Famous Essayists' 🎂 Birthdays, May, United States

    
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1 Lisa Brennan-Jobs

May 17, 1978
Oregon

writer, journalist, daughter of Steve Jobs

2 Walt Whitman

May 31, 1819
Long Island
American poet, essayist and journalist

3 Ralph Waldo Emerson

May 25, 1803
Boston
American philosopher, essayist, and poet

4 Nora Ephron

May 19, 1941
Upper West Side
American film director and writer

5 Thomas Pynchon

May 08, 1937
Long Island
American novelist

6 Rachel Carson

May 27, 1907
Rachel Carson Homestead
American marine biologist and conservationist

7 Michael Chabon

May 24, 1963
Washington, D.C.
American novelist, short story writer, essayist

8 Fulton J. Sheen

May 08, 1895
El Paso
Catholic bishop and television presenter

9 Adrienne Rich

May 16, 1929
Baltimore
American poet, essayist and feminist

10 Jaron Lanier

May 03, 1960
New York City
American computer scientist, musician, and author

11 Margaret Fuller

May 23, 1810
Cambridge
American feminist, poet, author, and activist

12 Joseph Brodsky

May 24, 1940
Saint Petersburg
Russian-American poet

13 Katherine Anne Porter

May 15, 1890
Indian Creek, Texas
American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist

14 Edmund Wilson

May 08, 1895
Red Bank
American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man of letters

15 Eve Babitz

May 13, 1943
Los Angeles
American author

16 Michael Oren

May 20, 1955
Johnson City

Israeli historian, military officer and diplomat

17 Elizabeth Alexander (poet)

May 30, 1962
Harlem
American poet

18 Judith Sargent Murray

May 01, 1751
Gloucester
American writer and advocate for women's rights

19 Charles Simic

May 09, 1938
Belgrade
American poet

20 Barbara Goldsmith

May 18, 1937
New York City
American journalist
[Total 33 People]
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