December 8 Writer Birthdays
December 8 Writer Birthdays
- 65BC - Horace, Roman satirist & lyric poet.
- 1832 - Björnstjerne Björnson, Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian novelist.
- 1862 - Georges Feydeau, Belle Epoque playwright and a forerunner of absurdist theater.
- 1881 - Padraic Colum, Irish poet, novelist and dramatist who was a leading figure of the Irish literary revival.
- 1894 - James Thurber, author, journalist and cartoonist; especially known for work published in the New Yorker magazine.
- 1903 - Katherine "Kitty" Muggeridge, British writer and translator.
- 1906 - Richard Llewellyn, Welsh novelist who wrote How Green Was My Valley.
- 1912 - Jura Soyfer, Austrian political journalist and satirist; died at Buchenwald in 1939.
- 1913 - Delmore Schwartz, poet and short-story writer.
- 1930 - John Morressy, U.S. science-fiction author.
- 1943 - Jim Morrison, poet, songwriter and musician; lead singer of the Doors; he attended George Washington High School in Alexandria, which is now my teenager's former school, George Washington Middle School!
- 1949 - Mary Gordon, American writer of novels, memoirs, and literary criticism.
