Happy bookish birthdays (20 June) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (20 June) to…

• Lilian Jackson Braun (The Cat Who… series)
• Josephine Johnson (Now in November)
• Charles W. Chesnutt (The Marrow of Tradition)
• Vikram Seth (A Suitable Boy)
• Robert Crais (the Elvis Cole & Joe Pike series)
• E. Lynn Harris (Invisible Life)

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Happy bookish birthdays (19 June) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (19 June) to…

• Salman Rushdie (Midnight’s Children)
• Jean Rabe (The Bone Shroud)
• Tobias Wolff (This Boy’s Life)
• Osamu Dazai (The Setting Sun)
• Robert Moore Williams (the Jongor series)
• Patricia Wrightson (The Nargun and the Stars)

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Happy bookish birthdays (18 June) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (18 June) to…

• Chris Van Allsburg (The Polar Express)
• Angela Johnson (The First Part Last)
• Roger Ebert (The Great Movies)
• Pat Hutchins (The Wind Blew)
• Richard Powers (The Echo Maker)

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Happy bookish birthdays (17 June) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (17 June) to…

• John Hersey (Hiroshima)
• Henry Lawson (Children of the Bush)
• Dean Ing (Systemic Shock)

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Happy bookish birthdays (16 June) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (16 June) to…

• Joyce Carol Oates (The Wheel of Love)
• Adam Smith (The Wealth of Nations)
• Isabelle Holland (The Man Without a Face)
• Andy Weir (The Martian)
• Erich Segal (Love Story)
• Murray Leinster (The Pirates of Zan)
• Victor Canning (the Mr. Finchley series)

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Happy bookish birthdays (15 June) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (15 June) to…

• Wilbert Awdry (the Thomas the Tank Engine books)
• J.F. Bone (The Lani People)
• Sondra Marshak (The Price of the Phoenix)
• Brian Jacques (Redwall)

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Happy bookish birthdays (14 June) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (14 June) to…

• Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
• Jerzy Kosinski (Being There)
• Mona Simpson (Anywhere But Here)
• John Bartlett (Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations)
• Judith Kerr (When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit)
• Harry Turtledove (the WORLDWAR series)
• Laurence Yep (Dragon War)
• Laurie Colwin (Happy All the Time)

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Happy bookish birthdays (13 June) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (13 June) to…

• Dorothy L. Sayers (the Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries)
• Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife)
• Whitley Strieber (The Wolfen)
• Frances Burney (Evelina)

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Happy bookish birthdays (12 June) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (12 June) to…

• Anne Frank (The Diary of a Young Girl)
• Johanna Spyri (Heidi)
• Djuna Barnes (Nightwood)
• Melanie Rawn (Dragon Prince)
• Trevanian (The Eiger Sanction)
• Charles Kingsley (The Water Babies) “People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist.”–The Water Babies, collected in  The Mind Boggles: A Unique Book of Quotations (at AmazonSmile: benefit a non-profit of your choice by shopping*) by me 😉
• Rona Jaffe (The Best of Everything)

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Happy bookish birthdays (11 June) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (11 June) to…

• William Styron (Sophie’s Choice)
• Jacques Cousteau (The Silent World)
• Robert Munsch (Love You Forever)
• Jennifer L. Armentrout (If There’s No Tomorrow)

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