May 22 in Literary History: Writers Born & Died

Writers born on May 22

Born	Writer	Known as
1974	Canek Sánchez Guevara	Cuban author and dissident (1974–2015)
1972	Max Brooks	American writer (born 1972)
1968	Graham Linehan	Irish writer and anti-transgender activist (born 1968)
1966	Wang Xiaoshuai	Chinese film director and screenwriter (born 1966)
1956	Lucie Brock-Broido	American writer (1956–2018)
1954	Barbara May Cameron	Native American author, artist, and activist (1954–2002)
1953	François Bon	French writer and translator
1950	Bernie Taupin	British lyricist (born 1950)
1948	Nedumudi Venu	Indian actor and screenwriter (1944–2021)
1944	John Flanagan (author)	Australian fantasy author (1944–2026)
1938	Susan Strasberg	American actress and author (1938–1999)
1937	Tomáš Janovic	Slovak writer (1937–2023)
1934	Garry Wills	American author, political philosopher and historian (born 1934)
1929	Ahmed Fouad Negm	Egyptian poet
1928	Serge Doubrovsky	French writer (1928–2017)
1928	You Sano	Hiroshi Sano, Japanese novelist (died 2013)
1927	Peter Matthiessen	American novelist (1927–2014)
1917	Jean-Louis Curtis	French novelist
1913	Rafael Gil	Spanish film director and screenwriter
1913	Dominique Rolin	Belgian novelist
1907	Hergé	Belgian cartoonist (1907–1983)
1897	Robert Neumann (writer)	Austrian writer (1897–1975)
1891	Johannes R. Becher	German politician, novelist and poet (1891–1958)
1887	A. W. Sandberg	Danish film director and screenwriter
1880	Francis de Miomandre	French novelist (1880-1959)
1859	Arthur Conan Doyle	British writer and physician (1859–1930)
1859	Tsubouchi Shōyō	Japanese author and playwright (1859–1935)
1846	Rita Cetina Gutiérrez	Mexican teacher, poet and feminist (1846–1908)
1841	Catulle Mendès	French poet and man of letters (1841–1909)
1831	Henry Vandyke Carter	English anatomist, illustrator of Gray's Anatomy
1808	Gérard de Nerval	French writer, poet, essayist and translator (1808–1855)
1782	Hirose Tansō	Neo-Confucian scholar, teacher and writer
1772	Raja Ram Mohan Roy	Indian reformer and writer (1772–1833)
1009	Su Xun	Song dynasty writer (1009–1066)

Writers who died on May 22

Died	Writer	Known as
2022	Dervla Murphy	Irish writer and touring cyclist (1931–2022)
2019	Judith Kerr	British writer and illustrator (1923–2019)
2010	Martin Gardner	American mathematics and science writer (1914–2010)
2008	Robert Asprin	American science fiction and fantasy author (1946–2008)
1972	Cecil Day-Lewis	Irish-born British poet (1904–1972)
1967	Langston Hughes	American writer and social activist (1901–1967)
1948	Claude McKay	Jamaican American writer and poet (1890–1948)
1939	Ernst Toller	German author and revolutionary (1893–1939)
1939	Jiří Mahen	Czech writer (1882–1939)
1932	Lady Gregory	Irish playwright, poet and folklorist (1852–1932)
1910	Jules Renard	French author (1864–1910)
1885	Victor Hugo	French writer and politician (1802–1885)
1851	Mordecai Manuel Noah	American diplomat and utopian writer (1785–1851)
1540	Francesco Guicciardini	Italian writer, historian, and politician (1483–1540)

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Canek Sánchez Guevara (1974) — Canek Sánchez Guevara (1974–2015) was a Cuban author, photographer, musician and dissident. The grandson of Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara, he grew up in the upper crust of post-revolutionary Cuban society, but soon became disillusioned with the government of Fidel Castro.

Max Brooks (1972) — Maximilian Michael Brooks is an American writer and actor. He is the son of actors Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft. Much of Brooks' writing focuses on zombie stories. He was a senior fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point, New York.

Graham Linehan (1968) — Graham George Linehan is an Irish comedy writer and anti-transgender activist. He created or co-created the sitcoms Father Ted (1995–1998), Black Books (2000–2004), The IT Crowd (2006–2013), and Count Arthur Strong (2013–2017), and the sketch comedy show Big Train (1998–2002).

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