Births
- January 31 - Derek Jarman, film director, writer (died 1994)
- February 1 - Terry Jones, comedian and writer
- March 2 - John Irving, novelist
- April 1 - Samuel R. Delany, novelist and critic
- April 4 - Kitty Kelley, journalist and biographer
- April 6 - Barry Levinson, screenwriter, director and producer
- May 6 - Ariel Dorfman, Argentine-Chilean novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist
- August 2 - Isabel Allende, novelist
- August 7 - Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days author
- September 1 - António Lobo Antunes, Portuguese novelist
- October 23
- Michael Crichton, author (died 2008)
- Douglas Dunn, poet
- November 24 - Craig Thomas, novelist (died 2011)
- December 6 - Peter Handke, Austrian novelist
- date unknown - Mohamed Zafzaf, Moroccan novelist (died 2001)
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