.
7 February: Karen Joy Fowler – Read my full review of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves here.
8 February: Rachel Cusk – Read my full review of Second Place here.
8 February: John Grisham
9 February: J.M. Coetzee
9 February: Alice Walker – Read my full review of The Color Purple here.
12 February: Judy Blume
13 February: Samantha Irby – Read my full review of Wow, No Thank You here.
18 February: Toni Morrison – Read my full review of Beloved here.
19 February: Jonathan Lethem – Read my full review of The Arrest here.
19 February: Carson McCullers
19 February: Amy Tan – Read my full review of The Joy Luck Club here.
19 February: Jeff Kinney
20 February: Sally Rooney – Read my full review of Normal People here.
21 February: W.H. Auden
21 February: David Foster Wallace
21 February: Anaïs Nin – Read my full review of Delta of Venus here.
23 February: Bernard Cornwell
24 February: Gillian Flynn – Read my full review of Gone Girl here.
24 February: Yuval Noah Harari
24 February: Rainbow Rowell – Read my full review of Fangirl here.
25 February: Anthony Burgess – Read my full review of A Clockwork Orange here.
26 February: Victor Hugo
27 February: Joshilyn Jackson – Read my full review of Mother May I here.
27 February: John Steinbeck – Read my full review of The Grapes Of Wrath here.
Author Birthdays in March
2 March: Dr Seuss
4 March: Khaled Hosseini – Read my full review of The Kite Runner here.
5 March: Sarah J. Maas
6 March: Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Read my full review of One Hundred Years Of Solitude here.
7 March: Anna Burns – Read my full review of Milkman here.
7 March: Bret Easton Ellis – Read my full review of American Psycho here.
7 March: E.L. James
8 March: Jeffrey Eugenides – Read my full review of Middlesex here.
8 March: Kenneth Grahame – Read my full review of The Wind In The WIllows here.
9 March: Lindy West
11 March: Douglas Adams – Read my full review of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy here.
12 March: Jack Kerouac – Read my full review of On The Road here.
12 March: Maggie Nelson – Read my full review of The Argonauts here.
12 March: Ruth Ozeki – Read my full review of A Tale For The Time Being here.
19 March: Philip Roth – Read my full review of Portnoy’s Complaint here.
21 March: Oyinkan Braithwaite – Read my full review of My Sister, The Serial Killer here.
22 March: James Patterson
25 March: Gloria Steinem
26 March: Patrick Süskind
Author Birthdays in April
1 April: Jesmyn Ward
2 April: Sofie Laguna – Read my full review of Infinite Splendours here.
4 April: Maya Angelou – Read my full review of I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings here.
4 April: Delia Owens
5 April: Caitlin Moran
6 April: Leigh Bardugo
8 April: Barbara Kingsolver – Read my full review of Demon Copperhead here.
12 April: Jon Krakauer
13 April: Samuel Beckett – Read my full review of Waiting For Godot here.
13 April: Michel Faber – Read my full review of Under The Skin here.
15 April: Jeffrey Archer
15 April: Henry James – Read my full review of The Golden Bowl here.
17 April: Nick Hornby
21 April: Charlotte Brontë – Read my full review of Jane Eyre here.
22 April: Janet Evanovich
22 April: Vladimir Nabokov
23 April: William Shakespeare
23 April: Trent Dalton
24 April: Sue Grafton
26 April: Anita Loos – Read my full review of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes here.
27 April: Patricia Lockwood – Read my full review of No One Is Talking About This here.
28 April: Harper Lee – Read my full review of To Kill A Mockingbird here.
28 April: Terry Pratchett – Read my full review of The Colour Of Magic here.
**Psst: if you’re scrolling through this list to look for which authors share your birthday, I don’t blame you. This is mine!
