December 6 in Literary History: Writers Born & Died

Writers born on December 6

Born	Writer	Known as
1984	Nora Kirkpatrick	American actress, director, writer and musician (born 1984)
1968	Karl Ove Knausgård	Norwegian author (born 1968)
1968	Ali Latifiyan	Iranian writer (born 1968)
1953	Sue Carroll	British writer and columnist (1953–2011)
1953	Masami Kurumada	Japanese manga artist and writer (born 1953)
1952	Nicolas Bréhal	French novelist and literary critic
1949	Linda Barnes (writer)	American mystery writer
1949	Doug Marlette	American editorial cartoonist
1942	Peter Handke	Austrian Nobel laureate novelist (born 1942)
1936	David Ossman	American comic writer, member of The Firesign Theatre troupe
1932	Kamleshwar (writer)	Indian writer and screenwriter (1932–2007)
1931	Zeki Müren	Turkish singer, composer, songwriter, actor, and poet (1931–1996)
1917	Kamal Jumblatt	Lebanese politician and author; founder of the Progressive Socialist Party (1917–1977)
1916	Trisno Sumardjo	Indonesian writer (1916–1969)
1905	Elizabeth Yates (writer)	American writer
1898	Winifred Lenihan	American actor, writer and director (1898–1964)
1896	Ira Gershwin	American lyricist (1896–1983)
1893	Sylvia Townsend Warner	English writer, poet, and activist (1893–1978)
1892	Osbert Sitwell	English writer (1892–1969)
1890	Dion Fortune	British occultist and writer (1890–1946)
1886	Joyce Kilmer	American poet, editor, literary critic, soldier (1886–1918)
1884	Cornelia Meigs	American children's writer
1875	Evelyn Underhill	English writer, theologian, retreat leader and pacifist (1875–1941)
1478	Baldassare Castiglione	Italian Renaissance author (1478–1529)

Writers who died on December 6

Died	Writer	Known as
2013	Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers	French writer and poet (1939–2013)
2012	Jan Carew	Guyanese writer and professor (1920–2012)
1983	Gul Khan Nasir	Pakistani politician and writer (1914–1983)
1924	Gene Stratton-Porter	American writer and naturalist (1863–1924)
1882	Anthony Trollope	English novelist (1815–1882)
1718	Nicholas Rowe (writer)	English poet and writer (1674–1718)
1658	Baltasar Gracián	Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher (1601-1658)

Literary events on December 6

Year	Event
1999	A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.: The Recording Industry Association of America sues the peer-to-peer file-sharing service Napster, alleging copyright infringement.
1999	The Recording Industry Association of America filed a lawsuit against the peer-to-peer file sharing network Napster, alleging that the service facilitated widespread copyright infringement.
1933	In United States v. One Book Called Ulysses Judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene despite coarse language and sexual content, a leading decision affirming free expression.
1933	In United States v. One Book Called Ulysses Judge John M. Woolsey ruled that James Joyce's novel Ulysses was not obscene, allowing it to be imported into the United States.

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Nora Kirkpatrick (1984) — Nora Kirkpatrick is an American actress, director, writer and musician.

Karl Ove Knausgård (1968) — Karl Ove Knausgård is a Norwegian author. He became known worldwide for a series of six autobiographical novels titled My Struggle. The Wall Street Journal has described him as "one of the 21st century's greatest literary sensations".

Ali Latifiyan (1968) — Ali Latifiyan is an Iranian writer, researcher, political theorist, and historian. Most of his work is in enlightenment, intellectualism, liberalism and Iranian culture.

December 6 in literary history

Writers born on December 6

Writers who died on December 6

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