Portal:Literature/Adil archive/August/2

• 1815 - Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German writer born
• 1865 - Irving Babbitt, American literary critic born
• 1924 - James Baldwin, American author (Go Tell It on the Mountain) born
• 1942 - Isabel Allende, Chilean author (The House of Spirits) born
• 1949 - James Fallows, journalist born
• 1955 - Caleb Carr, American novelist and military historian born