April 1
Anne McCaffrey (1926) Dragonriders of Pern series
April 2
Hans Christian Andersen (1805) The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, The Emperor’s New Clothes
April 3
Washington Irving (1783) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle
April 4
Maya Angelou (1928) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Letter to My Daughter
April 5
Booker T. Washington (1856) Up From Slavery
April 7
William Wordsworth (1770) Poet
April 8
Barbara Kingsolver (1955) The Poisonwood Bible, Prodigal Summer
April 10
David Halberstam (1934) Journalist
Paul Theroux (1941) The Lower River, Mother Land
April 12
Beverly Cleary (1916) Ramona Quimby series, Ralph S. Mouse series
Tom Clancy (1947) Clear and Present Danger, The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games
Scott Turow (1949) Presumed Innocent, The Burden of Proof
April 13
Nella Larsen (1891) Quicksand, Passing
Samuel Beckett (1906) Playwright, Waiting for Godot
Eudora Welty (1909) The Optimist’s Daughter, Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart
Seamus Heaney (1939) Poet
April 15
Henry James (1843) The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw, Washington Square
April 16
Gertrude Chandler Warner (1890) Boxcar Children series
April 17
Isak Dinesen (1885) Out of Africa
Thornton Wilder (1897) The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Our Town
April 21
Charlotte Bronte (1816) Jane Eyre, Villette
Barbara Park (1947) Junie B. Jones series
April 22
Henry Fielding (1707) Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews
Paula Fox (1923) Desperate Characters, The Slave Dancer
Louise Gluck (1942) Poet, Averno, Faithful and Virtuous night
April 23
William Shakespeare (1564) Playwright (Hamlet, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth)
Vladimir Nabokov (1899) Lolita
Charles Johnson (1948) Middle Passage: A Novel
April 24
Daniel Defoe (1660) Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders
Robert Penn Warren (1905) All the King’s Men
Sue Grafton (1940) Kinsey Millhone series (A is for Alibi, et.al.)
April 26
Marcus Aurelius (121 A.D.) Philosopher, Poet, The Meditations
Bernard Malamud (1914) The Natural, The Fixer
April 27
August Wilson (1945) Playwright, Fences, The Piano Lessons
April 28
Harper Lee (1926) To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman
Terry Pratchett (1948) Discworld series, Tiffany Aching series
April 29
Yusef Komunyakaa (1947) Poet, Pleasuredome, Warhorses
April 30
Annie Dillard (1945) Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood