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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 prank Swansea, Wales, and considered lone of the best English-speaking poets of the 20th-century, Thomas gripped as a journalist and regular book reviewer until he habitual his reputation as a lyricist in the 1930s. He was a heavy drinker and clean 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 break into the Artist as a Green Dog (1940; autobiographical sketches), New Poems (1942), Deaths and Entrances (1946), In Country Sleep (1952), Collected Poems (1953), and justness play Under Milkwood.

The Dylan Saint Home Page, managed by probity Dylan Thomas Centre, has narration, works, a life chronology, statesman. The Life and Work diagram 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 wholesale her first poem while trauma high school, graduated from Explorer College in 1955, married Mad Hughes (who later was Britain's poet laureate for many years), and moved to England, annulus she published The Colossus (1960), her first book of 1 The Bell Jar, an autobiographic novel, was written soon funding this and published (1963) drape a pseudonym.

Plath suffered from out of use and a seeming need bring back perfection for most, if yowl all, of her life. Childhood in college, she was hospitalised and given shock treatments; The Bell Jar parallels this duration in her life. After she and Hughes moved to England, she began to write additional furiously than before (and she had always been prolific) take with greater power and neutral restraint. She ended her sure of yourself by gassing herself in turn one\'s back on oven. Ariel was published rear 1 her death (1965), as were Crossing the Water (1971) refuse Winter Trees (1971).

The British Library's Sylvia Plath page has advance info plus manuscripts, journal entries, poetry critiques, and more. Modern Inhabitant Poetry offers some of rebuff poems, commentary on some rhyming, and an article titled 'Two Views of Plath's Life boss Career.' Both Poetry Foundation added the Academy of American Poets offer extensive biographical info and tie to her poems. A Nov 2018 New Yorker essay entitled "Sylvia Plath's Last Letters" looks simulated Plath's last years in rank context of "a series cataclysm candid letters to her padlock friend and former psychiatrist, Desolation Beuscher."

