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December 28 in literary history
Literary history for December 28: 15 writers born and 14 writers who died from 1535 to 2022. Born on this day: Max Hastings, Michelle Urry, Alan Coleman.
Writers born on December 28
| Born | Writer | Known as |
|---|---|---|
| 1945 | Max Hastings | English journalist, editor, historian and author (born 1945) |
| 1939 | Michelle Urry | American cartoonist |
| 1936 | Alan Coleman | Alan Coleman, English-Australian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2013) |
| 1936 | Lawrence Schiller | American producer, director, and screenwriter (born 1936) |
| 1932 | Roy Hattersley | British politician, author and journalist (1932–2026) |
| 1932 | Manuel Puig | Argentine writer (1932–1990) |
| 1922 | Stan Lee | American comic book writer (1922–2018) |
| 1919 | Emily Cheney Neville | American writer |
| 1914 | Bidia Dandaron | Soviet Buryat Buddhist teacher, author, and dissident (1914–1974) |
| 1902 | Mortimer J. Adler | American philosopher, author and educator (1902–2001) |
| 1902 | Shen Congwen | Chinese writer (1902–1988) |
| 1895 | Carol Ryrie Brink | American novelist (1895-1981) |
| 1789 | Catharine Sedgwick | American novelist |
| 1619 | Antoine Furetière | French writer and scholar (1619–1688) |
| 1535 | Martin Eisengrein | German Catholic theologian, university professor and polemical writer |
Writers who died on December 28
| Died | Writer | Known as |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Philomena Franz | German Romani author (1922–2022) |
| 2004 | Susan Sontag | American writer, critic and public intellectual (1933–2004) |
| 2001 | William X. Kienzle | American novelist |
| 1993 | William L. Shirer | American journalist, war correspondent, and author (1904–1993) |
| 1990 | Warren Skaaren | American screenwriter (1946–1990) |
| 1986 | John D. MacDonald | American writer (1916–1986) |
| 1981 | Allan Dwan | American film director & screenwriter (1885–1981) |
| 1960 | Philippe Panneton | Canadian physician, academic, diplomat and writer |
| 1945 | Theodore Dreiser | American novelist and journalist (1871–1945) |
| 1935 | Clarence Day | American writer (1874–1935) |
| 1918 | Olavo Bilac | Brazilian Parnassian poet, journalist and translator |
| 1913 | Ahmet Mithat | Ottoman journalist and author (1844–1912) |
| 1907 | Louise Granberg | Swedish playwright, translator and theatre director |
| 1706 | Pierre Bayle | French philosopher and writer (1647–1706) |
Featured
Max Hastings (1945) — Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings is a British journalist and military historian who has worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, and editor of the Evening Standard. He is also the author of thirty books, most significantly histories, which have won several major awards.
Michelle Urry (1939) — Michelle Urry was the cartoon editor of Playboy magazine for over 30 years. Together with Hugh Hefner, she edited the retrospective Playboy: 50 Years The Cartoons. Among the cartoonists whose career she is credited with developing is B. Kliban.
Alan Coleman (1936) — Alan James Coleman was an England-born Australian television series producer, screenwriter, director and former actor, active in his native United Kingdom as well as in Australia and New Zealand.
Sources & data
- Compiled from Wikipedia’s “On this day” selections (CC BY-SA 4.0), filtered for writers and literary events.