Happy bookish birthdays (28 February) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (28 February) to…

• Daniel Handler (AKA Lemony Snicket) (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
• Megan McDonald (the Stink series)
• Walter Tevis (The Man Who Fell to Earth)
• Marcel Pagnol (My Father’s Glory)
• David R. Ross (On the Trail of William Wallace)
• Stephen Goldin (The Eternity Brigade)
• Stephen Spender (The Temple)

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Happy bookish birthdays (27 February) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (27 February) to…

• John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath)
• Lawrence Durrell (The Alexandria Quartet)
• James T. Farrell (the Studs Lonigan series)
• Irwin Shaw (Rich Man, Poor Man) [I did Shaw’s Bury the Dead play in high school, which was quite controversial…it’s an anti-war fantasy from 1936, but our director included contemporary visual references]
• Ken Grimwood (Replay)
• Peter De Vries (The Blood of the Lamb)

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Happy bookish birthdays (26 February) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (26 February) to…

• Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)
• Elizabeth George (the Inspector Lynley mysteries)
• Theodore Sturgeon (More Than Human)
• Sharyn McCrumb (The Unquiet Grave)
• Camille Flammarion (Omega: The Last Days of the World)

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Happy bookish birthdays (25 February) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (25 February) to…

• Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange)
• Karl May (the Winnetou series)
• Rex Gordon (First Through Time)
• Emma Catherine Embury (AKA Ianthe) American Wildflowers in Their Native Haunts))
• Campbell Black (AKA Campbell Armstrong (Brainfire)

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Happy bookish birthdays (24 February) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (24 February) to…

• Rainbow Rowell (Eleanor & Park)
• Wilhelm Grimm (one of the Brothers Grimm) (Grimm’s Fairy Tales)
• Judith Ortiz Cofer (The Latin Deli)
• August Derleth (the Solar Pons series)
• Judith Butler (Gender Trouble)
• George Moore (A Modern Lover)
• Kent Haruf (The Tie That Binds)

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Happy bookish birthdays (23 February) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (23 February) to…

• Bernard Cornwell (Richard Sharpe series)
• Francesca Simon (the Horrid Henry series)
• W.E.B. DuBois (The Souls of Black Folks)
• Mary Francis Shura (AKA Mary S. Craig, M.F. Craig, Meredith Hill, Mary Shura Craig, Alexis Hill…) (Chrystal Falls series)
• César Aira (An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter)
• Eduard von Hartmann (Philosophy of the Unconscious)
• Paul West (Rat Man of Paris)
• Christopher Marlowe (Doctor Faustus)

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Happy bookish birthdays (22 February) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (22 February) to…

• Joanna Russ (The Female Man)
• Ishmael Reed (Flight to Canada)
• Edna St. Vincent Millay (The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver)
• Irving A. Greenfield (Ancient of Days)
• William B. Seabrook (The Magic Island)
• Arthur Schopenhauer (The World as Will and Representation)
• Morley Callaghan (The Loved and the Lost)

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Happy bookish birthdays (21 February) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (21 February) to…

• Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)
• Erma Bombeck (The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank)
• David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest)
• W.H. Auden (The Age of Anxiety)
• Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated)
• Owen King (Double Feature)
• Richard A. Lupoff (Circumpolar!)
• Clemence Dane (Regiment of Women)

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Happy bookish birthdays (20 February) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (20 February) to…

• Richard Matheson (I Am Legend)
• Pierre Boulle (Bridge Over the River Kwai)
• Ellen Gilchrist (Victory Over Japan)
• Lee Goldberg (My Gun Has Bullets)
• Diana L. Paxson (Brisingamen)
• Georges Bernanos (Under Satan’s Sun)

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Happy bookish birthdays (19 February) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (19 February) to…

• Carson McCullers (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter)
• Helen Fielding (Bridget Jones series)
• Jeff Kinney (Diary of a Wimpy Kid series)
• Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club)
• Laurell K. Hamilton (the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series)
• Kay Boyle (The White Horses of Vienna)
• Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn)
• Marissa Meyer (the Lunar Chronicles series)
• Lee Harding (The Fallen Spaceman)
• Ryū Murakami (Almost Transparent Blue)
• Terry Carr (editor, The Best Science Fiction of the Year series)
• Donald F. Glut (The Dinosaur Scrapbook)

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