1896 in Literature - Births

Births

• January 7 - Arnold Ridley, dramatist and actor (died 1984)
• January 14 - John Dos Passos, novelist (died 1970)
• February 12 - Dorothy Frooks, author and publisher (died 1997)
• February 18 - André Breton, French Surrealist poet and author (died 1966)
• April 16 - Tristan Tzara, Romanian-French poet and essayist (died 1963)
• May 3 - Dodie Smith, novelist and dramatist (died 1990)
• June 6 - R. C. Sherriff, dramatist (died 1975)
• July 19 - A. J. Cronin, novelist (died 1981)
• July 25 - Josephine Tey, crime writer (died 1952)
• August 28 - Liam O'Flaherty, novelist and short-story writer (died 1984)
• September 24 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (died 1940)
• October 11 - Roman Jakobson, Russian linguistic theorist (died 1982)
• October 30 - Ruth Gordon, actress and screenwriter (Adam's Rib) (died 1985)
• November 10 - Kate Seredy, children's author (died 1975)