March 24 in Literary History: Writers Born & Died

Writers born on March 24

Born	Writer	Known as
1970	Erica Kennedy	American novelist
1960	Jan Berglin	Swedish cartoonist
1956	William Wray (artist)	American cartoonist (born 1956)
1949	Tabitha King	American author (born 1949)
1938	David Irving	British author and Holocaust denier (born 1938)
1927	Martin Walser	German writer (1927–2023)
1926	Dario Fo	Italian playwright, actor, singer-songwriter, director, and politician
1923	Michael Legat	Michael Legat, English author and publisher (died 2011)
1920	Gene Nelson	American actor, dancer, screenwriter, director (1920–1996)
1920	Mary Stolz	American writer of fiction for children and young adults (1920-2006)
1919	Lawrence Ferlinghetti	American poet (1919–2021)
1916	Donald Hamilton	American novelist and writer
1911	Joseph Barbera	American animator and cartoonist (1911–2006)
1905	Pura Santillan-Castrence	Filipino writer and diplomat
1903	Malcolm Muggeridge	British journalist, author, media personality, and satirist (1903–1990)
1879	Neyzen Tevfik	Turkish poet and satirist (1879-1953)
1869	Émile Fabre	French playwright (1869–1955)
1855	Olive Schreiner	South African author and activist (1855–1920)
1850	Silas K. Hocking	British writer, preacher, journalist
1835	Josef Stefan	Carinthian Slovene physicist, mathematician and poet (1835–1893)
1834	William Morris	English textile artist, author, and socialist (1834–1896)
1830	Robert Hamerling	Austrian poet (1830–1889)
1826	Matilda Joslyn Gage	American abolitionist, author (1826–1898)
1823	Thomas Spencer Baynes	English writer and scholar (1823–1887)
1820	Fanny Crosby	American mission worker, poet, lyricist, and composer (1820–1915)
1809	Mariano José de Larra	Spanish romantic writer
1796	Zulma Carraud	French author

Writers who died on March 24

Died	Writer	Known as
2026	Tracy Kidder	American writer (1945–2026)
2015	Yehuda Avner	Israeli prime ministerial advisor, diplomat, and author
2014	John Rowe Townsend	British children's writer and literary critic
2013	Barbara Anderson (writer)	New Zealander writer
2013	Mohamed Yousri Salama	Egyptian politician, writer and activist (1974–2013)
2008	Rafael Azcona	Spanish screenwriter (1926–2008)
2007	Shripad Narayan Pendse	Marathi-language writer
1993	John Hersey	American journalist, novelist and academic (1914–1993)
1978	Pak Mok-wol	Korean poet and academic (1916–1978)
1909	John Millington Synge	Irish writer (1871–1909)
1905	Jules Verne	French writer (1828–1905)
1888	Vsevolod Garshin	Russian author of short stories (1855–1888)
1882	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	American poet and educator (1807–1882)
1869	Antoine-Henri Jomini	Swiss general and writer on the art of war (1779–1869)
1773	Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield	British politician, diplomat and writer (1694–1773)
1575	Joseph Karo	Spanish rabbi and author on Jewish law (1488–1575)

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Erica Kennedy (1970) — Erica Kennedy was an American author, blogger, news correspondent, fashion journalist, and singer. Her 2004 novel Bling, became a New York Times bestseller. In 2010, she was named to the list of 100 most influential African Americans, as published by Ebony magazine and known as the "Ebony Power 100".

Jan Berglin (1960) — Jan Berglin is a Swedish cartoonist who made his debut in the Uppsala student newspaper Ergo in 1985. After completing his studies, Berglin has been living in Gävle where he works as a teacher of Swedish and religion.

William Wray (artist) (1956) — William York Wray, known professionally in animation as Bill Wray, is an American cartoonist, animator and landscape painter. He is best known for his contributions to Mad and The Ren & Stimpy Show, as well as his current focus on regional landscape painting.

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