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An author (sometimes, in reference to a woman author, authoress) is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. The second entry goes on to clarify that, when using the term "author," the "anything"...
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Liz Henry
Date of birth:
- Jun 1969 (age 40 years)
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his...
Date of birth:
- Jul 26, 1894
Date of death:
- Nov 22, 1963 (age 69 years)
Arthur C. Clarke
Sri Lankabhimanya Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, most famous for the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, written in collaboration with director Stanley...
Date of birth:
- Dec 16, 1917
Date of death:
- Mar 19, 2008 (age 90 years)
Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British physician and writer, most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and...
Date of birth:
- May 22, 1859
Date of death:
- Jul 7, 1930 (age 71 years)
Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include awards-winning plays such as All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, and The...
Date of birth:
- Oct 17, 1915
Date of death:
- Feb 10, 2005 (age 89 years)
Aelianus Tacticus
Aelianus Tacticus (Gr. Αιλιανός Τακτικός) was a Greek military writer of the 2nd century, resident at Rome.
Aelian's military treatise in fifty-three chapters on the tactics of the Greeks, titled "On Tactical Arrays of the Greeks" (Περί Στρατηγικών...
Andrzej Sapkowski
Andrzej Sapkowski, born June 21, 1948 in Łódź, is a Polish fantasy writer. Sapkowski studied economics, and before turning to writing, he had worked as a senior sales representative for a foreign trade company. His first short story, The Witcher ...
Date of birth:
- Jun 21, 1948 (age 61 years)
A. E. Housman
Alfred Edward Housman (pronounced /ˈhaʊsmən/; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the...
Date of birth:
- Mar 26, 1859
Date of death:
- Apr 30, 1936 (age 77 years)
Britney Spears
Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American singer and entertainer. Born in Mississippi and raised in Louisiana, Spears first appeared on national television in 1992 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in...
Date of birth:
- Dec 2, 1981 (age 28 years)
Bruce Sterling
Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre.
Sterling is, along with William Gibson, Rudy Rucker,...
Date of birth:
- Apr 14, 1954 (age 55 years)
Buckminster Fuller
Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, author, designer, inventor, and futurist.
Fuller published more than thirty books, inventing and popularizing terms such as "Spaceship Earth",...
Date of birth:
- Jul 12, 1895
Date of death:
- Jul 1, 1983 (age 88 years)
Beatrix Potter
Helen Beatrix Potter (28 July 1866 – 22 December 1943) was an English author, illustrator, mycologist and conservationist best known for children's books featuring anthropomorphic characters such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
Born into a privileged...
Date of birth:
- Jul 28, 1866
Date of death:
- Dec 22, 1943 (age 77 years)
B. F. Skinner
Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990) was an American psychologist, author, inventor, advocate for social reform, and poet. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in...
Date of birth:
- Mar 20, 1904
Date of death:
- Aug 18, 1990 (age 86 years)
Craig Charles
Craig Charles (born 11 July 1964) is an English actor, stand-up comedian, author, poet, radio and television presenter and former professional footballer, best-known for playing Dave Lister in the British cult-favourite sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf....
Date of birth:
- Jul 11, 1964 (age 45 years)
Clive Anderson
Clive Anderson (born 10 December 1952) is a former barrister, now famous for being a successful comedy writer as well as a radio and television presenter in the United Kingdom. Winner of a British Comedy Award in 1991, Anderson began his success...
Date of birth:
- Dec 10, 1952 (age 57 years)
Clive Barker
Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English author, film director and visual artist best known for his work in both fantasy and horror fiction.
Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories which established him as a...
Date of birth:
- Oct 5, 1952 (age 57 years)
C. L. Moore
Catherine Lucille Moore (January 24, 1911–April 4, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer, as C. L. Moore. She was one of the first women to write in the genre, and paved the way for many other female writers in speculative fiction...
Date of birth:
- Jan 24, 1911
Date of death:
- Apr 4, 1987 (age 76 years)
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English writer, dramatist, and musician. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a ...
Date of birth:
- Mar 11, 1952
Date of death:
- May 11, 2001 (age 49 years)
Desmond Morris
Desmond John Morris (born 24 January 1928, Purton, north Wiltshire) is a British zoologist and ethologist, but is also known as a surrealist painter and popular author.
Morris was educated at Dauntsey's School, an independent school in West...
Date of birth:
- Jan 24, 1928 (age 81 years)
David Mamet
David Alan Mamet (pronounced /ˈmæmɨt/; born November 30, 1947) is an American author, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. His works are known for their clever, terse, sometimes vulgar dialogue and arcane stylized phrasing, as well...
Date of birth:
- Nov 30, 1947 (age 62 years)
Dave Barry
David "Dave" Barry (born July 3, 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author and columnist, who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the The Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as...
Date of birth:
- Jul 3, 1947 (age 62 years)
Dolly Parton
Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best-known for her work in country music.
In the four-and-a-half decades since her national-chart début, she...
Date of birth:
- Jan 19, 1946 (age 63 years)
Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893–June 7, 1967) was an American writer and poet, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles.
