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June 22 in literary history
Literary history for June 22: 15 writers born and 10 writers who died from 1664 to 2004. Born on this day: Miri Yu, Dan Brown, Jennifer Finney Boylan.
Writers born on June 22
| Born | Writer | Known as |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Miri Yu | Zainichi Korean writer (born 1968) |
| 1964 | Dan Brown | American writer (born 1964) |
| 1958 | Jennifer Finney Boylan | American author (born 1958) |
| 1947 | Octavia E. Butler | American science fiction writer (1947–2006) |
| 1944 | Helmut Dietl | German film director and author |
| 1923 | José Giovanni | French writer, filmmaker and criminal (1923-2004) |
| 1921 | Radovan Ivšić | Croatian poet (1921–2009) |
| 1918 | Cicely Saunders | English nurse, social worker, physician and writer (1918–2005) |
| 1914 | Mei Zhi | Chinese writer |
| 1913 | Sándor Weöres | Hungarian poet and author |
| 1907 | Eriks Ādamsons | Latvian novelist |
| 1906 | Anne Morrow Lindbergh | American aviator and author (1906–2001) |
| 1898 | Erich Maria Remarque | German novelist (1898–1970) |
| 1856 | H. Rider Haggard | English adventure novelist (1856–1925) |
| 1738 | Jacques Delille | French Poet |
Writers who died on June 22
| Died | Writer | Known as |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Mattie Stepanek | American writer (1990–2004) |
| 2003 | Vasil Bykaŭ | Belarusian writer, human rights activist, and politician (1924–2003) |
| 1995 | Leonid Derbenyov | Russian poet and lyricist (1931–1995) |
| 1964 | Havank | Havank, Dutch journalist and author (born 1904) |
| 1956 | Walter de la Mare | English poet and fiction writer (1873–1956) |
| 1938 | C. J. Dennis | Australian poet (1876–1938) |
| 1928 | A. B. Frost | American illustrator, graphic artist, painter and comics writer |
| 1913 | Ștefan Octavian Iosif | Romanian poet and translator (1875–1913) |
| 1714 | Matthew Henry | British Nonconformist minister and author (1662–1714) |
| 1664 | Katherine Philips | Anglo-Welsh poet and translator (1631/32 – 1664) |
Featured
Miri Yu (1968) — Miri Yu is a Zainichi Korean playwright, novelist, and essayist. Yu writes in Japanese, her native language, but is a citizen of South Korea.
Dan Brown (1964) — Daniel Gerhard Brown is an American writer best known for his thriller novels, particularly the Robert Langdon series Angels & Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003), The Lost Symbol (2009), Inferno (2013), Origin (2017) and The Secret of Secrets (2025).
Jennifer Finney Boylan (1958) — Jennifer Finney Boylan is an American author, transgender activist, professor at Barnard College, and a former contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. In December 2023, she became the president of PEN America, having previously been the vice president.
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