Famous Authors Born in the Month of February

The month of February is a gift for literature and all the lovers of classics and books based on women’s rights. From James Joyce, Charles Dickens to Alice Walker and Toni Morrison. Here is a list of 10 famous authors born in the month of February.

James Joyce (February 2)

Joyce was born in Dublin, 1882. His focused themes are death and corruption. Some of James Joyce’s notable works are Ulysses, Dubliners, Finnegans Wake, and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. He is regarded as the greatest Irish writer.

Gertrude Stein (February 3)

Stein was born in Pennsylvania on February 3, 1874. Stein comments on art, politics, culture, and sexuality, and her major themes are personal issues and historical perspectives. Some of her notable works are The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Three Lives, and Tender Buttons.

Charles Dickens (February 7)

Dickens was born in the year 1812, in England. He was an English writer and also a social critic. He wrote remarkable books and created commendable characters that presented the era supremely. His major themes are justice, education, child labor, and the social system. Some of his notable works are A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Bleak House.

Jules Verne (February 8)

Verne was born in France, 1828. He was a French, playwright and novelist. His works are often set in the second half of the nineteenth century focusing on the technological developments of that period. Some of his notable works are The Mysterious Island, Journey to the Center of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Around the World in Eight Days, and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Stars.

Alice Walker (February 9)

Walker was born in Georgia in the year 1944. She is the first American-African woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for her notable novel The Color Purple. Her perspective and viewpoint are profoundly rooted in racial terror, culture, and life of African-American and economic adversity.

Toni Morrison (February 18)

Morrison was born in Ohio, 1931. The themes she focused on in her writings are love, hate, good and evil, beauty and ugliness, and death. Her notable works are Sula, The Bluest Eye, Beloved, and Song of Solomon. In the year 1993, she won the Noble Prize in literature.

Sally Rooney (February 20)

Rooney was born in Ireland on February 20, 1991. Her notable works are Normal People and Conversations with Friends. Her primary themes are human emotion, social status, identity, and class.

Victor Hugo (February 26)

Hugo was a French novelist and playwright, born in France on February 26, 1802. His primary themes of writing are social issues, women, justice, and education. Some of his notable works are Les Miserables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, and Ruy Blas.

Christopher Marlowe (February 26)

Marlowe was one of the most renowned playwrights of the Elizabethan era, born in Canterbury, England on February 26, 1564. Some believe that the hugely influenced the works of his contemporary writer William Shakespeare. Some of his notable works are Tamburlaine the Great, Dido, the Queen of Carthage, Doctor Faustus, and Edward the Second.

John Steinbeck (February 27)

Steinbeck was born in California, 1902. In the year 1962, he won Nobel Prize in literature. He has been regarded as a giant of American letters. The primary themes of Steinbeck are fate and injustice especially those applied towards the everyman protagonists. His notable works are The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, and East of Eden.

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