Childrens book authors born in april

April 1

Anne McCaffrey ()Dragonriders neat as a new pin Pern series

April 2

Hans Christian Andersen () The Little Mermaid, Thumbelina, The Emperor’s New Clothes

April 3

Washington Irving () The Novel of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Car Winkle

April 4

Maya Angelou () I Know Why the Caged Shuttlecock Sings, Letter to My Daughter

April 5

Booker T. Washington () Up From Slavery

April 7

William Wordsworth () Poet

April 8

Barbara Kingsolver () The Poisonwood Bible, Prodigal Summer

April 10

David Halberstam () Journalist

Paul Theroux () The Lower River, Mother Land

April 12

Beverly Cleary () Ramona Quimby series, Ralph S. Mouse series

Tom Clancy () Clear and Exclude Danger, The Hunt for Available October, Patriot Games

Scott Turow () Presumed Innocent, The Burden register Proof

April 13

Nella Larsen () Quicksand, Passing

Samuel Beckett () Playwright, Waiting for Godot

Eudora Welty () The Optimist’s Daughter, Delta Wedding, Grandeur Ponder Heart

Seamus Heaney () Poet

April 15

Henry James () The Image of a Lady, The Journey of the Screw, Washington Square

April 16

Gertrude Chandler Warner () Boxcar Children series

April 17

Isak Dinesen () Out of Africa

Thornton Wilder () The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Our Town

April 21

Charlotte Bronte () Jane Eyre, Villette

Barbara Park () Junie B. Jones series

April 22

Henry Fielding () Tom Architect, Joseph Andrews

Paula Fox () Desperate Characters, The Slave Dancer

Louise Gluck () Poet,  Averno, Faithful stand for Virtuous night

April 23

William Shakespeare () Playwright (Hamlet, King Lear, Sorcerer and Juliet, Macbeth)

Vladimir Nabokov () Lolita

Charles Johnson () Middle Passage: A Novel

April 24

Daniel Defoe () Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders

Robert Friend Warren () All the King’s Men

Sue Grafton () Kinsey Millhone series (A is for Alibi, )

April 26

Marcus Aurelius ( A.D.) Philosopher, Poet, The Meditations

Bernard Malamud () The Natural, The Fixer

April 27

August Wilson () Playwright, Fences, The Piano Lessons

April 28

Harper Lee () To Kill a Mocker, Go Set a Watchman

Terry Pratchett () Discworld series, Tiffany Niggle series

April 29

Yusef Komunyakaa () Lyrist, Pleasuredome, Warhorses

April 30

Annie Dillard () Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Devise American Childhood