Barbara Pym

Barbara Mary Crampton Pym was an English novelist. In the 1950s she published a series of social comedies, of which the best known are Excellent Women (1952) and A Glass of Blessings (1958). In 1977 her career was revived when the critic Lord David Cecil and the poet Philip Larkin both nominated her as the most underrated writer of the century. Her novel Quartet in Autumn (1977) was nominated for the Booker Prize that year, and she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. ^{Barbara Pym, English author (d. 1980)}

2 June 1913

Born on the same birth date (2 June 1913): Elsie Tu

Born on the same birth day (2 June): András Szennay • Campbell Graham • Charles Miller (musician) • Chiyonoyama Masanobu • Elsie Tu • Ernie Royal • Isaac van Ostade • Jimmy Jones (singer) • Joanna Gleason • Madison Hu • Morissette (singer) • Remigija Nazarovienė • Sally Kellerman • W. Watts Biggers • Yi So-yeon

Born in the same month (June 1913): Aimé Césaire • Conrad Marca-Relli • Cyril Fletcher • Earle Meadows • Elsie Tu • Franz Antel • Helene Madison • Jean Victor Allard • Joe Morris (trade unionist) • Luis Taruc • Ralph Edwards • Risë Stevens • Robert Mondavi • Sammy Cahn • Sylvia Porter • Tom Adair