When Were Famous Authors Born?

 

 

Don’t have enough things to celebrate? Wish your favorite author a happy birthday. Below are a few dozen writers and their life-launch dates:

 

F. Scott Fitzgerald 

The Great Gatsby

September 24, 1896

 

Anne Rice

The Vampire Chronicles

October 4, 1941

 

Robert Ludlum

The Bourne Identity

May 25, 1927

 

Herman Melville

Moby Dick

August 11, 1819

 

Robert S. Wallace 

Bridges of Madison County

August 1, 1939

 

J.D. Salinger 

The Catcher in the Rye 

January 1, 1919

 

Jeff Kinney

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

February 19, 1971

 

John Green

The Fault in Our Stars 

August 24, 1977

 

Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games

August 10, 1962

 

Joseph Heller

Catch-22

May 1, 1923

 

Anne Frank 

The Diary of a Young Girl

June 12, 1929

 

John Steinbeck

Grapes of Wrath

February 27, 1902

 

Emily Bronte

Withering Heights

July 30, 1818

 

Sydney Sheldon

The Other Side of Midnight

February 11, 1917

 

Louisa May Alcott

Little Women

November 29, 1932

 

Franz Kafka 

Metamorphosis

July 3, 1883

 

Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451 

August 22, 1920

 

George Orwell

1984

June 25, 1903

 

Jackie Collins

Hollywood Wives

October 4, 1937

 

William Golding

Lord of the Flies

September 19, 1911

 

T.S Eliott

The Waste Land 

September 26, 1888 

 

Agatha Christie

Murder on the Orient Express

September 15, 1890

 

 

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