1902 in Literature - Births

Births

• January 5 - Stella Gibbons, novelist (died 1989)
• January 20 - Nazim Hikmet, lyricist and dramatist (died 1963)
• January 30 - Nikolaus Pevsner, author of a series of architectural guides (died 1983)
• February 1 - Langston Hughes, poet and novelist (died 1967)
• February 19 – Kay Boyle, writer, educator, political activist (died 1992)
• February 27 - John Steinbeck, US writer (died 1968)
• March 10 - Stefan Inglot, Polish historian (died 1994)
• March 29 - Marcel Aymé, French author (died 1967)
• April 6 - Julien Torma, poet and dramatist (died 1933)
• April 9 - Lord David Cecil, English literary critic and biographer (died 1986)
• April 23 - Halldór Laxness, Icelandic novelist (died 1998)
• July 10 - Nicolás Guillén, Afro-Cuban poet (died 1989)
• August 15 - Katharine Brush, short story writer (died 1952)
• August 16 – Georgette Heyer, British novelist (died 1974)
• August 19 - Ogden Nash, US poet (died 1971)
• October 13 - Arna Bontemps, poet (died 1973)
• October 26 - Beryl Markham, memoirist (died 1986)
• October 31 - Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet (died 1987)
• November 2 - Gyula Illyés, Hungarian author (died 1983)
• November 29 - Carlo Levi, Italian writer (died 1975)