Biography childrens authors born in october

Contributed by: Mark Woodard

Do you share a birthday with your favorite author? Here, we take a look at novelists, poets, journalists, and other writers born during the month of October.

Click here to find titles from these authors in our collection.

1

Jimmy Carter () An Hour Before Daylight, Christmas in Plains

Tim O’Brien () The Things They Carried, In the Lake of the Woods

2

Wallace Stevens () Poet, The Snow Man, The Emperor of Ice-Cream

Graham Greene () The End of the Affair, Brighton Rock, Travels with My Aunt

3

Thomas Wolfe () Look Homeward, Angel, You Can’t Go Home Again

James Herriot () All Things Great and Small, All Things Bright and Beautiful

Gore Vidal () Myra Breckinridge, The City and the Pillar, Lincoln, Empire

Alvin Toffler () Future Shock, The Third Wave

4

Damon Runyon () Guys and Dolls, Bloodhounds of Broadway

Jackie Collins () Hollywood Wives