Happy bookish birthdays (12 May) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (12 May) to…

• Leslie Charteris (The Saint series)
• Albert Murray (Stomping the Blues)
• Edward Lear (The Owl and the Pussy-Cat)
• Heather Rose Jones (the Alpennia series)
• Farley Mowat (Never Cry Wolf)
• Barry B. Longyear (Circus World series)

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Happy bookish birthdays (10 May) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (10 May) to…

• Barbara Taylor Bradford (A Woman of Substance)
• Bel Kaufman (Up the Down Staircase)
• John Scalzi (Old Man’s War series)
• Olaf Stapledon (Last and First Men)
• Wayne Dyer (Your Erroneous Zones)
• T. Berry Brazelton (What Every Baby Knows)
• Jon Ronson (The Men Who Stare at Goats)
• Terrance Dicks (Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen)
• Caroline B. Cooney (the Vampire’s Promise series)

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Happy bookish birthdays (9 May) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (9 May) to…

• J.M. Barrie (Peter Pan)“Wendy knew that she most grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.”–J.M. Barrie, writing in Peter Pan, collected in  The Mind Boggles: A Unique Book of Quotations  by me 😉
• Richard Adams (Watership Down)
• Alan Bennett (The Uncommon Reader)
• Roger Hargreaves (Mr. Men and Little Miss series)
• William Tenn (Of Men and Monsters)
• Richard Cowper (The Custodians)
• William Moulton Marston (Emotions of Normal People)

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Happy bookish birthdays (8 May) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (8 May) to…

• Thomas Pynchon (Gravity’s Rainbow)
• Peter Benchley (Jaws)
• Pat Barker (the Regeneration trilogy)
• Mary Q. Steele (Journey Outside)
• Sloan Wilson (The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit)
• Naomi Klein (No Logo)
• Roddy Doyle (the Barrytown trilogy)
• Bernard Newman (The Spy at No. 10)
• Margarete Böhme (The Diary of a Lost Girl)
• Paul Tabori (The Natural History of Stupidity)
• Edmund Wilson (To the Finland Station)
• Robin Jarvis (the Dancing Jax series)

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Happy bookish birthdays (7 May) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (7 May) to…

• Peter Carey (Oscar and Lucinda)
• Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (Heat and Dust)
• Gene Wolfe (The Book of the New Sun)
• Angela Carter (Heroes and Villains)
• Peter Carey (Oscar and Lucinda)
• Michael Rosen (Michael Rosen’s Sad Book)

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Happy bookish birthdays (6 May) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (6 May) to…

• Gaston Leroux (The Phantom of the Opera)
• Theodore H. White (The Making of the President 1960)
• Harry Golden (Only in America)

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Happy bookish birthdays (5 May) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (5 May) to…

• Soren Kierkegaard (Fear and Trembling)
• Violet Haberdasher (the Knightley Academy series)
• Todd Strasser (The Wave)
• Christopher Morley (Parnassus on Wheels)
• Scott Westerfeld (the The Uglies series)

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Happy bookish birthdays (4 May) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (4 May) to…

• Robin Cook (Coma)
• David Guterson (Snow Falling on Cedars)
• Kristin Harmel (The Sweetness of Forgetting)
• Gillian Tindall (City of Gold: The Biography of Bombay)
• George Will (Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball)
• Amos Oz (A Tale of Love and Darkness)
• Graham Swift (Last Orders)
• Kate Saunders (The Belfry Witches series)

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Happy bookish birthdays (3 May) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (3 May) to…

• Niccolò Machiavelli (The Prince)
• May Sarton (Journal of a Solitude)
• Dodie Smith (The Hundred and One Dalmatians)
• William Inge (Come Back, Little Sheba)
• Rick DeMarinis (Scimitar) [I’ve been surprised that Scimitar wasn’t more successful and isn’t better known. “You know what freedom is? Freedom is the ability to choose between French toast and flapjacks in the dining car of a train plummeting from a high trestle over a ravine hundreds of feet below. That’s what freedom is. Big fat deal.”–Skylor Blue, Scimitar]

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Happy bookish birthdays (2 May) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (2 May) to…

• Martha Grimes (the Richard Jury mysteries)
• E.E. Doc Smith (the Lensman series)
• Charlotte Armstrong (A Dram of Poison)
• Dr. Benjamin Spock, MD (Dr. Spock’s Baby & Child Care)
• Jerome K. Jerome (Three Men in a Boat)

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