Editing 1914 in literature (section)

==Births==
*[[January 2]] – [[Vivian Stuart]] (aka Alex Stuart, Barbara Allen, Fiona Finlay, V. A. Stuart, William Stuart Long, Robyn Stuart), British writer (died [[1986 in literature|1986]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Geoffrey Handley-Taylor|title=Berkshire, Hampshire and Wiltshire Authors Today|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ll9TAAAAYAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Eddison Press Limited|isbn=978-0-85649-013-2|page=36}}</ref>
*[[January 8]] – [[Norman Nicholson]], English poet (died [[1987 in literature|1987]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Louis Untermeyer|title=The New Modern American & British Poetry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VWFKAAAAIAAJ|year=1950|publisher=Harcourt, Brace|page=414}}</ref>
*[[January 15]] – [[Etty Hillesum]], Dutch correspondent, diarist and Holocaust victim (died [[1943 in literature|1943]])
*[[January 17]] – [[William Stafford (poet)|William Stafford]], American poet, pacifist (died [[1993 in literature|1993]])
*[[January 26]] – [[Kaye Webb]], English publisher and journalist (died [[1996 in literature|1996]])
*[[February 4]] – [[Alfred Andersch]], German writer (died [[1980 in literature|1980]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Margaret Littler|title=Alfred Andersch (1914-1980) and the Reception of French Thought in the Federal Republic of Germany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=csxbAAAAMAAJ|year=1991|isbn=978-0-7734-9679-8|page=346}}</ref>
*[[February 5]] – [[William S. Burroughs]], American author (died [[1997 in literature|1997]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Joan Hawkins|author2=Alex Wermer-Colan|title=William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8-SWDwAAQBAJ&pg=PR11|date=17 May 2019|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-04136-4|pages=11}}</ref>
*[[February 6]] – [[Arkadi Kuleshov]], Soviet poet and translator (died [[1978 in literature|1978]])
*[[February 13]] – [[Katarína Lazarová]], Slovak novelist and translator (died [[1995 in literature|1995]])
*[[February 25]] – [[Frank Bonham]], American novelist (died [[1988 in literature|1988]])
*[[March 1]] – [[Ralph Ellison]], American scholar and writer (died [[1994 in literature|1994]])
*[[March 4]] – [[Barbara Newhall Follett]], American prodigy novelist (went missing in December 1939)
*[[March 27]] – [[Budd Schulberg]], American writer (died [[2009 in literature|2009]])
*[[March 28]] – [[Bohumil Hrabal]], Czech poet and controversialist (died [[1997 in literature|1997]])
*[[March 31]] – [[Octavio Paz]], Nobel Prize winning Mexican author (died [[1998 in literature|1998]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Jose Quiroga|author2=James Hardin|title=Understanding Octavio Paz|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kJOqj6Sm2p8C&pg=PA2|year=1999|publisher=Univ of South Carolina Press|isbn=978-1-57003-263-9|pages=2}}</ref>
*[[April 4]] – [[Marguerite Duras]], French writer (died 1996)<ref>{{cite book|author=Renate Gunther|title=Marguerite Duras|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_MZhsT4W7KcC&pg=PA2|date=5 July 2002|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-5757-1|pages=2}}</ref>
*[[April 10]] – [[Maria Banuș]], Romanian poet and translator (died [[1999 in literature|1999]])
*[[April 25]] – [[Ross Lockridge Jr.]], American novelist (died [[1948 in literature|1948]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Laurence S. Lockridge|title=Shade of the Raintree: The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr., Author of Raintree County|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=86XgAAAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=978-0-14-015871-7|page=55}}</ref>
*[[April 26]] – [[Bernard Malamud]], American novelist (died [[1986 in literature|1986]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Philip Davis|title=Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_yLaSNbbKRUC&pg=PT27|date=13 September 2007|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-160843-8|pages=27}}</ref>
*[[April 28]] – [[Michel Mohrt]], French author and historian (died [[2011 in literature|2011]])
*[[May 3]]
** [[Georges-Emmanuel Clancier]], French poet (died [[2018 in literature|2018]])
** [[Martín de Riquer]], Spanish writer and Romantic scholar (died [[2013 in literature|2013]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Giancarlo Colombo|title=Who's Who in Spain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x4oUAQAAIAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Who's Who in Italy|isbn=978-88-85246-60-7|page=220}}</ref>
*[[May 6]] – [[Randall Jarrell]], American poet (died [[1965 in literature|1965]])
*[[May 8]] – [[Romain Gary]], Lithuanian-born French novelist (died [[1980 in literature|1980]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Ralph Schoolcraft|title=Romain Gary: The Man Who Sold His Shadow|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E3y_1x4gdGUC&pg=PA1|date=26 May 2012|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=0-8122-0320-8|pages=1}}</ref>
*[[May 12]] – [[James Bacon (author)|James Bacon]], author and journalist (died [[2010 in literature|2010]])
*[[May 14]] – [[Anne Baker (author)|Anne Baker]], British writer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/salisbury/salisburynews/11227456.Happy_100th_for_Annie/|title=Happy 100th for Anne|publisher=[[Salisbury Journal]]|author=Hannah White|date=21 May 2014|access-date=9 October 2017}}</ref>
*[[June 15]] – [[Lena Kennedy]], English novelist (died [[1986 in literature|1986]])
