October Literary Birthdays

 Poets and playwrights make a strong showing in October, including e.e. cummings, Sylvia Plath, Arthur Rimbaud, and one-time Connecticut residents Wallace Stevens, Eugene O'Neill, and Arthur Miller .

October 2 - Wallace Stevens (1879 -1955)
October 2 - Graham Greene (1904-1991)
October 3 - Gore Vidal (1925-)
October 3 - James Harriot (1916-1995)
October 4 - Anne Rice (1941 - )
October 10 - Harold Pinter (1930 - )
October 10 - Elmore Leonard (1930 - )
October 14 - e.e. cummings (1894-1962)
October 16 - Eugene O'Neill (1888 - 1953)
October 16 - Günter Grass (1927 - )
October 16 - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
October 17 - Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
October 18 - Wendy Wasserstein (1950-2006)
October 20 - Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891)
October 20 -Robert Pinsky (1940 -)
October 21 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
October 21 - Ursula K. Le Guin (1929 - )
October 22 - Doris Lessing (1919 - )
October 25 - Anne Tyler (1941 - )
October 27 - Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
October 27 - Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)
October 30 - Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
October 30 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881)
October 31 - John Keats (1795 - 1821)