Births
- January 29 - Germaine Greer, feminist author
- April 12 - Alan Ayckbourn, dramatist
- June 5 - Margaret Drabble, novelist
- July 2 - Ferdinand Mount, journalist and novelist
- August 1 - Robert James Waller, American novelist
- October 6 - Melvyn Bragg, novelist, critic and television presenter
- October 9 - John Pilger, journalist
- October 10 - Clive James, writer, humorist and television personality
- November 17 - Auberon Waugh, journalist and son of Evelyn Waugh
- November 18 - Margaret Atwood, novelist and poet
- November 25 - Shelagh Delaney, dramatist (died 2011)
- December 18 - Michael Moorcock, science fiction author
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