June 1
Colleen McCullough (1937) The Thorn Birds, Bittersweet
June 2
Thomas Hardy (1840) Tess of the D’urbervilles, Jude the Obscure, Far from the Madding Crowd
Dorothy West (1907) The Wedding, The Richer, the Poorer
June 3
Allen Ginsberg (1926) Poet, Howl
Larry McMurtry (1936) Lonesome Dove, Texasville, The Last Picture Show
June 5
Federico García Lorca (1898) Poet, Bodas de Sangre, Poet in New York
Richard Scarry (1919) Busy World series
Ken Follett (1949) Pillars of the Earth, Eye of the Needle
June 6
Thomas Mann (1875) The Magic Mountain, Buddenbrooks, Death in Venice
Maxine Kumin (1925) Poet, children’s author
Cynthia Rylant (1954) Henry and Mudge series, Mr. Putter and Tabby series
June 7
Nikki Giovanni (1943) Poet, Acolytes, Rosa
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917) Poet, We Are Shining, In Montgomery
June 8
Sara Paretsky (1947) V.I. Warshawski mystery series
June 9
Kate Petty (1951) Kate the Great series, Ha Ha Baby
Patricia Cornwell (1956) Kay Scarpetta mystery series
June 10
Saul Bellow (1915) The Adventures of Augie March, Humboldt’s Gift
Maurice Sendak (1928) Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen
June 11
William Styron (1925) The Confessions of Nat Turner, Sophie’s Choice
June 12
Johanna Spyri (1829) Heidi
Anne Frank (1929) The Diary of a Young Girl
Rona Jaffe (1932) The Best of Everything, Mazes and Monsters
June 13
William Butler Yeats (1865) Poet
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893) Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries
June 14
Harriet Beecher Stowe(1811) Uncle Tom’s Cabin
John Bartlett (1820) Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
Jerzy Kosinski (1933) Being There
John Edgar Wideman (1941) Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File
June 15
Brian Jacques (1939) Redwall series
June 16
John Howard Griffin (1920) Black Like Me
Erich Segal (1937) Love Story, Oliver’s Story
Joyce Carol Oates (1938) We Were the Mulvaneys, Smooth Talk
June 17
James Weldon Johnson (1871) The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, The Creation
John Hersey (1914) A Bell for Adano, Hiroshima
June 18
Gail Godwin (1937) Evenings at Five, Unfinished Desires
Chris Van Allsburg (1949) The Polar Express, Jumanji
June 19
Tobias Wolff (1945) This Boy’s Life, Old School
Salman Rushdie (1947) Midnight’s Children, The Satanic Verses
June 20
Lillian Hellman (1905) Playwright, The Children’s Hour, The Little Foxes
June 21
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905) Philosopher, Playwright, No Exit, Being and Nothingness
Mary McCarthy (1912) The Group, The Company She Keeps
Ian McEwan (1948) On Chesil Beach, Atonement, Saturday
June 22
Erich Maria Remarque (1898) All Quiet on the Western Front
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906) Gift From the Sea, Against Wind and Tide
Octavia E. Butler (1947) Parable of the Sower, Mind of My Mind, Clay’s Ark
June 23
Jean Anouilh (1910) Playwright, Antigone, The Lark, Becket
David Leavitt (1961) The Two Hotel Francforts, The Man Who Knew Too Much
June 24
Ambrose Bierce (1842) The Devil’s Dictionary
June 25
George Orwell (1903) 1984, Animal Farm
Dorothy Gilman (1924) Mrs. Pollifax mysteries
Eric Carle (1929) The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Very Busy Spider, The Very Quiet Cricket
June 26
Pearl S. Buck (1892) The Good Earth, The Eternal Wonder
Colin Wilson (1931) The Outsider, Supernatural: Your Guide Through the Unexplained, the Unearthly, and the Unknown
June 27
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872) Poet, Lyrics of Lowly Life
Helen Keller (1880) The Story of My Life, The World I Live In
Frank O’Hara (1926) Poet, Lunch Poems, Meditations in an Emergency
Lucille Clifton (1936) Poet, Blessing the Boats, Good Woman
Alice McDermott (1953) That Night, Charming Billy
June 28
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712) Philosopher, The Social Contract
Mark Helprin (1947) Winter’s Tale, Freddy and Fredericka
June 29
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900) The Little Prince
June 30
David McPhail (1940) Ben Loves Bear, Baby Pig Pig Walks