Happy bookish birthdays (11 January) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (11 January) to…

• Diana Gabaldon (the Outlander series)
• Alan Paton (Cry, the Beloved Country)
• Mary Rodgers (Freaky Friday)
• Jerome Bixby (It’s a Good Life)
• Mark Acito (How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater)
• Bayard Taylor (El Dorado, or, Adventures in the Path of Empire)
• Aldo Leopold (A Sand County Almanac)
• Daniele Bolelli (On the Warrior’s Path)
• Jasper Fforde (the Thursday Next series)

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Happy bookish birthdays (10 January) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (10 January) to…

• Stephen E. Ambrose (Band of Brothers)
• Cynthia Freeman (Illusions of Love)
• George Alec Effinger (When Gravity Fails)

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Happy bookish birthdays (9 January) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (9 January) to…

• Judith Krantz (Scruples)
• Karel Čapek (R.U.R.)
• Simone de Beauvoir (The Second Sex)
• Brian Friel (Dancing at Lughnasa)
• Anne Rivers Siddons (Colony)
• Algis Budrys (Rogue Moon)
• Wilbur Smith (Courtney Family series)
• Stuart Woods (Stone Barrington series)
• Philippa Gregory (The Plantagenet and Tudor series)
• John Dunning (Cliff Janeway series)

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Happy bookish birthdays (8 January) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (8 January) to…

• Terry Brooks (Shannara series)
• Nancy Bond (A String in the Harp)
• David Gates (Jernigan)
• Baltasar Gracián (The Art of Worldly Wisdom)
• Wilkie Collins (The Moonstone)
• Stephen Hawking (A Brief History of Time)
• Storm Jameson (The White Crow)
• Amber Benson (the Witches of Echo Park series)
• Dennis Wheatley (The Devil Rides Out)
• Alexandra Ripley (Scarlett)
• Peter Taylor (A Summons to Memphis)
• Linnie Marsh Wolfe (Son of the Wilderness: The Life of John Muir)

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Happy bookish birthdays (7 January) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (7 January) to…

• Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God)
• Nicholson Baker (Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper)
• Gerald Durrell (A Zoo in My Luggage)
• William Peter Blatty (The Exorcist)
• Hunter Davies (The Beatles)
• Sofi Oksanen (Purge)

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Happy bookish birthdays (6 January) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (6 January) to…

• E.L. Doctorow (Ragtime)
• Elizabeth Strout (Olive Kitteridge)
• Idris Davies (Bells of Rhymney)
• Wright Morris (The Field of Vision)
• Alan Watts (The Way of Zen)
• Eric Frank Russell (The Great Explosion)
• Jacobo Timmerman (Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number)
• Allen Appel (The Postmaster series ((Alex Balfour)))
• Nigella Lawson (How to Eat)
• Robert E. Vardeman (Cenotaph Road)
• Karin Slaughter (Blindsighted)

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Happy bookish birthdays (5 January) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (5 January) to…

• Umberto Eco (The Name of the Rose)
• Stella Gibbons (Cold Comfort Farm)
• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (The River Between)

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Happy bookish birthdays (4 January) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (4 January to…)

• Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (The Shiloh Quartet)
• Jacob Grimm (Grimm’s Fairy Tales)
• Doris Kearns Goodwin (Team of Rivals)
• Gao Xingjian (Soul Mountain)
• Max Eastman (Love and Revolution)
• Clint Hill (Mrs. Kennedy and Me)

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Happy bookish birthdays (3 January) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (3 January) to…

• J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings series)
• Alex Wheatle (Brixton Rock)
• Anne Stevenson (Bitter Fame)
• Carolyn Haywood (the Betsy series)
• Justin Fleming (Barbarism to Verdict)
• Henry Handel Richardson (The Getting of Wisdom)
• John Gould Fletcher (Goblins and Pagodas)

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Happy bookish birthdays (2 January) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (2 January) to…

• Isaac Asimov (Foundation)
• Seiichi Morimura (The Devil’s Gluttony)
• Mendele Mocher Sforim (The Wishing Ring)

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