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Literary Birthdays - March 29th through April 4th

—Mar. 29—

Dezső Kosztolányi, Hungarian poet and prose writer (1885; d.1936)

NY-born playwright, producer, and actor Howard Lindsay (1889; d.1968)

German novelist and essayist Ernst Junger (1895; d.1998)

NYC-born novelist and magazine editor Helen Yglesias (1915; d.2008)

Günter Kunert (1929; d.2019), German writer who wrote satirical and critical works about the repressive Communist government in East Germany

American novelist and screenwriter Judith Guest (1936)

—Mar. 30—

English writer Anna Sewell (1820; d.1878), author of Black Beauty

French lyric poet Paul Verlaine (1844; d.1896)

Polish (Hungary-born) actress, novelist, and playwright of the Naturalist school, Gabriela Zapolska (1857; d.1921), born Maria Gabriela Korwin-Piotrowska

Irish playwright Seán O'Casey (1880; d.1964)

Milton Acorn (1923; d.1986), writer, playwright, and Canada's national poet aka the People's Poet

Thomas Sharpe (1928; d.2013), English satirical novelist

—Mar. 31—

English metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell (1621; d.1678)

English writer, and translator of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859), Edward FitzGerald (1809; d.1883)

Ukraine-born Russian realist writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809; d.1852), who penned the satirical masterpiece, Dead Souls (1842)

Scottish author Andrew Lang (1844; d.1912)

William J. Lederer (1912; d.2010), American author, co-author of the bestselling political novel The Ugly American (1958)

Mexican writer and diplomat Octavio Paz (1914; d.1998)

English novelist John Fowles (1926; d.2005)

U.S. writer from the Bronx, Judith Rossner (1935; d.2005), who wrote Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1975)

Chicago author John Jakes (1932)

U.S. novelist Marge Piercy (1936)

—Apr. 1—

Author of Cyrano de Bergerac, the French dramatist and poet Edmond Rostand (1868; d.1918)

Baltimore (MD)-born librarian, storyteller, and writer Augusta Baker (1911; d.1998), who worked for 35 years at the New York Public Library and developed comprehensive bibliographies of African American-based children's literature

Fantasy/sci-fi writer Anne McCaffrey (1926; d. 2011)

Harlem native, sci-fi novelist and short story writer Samuel Delany (1942), winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and Pilgrim Awards

—Apr. 2—

Danish fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen (1805; d.1875), who penned over 160 fairy tales

French writer and insurgent Émile Zola (1840; d.1902)

British historical novelist George MacDonald Fraser (1925; d.2008), creator of the rogue and bully Flashman

Nicholas Rinaldi, American novelist and longtime Fordham University professor (1934; d.2020)

Susan Lillian 'Sue' Townsend (1946; d.2014), English novelist, playwright, journalist, creator of Adrian Mole

—Apr. 3—

English metaphysical poet (born Wales) George Herbert (1593; d.1633)

American writer Washington Irving (1783; d.1859), author of Rip Van Winkle and The legend of Sleepy Hollow

London-born animal behaviorist (chimps) and writer Jane Goodall (1934)

—Apr. 4—

French novelist and critic Rémy de Gourmont (1858; d.1915), best known as an apologist for the symbolists, in Le Livre Des Masques Portraits Symbolistes (1896)

Finnish Swedish-language poet Edith Södergran (1892; d.1923)

U.S. playwright and historian Robert Sherwood (1896; d.1955), who was a member of the Algonquin round table and Franklin Roosevelt's speechwriter in the 1940s

Vietnamese novelist and screenplay writer Marguerite Duras (1914; d.1996), who wrote the screenplay for the film Hiroshima Mon Amor (1959)

Missouri-born (Arkansas-raised) novelist poet, dramatist, and performer Maya Angelou (1928; d.2014), born Marguerite Annie Johnson

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