November 8 in Literary History: Writers Born & Died

Writers born on November 8

Born	Writer	Known as
1983	Danielle Evans (writer)	American fiction writer
1979	Andrew Unger	Canadian writer
1974	Joshua Ferris	American author (born 1974)
1971	Carlos Atanes	Spanish film director, writer and playwright
1965	Craig Chester	American actor, writer, and screenwriter
1958	Ken Lamberton	American writer and former teacher (born 1958)
1956	Richard Curtis	British screenwriter, producer and director (born 1956)
1955	Jeffrey Ford	American novelist (born 1955)
1954	David Bret	British biographer
1954	Timothy Egan	American writer (born 1954)
1954	Kazuo Ishiguro	Japanese-British writer and Nobel Laureate (born 1954)
1932	Ben Bova	American writer and editor (1932–2020)
1904	Cedric Belfrage	English writer and activist (1904–1990)
1902	A. J. M. Smith	Canadian poet and anthologist (1902–1980)
1900	Margaret Mitchell	American novelist and journalist (1900–1949)
1847	Bram Stoker	Irish author (1847–1912)
1837	Ilia Chavchavadze	Georgian poet and politician; Georgian Orthodox Church saint (1837–1907)
1836	Milton Bradley	American publisher and game designer
1831	Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton	British Viceroy of India, diplomat and author (1831–1891)
1788	Mihály Bertalanits	Slovenian writer
1772	William Wirt (attorney general)	American author and politician (1772–1834)
1738	Barbara Catharina Mjödh	Finnish poet
1710	Sarah Fielding	English author (1710–1768)
1491	Teofilo Folengo	Italian macaronic poet

Writers who died on November 8

Died	Writer	Known as
2024	Elizabeth Nunez	American novelist (1944–2024)
2012	Peggy Vaughan	American author
2011	Bil Keane	American cartoonist (1922–2011)
2005	David Westheimer	American novelist (1917–2005)
2004	Peter Mathers	Australian author and playwright
2003	C. Z. Guest	American actress, author, horsewoman, designer and socialite (1920–2003)
2002	Jaun Elia	Pakistani poet (1931–2002)
1998	Rumer Godden	British author (1907–1998)
1998	Jean Marais	French actor, writer, director and sculptor (1913–1998)
1994	Michael O'Donoghue	American actor and writer (1940–1994)
1978	Norman Rockwell	American painter and illustrator (1894–1978)
1973	Faruk Nafiz Çamlıbel	Turkish poet, author and politician (1898–1973)
1953	Ivan Bunin	Russian author (1870–1953)
1953	John van Melle	Dutch-born South African writer (1887–1953)
1949	Cyriel Verschaeve	Flemish nationalist priest and writer who collaborated with the Nazis
1921	Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav	Slovak poet
1873	Manuel Bretón de los Herreros	Spanish dramatist (1796–1873)
1828	Thomas Bewick	English engraver and natural history author (1753–1828)
1674	John Milton	English poet and civil servant (1608–1674)

Literary events on November 8

Year	Event
1999	German newspaper Der Spiegel publishes a report by the Federal Intelligence Service accusing figures in Liechtenstein of cooperating with organized crime.
1973	The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper outlet along with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay US$2.9 million.
1602	The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened to the public.

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Danielle Evans (writer) (1983) — Danielle Valore Evans is an American fiction writer.

Andrew Unger (1979) — Andrew Unger is a Canadian novelist and satirist. He is the author of the satirical news website The Unger Review, as well as the novel Once Removed and the collection The Best of the Bonnet.

Joshua Ferris (1974) — Joshua Ferris is an American author best known for his debut novel Then We Came to the End (2007). The novel is a comedy about the American workplace, is narrated in the first-person plural, and is set in a fictitious Chicago ad agency facing challenges at the end of the 1990s Internet boom.

November 8 in literary history

Writers born on November 8

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