March 13 in Literary History: Writers Born & Died

Writers born on March 13

Born	Writer	Known as
1958	Caryl Phillips	Kittitian-British novelist (b. 1958)
1942	Mahmoud Darwish	Palestinian author and poet (1941–2008)
1941	Donella Meadows	American environmental scientist, teacher, and writer
1935	David Nobbs	English comedy writer (1935–2015)
1933	Leo and Diane Dillon	American husband-and-wife illustrator duo
1933	Gero von Wilpert	German writer
1921	Al Jaffee	American cartoonist (1921–2023)
1914	W. O. Mitchell	Canadian writer and radio personality (1914–1998)
1913	Sergey Mikhalkov	Russian writer (1913–2009)
1911	L. Ron Hubbard	American writer and Scientology founder (1911–1986)
1910	Kemal Tahir	Turkish novelist and intellectual (1910-1973)
1900	Giorgos Seferis	Greek poet and diplomat (1900–1971)
1897	Yeghishe Charents	Armenian poet, writer and public activist (1897–1937)
1892	Janet Flanner	American writer and journalist (1892–1978)
1888	Paul Morand	French author (1888–1976)
1884	Hugh Walpole	English writer (1894–1941)
1855	Percival Lowell	American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer (1855–1916)

Writers who died on March 13

Died	Writer	Known as
2018	Emily Nasrallah	Lebanese writer (1931–2018)
2017	Amy Krouse Rosenthal	American author, radio host, and filmmaker (1965–2017)
2014	Icchokas Meras	Lithuanian writer (1934–2014)
2010	Jean Ferrat	French singer-songwriter and poet
1999	Lee Falk	American comics writer (1911–1999)
1999	Garson Kanin	American film and theatre director, playwright, screenwriter (1912–1999)
1996	Krzysztof Kieślowski	Polish film director and screenwriter (1941–1996)
1990	Bruno Bettelheim	Austrian-American writer (1903–1990)
1975	Ivo Andrić	Yugoslav writer and Nobel laureate (1892–1975)
1965	Fan Noli	Prime Minister of Albania in 1924 and writer (1882–1965)
1943	Stephen Vincent Benét	Poet, short story writer, novelist (1898–1943)
1912	Eugène-Étienne Taché	French Canadian surveyor, civil engineer, illustrator and architect
1711	Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux	French poet and critic (1636–1711)
1601	Henry Cuffe	English author and politician

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Caryl Phillips (1958) — Caryl Phillips is a Kittitian-British novelist, playwright and essayist.

Mahmoud Darwish (1942) — Mahmoud Darwish was a Palestinian author and poet. He wrote the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, which formally established the State of Palestine in November 1988, and is widely regarded as the country's national poet.

Donella Meadows (1941) — Donella Hager "Dana" Meadows was an American environmental scientist, educator, and writer. She is best known as lead author of the books The Limits to Growth and Thinking In Systems: A Primer.

March 13 in literary history

Writers born on March 13

Writers who died on March 13

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