May 26 in Literary History: Writers Born & Died

Writers born on May 26

Born	Writer	Known as
1977	Raina Telgemeier	American cartoonist, illustrator, and writer (born 1977)
1968	Fernando León de Aranoa	Spanish film director and screenwriter
1964	Caitlín R. Kiernan	Irish-born American writer (born 1964)
1963	Simon Armitage	English poet (born 1963)
1963	Claude Legault	Canadian actor and television writer
1956	Jyoti Gogte	Indian author, entrepreneur and academic (born 1956)
1954	Alan Hollinghurst	English novelist (born 1954)
1944	Sam Posey	American racing driver, author, artist, architect (born 1944)
1938	Lyudmila Petrushevskaya	Russian writer, novelist and playwright (born 1938)
1936	Natalya Gorbanevskaya	Russian poet, translator and civil rights activist
1913	Pierre Daninos	French writer and humorist (1913–2005)
1911	Henry Ephron	American dramatist (1911–1992)
1904	Tamurbek Dawletschin	Soviet writer (1904–1983)
1904	Necip Fazıl Kısakürek	Turkish poet, novelist, playwright, Islamist ideologue (1904–1983)
1900	Karin Juel	Swedish singer, actor, and writer
1865	Robert W. Chambers	American artist and author (1865–1933)
1822	Edmond de Goncourt	French writer and critic (1822–1896)
1799	August Kopisch	German poet and painter (1799–1853)

Writers who died on May 26

Died	Writer	Known as
2013	Roberto Civita	Brazilian businessman and publisher
2013	Jack Vance	American writer (1916–2013)
2012	Leo and Diane Dillon	American husband-and-wife illustrator duo
2012	Jim Unger	British-Canadian cartoonist (1937–2012)
2011	Arisen Ahubudu	Sri Lankan author, poet and scholar
2007	Jack Edward Oliver	British cartoonist
2003	Kathleen Winsor	American novelist (1915–2003)
1995	Friz Freleng	American animator, cartoonist, director, and producer (1905–1995)
1966	Elizabeth Dilling	American writer and political activist (1894–1966)
1943	Alice Tegnér	Swedish music teacher, poet and composer (1864–1943)
1926	Srečko Kosovel	Slovene poet
1881	Jakob Bernays	German philologist and philosophical writer (1824–1881)
1824	Capel Lofft	British lawyer, writer and astronomer (1751–1824)
1746	Thomas Southerne	Irish dramatist (1660–1746)
1648	Vincent Voiture	French poet and writer
1536	Francesco Berni	Italian poet (1497/98–1535)
735	Bede	Anglo-Saxon monk, writer and saint (672/3–735)

Literary events on May 26

Year	Event
1903	Românul de la Pind, the longest-running newspaper by and about Aromanians until World War II, is founded.
1897	The Church of England returned the original manuscript of William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation, an account of the Pilgrims and the early years of the Plymouth Colony, to the state of Massachusetts.
1888	The comic novel The Diary of a Nobody by brothers George and Weedon Grossmith first appeared in serial form in Punch.

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Raina Telgemeier (1977) — Raina Telgemeier is an American cartoonist. Her works include the autobiographical webcomic Smile, which was published as a full-color middle grade graphic novel in February 2010, and the follow-up Sisters and the fiction graphic novel Drama, all of which have been on The New York Times Best Seller lists.

Fernando León de Aranoa (1968) — Fernando León de Aranoa is a Spanish screenwriter and film director.

Caitlín R. Kiernan (1964) — Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan is an Irish-born American paleontologist and writer of science fiction and dark fantasy works, including 10 novels, series of comic books, and more than 250 published short stories, novellas, and vignettes. Kiernan is a two-time recipient of both the World Fantasy and Bram Stoker awards.

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