1922 in Literature - Births

Births

• January 10 - Terence Kilmartin, Irish journalist and translator (died 1991)
• January 23 - Vernon Scannell, British poet (died 2007)
• February 6 - Denis Norden, English comedy writer
• February 18 - Helen Gurley Brown, American editor and publisher (died 2012)
• March 12 - Jack Kerouac, American author of On the Road (died 1969)
• March 27 - Dick King-Smith, English children's author (died 2011)
• April 13 - John Braine, English novelist (died 1986)
• April 16
  • Kingsley Amis, English novelist (died 1995)
  • Samuel Youd (AKA John Christopher), English science fiction novelist (died 2012)
• [[April 28 - Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (died 1987)
• May 6 - Alan Ross, British poet and editor (died 2001)
• May 27 - Sidney Keyes, English poet (died 1943)
• May 30 - Hal Clement, American science fiction writer (died 2003)
• June 11 - Erving Goffman, Canadian sociologist (died 1982)
• June 29 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslav poet (died 1991)
• July 12 - Michael Ventris, English translator (died 1956)
• July 17 - Donald Davie, English poet (died 1995)
• August 9 - Philip Larkin, English poet (died 1985)
• August 18 - Alain Robbe-Grillet, French novelist (died 2008)
• September 12 - Jackson Mac Low, American poet (died 2004)
• November 11 - Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist (died 2007)
• November 16 - José Saramago, Portuguese writer (died 2010)
• December 29 - William Gaddis, American novelist (died 1998)