LITERARY CALENDAR OF EVENTS:
A calendar marking author birthdays. It’s a work in progress, so let us know if we’ve missed anything!
JANUARY
3rd January 1892 - J.R.R Tolkien
7th January 1903 - Zora Neale Hurston
17th January 1820 - Anne Brontë
18th January 1882 - A.A Milne
19th January 1809 - Edgar Allan Poe
25th January 1882 - Virginia Woolf
27th January 1832 - Lewis Carroll
FEBRUARY
1st February 1901 - Langston Hughes
7th February 1812 - Charles Dickens
7th February 1867 - Laura Ingalls Wilder
26th February 1802 - Victor Hugo
27th February 1902 - John Steinbeck
APRIL
4th April 1928 - Maya Angelou
21st April 1816 - Charlotte Brontë
26th April 1564 - William Shakespeare’s Baptism
28th April 1926 - Harper Lee
MAY
3rd May 1896 - Dodie Smith
9th May 1860 - J.M Barrie
13th May 1907 - Daphne Du Maurier
22nd May 1859 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
31st May 1819 - Walt Whitman
JUNE
2nd June 1840 - Thomas Hardy
12th June 1929 - Anne Frank
13th June 1865 - W.B Yeats
22nd June 1947 - Octavia E Butler
29th June 1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
JULY
12th July 1817 - Henry David Thoreau
18th July 1811 - William Makepeace Thackeray
21st July 1899 - Ernest Hemingway
26th July 1802 - Alexandre Dumas
26th July 1856 - George Bernard Shaw
28th July 1866 - Beatrix Potter
30th July 1818 - Emily Brontë
AUGUST
1st August 1819 - Herman Melville
2nd August 1924 - James Baldwin
9th August 2022 - Book Lover’s Day
9th August 1914 - Tove Jansson
9th August 1899 - PL Travers
16th August 1902 - Georgette Heyer
17th August 1837 - Charlotte Forten Grimké
30th August 1797 - Mary Shelley
SEPTEMBER
15th September 1890 - Dame Agatha Christie
21st September 1866 - H.G Wells
24th September 1896 - F. Scott Fitzgerald
OCTOBER
14th October 1894 - E.E Cummings
16th October 1854 - Oscar Wilde
27th October 1932 - Sylvia Plath
NOVEMBER
8th November 1847 - Bram Stoker
13th November 1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson
18th November 1939 - Margaret Atwood
22nd November 1819 - George Eliot
24th November 1849 - Frances Hodgson Burnett
29th November 1832 - Louisa May Alcott
29th November 1898 - C.S Lewis
30th November 1874 - L.M Montgomery
30th November 1835 - Mark Twain
DECEMBER
10th December 1830 - Emily Dickinson
16th December 1775 - Jane Austen
30th December 1865 - Rudyard Kipling