1944 in Literature

Births

January 8 – Terry Brooks, writer of fantasy fiction
January 21 – Jack Abbott, murderer and acclaimed writer
February 7 – Witi Ihimaera, New Zealand Māori writer, author of The Whale Rider
February 14
- Alan Parker, director, writer
- Carl Bernstein, journalist
February 16 – Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist
May 13 – Armistead Maupin, novelist
May 17 – Uldis Bērziņš, poet and translator
May 18 – W. G. Sebald, novelist (died 2001)
June 5 – John Fraser, journalist
August 18 – Paula Danziger, young adult book novelist
August 30 – Molly Ivins, journalist
October 2 – Vernor Vinge, science fiction novelist
October 5 – Tomás de Jesús Mangual, journalist
November 7 – Peter Wilby, journalist
November 24 – Eintou Pearl Springer, poet
November 28 – Rita Mae Brown, writer and political activist
December 17 – Jack L. Chalker, science fiction novelist
December 21 - James Sallis, crime writer
date unknown
- Tom Leonard, dialect poet
- Patrick O'Connell, poet (died 2005)