Literary Bits for June 7

 

More authors born June 7:

1907 Peruvian writer and composer César Miró (Cielo y Tierra de Santa Rosa, La Mariscala, Los íntimos de La Victoria) (d. 1999)

1927 Guyanese poet and political activist Martin Carter (Poems of Resistance from British Guiana, Poems of Affinity) (d. 1997)

1935 American novelist Harry Crews (The Gospel Singer, A Feast of Snakes) (d. 2012)

1943 American poet Nikki Giovanni (Black Judgment, Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day, Bicycles: Love Poems)

1943 Brazilian Emmy award-winning telenovela writer Aguinaldo Silva (Império); also known for Partido Alto, Porto dos Milagres, Senhora do Destino, Fina Estampa

1952 Turkish Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk (Kara Kitap, Beyaz Kale, Benim Adım Kırmızı, Kar, Masumiyet Müzesi)

1954 American author Louise Erdrich (Love Medicine, The Plague of Doves, The Round House, The Night Watchman)

1963 Italian-born American screenwriter Alessandro Camon (The Messenger)

1966 English playwright Mark Ravenhill (Shopping and F***ing, Mother Clap's Molly House, The Cut, Over There, Ten Plagues - A Song Cycle, The Boy in the Dress)

1978 American novelist and poet Jesse Ball (The Village on Horseback, "Speech in a Chamber," Samedi the Deafness, "The Early Deaths of Lubeck, Brennan, Harp, and Carr," The Way Through Doors, The Curfew, The Divers' Game)

1981 American cookbook author Jocelyn Delk Adams (Grandbaby Cakes)

1990 American YA author Adam Silvers (More Happy Than Not, They Both Die at the End)

1995 Welsh YA author Beth Reekles (The Kissing Booth, Rolling Dice)

Happy Reading!