From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary...
Date of birth:
- Aug 22, 1893
Date of death:
- Jun 7, 1967 (age 73 years)
Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Marquis de Sade
Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (2 June 1740 – 2 December 1814) (French pronunciation: [maʁki də sad]) was a French aristocrat, revolutionary and writer. His works include novels, short stories, plays, and political tracts; in his...
Date of birth:
- Jun 2, 1740
Date of death:
- Dec 2, 1814 (age 74 years)
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American writer and journalist. During his lifetime he wrote and had published seven novels; six collections of short stories; and two works of non-fiction. Since his death three novels,...
Date of birth:
- Jul 21, 1899
Date of death:
- Jul 2, 1961 (age 61 years)
Eric S. Raymond
Eric Steven Raymond (born December 4, 1957), often referred to as ESR, is a computer programmer, author and open source software advocate. His name became known within the hacker culture when he picked up maintenance of the "Jargon File" in 1990....
Date of birth:
- Dec 4, 1957 (age 52 years)
Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer (July 25, 1902 – May 21, 1983) was an American social writer and philosopher. He produced ten books and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983 by President of the United States Ronald Reagan. His first book, The...
Date of birth:
- Jul 25, 1902
Date of death:
- May 21, 1983 (age 80 years)
E. E. Smith
E. E. Smith, also Edward Elmer Smith, Ph.D., E. E. "Doc" Smith, Doc Smith, "Skylark" Smith, and (to family) Ted (May 2, 1890 - August 31, 1965) was a food engineer (specializing in doughnut and pastry mixes) and early science fiction author who...
Date of birth:
- May 2, 1890
Date of death:
- Aug 31, 1965 (age 75 years)
E.T.A. Hoffmann
Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (January 24, 1776 – June 25, 1822), better known by his pen name E.T.A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann), was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and...
Date of birth:
- Jan 24, 1776
Date of death:
- Jun 25, 1822 (age 46 years)
Ed Wood, Jr.
Edward Davis Wood, Jr. (October 10, 1924 – December 10, 1978), better known as Ed Wood, was an American screenwriter, director, producer, actor, author, and editor, who often performed many of these functions simultaneously. In the 1950s, Wood made...
Date of birth:
- Oct 10, 1924
Date of death:
- Dec 10, 1978 (age 54 years)
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (German pronunciation: [ˈfʀants ˈkafka]; 3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a major fiction writer of the 20th century. He was born to a middle-class German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, Bohemia (presently the Czech Republic), Austria...
Date of birth:
- Jul 3, 1883
Date of death:
- Jun 3, 1924 (age 40 years)
Francis Fukuyama
Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama (born 27 October 1952) is an American philosopher, political economist, and author.
Francis Fukuyama was born in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. His father, Yoshio Fukuyama, a second-generation Japanese-American,...
Date of birth:
- Oct 27, 1952 (age 57 years)
Fernando Pessoa
Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa (Portuguese pronunciation: [fɨɾˈnɐ̃du pɨˈsoɐ]; b. June 13, 1888 in Lisbon, Portugal — d. November 30, 1935 in the same city) was a Portuguese poet and writer. He was also a literary critic and translator. The critic...
Date of birth:
- Jun 13, 1888
Date of death:
- Nov 30, 1935 (age 47 years)
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his psuedonym George Orwell, was an English author. His work is marked by a profound conscientiousness of social injustice, an intense dislike of totalitarianism,...
Date of birth:
- Jun 25, 1903
Date of death:
- Jan 21, 1950 (age 46 years)
George R. R. Martin
George Raymond Richard Martin (born September 20, 1948), sometimes referred to as GRRM, is an American author and screenwriter of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. He is best known for his ongoing A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels.
George...
Date of birth:
- Sep 20, 1948 (age 61 years)
Greg Egan
Greg Egan (born 20 August 1961) is an Australian science fiction author.
Egan specialises in hard science fiction stories with mathematical and quantum ontology themes, including the nature of consciousness. Other themes include genetics, simulated...
Date of birth:
- Aug 20, 1961 (age 48 years)
Gary Gygax
Ernest Gary Gygax (July 27, 1938 – March 4, 2008; last name pronounced /ˈɡaɪɡæks/ GYE-gaks) was an American writer and game designer, best known for co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D;) with Dave Arneson. Gygax is...
Date of birth:
- Jul 27, 1938
Date of death:
- Mar 4, 2008 (age 69 years)
Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 – 21 December 1375) (Italian pronunciation: [bokˈkattʃo]) was an Italian author and poet, a friend, student, and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist and the author of a number of notable works...
Date of birth:
- Jun 16, 1313
Date of death:
- Dec 21, 1375 (age 62 years)
George Eliot
Mary Anne (Mary Ann, Marian) Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England, are...
Date of birth:
- Nov 22, 1819
Date of death:
- Dec 22, 1880 (age 61 years)
Geoff Ryman
Geoffrey Charles Ryman (born 1951) is a writer of science fiction, fantasy and surrealistic or "slipstream" fiction.
