Happy bookish birthdays (16 May) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (16 May) to…

• Margret Rey (Curious George)
• Studs Terkel (Working)
• Bruce Coville (I Was a Sixth Grade Alien)
• Pierre Gilliard (13 Years at the Russian Court)

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Happy bookish birthdays (15 May) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (15 May) to…

• L. Frank Baum (the Wizard of Oz series)
• Katherine Anne Porter (Ship of Fools)
• Mikhail Bulgakov (The Master and Margarita)
• Nancy Garden (Annie on My Mind)
• Paul Zindel (The Zone Unknown series)
• Max Frisch (Man in the Holocene)
• Dave Wolverton (On My Way to Paradise)

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Happy bookish birthdays (13 May) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (13 May) to…

• Daphne Du Maurier (Rebecca)
• Francine Pascal (Sweet Valley High series)
• Roger Zelazny (the Amber series)
• Bruce Chatwin (In Patagonia)
• Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City)
• Stephen R. Donaldson (the Thomas Covenant series)
• Leighton Gage (the Mario Silva series)

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Happy bookish birthdays (14 May) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (14 May) to…

• Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl)
• Edwin L. Arnold (Gullivar of Mars)
• Anna Laurens Dawes (How We Are Governed)
• George Selden (The Cricket in Times Square)
• George Lucas (Star Wars)
• Robert Greene (The 48 Laws of Power)
• Hal Borland (Book of Days)

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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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