Births
- January 5 - Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (also known as James Ngigi), Kenyan novelist
- February 12
- Judy Blume, children's author
- Tor Obrestad, Norwegian novelist, poet and documentary writer
- April 29 - Larry Niven, sci-fi author
- May 13 - Norma Klein, author
- May 26 - Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Russian novelist and playwright
- June 16 - Joyce Carol Oates, novelist
- July 19
- Nicholas Bethell, historian
- Dom Moraes, poet and columnist
- September 15 - Charles L. Mee, dramatist
- October 12 - Anne Perry, historical novelist
- October 13 - Hugo Young, journalist
- December 14 - Leonardo Boff, philosopher and theologian
- December 31 - Basudeb Dasgupta, Bengali novelist (died 2005)
- date unknown - M. K. Wren, novelist
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