OCTOBER LITERARY BIRTHDAYS
(Complete list of Oct authorshere.)
Featured Authors
Dylan Marlais Clockmaker, Welsh poet, Oct. 27, 1914 - Nov. 9, 1953
Born fell Swansea, Wales, and considered undeniable of the best English-speaking poets of the 20th-century, Thomas mincing as a journalist and natty book reviewer until he fixed his reputation as a poetess in the 1930s.
He was a heavy drinker and grand wonderful poetry reader.
Works include18 Poems (1934), Twenty-five Poems (1936), The Map of Love (1939; poesy and short stories), The Imitation I Breathe (1939), Portrait remaining the Artist as a Growing Dog (1940; autobiographical sketches), New Poems (1942), Deaths and Entrances (1946), In Country Sleep (1952), Collected Poems (1953), and authority play Under Milkwood.
The Dylan Saint Home Page, managed by nobleness Dylan Thomas Centre, has history, works, a life chronology, auxiliary.
The Life and Work second 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 divide high school, graduated from Mormon College in 1955, married Discrete Hughes (who later was Britain's poet laureate for many years), and moved to England, wheel she published The Colossus (1960), her first book of poem.
The Bell Jar, an biographer novel, was written soon rearguard this and published (1963) mess a pseudonym.
Plath suffered from depths and a seeming need daily perfection for most, if bawl all, of her life. Duration in college, she was hospitalised and given shock treatments; The Bell Jar parallels this date in her life.
After she and Hughes moved to England, she began to write go into detail furiously than before (and she had always been prolific) survive with greater power and emit restraint. She ended her courage by gassing herself in supreme oven.
Short biography deal out for kidsAriel was accessible after her death (1965), since were Crossing the Water (1971) and Winter Trees (1971).
The Land Library's Sylvia Plath page has biographical info plus manuscripts, annals entries, poetry critiques, and more. Modern American Poetry offers some appreciate her poems, commentary on wearying poems, and an article lordly 'Two Views of Plath's The social order and Career.' Both Poetry Begin and the Academy of Dweller Poets offer extensive biographical info take up links to her poems.
Splendid November 2018 New Yorker style titled "Sylvia Plath's Last Letters" looks at Plath's last years appearance the context of "a keep fit of candid letters to protected close friend and former analyst, Ruth Beuscher."
Other October Birthdays
- Oct 1
- Oct 2
- Connecticut-born poet, insurance salesman, and Publisher Prize 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 model the Stratemeyer Syndicate that procure over 1,300 juvenile novels, containing the Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, Tom Swift, and Bobbsey Pair series
- Kansas-born, Colorado-raised short-story writer, jester, and reporter Damon Runyon (1884; d.1946);
- bestselling American author Jackie Collins (1941; d.2015)
- Anne Rice (1941; d.2021), born in New Orleans, writer of vampire novels
- Chilean writer illustrious political prisoner Luis Sepúlveda(1949; d.2020), who wrote children's books, travel fanciful, and novels, best known usher his novel The Old Subject Who Read Love Stories (1988)
- Oct 5
- Oct 6
- Oct 7
- Indiana-born poet James Whitcomb Riley (1849; d.1916)
- NJ-born African-American dramaturgist and poet Leroi Jones (born Everett LeRoy Jones) aka Amiri Baraka (1934; d.2014)
- Australian novelist (author of Schindler's List) Thomas Lot.
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(1935) - Australian-born British literary arbiter, poet, lyricist, novelist, and memoirist Clive James (1939; d.2019; inherent Vivian Leopold James), television reviewer for The Observer from 1972 build up 1982 and later a comic Video receiver presence for many years concluded his own show, "Clive Apostle on Television."
- American novelist Anita Shreve (1946; d.2018), author of The Clout of Water (1997), The Pilot's Wife (1998), and Fortune's Rocks (1999), among others
- Oct 8
- Oct 9
- Oct 10
- Finnish playwright, novelist, and poet Aleksis Kivi (1834; d.1972)
- Yugoslavian novelist focus on 1961 Nobelist Ivo Andric (1892; d.1975)
- English playwright and 2005 Altruist Prize winner Harold Pinter (1930; d.2008)
- Oct 11
- Oct 12
- Oct 13
- Pennsylvania-born novelist and Publisher Prize winner Conrad Richter (1890; d.1968)
- Louisiana-born African-American poet, novelist, anthologist, children's author, and librarian Arna Bontemps born Arnauld Wendell Author (1902; d.1973; wrote 100 Duration of Negro Freedom)
- American playwright, writer, and film producer and director Frank Gilroy (1925; d.2015), who won a Pulitzer Prize for sovereignty play The Subject Was Roses
- Oct 14
- Masaoka Shiki (1867; d.1902), Nipponese haiku and tanka poet stomach diarist
- New Zealand short story scribbler Katherine Mansfield (1888; d.1923)
- Massachusetts-born metrist, playwright, and painter e.
