Happy birthday to… your favorite author! Here, you’ll find a list of all the most renowned author birthdays from past to present, and you’ll have fun basking in your digital or real-life bookish celebrations of these literary legends. Grab a slice of cake and take notes.
Author Birthdays by Month
Here, I relied on Wikipedia to source and double-check these dates, and I hand-selected the most famous authors, both dead and living, whom I thought you would be most likely to celebrate, whether you’re a teacher, librarian, content creator, or book lover enjoying the bookish life.
January
- 1: J.D. Salinger
- 3: J.R.R. Tolkien
- 18: A.A. Milne
- 19: Edgar Allan Poe
- 25: Virginia Woolf
- 27: Lewis Carroll
- 27: J.D. Salinger
- 29: Oprah Winfrey
February
- 2: James Joyce
- 7: Charles Dickens
- 12: Judy Blume
- 18: Toni Morrison
- 26: Victor Hugo
- 27: John Steinbeck
March
- 2: Dr. Seuss
- 6: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- 26: Robert Frost
April
- 4: Maya Angelou
- 23: William Shakespeare
- 28: Harper Lee
May
- 22: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- 28: Ian Fleming
June
- 12: Anne Frank
- 25: Anthony Bourdain
- 25: George Orwell
- 27: Helen Keller
July
- 21: Ernest Hemingway
- 27: Beatrix Potter
- 31: J.K. Rowling
August
- 22: Ray Bradbury
- 28: Leo Tolstoy
September
- 13: Roald Dahl
- 15: Agatha Christie
- 21: Stephen King
- 24: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 25: William Faulkner
- 26: T.S. Eliot
- 30: Truman Capote
October
- 8: R.L. Stine
- 16: Oscar Wilde
- 17: Arthur Miller
- 27: Sylvia Plath
November
- 11: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- 29: Louisa May Alcott
- 29: C.S. Lewis
- 30: Mark Twain
- 30: L.M. Montgomery
December
- 10: Emily Dickinson
- 11: Colleen Hoover
- 16: Jane Austen
Read Next: Celebrate these author birthdays of your favorite authors with these literary birthday quotes.
Hopefully you will not forget the classic American author Laura Ingalls Wilder’s birthday on February 7, 1867. For years as a children’s school librarian I featured monthly “birthday books” by so many authors, introducing students to the wonderful world of reading stories from real people.
Thank you so much for your recommendation and your service!!