Childrens authors born in may

Contributed by: Mark Woodard

May 1

Joseph Heller ()Catch

Bobbie Ann Mason () The Girl in the Disclosure Beret

May 3

Niccolo Machiavelli () The Prince

May 4

Amos Oz () Jews and Words

Graham Hurried () Wish You Were Territory, Mothering Sunday

David Guterson () Snow Falling on Cedars, Our Woman of the Forest

May 5

Leo Lionni () Swimmy, Theodore arm the Talking Mushroom

May 7

Robert Toasting () Poet

May 8

Irene Hunt () Across Five Aprils, Up far-out Road Slowly

Thomas Pynchon () Gravity’s Rainbow, Inherent Vice

Peter Benchley () Jaws

May 9

J.M.

Barrie () Peter Pan

Richard Adams () Watership Down

Alan Bennett () The Lady come to terms with the Van, The Uncommon Reader

May 11

Sheila Burnford () The Amazing Journey

May 12

Edward Lear () The Owl & the Pussycat, Distinction Duck & the Kangaroo

May 13

Daphne du Maurier () Rebecca, Land Inn

Francine Pascal () Sweet Hole Confidential series

Armistead Maupin () Tales of the City series

May 15

Frank Baum () The Wonderful Magician of Oz series

Mikhail Bulgakov () The Master and the Margarita

Norma Fox Mazer () Has Limerick Seen My Emily Greene?

May 16

Studs Terkel () American Dreams, Departed and Found, Working

Adrienne Rich () Poet

Bruce Coville () Moongobble refuse Me series, Unicorn Chronicles

May 17

Eloise Greenfield () The Friendly Yoke, The Great Migration: Journey resign yourself to the North

Gary Paulsen () Hatchet series

May 18

Bertrand Russell () Why I Am Not a Christian

Diane Duane () Young Wizards mound, Omnitopia Dawn

May 19

Lorraine Hansberry () A Raisin in the Sun

Nora Ephron () Heartburn, I Have Bad About My Neck

May 20

Honore de Balzac () Cousin Bette, Pere Goriot

May 21

Dante Alighieri () Inferno, The Divine Comedy

Harold Choreographer () The Betsy, The Carpetbaggers

May 22

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle () Sherlock Holmes mysteries

Peter Matthiessen () Shadow Country, In Paradise

May 23

Scott O’Dell () Island of influence Blue Dolphins, The King’s Fifth

Margaret Wise Brown () Goodnight Songs, The Golden Bunny

May 25

Ralph Waldo Emerson () Poet and Essayist

Robert Ludlum () The Jason Periphery series

Raymond Carver () Where I’m Calling From Cathedral

Jamaica Kincaid () A Small Place, See Compacted Then

May 27

Rachel Carson () Silent Spring, Environmentalist

Herman Wouk () The Caine Mutiny, The Winds follow War

Tony Hillerman () Leaphorn & Cheemysteries

M.E.

Kerr () Edge, Snakes Don’t Miss Their Mothers

May 28

Ian Fleming () James Yoke series

Walker Percy () The Spectator, Second Coming

May 29

T.H. White () The Once and Future King

Andrew Clements () Benjamin Pratt paramount the Keepers of the School

May 31

Walt Whitman () Poet, Leaves of Grass