Happy bookish birthdays (11 November) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (11 November) to…

• Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse-Five)
• Mary Gaitskill (Veronica)
• Carlos Fuentes (The Death of Artemio Cruz)
• Fyodor Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment)
• Howard Fast (The Immigrants)
• Peg Kehret (The Volcano Disaster)
• Mack Reynolds (The Mercenary from Tomorrow)
• Shirley Graham Du Bois (There Once Was a Slave…The Heroic Story of Frederick Douglass)
• Thomas Bailey Aldrich (The Story of a Bad Boy)

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Happy bookish birthdays (10 November) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (10 November) to…

• Neil Gaiman (American Gods)
• Oliver Goldsmith (The Vicar of Wakefield)
• Winston Churchill (The Gathering Storm)
• John P. Marquand (The Late George Apley)
• Holly Black (The Spiderwick Chronicles)
• W.E.B. Griffin (Death at Nuremberg)

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Happy bookish birthdays (9 November) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (9 November) to…

• Carl Sagan (The Dragons of Eden)
• Ivan Turgenev (Fathers and Sons)
• Maud Howe Elliott (The Life of Julia Ward Howe)
• James Schuyler (The Morning of the Poem)
• Alistair Horne (The Age of Napoleon)
• Ronald Harwood (The Dresser)
• Marina Warner (Once Upon a Time)

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Happy bookish birthdays (8 November) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (8 November) to…

• Bram Stoker (Dracula)
• Margaret Mitchell (Gone with the Wind)
• Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day)
• Sarah Fielding (The Governess, or The Little Female Academy)
• Cedric Belfrage (Seeds of Destruction)
• Martha Gellhorn (The Face of War)
• Ben Bova (Grand Tour series)
• Timothy Egan (The Worst Hard Time)
• Jeffrey Ford (The Well-Built City trilogy)
• Joshua Ferris (Then We Came to an End)

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Happy bookish birthdays (7 November) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (7 November) to…

• Albert Camus (The Stranger)
• Lawrence Durrell (The Alexandria Quartet)
• Margaret Leech (Reveille in Washington)
• R.A. Lafferty (Past Master)
• Armstrong Sperry (Call It Courage)
• Tom Peters (In Search of Excellence)
• Guy Gavriel Kay (Ysabel)

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Happy bookish birthdays (6 November) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (6 November) to…

• James Jones (From Here to Eternity)
• Michael Cunningham (The Hours)
• Zig Ziglar (See You at the Top)
• Jonas Lie (The Pilot and His Wife)

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Happy bookish birthdays (5 November) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (5 November) to…

• Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Poems of Passion)
• Ida Tarbell (The History of the Standard Oil Company)
• James Elroy Flecker (The Golden Journey to Samarkand)
• John Berger (G)
• Timothy Lea (AKA Christopher Wood) (Confessions of a… series)
• Jeff Rovin (The Encyclopedia of Superheroes)

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Happy bookish birthdays (4 November) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (4 November) to…

• Sterling North (Rascal)
• Kristin Cast (the House of Night series)
• Charles Frazier (Cold Mountain)
• Klabund (Rasputin)
• E.B. Sledge (With the Old Breed)
• Gail E. Haley (A Story, a Story)
• Lyndall Gordon (Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World)

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Happy bookish birthdays (3 November) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (November 3) to…

• Martin Cruz Smith (Gorky Park)
• Samuil Marshak (The Tale of a Silly Mouse)
• Harry Stephen Keeler (The Man Who Changed His Skin)
• Ann Scott (Superstars)
• M.A.R. Barker (the Empire of the Petal Throne series)
• Daniel Hood (Fanuilh)

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Happy bookish birthdays (2 November) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (2 November) to…

• Dale Brown (The War Planners)
• Thomas Mallon (Watergate: A Novel)
• Shere Hite (The Hite Report)
• Lois McMaster Bujold (Penric)
• David Brock (The Real Anita Hill)
• Lucy Hawking (the George’s Secret Key series)

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