Literature
Zalman King
May 23, 1942 - February 3, 2012
American director, writer, producer, actor
Colin Thiele
16 November 1920 - 4 September 2006
Australian author
Frank Conroy
January 15, 1936 - April 6, 2005
Fiction writer, memoirist, teacher
Mary Butts
13 December 1890 - 5 March 1937
Novelist
Betty Smith
December 15, 1896 - January 17, 1972
American writer
Hunter Davies
7 january 1936 -
author, journalist and broadcaster,
Mike Reiss
November 15, 1959 -
American writer and producer
Ernst Toller
1 December 1893 - 22 May 1939
German playwright
Jean Paul
21 March 1763 - 14 November 1825
German novelist
Louis O. Coxe
April 15, 1918 - May 25, 1993
Poet, playwright, professor
Jane Mander
9 April 1877 - 20 December 1949
New Zealand writer
Julian Fellowes
17 August 1949 -
English novelist, screenwriter, film director and actor
Joaquim Nabuco
August 19, 1849 - January 17, 1910
Brazilian writer adn statesman
Adrian Păunescu
20 July 1943 - 5 November 2010
Romanian poet and politician
David Goodis
March 2, 1917 - January 7, 1967
Novelist, screenwriter
Tom DeFalco
June 26, 1950 -
American comics writer and editor
Juran Hisao
6 April 1902 - 6 October 1957
Japanese author
Catherine Helen Spence
31 October 1825 - 3 April 1910
Nineteenth century Australian author, teacher, journalist, politician and leading suffragette
David Pinski
April 5, 1872 - August 11, 1959
Yiddish language writer
Shirley Hazzard
30 January 1931 -
Australian-Anglo-American novelist, short story writer, memoirist, non-fiction writer
Jasimuddin
1 January 1903 - 13 March 1976
Bengali language poet
Sami Garam
31 October 1967 -
Cook and writer, specialises in Helsinki slang
David Wain
August 1, 1969 -
writer, director, actor and comedian
Pat Reid
13 November 1910 - 22 May 1990
British Army officer, prisoner of war, author
Omar Kureishi
1928 - 14 March 2005
Pakistani writer and cricket commentator
Ralph Peters
April 19, 1952 -
Amertican military officer, writer, pundit
Willis Hall
6 April 1929 - 7 March 2005
English playwright and screenwriter