Literary birthdays for May include short story writers John Cheever and Raymond Carver; Ship of Fools author Katherine Anne Porter; American poets Walt Whitman and Adrienne Rich ; New England transendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson; Rebecca author Daphne Du Maurier; British philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell; and James Bond creator Ian Fleming.
May 1 - Joseph Heller, American novelist (1923 - 1999)
May 3 - May Sarton, American writer (1912 - 1995)
May 3 - Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian writer and statesman (1469 - 1527)
May 3 - William Inge, American playwright (1913 - 1973)
May 4 - Graham Swift, British novelist (1949 - )
May 4 - David Guterson, American novelist (1956 - )
May 5 - Leo Lionni, Italian children's books author and illustrator (1910 - 1999)
May 6 - Robert Browning, British poet (1812 - 1889)
May 7 - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-born novelist and screenwriter (1927 - )
May 7 - Peter Carey, Australian novelist (1943 - )
May 7 - Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet and writer (1861 - 1941)
May 8 - Thomas Pynchon, American novelist (1937 - )
May 9 - J.M. Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright (1860 - 1937)
May 13 - Daphne Du Maurier, British novelist (1907 - 1989)
May 15 - Katherine Ann Porter, American writer (1890 - 1980)
May 15 - L. Frank Baum, American writer and actor (1856 - 1919)
May 16 - Adrienne Rich, American poet and essayist (1929 -)
May 18 - Bertrand Russell, British author and philosopher (1872 - 1970)
May 19 - Nora Ephron, American writer and filmaker (1941 - )
May 20 - Honoré de Balzac, French novelist (1799 - 1850)
May 21 - Alexander Pope, British poet (1688 – 1744)
May 22 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish-born physician and novelist (1859 - 1930)
May 23 - Scott O' Dell, American children's book author (1898 - 1989)
May 24 - Joseph Brodsky, Russian poet (1940 - 1996)
May 25 - Raymond Carver, American poet and short story writer (1938 - 1988)
May 25 - Theodore Roethke, American poet (1908 - 1963)
May 25 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet, essayist, and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
May 27 - John Cheever, American novelist and short story writer (1912 - 1982)
May 27 - John Barth, American novelist (1930 - )
May 27 - Herman Wouk, American novelist (1915 - )
May 28 - Ian Fleming, British author and journalist (1908 – 1964)
May 28 - Walker Percy, American novelist (1916 - 1990)
May 29 - T.H. White, Indian-born British novelist (1906 – 1964)
May 29 - G.K. Chesterton, British writer (1874 - 1936)
May 31 - Walt Whitman, American poet (1819 - 1892)
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