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In May, we wish “Happy Birthday” to:

• May 1: Brooklyn-born novelist Joseph Heller (1923), who wrote Catch-22

• May 3: Italian writer and statesman, Niccolo Machiavelli (1469), author of The Prince

• May 4: Seattle native David Guterson (1956), who wrote Snow Falling on Cedars and East of the Mountains

• May 5: Karl Marx (1818), founder of modern Communism and author of Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto

• May 7: British poet Robert Browning (1812), husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• May 9: Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie (1860), author of Peter Pan and subject of the recent movie, Finding Neverland

• May 11: Russian-born songwriter Irving Berlin (1888), who wrote “God Bless America” and “White Christmas,” among others

• May 12: Canadian nature writer Farley Mowat (1921), author of Never Cry Wolf and Woman in the Mists: The Story of Dian Fossey

• May 13: British novelist Daphne Du Maurier (1907), author of Rebecca (1939); British travel writer and novelist Bruce Chatwin (1940), author of In Patagonia; San-Francisco Chronicle columnist and novelist Armistead Maupin (1944), who wrote Tales of the City and Night Listener

• May 15: Wizard of Oz creator L. Frank Baum (1856); young adult writer Paul Zindel (1936)

• May 16: Oral historian and Bronx-native Louis “Studs” Terkel (1912); Baltimore-born feminist poet Adrienne Rich (1929); Syracuse-born author Bruce Coville (1950), who wrote I Was Sixth Grade Alien, Armageddon Summer, and Into the Land of the Unicorns, among many others

• May 17: Author Gary Paulsen (1939), author of Dogsong (1985) and Hatchet (1987), among others

• May 19: Chicago-born African-American playwright Lorraine Hansberry (1930), famous for Raisin in the Sun (1959)

• May 20: French novelist Honoré de Balzac (1799), who wrote The Human Comedy in 80 volumes

• May 21: Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265), author of The Divine Comedy

• May 22: Sherlock Holmes-creator, Scottish-born physician and novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859); NYC-born writer Peter Matthiessen (1927), who wrote The Snow Leopard and At Play in the Fields of the Lord

• May 23: Los Angeles-born Newbery Medal winner Scott O'Dell (1898), author of The Island Of The Blue Dolphin; children’s author Margaret Wise Brown (1910) (remember Goodnight Moon?)

• May 25: American (Boston born) transcendentalist, essayist, philosopher, and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803); NYC-born spy thriller novelist Robert Ludlum (1927), author of the Jason Bourne series; American novelist (born Antigua), essayist, and short story writer Jamaica Kincaid (1949)

• May 27: Oklahoman mystery writer Tony Hillerman (1925), whose books are set in the American southwest; young adult author M.E. Kerr (1932); biologist and environmentalist writer Rachel Carson (1907), author of Silent Spring

• May 28: James Bond creator Ian Fleming (1908); Southern novelist Walker Percy (1916), whose works include The Moviegoer and The Last Gentleman

• May 31: American poet Walt Whitman, whose works include Song of Myself and Leaves of Grass

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