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November Author & Illustrator Birthdays


Date Authors & Illustrators Have You Read...? See Note 1
1 Hilary Knight (1926) Eloise
2 Natalie Kinsey-Warnock (1956) As Long As There Are Mountains
3 Brent K. Ashabranner (1921) The Lion's Whiskers and Other Ethiopian Tales
3 Janell Cannon (1957) Crickwing
3 Betty Bao Lord (1938) In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
5 Raymond Bial (1948) With Needle and Thread: A Book about Quilts
5 Megan Lloyd (1958) Winter Wheat
5 Marcia Sewall (1935) Thunder from the Clear Sky
5 Margaret Willey (1950) Clever Beatrice: An Upper Peninsula Conte
8 Kate Needham (1962) First Pony
8 Bram Stoker (1847-1912) Dracula
9 Pat Cummings (1950) Purrrrr
9 Lois Ehlert (1934) Color Zoo
10 Sandra Lee Markle (1946) Outside and Inside Bats
13 Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) My Shadow
14 Astrid Lindgren (1907) Pippi Longstocking
14 William Steig (1907-2003) Pete's a Pizza
14 Nancy Tafuri (1946) Have You Seen My Duckling?
15 Beryl Epstein (1910) The Great Houdini
15 Maira Kalman (1949) Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey
15 David McCord (1897-1997) All Small
15 Daniel Pinkwater (1941) Mush, a Dog from Space
16 Victoria Chess (1939) Ten Sly Piranhas: A Counting Story in Reverse (A Tale of Wickedness--and Worse!)
16 Jean Fritz (1915) You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?
16 Ronald Himler (1937) The Cherokees
16 Robin McKinley (1952) The Hero and the Crown
16 Angela Shelf Medearis (1956) Seven Spools of Thread: A Kwanzaa Story
17 Alison Lester (1952) The Quicksand Pony
18 Nancy Van Laan (1939) When Winter Comes
19 Ann Herbert Scott (1926) On Mother's Lap
21 Megan Whalen Turner (?) The Thief
23 Marc Simont (1915) The Stray Dog: From a True Story by Reiko Sassa
23 Gloria Whelan (1923) Homeless Bird
24 Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) A Little Princess
24 Yoshiko Uchida (1921-1992) A Jar of Dreams
25 Marc Brown (1946) Arthur Writes a Story
25 Mordici Gerstein (1935) The Jar of Fools: Eight Hanukkah Stories from Chelm
25 Stephen Krensky (1953) Lionel at School
26 Laurence Pringle (1935) Bats!: Strange and Wonderful
27 Kevin Henkes (1960) Owen
28 Mary E. Lyons (1947) Dear Ellen Bee: A Civil War Scrapbook of Two Union Spies
28 Tomi Ungerer (1931) The Three Robbers
28 Ed Young (1931) I Wish I Were a Butterfly
29 Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) Little Women
29 Madeleine L'Engle (1918) A Wrinkle in Time
29 C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) The Cronicles of Narnia
29 David M. Schwartz (1951) G is for Googol: A Math Alphabet Book
30 Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) Anne of Green Gables
30 Jonathon Swift (1667-1745) Gulliver's Travels
30 Mark Twain (1835-1910) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
30 Margot Zemach (1931) Some from the Moon, Some from the Sun: Poems and Songs for Everyone

Note 1: Suggested titles range from books for infants to young adult novels. Please check for age-appropriateness.

To the best of our knowledge, these birthdates are accurate. If you find an error, please let us know. If we've left out your favorite author or illustrator and you know his/her birthday, please email us at: . Death dates have been added when known.

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