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1940 Best Book Awards
Authors born in 1940
Susan Wittig Albert
Carolyn Andrews
Jeffrey Archer
Russell Banks
Vincent Banville
Elspeth Barker
Peter Benchley
Michel Benoît
Bob Biderman
Dan Binchy
Maeve Binchy
J H Brennan
Annette Broadrick
Erna Brodber
Owen Brookes
Jayge Carr
Angela Carter
Peter Cave
Patrice Chaplin
Bruce Chatwin
George C Chesbro
Alan Cheuse
Frank Chin
J M G Le Clézio
John Clute
J M Coetzee
William S Cohen
Robert J Conley
Ray Connolly
David Cook
Robin Cook
Richard Corben
Emma Darcy
Seamus Deane
Ed Dee
Nora DeLoach
Brian DePalma
Digby Diehl
Thomas M Disch
Robyn Donald
Tessa Duder
Wessel Ebersohn
Zee Edgell
Annie Ernaux
Raymond Flynn
Janet Fox
Eduardo Galeano
Gao Xingjian
Giles Gordon
Sue Grafton
Michael Gruber
Peter Haining
Marion Halligan
Ruth Hamilton
Thomas Harris
William Heffernan
Sue Henry
Michael Herr
B J Hoff
Susan Howatch
Fanny Howe
Trevor Hoyle
Rachel Ingalls
Jane Isenberg
Fleur Jaeggy
Brian John
Gabriel Josipovici
Judith Kazantzis
Peter Kerr
Fiona Kidman
Maxine Hong Kingston
Ron Koertge
Angela Lambert
José Latour
Prue Leith
Anne Lindbergh
Donald McCaig
Claire McNab
Richard Marcinko
Bobbie Ann Mason
Anthony Masters
Frances Mayes
Emma Merritt
Keith Miles
Michael Molloy
Richard Monaco
William D Montalbano
Susan Moody
John Moss
Bharati Mukherjee
Bill Napier
Janet Neel
Andrew Neiderman
John Nichols
Chuck Norris
Nuala O'Faolain
Alexei Panshin
Linda Grant De Pauw
Stuart Pawson
Agneta Pleijel
Mirjam Pressler
A J Quinnell
Robert Richardson
Patrick Robinson
George A Romero
Gayle Roper
Ron Roy
Barry Sadler
Sam Savage
David Seltzer
Tim Severin
Antonio Skármeta
Gary Smalley
Norman Spinrad
Thomas Sullivan
William G Tapply
Peter Tate
Elizabeth Thornton
Daniel Walther
Teresa Waugh
James Welch
Valerie Wilson Wesley
Jack Weyland
Edmund White
Jack Whyte
Michael Lindsay Williams
Eric Wilson
David Wiltse
Rebecca Winters
Janet Woods
Carolyn Andrews
Jeffrey Archer
Russell Banks
Vincent Banville
Elspeth Barker
Peter Benchley
Michel Benoît
Bob Biderman
Dan Binchy
Maeve Binchy
J H Brennan
Annette Broadrick
Erna Brodber
Owen Brookes
Jayge Carr
Angela Carter
Peter Cave
Patrice Chaplin
Bruce Chatwin
George C Chesbro
Alan Cheuse
Frank Chin
J M G Le Clézio
John Clute
J M Coetzee
William S Cohen
Robert J Conley
Ray Connolly
David Cook
Robin Cook
Richard Corben
Emma Darcy
Seamus Deane
Ed Dee
Nora DeLoach
Brian DePalma
Digby Diehl
Thomas M Disch
Robyn Donald
Tessa Duder
Wessel Ebersohn
Zee Edgell
Annie Ernaux
Raymond Flynn
Janet Fox
Eduardo Galeano
Gao Xingjian
Giles Gordon
Sue Grafton
Michael Gruber
Peter Haining
Marion Halligan
Ruth Hamilton
Thomas Harris
William Heffernan
Sue Henry
Michael Herr
B J Hoff
Susan Howatch
Fanny Howe
Trevor Hoyle
Rachel Ingalls
Jane Isenberg
Fleur Jaeggy
Brian John
Gabriel Josipovici
Judith Kazantzis
Peter Kerr
Fiona Kidman
Maxine Hong Kingston
Ron Koertge
Angela Lambert
José Latour
Prue Leith
Anne Lindbergh
Donald McCaig
Claire McNab
Richard Marcinko
Bobbie Ann Mason
Anthony Masters
Frances Mayes
Emma Merritt
Keith Miles
Michael Molloy
Richard Monaco
William D Montalbano
Susan Moody
John Moss
Bharati Mukherjee
Bill Napier
Janet Neel
Andrew Neiderman
John Nichols
Chuck Norris
Nuala O'Faolain
Alexei Panshin
Linda Grant De Pauw
Stuart Pawson
Agneta Pleijel
Mirjam Pressler
A J Quinnell
Robert Richardson
Patrick Robinson
George A Romero
Gayle Roper
Ron Roy
Barry Sadler
Sam Savage
David Seltzer
Tim Severin
Antonio Skármeta
Gary Smalley
Norman Spinrad
Thomas Sullivan
William G Tapply
Peter Tate
Elizabeth Thornton
Daniel Walther
Teresa Waugh
James Welch
Valerie Wilson Wesley
Jack Weyland
Edmund White
Jack Whyte
Michael Lindsay Williams
Eric Wilson
David Wiltse
Rebecca Winters
Janet Woods
Authors who died in 1940
Isaac Babel
F W Bain
E F Benson
B M Bower
John Buchan
Mikhail Bulgakov
Dane Coolidge
F Scott Fitzgerald
DuBose Heyward
Selma Lagerlöf
Fred MacIsaac
Talbot Mundy
Philip Francis Nowlan
Vincent O'Sullivan
Maurice Renard
J H Rosny aîné
Nathanael West
F W Bain
E F Benson
B M Bower
John Buchan
Mikhail Bulgakov
Dane Coolidge
F Scott Fitzgerald
DuBose Heyward
Selma Lagerlöf
Fred MacIsaac
Talbot Mundy
Philip Francis Nowlan
Vincent O'Sullivan
Maurice Renard
J H Rosny aîné
Nathanael West
