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June 5 in literary history
Literary history for June 5: 16 writers born, 8 writers who died and 2 literary events from 1640 to 2012. Born on this day: Lisa Cholodenko, Rick Riordan, Claire Fox.
Writers born on June 5
| Born | Writer | Known as |
|---|---|---|
| 1964 | Lisa Cholodenko | American screenwriter and director |
| 1964 | Rick Riordan | American author (born 1964) |
| 1960 | Claire Fox | British writer and politician (born 1960) |
| 1954 | Nancy Stafford | American actress, speaker, author |
| 1949 | Ken Follett | British bestseller novelist (born 1949) |
| 1947 | David Hare (playwright) | English playwright (born 1947) |
| 1941 | Spalding Gray | American actor and writer (1941–2004) |
| 1939 | Margaret Drabble | English writer (born 1939) |
| 1937 | Hélène Cixous | French writer (born 1937) |
| 1932 | Christy Brown | Irish writer and painter (1932–1981) |
| 1930 | Alifa Rifaat | Egyptian Muslim feminist and writer |
| 1915 | Alfred Kazin | American writer (1915–1988) |
| 1899 | Theippan Maung Wa | Burmese writer |
| 1898 | Federico García Lorca | Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director (1898–1936) |
| 1884 | Ivy Compton-Burnett | English novelist (1884–1969) |
| 1640 | Pu Songling | Chinese writer (1640–1715) |
Writers who died on June 5
| Died | Writer | Known as |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Ray Bradbury | American writer (1920–2012) |
| 1997 | J. Anthony Lukas | American journalist and author |
| 1996 | Kuber Nath Rai | Indian writer and scholar (1933–1996) |
| 1965 | Eleanor Farjeon | English children's literature author (1881–1965) |
| 1921 | Georges Feydeau | French playwright (1862–1921) |
| 1920 | Rhoda Broughton | Welsh novelist and short story writer (1840-1920) |
| 1910 | O. Henry | American writer (1862–1910) |
| 1900 | Stephen Crane | American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist (1871-1900) |
Literary events on June 5
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1981 | The first clinical cases of AIDS were published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. |
| 1851 | Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper. |
Featured
Lisa Cholodenko (1964) — Lisa Cholodenko is an American screenwriter and director. Cholodenko wrote and directed the films High Art (1998), Laurel Canyon (2002), and The Kids Are All Right (2010). She has also directed television, including the miniseries Olive Kitteridge (2014) and Unbelievable (2019).
Rick Riordan (1964) — Richard Russell Riordan Jr. is an American author, best known for his Camp Half-Blood Chronicles, which includes the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, The Heroes of Olympus series, The Trials of Apollo series, and The Nico di Angelo Adventures series.
Claire Fox (1960) — Claire Regina Fox, Baroness Fox of Buckley, is a far-right wing British writer, journalist, lecturer and politician who sits in the House of Lords as a non-affiliated life peer. A right-libertarian, she is the director and founder of think tank the Academy of Ideas, formerly known as the Institute of Ideas.
Sources & data
- Compiled from Wikipedia’s “On this day” selections (CC BY-SA 4.0), filtered for writers and literary events.