Author Birthdays in May
1 May: Joseph Heller – Read my full review of Catch-22 here.
5 May: Hank Green
7 May: Peter Carey – Read my full review of True History Of The Kelly Gang here.
8 May: Thomas Pynchon
9 May: Richard Adams – Read my full review of Watership Down here.
10 May: Jon Ronson
13 May: Daphne du Maurier – Read my full review of Rebecca here.
18 May: Lionel Shriver
19 May: Nora Ephron
19 May: Jodi Picoult – Read my full review of My Sister’s Keeper here.
20 May: Ottessa Moshfegh – Read my full review of Lapvona here.
22 May: Arthur Conan Doyle – Read my full review of The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes here.
25 May: Robert Ludlam
27 May: Maggie O’Farrell – Read my full review of Instructions For A Heatwave here.
28 May: Muriel Barbery – Read my full review of The Elegance Of The Hedgehog here.
28 May: Patrick White
28 May: Bernardine Evaristo – Read my full review of Girl, Woman, Other here.
28 May: Ian Fleming
31 May: Walt Whitman
Author Birthdays in June
1 June: Colleen McCullough
2 June: Fredrik Backman – Read my full review of A Man Called Ove here.
2 June: Thomas Hardy
5 June: Ken Follett
5 June: Rick Riordan
6 June: VC Andrews – Read my full review of Flowers In The Attic here.
6 June: Alexander Pushkin
7 June: Elizabeth Bowen – Read my full review of The Heat Of The Day here.
7 June: Adam Silvera
8 June: Nino Haratischvili – Read my full review of The Eighth Life here.
9 June: Paul Beatty
9 June: Patricia Cornwell
12 June: Adam Kay
13 June: Audrey Niffenegger – Read my full review of The Time Traveler’s Wife here.
14 June: Harriet Beecher Stowe
16 June: Joyce Carol Oates
16 June: Andy Weir – Read my full review of The Martian here.
16 June: Evie Wyld – Read my full review of The Bass Rock here.
18 June: Richard Powers
19 June: Salman Rushdie
21 June: Ian McEwan – Read my full review of Atonement here.
21 June: Jean-Paul Sartre
22 June: Dan Brown
23 June: Markus Zusak – Read my full review of The Book Thief here.
25 June: George Orwell
25 June: Eric Carle
28 June: Kate Atkinson – Read my full review of Life After Life here.
28 June: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
29 June: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – Read my full review of The Little Prince here.
Author Birthdays in July
2 July: Hermann Hesse
3 July: Franz Kafka
3 July: Carmen Maria Machado – Read my full review of Her Body And Other Parties here.
3 July: Matt Haig – Read my full review of The Midnight Library here.
4 July: Nathaniel Hawthorne – Read my full review of The Scarlet Letter here.
6 July: Jonas Jonasson – Read my full review of The One-Hundred-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared here.
