February LitBirthdays February is Black History Month February 1 Big Boi Langston Hughes Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin February 2 Xuân Diệu Joseph Seamon Cotter, Sr. James Joyce February 3 Paul Auster Marlon Riggs James Michener February 4 Abdul Rahman Badawi Buell Gordon Gallagher Betty Friedan February 5 Andrew Greeley Jermain Wesley Loguen Jovan Dučić February 6 Christopher Marlowe Pramoedya Ananta Toer Melvin B. Tolson Anne Spencer Nay Win Myint February 7 Gay Talese Charles Dickens Eubie Blake February 8 Nancy Oliver Mae Street Kidd Ron Tyson John Grisham February 9 Carole King Alice Walker Cassandra Steen Amy Lowell February 10 Johan Harstad Michael Anthony Roberta Flack February 11 Celeste O. Norfleet Jarena Lee Florynce Kennedy Lydia Maria Child John Langalibalele Dube February 12 George Elliott Clarke Abraham Lincoln Charles Darwin Yaël Dayan February 13 Mark Watson Lenard Duane Moore Faiz Ahmad Faiz Georges Simenon February 14 Beejan Olfat Richard Allen Carlton Moss Frederick Douglass Eric Andersen February 15 Miep Gies Brian Holland Masuji Ibuse Adam Nadasdy February 16 Elisabeth Eybers Otis Blackwell Paul Gilroy Ice-T February 17 Julia de Burgos Huey Newton Lupe Fiasco Michel Rivgauche February 18 Leonard (Len) Deighton Audre Lorde Toni Morrison Nikos Kazantzakis February 19 Jaan Kross Clifton Taulbert Eileen Jackson Southern Andre Breton February 20 Nevena Stefanova Linda Brown Ellis Cose Buffy Sainte Marie February 21 Hakan Nesser Claudia Jones Corey Harris Anais Nin Hanne-Vibeke Holst February 22 Danilo Kis William Whipper Ishmael Reed James Russell Lowell February 23 Aziz Ansari Claude Brown W.E.B. DuBois February 24 Alain Mabanckou Kasi Lemmons Grant Allen February 25 Russell Atkins George Schuyler Mary Coyle Chase George Harrison February 26 Adem Demaçi Fats Domino Sharon Bell Mathis Victor Hugo Jela Krečič February 27 Charlayne Hunter-Gault J. Rawls Henry Wadsworth Longfellow February 28 Adelle McQueen Anthony Kelley Jeanne Cherhal February 29 Natasha Beaulieu