Literary birthdays in June include Helen Keller, William Butler Yeats, Federico García Lorca, Dorothy West, Mary McCarthy, and Frank O'Hara.June 1 - Colleen McCullough , Australian novelist (1937 - )
June 2 - Dorothy West, American writer and publisher (1907 - 1998)
June 2 - Thomas Hardy, English novelist and poet (1840 - 1928)
June 3 - Larry McMurtry, American novelist (1936 - )
June 3 - Allen Ginsberg, American Beat poet (1926 - 1997)
June 5 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet and dramatist (1898 - 1936)
June 6 - Thomas Mann, German novelist (1875 - 1955)
June 6 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian writer (1799 -1837)
June 10 - Saul Bellow, American writer (1915 - 2005)
June 10 - Maurice Sendak, children's author and illustrator (1928 - )
June 11 - Ben Jonson, English Jacobean playwright and poet (1572? - 1637)
June 11 - William Styron, American novelist (1925 - 2006 )
June 11 - Athol Fugard, South African writer (1932 - )
June 12 - Anne Frank, diarist and Holocaust victim (1929 - 1945)
June 13 - William Butler Yeats, Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
June 13 - Dorothy L. Sayers, mystery novelist (1893 - 1957)
June 14 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, American abolitionist and author (1811 - 1896)
June 14 - Yasunari Kawabata, Nobel prize-winning Japanese novelist (1899 - 1972)
June 14 - John Edgar Wideman, American novelist (1941 - )
June 16 - Joyce Carol Oates, American writer (1938 - )
June 19 - Salman Rushdie, British-Indian novelist and essayist (1947 - )
June 19 - Tobias Wolff, American author (1945 - )
June 20 - Lillian Hellman, American playwright (1905 -1984)
June 21 - Ian McEwan, Booker Prize-winning English writer (1948 - )
June 21 - Jean-Paul Sartre, French existentialist philosopher and author (1905 - 1980)
June 21 - Mary McCarthy, American writer (1912 -1989)
June 22 - Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist (1898 - 1970)
June 22 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906 - 2001)
June 25 - Eric Carle, children's book illustrator (1929)
June 25 - Yann Martel, Spanish-born Canadian author (1963 - )
June 25 - George Orwell, British writer (1903 - 1950)
June 26 - Pearl S. Buck, American-born writer (1892 - 1973)
June 27 - Frank O'Hara , American poet, playwright, and art critic (1926 -1966)
June 27 - Helen Keller, deaf/blind writer and activist (1880 - 1968)
June 28 - Luigi Pirandello, Italian playwright (1867 - 1936)
June 29 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French writer(1900 - 1944)
June 30 - Czeslaw Milosz, Polish-American poet(1911 - 2004)
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