December 19 Writer Birthdays
December 19 Writer Birthdays
- 1036 - Su Tung-p'o, greatest poet of the Chinese Sung Dynasty, often under fire in his day for satirizing government policies.
- 1753 - John Taylor of Caroline, Virginia State Delegate who authored books on agriculture and politics.
- 1796 - Manuel Breton de los Herreros, prolific Spanish playwright & librarian.
- 1820 - Mary Ashton Livermore, journalist; advocate for abolition & women's rights.
- 1875 - Carter Woodson, African-American author; pioneer of Black history.
- 1895 - Ingeborg Refling-Hagen, Norwegian novelist & poet, arrested for her work with the Resistance during WW2.
- 1901 - Oliver La Farge, Pulitzer Prize-winning author & anthropologist.
- 1910 - Jean Genet, French novelist and political activist.
- 1910 - Jose Lezama Lima, Cuban poet; one of the most influential in Latin American literature.
- 1923 - Robert V. Bruce, Pulitzer-winning author and historian.
- 1928 - Eve Bunting, Irish author of children's and YA books.
- 1942 - Jean-Patric Manchette, foremost French crime novelist of the 1970s and 1980s.
- 1944 - Richard Leakey, son of Richard & Mary Leakey, all three of them groundbreaking paleoanthropologists whose work shed light on the origins of humanity.
- 1960 - Daniel Silva, American author of bestselling thrillers and spy novels.
- 1967 - Paul Harding, American musician and author; his first novel won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
- 1975 - Brandon Sanderson, Hugo Award-winning science fiction and fantasy author who completed Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series.
