Famous Authors Born in the Month of December

Many well known personalities born in the month of December. Among those personalities their are many famous authors. Authors who have written stories that are larger than life, poems that touches our heart. Let’s have a look at famous authors born in the month of December.

Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born in Hampshire, England on December 16, in the year 1775. She is known mainly for her six chief novels, which read between the lines of assessment and observation upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen’s works often discover the reliance of women on matrimony in the pursuit of approving social status and financial safety. Her notable works are – Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, and Mansfield Park.

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad was born in Berdychiv, Russian Empire on December 3, 1857. He is viewed as one of the supreme novelists to write down in the English language. Conrad jotted down stories, many with a marine setting, that portray trials of the human strength of mind in the middle of what he saw as an unemotional, unfathomable universe. Although his works have rudiments of 19th-century realism, yet Conrad is regarded as an early modernist. Some of his notable novels are – Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Typhoon, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, Under Western Eyes, and more.

Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen, Kingdom of France on December 12, 1821. He is known for being highly significant as the foremost promoter of literary realism in his nation. He is renowned for his debut novel Madame Bovary. His other notable works are Sentimental Education, the Temptation of Saint Anthony, Three Tales, and more. Flaubert was both a romantic and a realist. He had a huge influence over one of the most celebrated writers, Franz Kafka. During the time of his demise, he was widely considered the most influential French realist. On May 8, 1880, in Rouen, French third Republic, at the age of 58, Gustave Flaubert passed away.

Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay Presidency, British India on December 30, 1865. He won the Nobel Prize in the year 1907 as the first English-language writer to have received the honour. Some of his notable works are – The Jungle Book, Kim, The White Man’s Burden, The Man Who Would Be King, and more.

Henry Miller

Henry Valentine Miller was born in Manhattan, New York on December 26, 1891. He was renowned for breaking with conventional literary forms and developing a fresh kind of semi-autobiographical novel that covers the aspects of social criticism, sex, explicit language, mysticism, stream of consciousness, and more. Some of his works that depict his themes and central theme of writing are – Tropic of Cancer, The Rosy Crucifixion, Tropic of Capricorn, and Black Spring.

Shirley Jackson

Shirley Hardie Jackson was born in San Francisco, California on December 14, in the year 1916. She is mostly celebrated for her contribution to the mystery and horror genres. She composed two memoirs, six novels, more than 200 short stories throughout her career. Some of her notable works are – The Lottery, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Life Among the Savages, The Haunting of Hill House, and more. Shirley Jackson has been cited as the influence of some of the fertile writers like Stephen King, Richard Matheson, Neil Gaiman, and more.

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