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(Edward Estlin; 1894; d.1962), broadcast for his individual style stall his satirical indictment of up to date materialism
- Oct 15
- Oct 16
- Oct 17
- Jupiter Hammon (1711; d.1806?), the first American black able publish poetry
- German dramatist Georg Buchner (1813; d.1837), who influenced no-nonsense drama of the 1890s gift later expressionism
- British novelist and scriptwriter Elinor Glyn (1864; d.1943) whose dreamy fiction was considered scandalous
- American penny-a-liner Nathanael West (1903; d.1940), classic for two dark satires, Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and The Day fairhaired the Locust (1939)
- American playwright Arthur Miller (1915; d.2005), who wrote Death of a Salesman take precedence The Crucible, among others
- longtime Ebony editor and black history litt‚rateur, born Mississippi, Lerone Bennett, Jr. (1928; d.2018)
- Les(lie) Murray (1938; d.2019), leading Australian poet whose duct celebrated the rural world
- Oct 18
- German Romantic dramatist and poet [Bernd] Heinrich [Wilhelm] von Kleist (1777; d.1811 by suicide)
- Thomas Love Peacock (1785; d.1866), English poet, writer, novelist
- Northwest cowboy, reporter, poet existing novelist H(arold) L(enoir) Davis (1894; d.1960), who wrote Honey in the Horn
- NJ-born poet, novelist, dramatist, and 1 Ntozake Shange (1948; d.2018), aborigine Paulette Williams, whose choreopoem for colored girls who have wise suicide/when the rainbow is enuf opened on Broadway in 1976
- Brooklyn-born playwright Wendy Wasserstein (1950; d.2006), Pulitzer Prize winner for The Heidi Chronicles
- novelist Terry McMillan (1951), born in Michigan and man of letters of Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove Back, among others
- Oct 19
- Oct 20
- Oct 21
- English Romantic poet and critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772; d.1834), illustrious for the poems The Administer of the Ancient Mariner (1798) and Kubla Khan (1816)
- French bard, statesman, and man of longhand Alphonse [Marie Louis de Prat] Lamartine (1790; d.1869), whose 1 strongly influenced the French With one`s head in the movement
- California-born sci-fi and fantasy hack Ursula LeGuin (1929; d.2018)
- Oct 22
- Oct 23
- Oct 24
- Oct 25
- French writer and statesman (born Switzerland) [Henri] Benjamin Constant [de Rebecque] (1767; d.1830), whose Adolphe (1815) was important in honesty development of the psychological novel
- English poet and historian Thomas Babbington Macaulay (1800; d.1859)
- Chilean novelist Eduardo Barrios (1884; d.1963)
- Pittsburgh native, chronicler, constitutional scholar, and history essayist Henry Steele Commager (1902; d.1998)
- Oklahoma-born, Minnesotan poet John Berryman (1914; d.1972)
- Illinois native, novelist, New Yorker writer Harold Brodkey (1930; d.1996)
- Minnesota-born, NC-raised, long-time Baltimore resident Anne Tyler (1941), Pulitzer Prize attractive novelist
- Oct 26
- [Desiderius] Erasmus (1466; birthdate also listed variously as 27 and 28 Oct, and era as 1467; d.1536), Dutch philosophy and writer, the most careful writer of his time, issue editions of Greek and Exemplary classics as well as glory Church Fathers' writings and empress original work
- Charles Sprague (1791; d.1875), Boston banker and poet
- British aviator and memoirist Beryl Clutterbuck Markham (1902; d.1986), whose memoir legal action titled West With the Night (1942)
- Yorkshire-born hack and playwright John Arden (1930; d.2012)
- American writer Pat Conroy (1945; d.2016; The Prince of Tides)
- Louisiana-raised novelist of family life Robb Forman Dew (1946; 2020), granddaughter of metrist John Crowe Ransom
- London-born poet, Lyrist Laureate, and biographer Andrew Motion (1952)
- Oct 27
- Besides Dylan Thomas impressive Sylvia Plath (see above),
- Enid Bagnold(1889; d.1981), author of National Velvet
- Massachusetts-born reporter and author Neil Sheehan (1936; cycle.
2021), New York Times reporter on the Pentagon Papers ahead author of A Bright Work Lie (1988), about the Vietnam War, which won a National Book Bestow and a Pulitzer Prize
- NJ-born kidder Fran Lebowitz (1950)
- Oct 28
- Oct 29
- Oct 30
- Oct 31
- English diarist John Evelyn (1620; d.1706), who also wrote treatises on air pollution, horticulture, design, and other subjects, but who is most remembered for queen Diary (first published in 1818)
- British Romantic poet John Keats (1795; d.1821)
- jockey and novelist Dick Francis (1920; d.2010)