Authors Born in July & August

If you are having a birthday in July or August, "Happy Birthday" to you, too!

July 2
Jack Gantos, 1951
Jean Craighead George, 1919

July 4
Jamie Gilson, 1933
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804

July 5
John Carl Schoenherr, 1935

July 6
Robert A. Heinlein, 1907

July 8
James Cross Giblin, 1933
Raffi, 1948

July 9
Betsy Bang, 1912
June Jordan, 1936

July 10
Martin Provensen, 1916

July 11
Patricia Polacco, 1944
James Stevenson, 1929
E.B. White, 1899

July 12
Henry David Thoreau, 1817
Herbert Zim, 1909

July 13
Marcia Brown, 1918
Ashley Bryan, 1923

July 14
Leon Garfield, 1921
Peggy Parish, 1927
Issac Bashevis Singer, 1904

July 15
Walter D. Edmonds, 1905
Clement C. Moore, 1779

July 16
Arnold Adoff, 1935
Richard Egielski, 1952
Shirley Hughes, 1927

July 17
Warwick Hutton, 1939

July 18
Laurence Housman, 1865

July 19
Eve Merriam, 1916
John Newbery, 1713

July 21
Catherine Storr, 1913

July 23
Robert Quackenbush, 1929

July 25
Ruth Krauss, 1911

July 27
Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1972

July 28
Natalie Babbitt, 1932
Beatrix Potter, 1866

July 29
Sharon Creech, 1945

July 31
Lynn Reid Banks, 1929
Robert Kimmel Smith, 1930
J. K. Rowling, 1965

August 1
Gail Gibbons, 1944

August 2
Holling C. Holling, 1900
James Howe, 1946

August 5
Ruth Sawyer, 1880

August 7
Betsy Byars, 1928
Maia Wojciechowska, 1927

August 8
Jan Pienkowski, 1936
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, 1896

August 9
José Aruego, 1932
Tove Jansson, 1914
Patricia McKissack, 1944

August 10
Margot Tomes, 1917

August 11
Enid Blyton, 1897
Don Freeman, 1908

August 12
Walter Dean Myers, 1937

August 14
Alice Provensen, 1918

August 15
E. Nesbit, 1858
Brinton Turkle, 1915

August 16
Matt Christopher, 1917
Diana Wynne Jones, 1934
Myra Cohn Livingston, 1926
Beatrice Schenk DeRegniers, 1914

August 18
Paula Danziger, 1944

August 19
Vicki Cobb, 1938
Ogden Nash, 1902

August 21
X.J. Kennedy, 1919
Arthur Yorinks, 1953

August 26
Patricia Beatty, 1922

August 27
Arlene Mosel, 1921

August 28
Roger Duvoisin, 1904
Allen Say, 1937
Tasha Tudor, 1915

August 29
Karen Hesse,1952

August 30
Laurent de Brunhoff, 1925
Virginia Lee Burton, 1909
Donald Crews, 1938
Mary Shelley, 1797