Births
- March 13 - Donella Meadows, Limits to Growth author (died 2001)
- April 10 - Paul Theroux, novelist and travel writer
- May 13 - Miles Kington, journalist (died 2008)
- May 19 - Nora Ephron, novelist and screenwriter (died 2012)
- June 5 - Spalding Gray, screenwriter and dramatist (died 2004)
- June 27 - James P. Hogan, science fiction author (died 2010)
- July 12 - John Lahr, author and critic
- September 1 - Gwendolyn MacEwen, Canadian poet (died 1987)
- October 2 - John Sinclair, poet
- October 4 - Anne Rice, horror/fantasy writer
- October 13 - John Snow, cricketer and poet
- October 25 - Anne Tyler, novelist
- October 27 - Gerd Brantenberg, Norwegian feminist author and gay rights activist
- date unknown - Pepetela, novelist
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