Happy bookish birthdays (20 September) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (20 September) to…

• George R.R. Martin (A Game of Thrones)
• Upton Sinclair (The Jungle)
• Jude Deveraux (the Montgomery/Taggart series)
• James P. Blaylock (The Elfin Ship)
• A.A. Attanasio (The Dragon and the Unicorn)

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Happy bookish birthdays (19 September) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (19 September) to…

• William Golding (Lord of the Flies)
• Rachel Field (Hitty Her First Hundred Years)
• Tanith Lee (The Birthgrave)
• Mike Royko (Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago)
• Damon Knight (To Serve Man)
• Thomas H. Cook (The Chatham School Affair)

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Happy bookish birthdays (18 September) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (18 September) to…

• Steven Pinker (The Language Instinct)
• Lynn Abbey (Daughter of the Bright Moon)
• Aisha Tyler (Swerve)

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Happy bookish birthdays (17 September) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (17 September) to…

• Mary Stewart (The Crystal Cave)
• Robert B. Parker (the Spenser series)
• Ken Kesey (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)
• Cheryl Strayed (Wild)
• Gail Carson Levine (Ella Enchanted)
• Martha Ostenso (Wild Geese)
• Robert Graysmith (Zodiac)
• John Creasey (Gideon’s Fire)
• Frank O’Connor (The Lonely Voice)
• Ib Melchior (Hitler’s Werewolves)
• Park Honan (Jane Austen: Her Life)

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• Lord of the Flies by William Golding is first published in 1954

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Happy bookish birthdays (16 September) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (16 September) to…

• John Knowles (A Separate Peace)
• H.A. Rey (the Curious George series)
• Alfred Noyes (The Highwayman)
• Julia Donaldson (The Gruffalo)
• Nancy Huston (The Goldberg Variations)
• Wil McCarthy (Bloom)

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Happy bookish birthdays (15 September) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (15 September) to…

• Agatha Christie (Murder on the Orient Express)
• James Fenimore Cooper (The Last of the Mohicans)
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Americanah)
• Claude McKay (Home to Harlem)
• Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (the Count-Saint Germain series)
• Robert McCloskey (Make Way for Ducklings)
• Tomie dePaola (Strega Nona)
• Loren D. Estleman (the Amos Walker mysteries)
• Norman Spinrad (Bug Jack Barron)
• Howard Waldrop (The Texas-Israeli War: 1999)
• Fawn M. Brodie (No Man Knows My History)

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Happy bookish birthdays (14 September) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (14 September) to…

• Geraldine Brooks (March)
• William H. Armstrong (Sounder)
• Martin Caidin (Cyborg)
• Bonnie Jo Campbell (Once Upon a River)
• John Steptoe (Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters)
• Larry Collins (Is Paris Burning?)
• Marc Reisner (Cadillac Desert)
• Hamlin Garland (Main-Traveled Roads)

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Happy bookish birthdays (13 September) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (13 September) to…

• Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
• Mildred D. Taylor (Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry)
• Warren Murphy (the The Destroyer series)
• Carol Kendall (The Gammage Cup)
• Sherwood Anderson (Dark Laughter)
• Mary Midgley (Animals and Why They Matter)
• J.B. Priestley (The Good Companions)

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Happy bookish birthdays (12 September) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (12 September) to…

• Stanislaw Lem (Solaris)
• Pittacus Lore (I Am Number Four series)
• Walter B. Gibson (the The Shadow series)
• James Frey (A Million Little Pieces)
• Charles L. Grant (the Oxrun series)
• Mary Zaturenska (Cold Morning Sky)
• K.A. Opperman (The Crimson Tome)

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Happy bookish birthdays (11 September) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (11 September) to…

• D.H. Lawrence (Lady Chatterley’s Lover)
• Jessica Mitford (Hons and Rebels)
• Andre Dubus III (House of Sand and Fog)
• Anthony Browne (Voices in the Park)
• William X. Kienzle (The Father Koesler Mysteries series)
• Philip Ardagh (the Eddie Dickens series)

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