BORN MAY 30 : Countee Cullen (1903-1946) was a Black American poet, novelist, children's writer, and playwright, and part of the Harle...

BORN MAY 29 : G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was an English novelist, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, lay theologian, and critic. ...

BORN MAY 28 : Ian Fleming (1908-1964) was an English author. Like Arthur Conan Doyle and J. M. Barrie, virtually everything he did was for...

BORN MAY 27 : Tony Hillerman (1925-2008) was an American author of detective novels and non-fiction works who wrote the "Joe Leaphorn...

BORN MAY 26 : John Wayne (1907-1979) was an iconic American actor, director, and producer mostly remember for the tough-guy persona he pro...

BORN MAY 25 : Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an American writer and perhaps the young country's first original philosopher. He wa...

BORN MAY 24 : Joseph Brodsky  (1940-1996) was a Russian-born American poet and essayist who was "strongly advised" to emigrate by...

BORN MAY 23 : Susan Cooper  (1935 - ) is an English author of Young Adult literature. In the past 15 years or so I've had the pleasure ...

BORN MAY 22 : Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was a German composer mainly known for his operas. Thanks to Bugs Bunny and others, when most peo...

BORN MAY 21 : Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was an English poet and man of letters of the Augustan period (first half of the 18th century to ...