1931 in Literature

Births

January 6 - E. L. Doctorow, author
January 9 - Algis Budrys, science fiction author
January 10 - Peter Barnes, playwright (died 2004)
January 17 - Mark Brandis, journalist and science fiction author (died 2000)
January 27
- John Hopkins, screenwriter (died 1998)
- Mordecai Richler, author (died 2001)
February 10 - Thomas Bernhard, author (died 1989)
February 11 - Larry Merchant, author/boxing commentator
February 12 - Janwillem van de Wetering, crime writer
February 18
- Johnny Hart, cartoonist (died 2007)
- Toni Morrison, writer, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature
February 19 - Robert Sobel, business writer
March 2 - Tom Wolfe, novelist
April 21 - Gabriel de Broglie, historian
April 29 - Robert Gottlieb, editor
June 12 - Robin Cook, British novelist (died 1994)
June 21 - Patricia Goedicke, poet (died 2006)
July 4 - Sébastien Japrisot, novelist and screenwriter (died 2003)
July 7 - David Eddings, American novelist (died 2009)
July 10
- Nick Adams, screenwriter
- Julian May, science fiction author
August 12 - William Goldman, author
August 22 - Maurice Gee, novelist
September 22 - Fay Weldon, novelist
October 8 - Dennis Silk, friend of Siegfried Sassoon and Edmund Blunden
October 19 - John le Carré, novelist
November 18 - Nikoloz Janashia, historian