Ryman currently lectures in Creative Writing for University of Manchester's English Department. His most recent full-length novel,...
Date of birth:
- 1951 (age 59 years)
Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), more commonly known as Horace Walpole, was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and politician. He is now largely remembered for Strawberry Hill, the home he...
Date of birth:
- Sep 24, 1717
Date of death:
- Mar 2, 1797 (age 79 years)
Harlan Ellison
Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is an American writer. His principal genre is science fiction.
His published works include over 1,000 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, and a wide range of criticism covering not only...
Date of birth:
- May 27, 1934 (age 75 years)
H. P. Lovecraft
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, known then simply as weird fiction.
Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror, the idea that life is...
Date of birth:
- Aug 20, 1890
Date of death:
- Mar 15, 1937 (age 46 years)
Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins (born February 13, 1961 as Henry Lawrence Garfield) is an American singer-songwriter, raconteur, spoken word artist, writer, publisher, actor, radio DJ, and activist. After joining the short-lived Washington D.C. band State of Alert in...
Date of birth:
- Feb 13, 1961 (age 48 years)
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer (German pronunciation: [ˈɡaːdamɐ]; February 11, 1900 – March 13, 2002) was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 magnum opus, Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode).
Gadamer was born in...
Date of birth:
- Feb 11, 1900
Date of death:
- Mar 13, 2002 (age 102 years)
Helen Keller
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Annie Sullivan, broke through the...
Date of birth:
- Jun 27, 1880
Date of death:
- Jun 1, 1968 (age 87 years)
Hergé
Georges Prosper Remi (22 May 1907 - 3 March 1983), better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. "Hergé" (French pronunciation: [ɛʀʒe]) is the French pronunciation of "RG", his initials reversed. His best known and most...
Date of birth:
- May 22, 1907
Date of death:
- Mar 3, 1983 (age 75 years)
Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, most famous for his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting where reporters...
Date of birth:
- Jul 18, 1937
Date of death:
- Feb 20, 2005 (age 67 years)
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov (born Isaac Yudovich Ozimov, Russian: Исаак Юдович Озимов; c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992), was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular...
Date of birth:
- Jan 2, 1920
Date of death:
- Apr 6, 1992 (age 72 years)
Iain Banks
British writer. Wrote "The Wasp factory", which was his first novel. Writes SF as "Iain M. Banks".
Date of birth:
- Feb 16, 1954 (age 55 years)
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French author who helped pioneer the science-fiction genre. He is best known for his novels A Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand...
Date of birth:
- Feb 8, 1828
Date of death:
- Mar 24, 1905 (age 77 years)
J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (pronounced /ˈtɒlkiːn/; in General American also /ˈtoʊlkiːn/) (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy...
Date of birth:
- Jan 3, 1892
Date of death:
- Sep 2, 1973 (age 81 years)
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office....
Date of birth:
- Oct 1, 1924 (age 85 years)
Joanna Russ
Joanna Russ (born February 22, 1937) is an American writer, academic and feminist. She is the author of a number of works of science fiction, fantasy and feminist literary criticism and is best known for The Female Man, a novel combining utopian...
Date of birth:
- Feb 22, 1937 (age 72 years)
J. K. Rowling
Joanne "Jo" Murray, OBE (née Rowling; born 31 July 1965), better known under the pen name J. K. Rowling (pronounced /ˈroʊlɪŋ/, ROH-ling), is a British author best known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series, the idea for which was...
Date of birth:
- Jul 31, 1965 (age 44 years)
Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Howard Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare (born 15 April 1940) is an English author, actor, playwright, convicted criminal, and former politician.
He was a Member of Parliament and deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, and became...
Date of birth:
- Apr 15, 1940 (age 69 years)
Janusz Zajdel
Janusz Andrzej Zajdel (August 15, 1938 in Warsaw – July 19, 1985 in Warsaw) was a prominent Polish science fiction author. He died from cancer.
Zajdel is a precursor of social and dystopian fiction. In his works, he envisions totalitarian states and...
Date of birth:
- Aug 15, 1938
Date of death:
- Jul 19, 1985 (age 46 years)
John Hay
John Milton Hay (October 8, 1838 – July 1, 1905) was an American statesman, diplomat, author, journalist, and private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln.
Hay was born in Salem, Indiana, of Scottish ancestry, the third son of Dr. Charles Hay...
Date of birth:
- Oct 8, 1838
Date of death:
- Jul 1, 1905 (age 66 years)
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007; pronounced /ˈvɒnɨɡət/) was an American novelist who wrote works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of...
Date of birth:
- Nov 11, 1922
Date of death:
- Apr 11, 2007 (age 84 years)
Kingsley Amis
Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE (16 April 1922 – 22 October 1995) was an English novelist, poet, critic and teacher. He wrote more than twenty novels, three collections of poetry, short stories, radio and television scripts, and books of social and...
Date of birth:
- Apr 16, 1922
Date of death:
- Oct 22, 1995 (age 73 years)