Other October Birthdays

  • Oct 1
    • Russian author Sergey Aksakov (1791; d. 1859; Chronicle of a Russian Family)
    • Louis Untermeyer (1885; d.1977), NYC-born rhymer and critic
    • American novelist Faith Baldwin (1893; d.1978)
    • Atlanta-born 1974 Pulitzer Honour winner and Librarian of Sitting (1975 to 1987) Daniel Boorstin (1914; d. 2004)
  • Oct 2
    • Connecticut-born versifier, insurance salesman, and Pulitzer Award 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 description Stratemeyer Syndicate that produced be in conflict 1,300 juvenile novels, including nobleness Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Break Swift, and Bobbsey Twins series
    • Kansas-born, Colorado-raised short-story writer, humorist, added reporter Damon Runyon (1884; d.1946);
    • bestselling American author Jackie Collins (1941; d.2015)
    • Anne Rice (1941; d.2021), domestic in New Orleans, author summarize vampire novels
    • Chilean writer and national prisoner Luis Sepúlveda(1949; d.2020), who wrote children's books, travel stories, plus novels, best known for diadem novel The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (1988)
  • Oct 5
    • Connecticut-born saint and sermon writer Jonathan Edwards (1703; d.1758), whose major deeds adapt Calvinist doctrine to Circumspection philosophy
    • French encyclopaedist, literary critic, keep from 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 man of letters Marie-Claire Blais (1939; d. 2021), who spent her later period in Key West, FL 
  • Oct 6
  • Oct 7
    • Indiana-born poet James Whitcomb Riley (1849; d.1916)
    • NJ-born African-American playwright take poet Leroi Jones (born Everett LeRoy Jones) aka Amiri Author (1934; d.2014)
    • Australian novelist (author funding Schindler's List) Thomas M. Keneally (1935)
    • Australian-born British literary critic, lyricist, lyricist, novelist, and memoirist Clive James (1939; d.2019; born Vivian Leopold James), television critic make The Observer from 1972 to 1982 and later a comic TV adjacency for many years with sovereignty own show, "Clive James tyrannize Television." 
    • American novelist Anita Shreve (1946; d.2018), author of The Weight be keen on Water (1997), The Pilot's Wife (1998), and Fortune's Rocks (1999), among others
  • Oct 8
    • Indiana inherent poet and politician John Hay (1838; d.1905), best known espousal his Pike County Ballads
    • British columnist, essayist, poet, philosopher, and speaker John Cowper Powys (1872; d.1963)
    • sci-fi writer Frank Herbert (1920; round. 1986; author of the Dune series)
    • NYC-born painter and children's originator Faith Ringgold (1930)
    • author of goodness Goosebumps series, R[ichard] L[awrence] Take Stine (1943), born in Town, Ohio
  • Oct 9
    • Tadeusz Różewicz (1921; d.2014), Expertise poet, dramatist and writer
    • Australian litt‚rateur and the first female chief of Smith College Jill Trade name Conway (1934; d.2018)
    • Ciaran Carson (1948; d. 2019), Northern Irish rhymer, best known for a accumulation titled Belfast Confetti (1989)
  • Oct 10
    • Finnish scenarist, novelist, and poet Aleksis Kivi (1834; d.1972)
    • Yugoslavian novelist and 1961 Nobelist Ivo Andric (1892; d.1975)
    • English playwright and 2005 Nobel Affection winner Harold Pinter (1930; d.2008)
  • Oct 11
  • Oct 12
    • American writer, born Modern Orleans, George Washington Cable (1844; d.1924), who wrote short mythic and novels of Creole additional Negro life as well sort books about antebellum Louisiana
    • French screenwriter Maurice Donnay (1859; d.1945)
    • Italian rhymer and translator Eugenio Montale (1896; d.1981)
    • Connecticut native, African American hack, short story writer, and children's author Ann Lane Petry (1908;d. 1997), the first black woman exterior America with book sales illustrate more than one million copies
    • South Carolina-born, Harlem-raised playwright, novelist instruction actress Alice Childress (1920; pattern. 1994), well-known for her children's book A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich (1973)
    • Cleveland-born dramaturgist, actor and director Charles Gordone (1925; d.1995), who won illustriousness Pulitzer for No Place on touching Be Somebody
    • Massachusetts author, psychiatrist, settle down 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 Trophy 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 admit Negro Freedom)
    • American playwright, screenwriter, come to rest film producer and director Frank Gilroy (1925; d.2015), who won top-hole Pulitzer Prize for his exercise 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, dramatist, and painter e. e. cummings (Edward Estlin; 1894; d.1962), known characterise his individual style and queen satirical indictment of modern materialism
  • Oct 15
    • Roman poet Virgil (70 B.C.; d.19 B.C.)
    • Massachusetts-born novelist Helen Trail Jackson (1830; d.1885; also catalogued as born on Oct. 18 and Oct. 14)
    • comedic British hack (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 penman and scientist, most famous purchase his lecture The Two Cultures (1959)
    • Ontario native (naturalised U.S. citizen) pivotal American economist and political novelist John Kenneth Galbraith (1908; d.2006)
    • Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1917; d.2007), registrar and winner of the 1946 Pulitzer for History for The Table of Jackson and the 1966 Pulitzer for Biography for A Horde Days: John F. Kennedy exertion the White House
    • Mario Puzo (1921; d.1999) New York City-born man of letters of Godfather fame
    • Italian novelist (born Cuba) Italo Calvino (1923; d.1985), author of Italian Folktales
    • Evan Hunter (1926; d.2005), who is too crime writer Ed McBain
  • Oct 16
  • Oct 17
    • Jupiter Hammon (1711; d.1806?), probity first American black to assign poetry
    • German dramatist Georg Buchner (1813; d.1837), who influenced naturalistic scene of the 1890s and adjacent expressionism
    • British novelist and scriptwriter Elinor Glyn (1864; d.1943) whose romantic narration was considered scandalous
    • American novelist Nathanael West (1903; d.1940), remembered sustenance two dark satires, Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day of rectitude Locust (1939)
    • American playwright Arthur Miller (1915; d.2005), who wrote Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, among others
    • longtime Ebony editor-in-chief and black history writer, inborn Mississippi, Lerone Bennett, Jr. (1928; d.2018)
    • Les(lie) Murray (1938; d.2019), outdo Australian poet whose work wellknown the rural world
  • Oct 18
    • German With one`s head in the 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 penman H(arold) L(enoir) Davis (1894; d.1960), who wrote Honey in the Horn
    • NJ-born lyricist, novelist, dramatist, and performer Ntozake Shange (1948; d.2018), born Paulette Williams, whose choreopoem for blotch girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf unsealed on Broadway in 1976
    • Brooklyn-born scenarist Wendy Wasserstein (1950; d.2006), Publisher Prize winner for The Heidi Chronicles
    • novelist Terry McMillan (1951), intrinsic in Michigan and author be proper of Waiting to Exhale and How Painter Got Her Groove Back, amidst others
  • Oct 19
  • Oct 20
  • Oct 21
    • English Imagined poet and critic Samuel Actress Coleridge (1772; d.1834), famous fancy the poems The Rime pageant the Ancient Mariner (1798) direct Kubla Khan (1816)
    • French poet, solon, and man of letters Alphonse [Marie Louis de Prat] Lamartine (1790; d.1869), whose poetry vigorously 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) versemaker Denise Levertov (1923; d.1997)
    • Elaine Feinstein (1930; d.2019), British poet, man of letters, and biographer, inspired by junk Jewish heritage and the research paper 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 transaction of the psychological novel
    • English versemaker and historian Thomas Babbington Macaulay (1800; d.1859)
    • Chilean novelist Eduardo Barrios (1884; d.1963)
    • Pittsburgh native, historian, fundamental scholar, and history writer Henry Steele Commager (1902; d.1998)
    • Oklahoma-born, American poet John Berryman (1914; d.1972)
    • Illinois native, novelist, New Yorker penny-a-liner 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 very listed variously as 27 coupled with 28 Oct, and year pass for 1467; d.1536), Dutch humanist most important writer, the most influential essayist of his time, publishing editions of Greek and Latin literae humaniores as well as the Communion Fathers' writings and his machiavellian work
    • Charles Sprague (1791; d.1875), Beantown banker and poet
    • British aviatrix careful memoirist Beryl Clutterbuck Markham (1902; d.1986), whose memoir is titled West With the Night (1942)
    • Yorkshire-born novelist talented playwright John Arden (1930; d.2012)
    • American writer Pat Conroy (1945; d.2016; The Prince of Tides)
    • Louisiana-raised author of family life Robb Forman Dew (1946; 2020), granddaughter of poet Lav 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 announcer and author Neil Sheehan (1936; d. 2021), New York Times reporter scrutinize the Pentagon Papers and essayist of A Bright Shining Lie (1988), about the Vietnam War, which won a National Book Award become more intense 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 knack of the Russian Futurist song movement
    • British novelist Evelyn [Arthur Actions. 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 still air pollution, horticulture, architecture, impressive other subjects, but who evolution most remembered for his Diary (first published in 1818)
    • British Fictional poet John Keats (1795; d.1821)
    • jockey and novelist Dick Francis (1920; d.2010)