6 July: Hilary Mantel
8 July: Janet Malcolm
8 July: Erin Morgenstern – Read my full review of The Starless Sea here.
9 July: Dean Koontz
9 July: Barbara Cartland
10 July: Saul Bellow – Read my full review of The Adventures Of Augie March here.
15 July: Clive Cussler
18 July: Elizabeth Gilbert
18 July: William Makepeace Thackeray – Read my full review of Vanity Fair here.
18 July: Hunter S. Thompson
20 July: Cormac McCarthy
21 July: Ernest Hemingway – Read my full review of The Sun Also Rises here.
23 July: Raymond Chandler – Read my full review of The Big Sleep here.
23 July: Lauren Groff
24 July: Alexandre Dumas
24 July: Madeline Miller
26 July: Aldous Huxley – Read my full review of Brave New World here.
28 July: Beatrix Potter
30 July: Emily Brontë – Read my full review of Wuthering Heights here.
30 July: Celeste Ng – Read my full review of Little Fires Everywhere here.
Author Birthdays in August
1 August: Herman Melville – Read my full review of Moby Dick here.
2 August: Isabel Allende
4 August: Tim Winton
5 August: David Baldacci
10 August: Suzanne Collins – Read my full review of The Hunger Games here.
11 August: Enid Blyton
12 August: Ann M. Martin
14 August: Danielle Steel
14 August: Sayaka Murata – Read my full review of Convenience Store Woman here.
17 August: Jonathan Franzen
19 August: Samuel Richardson – Read my full review of Clarissa here.
19 August: Veronica Roth – Read my full review of Divergent here.
21 August: Alexander Chee
22 August: Ray Bradbury – Read my full review of Fahrenheit 451 here.
23 August: Curtis Sittenfeld – Read my full review of Rodham here.
24 August: Paulo Coelho – Read my full review of The Alchemist here.
24 August: Stephen Fry – Read my full review of Mythos here.
24 August: John Green – Read my full review of The Fault In Our Stars here.
24 August: Alexander McCall-Smith
24 August: Jean Rhys
24 August: Ali Smith
24 August: Jorge Luis Borges
25 August: Martin Amis – Read my full review of Money here.
26 August: Christopher Isherwood – Read my full review of A Single Man here.
27 August: Jeanette Winterson – Read my full review of Frankissstein here.
29 August: Mieko Kawakami – Read my full review of Breasts And Eggs here.
30 August: Mary Shelley – Read my full review of Frankenstein here.
31 August: Dolly Alderton
Author Birthdays in September
3 September: Malcolm Gladwell
3 September: Jenny Han – Read my full review of To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before here.
4 September: Alex Michaelides
6 September: Robert M. Pirsig
7 September: Jennifer Egan
9 September: Leo Tolstoy – Read my full review of Anna Karenina here.
10 September: Alison Bechdel
11 September: D.H. Lawrence – Read my full review of Lady Chatterley’s Lover here.
13 September: Roald Dahl
13 September: E. Lockhart – Read my full review of We Were Liars here.
14 September: Geraldine Brooks
15 September: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
15 September: Agatha Christie – Read my full review of And Then There Were None here.
17 September: Cheryl Strayed – Read my full review of Wild here.
19 September: William Golding – Read my full review of Lord Of The Flies here.
20 September: George R.R. Martin – Read my full review of A Game Of Thrones here.
20 September: Angie Thomas – Read my full review of The Hate U Give here.
20 September: Hanya Yanagihara – Read my full review of A Little Life here.
21 September: Stephen King – Read my full review of Misery here.
21 September: H.G. Wells
24 September: F. Scott Fitzgerald – Read my full review of The Great Gatsby here.
25 September: William Faulkner – Read my full review of As I Lay Dying here.
25 September: Kristin Hannah
25 September: bell hooks
26 September: Mark Haddon
26 September: T.S. Eliot
29 September: Miguel de Cervantes – Read my full review of Don Quixote here.
29 September: Elizabeth Gaskell
30 September: Truman Capote – Read my full review of In Cold Blood here.
Author Birthdays in October
2 October: Tara Moss
4 October: Rupi Kaur
4 October: Anne Rice
4 October: Jackie Collins
7 October: Sherman Alexie – Read my full review of The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian here.
7 October: Rachel Kushner
8 October: R.L. Stine
10 October: Nora Roberts
14 October: Miles Franklin – Read my full review of My Brilliant Career here.
14 October: Kate Grenville
15 October: Italo Calvino – Read my full review of If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler here.
15 October: Roxane Gay – Read my full review of Bad Feminist here.
16 October: Oscar Wilde – Read my full review of The Picture Of Dorian Gray here.
17 October: Arthur Miller
19 October: Tracy Chevalier
21 October: Carrie Fisher – Read my full review of The Princess Diarist here.
21 October: Ursula K Le Guin
22 October: Doris Lessing – Read my full review of The Golden Notebook here.
22 October: Ann Rule – Read my full review of The Stranger Beside Me here.
22 October: Debbie Macomber
23 October: Augusten Burroughs
23 October: Michael Crichton
24 October: Emma Donoghue – Read my full review of Room here.
24 October: Amor Towles
25 October: Zadie Smith
26 October: Taffy Brodesser-Akner – Read my full review of Fleishman Is In Trouble here.
27 October: Anthony Doerr – Read my full review of All The Light We Cannot See here.
27 October: Sylvia Plath – Read my full review of The Bell Jar here.
28 October: Evelyn Waugh – Read my full review of Scoop here.
29 October: Lee Child
31 October: Susan Orlean – Read my full review of The Library Book here.
Author Birthdays in November
1 November: Susanna Clarke – Read my full review of Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell here.
6 November: Michael Cunningham – Read my full review of The Hours here.
6 November: Colson Whitehead – Read my full review of The Underground Railroad here.
7 November: Albert Camus
7 November: Helen Garner – Read my full review of Monkey Grip here.
8 November: Kazuo Ishiguro – Read my full review of Never Let Me Go here.
8 November: Julie Murphy
8 November: Bram Stoker – Read my full review of Dracula here.
10 November: Caroline Kepnes
10 November: Neil Gaiman
11 November: Fyodor Dostoyevsky – Read my full review of Crime And Punishment here.
11 November: Min Jin Lee
11 November: Kurt Vonnegut
13 November: Robert Louis Stevenson – Read my full review of Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde here.
15 November: Liane Moriarty – Read my full review of Big Little Lies here.
16 November: José Saramago – Read my full review of Death At Intervals here.
17 November: Becky Albertalli
18 November: Margaret Atwood – Read my full review of The Handmaid’s Tale here.
20 November: Don DeLillo
21 November: Andrew Sean Greer – Read my full review of Less here.
22 November: George Eliot – Read my full review of Middlemarch here.
22 November: Lisa Genova – Read my full review of Still Alice here.
24 November: Marlon James
24 November: Arundhati Roy
26 November: James Dashner – Read my full review of The Maze Runner here.
28 November: Richard Osman
29 November: Louisa May Alcott – Read my full review of Little Women here.
29 November: C.S. Lewis
30 November: Tayari Jones – Read my full review of An American Marriage here.
30 November: David Nicholls
30 November: Jonathan Swift – Read my full review of Gulliver’s Travels here.
30 November: Mark Twain – Read my full review of The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn here.
Author Birthdays in December
2 December: Ann Patchett
2 December: George Saunders
5 December: Joan Didion
8 December: Bill Bryson – Read my full review of A Short History Of Nearly Everything here.
10 December: Emily Dickinson
11 December: Colleen Hoover
14 December: Shirley Jackson – Read my full review of The Lottery And Other Stories here.
15 December: Edna O’Brien – Read my full review of Girl here.
16 December: Jane Austen – Read my full review of Pride & Prejudice here.
16 December: Philip K. Dick
19 December: Brandon Sanderson
20 December: Alain de Botton – Read my full review of Religion For Atheists here.
20 December: Taylor Jenkins Reid – Read my full review of Daisy Jones And The Six here.
21 December: Benjamin Disraeli – Read my full review of Sybil here.
23 December: Donna Tartt
24 December: Mary Higgins Clark
24 December: Stephenie Meyer
26 December: Henry Miller – Read my full review of Tropic Of Cancer here.
26 December: David Sedaris – Read my full review of Me Talk Pretty One Day here.
30 December: Rudyard Kipling – Read my full review of Kim here.
31 December: Nicholas Sparks
