1908 in Literature - Births

Births

• January 9 - Simone de Beauvoir, feminist philosopher (died 1986)
• January 18 - Jacob Bronowski, scientist and poet (died 1974)
• February 8 - Emil Staiger, scientist of literature (died 1987)
• February 11 - Sutan Takdir Alishahbana, Indonesian linguist and author
• February 29 - Dee Brown, novelist and historian (died 2002)
• March 6 - Dame Felicitas Corrigan, Benedictine author (died 2003)
• March 22 - Louis L'Amour, author (died 1988)
• May 17 - Frederic Prokosch, novelist and poet (died 1989)
• May 25 - Theodore Roethke, American poet (died 1963)
• May 28 - Ian Fleming, author (died 1964)
• June 27 - João Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian novelist (died 1967)
• July 23 - Elio Vittorini, Italian author (died 1966)
• August 21 - M. M. Kaye, Far Pavilions author (died 2004)
• August 23 - Arthur Adamov, playwright (died 1970)
• September 4 - Richard Wright, author (died 1960)
• September 9 - Cesare Pavese, Italian poet and novelist (died 1950)
• September 17 - John Creasey, author (died 1973)
• October 5 - Joshua Logan, stage and film writer and director (died 1988)
• November 28 - Claude Lévi-Strauss, anthropologist