Authors' Birthdays/March

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1st

• Martial [aka Marcus Valerius Martialis] (circa 41AD - 104AD): Poet
• William Dean Howells (1837)
• [Giles] Lytton Strachey (1880)
• Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892)
• Ralph Ellison (author of The Invisible Man) (1914)
• Robert Lowell Jr. (1917)
• Richard Wilbur (1921)

2nd

• Shalom Aleicheim (1859)
• John Jay Chapman (1862)
• Theodor Geisel [Dr. Seuss] (1904)
• Tom Wolfe (1931)
• John Irving (1942)

3rd

• Thomas Otway (1652)
• William Godwin (1756)
• Raimundo António de Bulhão Pato (1828)
• Edward Thomas (1878)
• Yury Karlovich Olesha (1899)
• James Merrill (1926)
• Patricia MacLachlan (1938)

4th

• Johann David Wyss (1743)
• Alan Sillitoe (1928)
• Irina G. Ratushinskaya (1954)

5th

• Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840)
• Frank Norris (1870)
• Charles H[enry] Fuller, Jr. (1939)

6th

• Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac (1619)
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806)
• Ring[gold Wilmer] Lardner, Sr. (1885)
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928)

7th

• Ewald Christian von Kleist (1715)
• Alessandro Manzoni (1785)
• Abe Kobo (1924)
• Dan Jacobson (1929)
• Donald Barthelme (1931)
• George Perec (1936)

8th

• Kenneth Grahame (1859)
• Gene Fowler (1890)
• Eric Linklater (1899)
• John McPhee (1931)

9th

• Edmund Waller (1606)
• William Cobbett [Peter Porcupine] (1763)
• Taras Shevchenko (1814)
• David Garnett (1892)
• [Victoria Mary] Vita Sackville-West (1892)
• Peter Quennell (1905)
• Mickey [Frank Morrison] Spillane (1918)

10th

• [Karl Wilhelm] Friedrich von Schlegel (1772)
• Joseph Karl Benedikt, Freiherr von Eichendorff (1788)
• Ina Donna Coolbrith (1842)
• Jakob Wasserman (1873)
• Claire Boothe Luce (1903)
• Paul Coates (1921)
• David Rabe (1940)

11th

• Torquato Tasso (1544)
• Henric Spieghel (1549)
• D[ennis] J[oseph] Enright (1920)
• Douglas Adams (1952)

12th

• John Aubrey (1626)
• Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863)
• Ralph Hodgson (1871)
• Kylie Tennant (1912)
• Jack Kerouac (1922)
• Edward Albee (1928)
• John Gross (1935)
• Virginia Hamilton (1936)

13th

• Oswald Garrison Villard (1872)
• Sir Hugh Walpole (1884)
• Janet Flanner (1892)
• L. Ron Hubbard (1911)
• W[illiam] O[rmond] Mitchell (1914)

14th

• Isadore Gilbert Mudge (1875)
• Marguerite de Angeli (1889)
• Max Shulman (1919)
• Colin Fletcher (1922)
• John [Barrington] Wain (1925)
• Bertrand Blier (1939)

15th

• Paul von Heyse (1830)
• Lady Augusta Gregory (1852)
• Lionel Pigot Johnson (1867)
• Richard Ellman (1918)

16th

• Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero (1585)
• Marie Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de La Fayette (1634)
• Camilo Castelo Branco (1825)
• Sully Prudhomme (1839)
• Sir Edmund Kerchever Chambers (1866-1954), English literary critic and Shakespearean scholar
• Percy MacKaye (1875)
• Cesar Vallejo (1892)
• Sid Fleischman (1920)

17th

• Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow (1811)
• Kate Greenaway (1846)
• Paul Green (1894)

18th

• Stephane Mallarme (1842)
• Wilfred Owen (1893)
• Robert P. Tristram Coffin (1892)
• John Updike (1932)
• Michael S. Harper (1938)

19th

• Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821)
• Peter [Henry] Abrahams (1919)
• Philip Roth (1933)

20th

• Ovid (43 B.C.)
• [Johann Christian] Friedrich H?lderlin (1770)
• Henrik Ibsen (1828)
• Hugh MacLennan (1907)
• Lois Lowry (1937)
• Ellen Conford (1942)

21st

• Phyllis McGinley (1905)

22nd

• Randolph Caldecott (1846)
• Louis L'Amour (1908)
• Nicholas Monsarrat (1910)
• Gabrielle Roy (1909)
• Houston A. Baker, Jr. (1943)

23rd

• Roger Martin du Guard (1881)
• [Christina] Ama Ata Aidoo (1940)

24th

• William Morris (1834)
• South African author Olive Schreiner (1855)
• Malcolm Muggeridge (1903)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919)
• Dario Fo (1926)

25th

• Bella Cohen Spewack (1899)
• Flannery O'Connor (1925)
• Toni Cade Bambara (1959)

26th

• Louise Otto (1819)
• Edward Bellamy (1850)
• A. E. Housman (1859)
• Robert [Lee] Frost (1874)
• Joseph Campbell (1906)
• Tennesee Williams (1911)
• Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923)
• Gregory Corso (1930)
• Erica Jong (1942)

27th

• Heinrich Mann (1871)
• Budd Schulberg (1914)

28th

• William Byrd II (1674)
• Maxim Gorki (1868)
• Nelson Algren [Abraham] (1909)
• Mario Vargas Llosa (1936)

29th

• Howard Lindsay (1889)
• Ernst Junger (1895)

30th

• Anna Sewell (1820)
• Paul Verlaine (1844)
• Gabriela Zapolska (1857)
• Sean O'Casey (1880)

31st

• Andrew Marvell (1621)
• Edward FitzGerald (1809)
• Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809)
• Andrew Lang (1844)
• Octavio Paz (1914)
• John Fowles (1926)
• Judith Rossner (1935)
• Marge Piercy (1936)
• John Jakes (1932)