Portal:Literature/Adil archive/August/24
- 1580 - John Taylor, English poet born
- 1591 - Robert Herrick, English poet born
- 1817 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian writer born
- 1884 - Earl Derr Biggers, American author born
- 1890 - Jean Rhys, Dominican writer born
- 1898 - Malcolm Cowley, American literary critic, writer, and editor born
- 1899 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer born
- 1915 - James Tiptree, Jr, American writer born
- 1936 - A. S. Byatt, English novelist born
- 1947 - Paulo Coelho, Brazilian author born
- 1951 - Orson Scott Card, American writer born
- 1951 - Oscar Hijuelos, American author born