*[[June 17]] – [[Julián Marías]], Spanish philosopher and author (died [[2005 in literature|2005]])
*[[June 26]] – [[Laurie Lee]], English poet and memoirist (died [[1997 in literature|1997]])<ref>{{Cite ODNB|id=77340|title=Lee, (Wilfred) Jack Raymond}}</ref>
*[[July 14]]
** [[Wim Hora Adema]], Dutch children's author and feminist (died [[1998 in literature|1998]])
** [[Béatrix Beck]], French writer of Belgian origin (died [[2008 in literature|2008]])
*[[July 15]]
**[[Hammond Innes]], English adventure novelist (died [[1998 in literature|1998]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-hammond-innes-1164546.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-hammond-innes-1164546.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Obituary: Hammond Innes - Arts & Entertainment|author=Jack Adrian|date=12 June 1998|website=The Independent|access-date=13 January 2021}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
**[[Gavin Maxwell]], Scottish naturalist and author (died [[1969 in literature|1969]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Harold Oxbury|title=Great Britons: Twentieth-century Lives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9coZAAAAYAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-211599-7|page=239}}</ref>
*[[July 17]] – [[Alice Gore King]], American entrepreneur, educator, writer and artist (died [[2007 in literature|2007]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Arthur Garraty|author2=Mark Christopher Carnes|author3=American Council of Learned Societies|title=American national biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OuIpAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-520635-7|page=467}}</ref>
*[[July 18]] – [[Roy Huggins]], American novelist (died [[2002 in literature|2002]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Horace Newcomb|title=Encyclopedia of Television|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NUXIAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1149|date=3 February 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-19472-7|pages=1149}}</ref>
*[[July 23]] – [[Alf Prøysen]], Norwegian author, musician and children's writer (died [[1970 in literature|1970]])
*[[July 25]] – [[Winifred Foley]], English memoirist (died [[2009 in literature|2009]])
*[[August 5]] – [[Anthony West (author)|Anthony West]], English author and critic, son of 'Rebecca West' and H. G. Wells (died [[1987 in literature|1987]])
*[[August 9]] – [[Tove Jansson]], Finnish children's author (died [[2001 in literature|2001]])<ref>{{cite book|author=St James Press|title=Reference Guide to Short Fiction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p6IRAQAAMAAJ|year=1994|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-334-7|page=276}}</ref>
*[[August 20]] – [[Colin MacInnes]], English novelist (died [[1976 in literature|1976]])
*[[August 21]] – [[Stephen Coulter]], British novelist (died [[1986 in literature|1986]])
*[[August 26]] – [[Julio Cortázar]], Argentine author (died [[1984 in literature|1984]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Ilan Stavans|title=Julio Cortázar: A Study of the Short Fiction|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t91eAAAAMAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Twayne Publishers|isbn=978-0-8057-8293-6|page=7}}</ref>
*[[September 5]]
**[[Nicanor Parra]], [[Chilean poetry|Chilean]] poet and physicist (died [[2018 in literature|2018]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Tracy|title=Contemporary World Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sKAjAQAAIAAJ|year=1993|publisher=St. James Press|isbn=978-1-55862-200-5|page=395}}</ref>
**[[Gogu Rădulescu]], Romanian communist politician, journalist, and patron of the arts (died [[1991 in literature|1991]])
*[[September 15]] – [[Adolfo Bioy Casares]], Argentine author (died [[1999 in literature|1999]])
*[[October 1]] – [[Hilda Ellis Davidson]], English antiquarian and academic (died [[2006 in literature|2006]])
*[[October 6]] – [[Joan Littlewood]], English theatre director and biographer (died [[2002 in literature|2002]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Nadine Holdsworth|title=Joan Littlewood's Theatre|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u4NsNL9XZ5MC&pg=PA5|date=14 April 2011|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-11960-3|pages=5}}</ref>
*[[October 20]] – [[L. P. Davies]], English novelist (died [[1988 in literature|1988]])
*[[October 26]] – [[John Masters]], British Raj novelist (died [[1983 in literature|1983]])
*[[October 27]] – [[Dylan Thomas]], Welsh poet and author (died [[1953 in literature|1953]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Derek Cyril Perkins|title=Dylan Thomas and His World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rIBbAAAAMAAJ|year=1995|publisher=Domino Books (Wales)|isbn=978-1-85772-160-7|page=13}}</ref>
*[[November 22]] – [[Leah Bodine Drake]], American poet (died [[1964 in literature|1964]])
*[[December 12]] – [[Patrick O'Brian]] (Richard Patrick Russ), English historical novelist (died [[2000 in literature|2000]])
*[[December 14]] – [[Diana Forbes-Robertson]], English writer and biographer (died [[1987 in literature|1987]])
*[[December 24]] – [[Herbert Reinecker]], German novelist and playwright (died [[2007 in literature|2007]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Who's who in Germany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tC9ctqv5jv0C|year=1990|publisher=Intercontinental Book and Publishing Company, German editor R. Oldenbourg Verlag|page=1464}}</ref>