1937 in Literature

Births

January 1 - John Fuller, poet
January 7 - Ian La Frenais, TV comedy writer
January 8 - Leon Forrest, novelist and essayist
January 9 - Judith Krantz, bestselling novelist
January 22 - Joseph Wambaugh, novelist and non-fiction writer
February 21 - Jilly Cooper, novelist and journalist
April 29 - Jill Paton Walsh, novelist
May 8 - Thomas Pynchon, novelist
May 13
- Roger Zelazny, American writer of fantasy and science fiction
- Roch Carrier, novelist and short-story writer
[[June 16 - Erich Segal, Love Story author (died 2010)
July 3 - Tom Stoppard, dramatist
August 5 - Carla Lane, comedy writer
August 19 - Richard Ingrams, editor
September 5 - Dick Clement, TV comedy writer
October 7 - Christopher Booker, journalist and editor
November 9 - Roger McGough, poet
November 17 - Peter Cook, comedian, satirist and writer (died 1995)
December 3 - Binod Bihari Verma, Maithili littérateur
December 22 - David F. Case, American novelist and short story writer
date unknown - Jan Karon, novelist