December 10 in Literary History: Writers Born & Died

Writers born on December 10

Born	Writer	Known as
1970	Kevin Sharp	American country music singer, author, and motivational speaker (1970-2014)
1966	Penelope Trunk	American writer and entrepreneur (born 1966)
1959	Udi Aloni	Israeli filmmaker, writer and artist
1959	Kevin Ash	British motorcycle journalist and author (1959–2013)
1958	Cornelia Funke	German author of children's fiction (born 1958)
1952	Greg Laurie	American author and pastor (born 1952)
1949	Yasmin Alibhai-Brown	British journalist and author (born 1949)
1947	Rasul Guliyev	Azerbaijani Politician and author
1946	Douglas Kenney	American comedy writer (1946–1980)
1941	Ken Campbell	British actor, director and writer (1941–2008)
1936	Howard Smith (director)	American screenwriter and director (1936-2014)
1935	Jaromil Jireš	Czech film director and screenwriter (1935–2001)
1933	Philip R. Craig	American novelist (1933–2007)
1925	Carolyn Kizer	American writer (1925–2014)
1922	Agnes Nixon	American soap opera screenwriter (1922–2016)
1920	Clarice Lispector	Ukrainian-born Brazilian writer (1920–1977)
1920	Reginald Rose	American playwright and screenwriter (1920–2002)
1913	Pannonica de Koenigswarter	British jazz patron and writer (1913–1988)
1907	Rumer Godden	British author (1907–1998)
1906	Harold Adamson	American lyricist (1906–1980)
1891	Nelly Sachs	Jewish German-Swedish writer, Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate (1891–1970)
1878	C. Rajagopalachari	Indian statesman and writer (1878–1972)
1870	Pierre Louÿs	Belgian writer and poet (1870–1925)
1830	Emily Dickinson	American poet (1830–1886)
1824	George MacDonald	Scottish writer and Christian minister (1824–1905)
1821	Nikolay Nekrasov	Russian poet, critic, publisher (1821–1878)
1811	Caroline M. Sawyer	American writer (1812–1894)
1783	María Bibiana Benítez	Puerto Rican writer

Writers who died on December 10

Died	Writer	Known as
2014	Ralph Giordano	German writer and publicist (1923–2014)
2013	Alan Coleman	Alan Coleman, English-Australian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1936)
2006	Olivia Coolidge	British American historical writer
1978	Ed Wood	American filmmaker, actor and author (1924–1978)
1972	Mark Van Doren	American poet (1894–1972)
1963	K. M. Panikkar	Indian author and diplomat (1895-1963)
1956	David Shimoni	Israeli poet, writer, and translator
1951	Algernon Blackwood	English journalist and author (1869–1951)
1946	Damon Runyon	American writer (1880–1946)
1936	Luigi Pirandello	Sicilian dramatist, novelist, poet, short story writer (1867–1936)
1929	Harry Crosby	American writer (1898–1929)

Literary events on December 10

Year	Event
1953	British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1909	Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1884	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Finn depicted) by American author Mark Twain was first published in the United Kingdom and Canada, two months earlier than in the US.
1768	The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.

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Kevin Sharp (1970) — Kevin Grant Sharp was an American country music singer, author, and motivational speaker. Sharp came on the country music scene in 1996 with his first single: a cover of Tony Rich's "Nobody Knows", which topped the Billboard country chart for four weeks. The same year, Sharp released his first album, Measure of a Man.

Penelope Trunk (1966) — Penelope Trunk is an American writer and entrepreneur. Trunk published literary works including electronic literature in the 1990s and early 2000s under the pen name Adrienne Eisen and later under the name Penelope Trunk, a name she adopted in her public life.

Udi Aloni (1959) — Udi Aloni is an Israeli American filmmaker, writer, visual artist and political activist whose works focus on the interrelationships between art, theory, and action.

December 10 in literary history

Writers born on December 10

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