January's literary birthdays include Virginia Woolf, Ernest J. Gaines, Anton Chekhov, Patricia Highsmith, Zora Neale Hurston, and Edgar Allan Poe.

 

Jan. 1 - J.D. Salinger (1919 - 2010 )

Jan. 2 - Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)

Jan. 3 - J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)

Jan. 5 - Umberto Eco (1932 - )

Jan. 6 - Khalil Gibran (1883 -1931)

Jan. 6 - E.L. Doctorow (1931 - )

Jan. 6 - Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)

Jan. 7 - Zora Neale Hurston (1903 - 1960)

Jan. 8 - Wilkie Collins (1824 -1889)

Jan. 9 - Simone de Beauvoir (1908 - 1986)

Jan. 12 - Jack London (1876 - 1916)

Jan. 12 - Charles Perrault (1628 - 1703)

Jan. 12 - Haruki Murakami (1949 - )

Jan. 15 - Ernest J. Gaines (1933 - )

Jan. 15 - Frank Conroy (1936 - 2005)

Jan. 16 - William Kennedy (1928 - )

Jan. 17 - Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

Jan. 17 - Nevil Shute (1899 - 1960)

Jan. 18 - A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)

Jan. 19 - Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)

Jan. 19 - Patricia Highsmith (1921 - 1995)

Jan. 22 - Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

Jan. 22 - August Strindberg (1849 - 1912)

Jan. 22 - Joseph Wambaugh (1937 -)

Jan. 24 - Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)

Jan. 25 - Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)

Jan. 25 - Gloria Naylor (1950 - )

Jan. 27 - Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)

Jan. 28 - Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004)

Jan. 29 - Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)

Jan. 31 - John O'Hara (1905 - 1970)

Jan. 31 - Norman Mailer (1923 - 2007)

Jan. 31 - Zane Grey (1872 - 1939)

Jan. 31 -Thomas Merton (1915 - 1968)