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1930 Lifetime Achievement Awards

Nobel Prize in Literature
Sinclair Lewis (winner)

Authors born in 1930

Chinua Achebe
Catherine Aird
Mahdi Issa Al-Saqr
Buzz Aldrin
J G Ballard
Shimon Ballas
June Barraclough
John Barth
Anne Bernays
Bryan Berry
Jack M Bickham
Horst Bienek
Marion Zimmer Bradley
Gary Brandner
Jimmy Breslin
Harold Brodkey
George Brown
J P S Brown
Dixie Browning
Dorothy Bryant
Don Callander
Lin Carter
Burt Cole
D G Compton
Caroline Crane
Anne Eliot Crompton
Connie Brummel Crook
Robert Daley
Gerry Davis
Mildred Davis
Diane Detzer
Colin Dexter
Tonke Dragt
Stanley Elkin
Elaine Feinstein
Timothy Findley
Anthea Fraser
Pierre Frei
Bruce Jay Friedman
Monica Furlong
Jef Geeraerts
Joseph F Girzone
Francine du Plessix Gray
Evan Green
Patricia Guiver
Gene Hackman
David H Hackworth
Alex Hamilton
Lorraine Hansberry
Edward D Hoch
John Eric Holmes
Maureen Howard
Ted Hughes
Douglas Hurd
Clifford Irving
Harvey Jacobs
Siân James
Jennifer Johnston
Yoram Kaniuk
Douglas Kiker
June Knox-Mawer
E L Konigsburg
Duncan Kyle
Rita Lakin
Leonard Lamensdorf
Virginia Lanier
Ana Leigh
Jack Lynch
Eugene McCabe
Charles McCarry
Joseph McElroy
R W Mackelworth
Eugene McNamara
Donald E McQuinn
Paul L Maier
Robert E Margroff
Connie Mason
Harry Mathews
Ardath Mayhar
Helen Mittermeyer
John Morressy
Howard L Myers
Terry Nation
Christopher Nicole
Harold Pinter
Ruth Rendell
Stella Ross
Yuri Rytkheu
Fred Saberhagen
John Sack
Shel Silverstein
Gloria Skurzynski
Robert Kimmel Smith
Robert Stallman
Kenneth Thomasma
Estelle Thompson
June Thomson
Barry Unsworth
O V Vijayan
Derek Walcott
Barbara Whitehead
Cherry Wilder
Jeanne Williams
Gahan Wilson
David Wise

Authors who died in 1930

Frank Cowper
William Stearns Davis
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Pauline Hopkins
D H Lawrence
Melville Davisson Post
Armitage Trail
Mary E Wilkins Freeman