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Authors born in 1916

Edward S Aarons
Forrest J Ackerman
Jessica Anderson
John Franklin Bardin
Lillian Beckwith
J F Bone
Eleanor Boylan
Paul Brickhill
James Broom-Lynne
Camilo José Cela
Sid Chaplin
Beverly Cleary
B Comfort
Cristabel
Roald Dahl
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
Kirk Douglas
Stanley Ellin
Paul W Fairman
Stewart Farrar
Penelope Fitzgerald
Shelby Foote
Nils Olof Franzén
Natalia Ginzburg
Suzanne Goodwin
Bill Gulick
Donald Hamilton
Mollie Hardwick
Sterling Hayden
Mark Hebden
James Herriot
Geoffrey Horne
Shirley Jackson
F A Javor
John Oliver Killens
Kenneth Lillington
John Lodwick
Dorothy Mackie Low
Robert A W Lowndes
John D MacDonald
Robin Maugham
Albert Murray
William Neubauer
D B Newton
Lauran Paine
Walker Percy
John T Phillifent
Eugenia Price
Harold Robbins
John Rossiter
Holly Roth
Barbara Skelton
Mary Stewart
Edith Templeton
George Turner
Michael Underwood
Jack Vance
Marie Vieux-Chauvet
Irving Wallace
Jack Webb
Morris West
William Woodruff
Frank Yerby
S Yizhar

Authors who died in 1916

Sholom Aleichem
Edward Sylvester Ellis
Henry James
Jack London
Saki
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Natsume Soseki