November 27 in Literary History: Writers Born & Died

Writers born on November 27

Born	Writer	Known as
1976	Jean Grae	South African-American musician and writer (born 1976)
1970	Han Kang	South Korean writer (born 1970)
1963	Fisher Stevens	American actor, director, producer and writer (born 1963)
1960	Kevin Henkes	American author and illustrator (born 1960)
1957	Caroline Kennedy	American author and diplomat (born 1957)
1957	Callie Khouri	American screenwriter, producer, and director (born 1957)
1957	Michael A. Stackpole	Science fiction author
1954	Arthur Smith (comedian)	English comedian and writer (born 1954)
1943	Nicole Brossard	French-Canadian formalist poet and novelist
1942	Marilyn Hacker	American poet, translator and critic (born 1942)
1936	Gail Sheehy	American writer
1933	Jacques Godbout	Canadian novelist, essayist, children's writer, journalist, filmmaker and poet
1930	Rex Shelley	Singaporean author (1930–2009)
1929	Alan Simpson (scriptwriter)	British screenwriter (1929–2017)
1928	Josh Kirby	British writer and illustrator
1909	James Agee	American writer (1909–1955)
1907	Harivansh Rai Bachchan	Hindi poet and writer (1907–2003)
1907	L. Sprague de Camp	American fiction writer (1907–2000)
1900	Jovette Bernier	Jovette Bernier, Canadian journalist, author, and radio show host (died 1981)
1898	Fredric Warburg	British publisher and author (1898–1981)
1894	Katherine Milhous	American writer
1885	Liviu Rebreanu	Romanian novelist, playwright, short story writer, and journalist (1885 - 1944)
1878	Jatindramohan Bagchi	Bengali poet and editor
1877	Katharine Anthony	American biographer (1877–1965)
1853	Frank Dicksee	English Victorian painter and illustrator (1853–1928)
1841	Nikoline Harbitz	Norwegian writer (1841–1898)
1809	Fanny Kemble	English actress and writer (1809–1893)
1754	Georg Forster	German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, and revolutionary (1754-1794)

Writers who died on November 27

Died	Writer	Known as
2015	Mark Behr	Tanzanian-born writer (1963–2015)
2014	P. D. James	English crime writer (1920–2014)
2012	Érik Izraelewicz	French journalist and author
2006	Bebe Moore Campbell	American novelist, journalist, teacher (1950–2006)
2002	Shivmangal Singh Suman	Indian poet and academician
2000	Malcolm Bradbury	English author and academic (1932–2000)
1999	Elizabeth Gray Vining	American writer and librarian (1902–1999)
1998	Gloria Fuertes	Spanish poet and author
1975	Ross McWhirter	English writer, political activist (1925–1975)
1969	May Gibbs	Australian artist, writer (1877–1969)
1953	Eugene O'Neill	American playwright (1888–1953)
1940	Nicolae Iorga	Romanian scholar, writer and politician (1871–1940)
1916	Émile Verhaeren	Belgian poet (1855–1916)
1895	Alexandre Dumas fils	French writer and dramatist (1824–1895)
8 BC	Horace	Roman lyric poet (65–8 BC)

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Jean Grae (1976) — Tsidi Ibrahim, known professionally as Jean Grae, is a South African-born American musician and writer. She emerged in New York City's underground hip-hop scene and developed an international following.

Han Kang (1970) — Han Kang is a South Korean writer. From 2007 to 2018, she taught creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Han rose to international prominence for her novel The Vegetarian, which became the first Korean language novel to win the International Booker Prize for fiction in 2016.

Fisher Stevens (1963) — Stephen Fisher, known professionally as Fisher Stevens, is an American actor, director, producer and writer. As an actor, he is best known for his portrayals of Ben Jabituya/Jahveri in Short Circuit (1986) and Short Circuit 2 (1988).

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Writers born on November 27

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