Happy bookish birthdays (21 January) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (21 January) to…

• Judith Merril (Shadow on the Hearth)
• Eva Ibbotson (Journey to the River Sea)
• Elaine Showalter (The Female Malady)
• Charles Eric Maine (The Mind of Mr. Soames)
• Egon Friedell (The Return of the Time Machine)
• S.J. Musgraves (Parry Pretty and the Eight Realms)

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Happy bookish birthdays (20 January) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (20 January) to…

• Tami Hoag (Kovak and Liska series)
• A. Merritt (The Moon Pool) at The Measured Circle’s Geek Time Trip (TMCGTT)
• R.A. Salvatore (The Legend of Drizzt series)
• Joy Adamson (Born Free)
• Eugène Sue (The Mysteries of Paris)
• Johannes V. Jensen (The Fall of the King)
• Forrest Wilson (Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe)
• W. Cleon Skousen (The 5000 Year Leap)
• Don M. Mankiewicz (The Trial)

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Happy bookish birthdays (19 January) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (19 January) to…

• Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven)
• Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr. Ripley)
• Edwidge Danticat (Brother, I’m Dying)
• Julian Barnes (The Sense of an Ending)
• Nina Bawden (Carrie’s War)
• Lysander Spooner (The Unconstitutionality of Slavery)

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Happy bookish birthdays (18 January) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (18 January) to…

“Rabbit’s clever,” said Pooh thoughtfully.
“Yes,” said Piglet, “Rabbit’s clever.”
“And he has Brain.”
“Yes,” said Piglet, “Rabbit has Brain.”
There was a long silence.
“I suppose,” said Pooh, “that that’s why he never understands anything.”
–A.A. Milne (born 18 January), writing in The House at Pooh Corner
collected in The Mind Boggles: A Unique Book of Quotations by Bufo Calvin

• A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)
• Robert Anton Wilson (the Illuminatus! trilogy)
• C.M. Eddy Jr. (Exit Into Eternity)
• Sol Yurick (The Warriors)
• Pamela Dean (the Secret Country trilogy)
• Raymond Briggs (Father Christmas)
• Arno Schmidt (Zettel’s Dream)

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Shop ’til you help!

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Happy bookish birthdays (17 January) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (17 January) to…

• Nevil Shute (On the Beach)
• Ellen Wood AKA Mrs. Henry Wood (East Lynne)
• Robert Cormier (I Am the Cheese)
• Anne Brontë (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall)
• Luis López Nieves (The Heart of Voltaire)
• John Bellairs (The House with a Clock in Its Walls)
• Sir Compton Mackenzie (The Monarch of the Glen)
• William Stafford (The Darkness Around Us Is Deep)
• May Gibbs (Snugglepot and Cuddlepie)
• Tom Dietz (the David Sullivan series)
• Paul O. Williams (The Breaking of Northwall)

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Happy bookish birthdays (16 January) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (16 January) to…

• William Kennedy (Ironweed)
• Susan Sontag (On Photography)
• Robert W. Service (Songs of a Sourdough)
• Karen McQuestion (A Scattered Life)
• Margaret Wilson (The Able McLaughlins)
• Graham Masterton (The Manitou)
• Rebecca Stead (When You Reach Me)

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Happy bookish birthdays (15 January) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (15 January) to…

• Ernest J. Gaines (A Lesson Before Dying)
• Martin Luther King Jr. (Why We Can’t Wait)
• Jose Y. Dalisay Jr. (Sarcophagus)
• John Aikin (Evenings at Home)
• Marjorie Fleming (Marjory’s Book)
• W.R. Mitchell (A Dalesman’s Diary)
• Jenny Nimmo (Charlie Bone series)
• Ben Shapiro (Brainwashed)

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Happy bookish birthdays (14 January) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (14 January) to…

• Hugh Lofting (the Doctor Dolittle series)
• John Dos Passos (The U.S.A. trilogy)
• John Lescroart (the Dismas Hardy series)
• Mary Robison (Why Did I Ever)
• Arthur Byron Cover (An East Wind Coming)
• Pierre Loti (An Iceland Fisherman)
• Emily Hahn (The Soong Sisters)
• Yukio Mishima (Confessions of a Mask)
• Tom Tryon (The Other)
• Murray Bookchin (The Ecology of Freedom)
• Kenneth Bulmer (Dray Prescot series)
• Joseph Green (Conscience Interplanetary)

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Happy bookish birthdays (13 January) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (13 January) to…

• Horatio Alger Jr.(Ragged Dick)
• Jay McInerney (Bright Lights, Big City)
• Edmund White (A Boy’s Life)
• Michael Bond (Paddington)
• Ron Goulart (After Things Fell Apart)
• Clark Ashton Smith (Lost Worlds)

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Happy bookish birthdays (12 January) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (12 January) to…

• Jack London (Call of the Wild)
• Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)
• Walter Mosley (Easy Rawlin series)
• Jennifer Johnston (The Old Jest)
• Charles Perrault (Puss in Boots)
• David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas)
• C.S. Friedman (Black Sun Rising)
• Geoffrey Hoyle (Seven Steps to the Sun)

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