September 10 in Literary History: Writers Born & Died

Writers born on September 10

Born	Writer	Known as
1982	Misty Copeland	American ballet dancer and author (born 1982)
1960	Alison Bechdel	American cartoonist (born 1960)
1953	Pat Cadigan	British-American science fiction author (born 1953)
1952	Medea Benjamin	American political activist and author (born 1952)
1949	Babette Cole	English children's writer and illustrator
1949	Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)	American television host and writer (born 1949)
1948	Zhang Chengzhi	Hui Chinese writer
1947	David Pountney	British-Polish theatre and opera director and librettist (born 1947)
1945	Gerard Henderson	Australian author, columnist and political commentator
1937	Jared Diamond	American scientist, historian, and author (born 1937)
1936	Peter Lovesey	British writer (1936–2025)
1935	Mary Oliver	American poet (1935–2019)
1932	Bo Goldman	American screenwriter (1932–2023)
1931	Isabel Colegate	British author and literary agent (1931–2023)
1928	Walter Ralston Martin	American minister, author (1928–1989)
1903	Cyril Connolly	English writer (1903–1974)
1895	Viswanatha Satyanarayana	Indian Telugu-language writer
1890	Franz Werfel	Czech writer (1890–1945)
1886	H.D.	American poet and novelist (1886–1961)
1885	Carl Van Doren	American critic and biographer (1885–1950)
1880	Georgia Douglas Johnson	American poet and playwright (1880–1966)
1880	Laura Cornelius Kellogg	Oneida author, speaker, and activist from Wisconsin, U.S. (1880–1947
1866	Jeppe Aakjær	Danish poet (1866–1930)
1839	Isaac K. Funk	American Lutheran minister, editor, lexicographer, publisher and spelling reformer
1788	Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes	Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist and author (died 1868)
1758	Hannah Webster Foster	18th and 19th-century American novelist

Writers who died on September 10

Died	Writer	Known as
2012	John Moffatt (actor)	English actor and playwright (1922–2012)
2000	Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah	Pakistani writer
1983	Norah Lofts	British writer (1904–1983)
1976	Dalton Trumbo	American screenwriter (1905–1976)
1973	Cornelia Meigs	American children's writer
1966	Emil Julius Gumbel	German mathematician and political writer
1961	Leo Carrillo	American actor, vaudevillian, political cartoonist, and conservationist (1881–1961)
1937	Sergei Tretyakov (writer)	Russian author, poet, playwright and journalist
1923	Sukumar Ray	Bengali poet, writer, and editor (1887–1923)
1922	Wilfrid Scawen Blunt	English poet and essayist (1840–1922)
1797	Mary Wollstonecraft	English writer and philosopher (1759–1797)
1749	Émilie du Châtelet	French mathematician, physicist, and author (1706–1749)

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Misty Copeland (1982) — Misty Danielle Copeland is an American ballet dancer and author. She has danced primarily for American Ballet Theatre (ABT), one of the three leading classical ballet companies in the United States.

Alison Bechdel (1960) — Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist. Originally known for the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, she came to critical and commercial success in 2006 with her graphic novel memoir Fun Home. Fun Home was adapted as a musical, which won a Tony Award for Best Musical in 2015.

Pat Cadigan (1953) — Patricia Oren Kearney Cadigan is a British-American science fiction author, whose work is most often identified with the cyberpunk movement. Her novels and short stories often explore the relationship between the human mind and technology. Her debut novel, Mindplayers, was nominated for the Philip K.

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