Barry, Dave (July 3)
Goofy humor columnist for The Miami Herald, 1983-2005
Famous Cancer Celebrities
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Benét, Stephen Vincent (July 22)
He wrote "The Devil And Daniel Webster" -
Bierce, Ambrose (June 24)
Author of A Fiend's Delight -
Bloom, Harold (July 11)
The literary critic who wrote 1973’s The Anxiety of Influence -
Brown, Dan (June 22)
Author of The Da Vinci Code -
Buck, Pearl S. (June 26)
The Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner who wrote The Good Earth -
Bulfinch, Thomas (July 15)
The author of Bulfinch's Mythology -
Butler, Octavia (June 22)
The African-American feminist science fiction author who won a MacArthur "genius" grant -
Cain, James M. (July 1)
Author of The Postman Always Rings Twice -
Cartland, Barbara (July 9)
The very British "Queen of the Romance Novel" -
Crane, Hart (July 21)
Suicidal poet of The Bridge -
de Saint Exupéry, Antoine (June 29)
Author of The Little Prince -
Eddy, Mary Baker (July 16)
Founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist -
Goldman, Emma (June 27)
The anarchist-feminist who founded 'Mother Earth' monthly -
Haggard, H. Rider (June 22)
Author of King Solomon's Mines -
Hawthorne, Nathaniel (July 4)
The author of The Scarlet Letter -
Heinlein, Robert A. (July 7)
The author of Stranger in a Strange Land -
Hemingway, Ernest (July 21)
The famously manly author of For Whom the Bell Tolls -
Hinton, S.E. (July 22)
Author of The Outsiders -
Hotchner, A.E. (June 28)
The writer who befriended Ernest Hemingway and Paul Newman -
Johnson, Denis (July 1)
The author of 'Tree of Smoke' and 'Jesus' Son' -
Kafka, Franz (July 3)
Author of The Trial and The Metamorphosis -
Koontz, Dean (July 9)
The horror novelist who wrote Watchers -
Landers, Ann (July 4)
Syndicated newspaper advice columnist -
Lazarus, Emma (July 22)
Author of the poem on the Statue of Liberty -
Liu Cixin (June 23)
The author of 'The Three-Body Problem' -
Mantel, Hilary (July 6)
The author of Wolf Hall -
Martel, Yann (June 25)
The author of Life of Pi -
McCarthy, Cormac (July 20)
Author of All the Pretty Horses -
Munro, Alice (July 10)
Canadian writer of The Love of a Good Woman stories -
Neruda, Pablo (July 12)
The Chilean poet who won the 1971 Nobel Prize -
Odets, Clifford (July 18)
The author of the play Waiting for Lefty -
Orwell, George (June 25)
The author of Nineteen eighty-four -
Pirandello, Luigi (June 28)
The author of Six Characters in Search of An Author -
Proust, Marcel (July 10)
Author of Remembrance of Things Past -
Remarque, Erich Maria (June 22)
Author of All Quiet on the Western Front -
Sacks, Oliver (July 9)
The author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat -
Sand, George (July 1)
The unconventional 19th century French author of 1 July 1804 -
Simon, Neil (July 4)
The Broadway legend who wrote The Odd Couple -
Solnit, Rebecca (June 24)
The author of 'The Faraway Nearby' and 'Men Explain Things to Me' -
Thompson, Hunter S. (July 18)
Author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas -
Thoreau, Henry David (July 12)
Author of Walden -
VanderMeer, Jeff (July 7)
The author of the 'Southern Reach' trilogy