100th anniversaries:


Jan: James Vance Marshall (author of "Walkabout")
Jan: Mike Butterworth (creator of "Trigan Empire" SF comic)
Jan: Dennis Lynds (aka Michael Collins, mystery writer)
Jan: Lloyd Alexander ("Prydain Chronicles")
Feb: Pat Lauber ("Clarence the TV Dog")
Feb: John Peterson ("Toby's Treasure Hunt")
March: Byrd Baylor ("Amigo")
May: Gerda Klein ("One Survivor Remembers")
June: Leonard Fisher (Pulitzer-winning painter)
July: Thomas Berger
July: William Gass
Aug: James Baldwin
Aug: Janet Frame
Sept: Joan Aiken (Carnegie nominee)
Sept: Grace Metalious ("Peyton Place")
Sept: Jolly Roger Bradfield ("Pickle-Chiffon Pie")
Sept: Bernard Waber
Sept: James Berry (poet & Coretta Scott King Medalist)
Sept: Truman Capote
Oct: Donald J. Sobol ("Encyclopedia Brown")
Oct: Guadalupe Rivera Marin
Dec: Nicolas Sidjakov (Caldecott Medalist)


80th anniversary
Aug: Paula Danziger ("The Cat Ate My Gymsuit")


50th death anniversaries
July: Erich Kastner ("Emil & the Detectives" & "The Parent Trap")
Sept: Lois Lenski (Newbery Medalist: "Strawberry Girl")

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SO I'm six-plus months late...oh well.


Besides, in the case of Isaac Watts, at least, some celebrations will
take place more than two weeks after the anniversary itself.


You can see more at Wikipedia - just choose any year you like, then
click on "Literature."


550th anniversary
Sept: Lodovico Ariosto


500th
Sept: Pierre de Ronsard


350th
Jan: Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon
April: Oliver Goldsmith
July: Isaac Watts


300th
April: Immanuel Kant
July Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock


250th
Aug: Robert Southey


200th (death anniversary)
April: George Gordon, Lord Byron


200th
Jan: Wilkie Collins
Mar: William Allingham
July: Alexadre Dumas fils
Sept: Phoebe Cary
Sept: Richard Doyle
Dec: Rev. George MacDonald


150th
Jan: Thornton W. Burgess
Jan: Laura Adams Armer
Jan: Robert Service
Jan: W. Somerset Maugham
Feb: Hugo von Hoffmannsthal
Feb: Gertrude Stein
Feb: Amy Lowell
Feb: Elsa Beskow
March: Robert Frost
May: Maud Lindsay
May: G.K. Chesterton
Nov: Clarence Day
Nov: Winston Churchill
Nov: Lucy Maud Montgomery
Dec: C.B. Falls
Dec: Holbrook Jackson


100th (death anniversaries)
Jan: Peter Newell
May: E. Nesbit
July: Palmer Cox
Oct: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Dec: Gene Stratton-Porter


100th anniversaries of children's books:


Tales of Silver Lands (Newbery winner the following year)
The Poppy-Seed Cakes
The Boxcar Children

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Erich Kastner also wrote "The Parent Trap."

Btw, I somehow slipped up regarding John Peterson (1924-2002) - he was
FAR better known for his series about...

"The Littles."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Littles

He wrote 16 books in the series. It was turned into an animated series
in the 1980s.

(And given that the first book was published in 1967, it's a little
surprising how brave Lucy is, being a younger sister and all.)

He also wrote "The Secret Hide-Out" in 1965. There was a sequel.

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