Happy bookish birthdays (31 December) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (31 December) to…

• Junot Díaz (The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao)
• Nicholas Sparks (The Notebook)
• Connie Willis (Doomsday Book)
• Horacio Quiroga (Jungle Tales)
• Joe Abercrombie (The First Law trilogy)
• Ellen Datlow (Best Horror of the Year series – Editor)
• Simon Wiesenthal (The Sunflower)
• Edward Bunker (Little Boy Blue)
• Susan Shwartz (Byzantium’s Crown)

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Happy bookish birthdays (30 December) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (30 December) to…

• Rudyard Kipling (The Jungle Book)
• Somtow Sucharitkul (Vampire Junction)
• Elyne Mitchell (The Silver Brumby series)
• James Kahn (World Enough and Time)
• Theodor Fontane (Effi Briest)
• Timothy Mo (Sour Sweet)
• Stephen Leacock (Literary Lapses)

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Happy bookish birthdays (29 December) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (29 December) to…

• William Gaddis (The Recognitions)
• Molly Bang (The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher)
• Kuvempu (The House of Kanoor)
• Paul Rudnick (It’s All Your Fault)
• Paula Poundstone (The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness)
• Charles L. Harness (The Ring of Ritornel)

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Happy bookish birthdays (28 December) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (28 December) to…

• Manuel Puig (Kiss of the Spider Woman)
• Robin McGraw (What’s Age Got to Do with It?)
• Liu Xiaobo (No Enemies, No Hatred)
• Carol Ryrie Brink (Caddie Woodlawn)
• George Zebrowski (Stranger Suns)
• Guy Debord (Society of the Spectacle)

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Happy bookish birthdays (27 December) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (27 December) to…

• Sarah Vowell (Lafayette in the Somewhat United States)
• Wilfrid Sheed (Office Politics)
• Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn)
• Mary Mussi AKA Mary Howard AKA Josephine Edgar (More Than Friendship)

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Happy bookish birthdays (26 December) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (26 December) to…

• Henry Miller (Tropic of Cancer)
• Catherine Coulter (The Cove)
• David Sedaris (Me Talk Pretty One Day)

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Happy bookish birthdays (25 December) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (25 December) to…

• William Demby (Battlecreek)
• Robert L. Ripley (Believe It or Not!)
• Carlos Castaneda (The Teachings of Don Juan)
• Quentin Crisp (The Naked Civil Servant)

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Happy bookish birthdays (24 December) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (24 December) to…

• Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)
• Mary Higgins Clark (Where Are the Children?)
• Fritz Leiber (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser)
  • “I think all modern cities, especially the crass, newly built, highly industrial ones, should have ghosts. They are a civilizing influence.”
    –Jamie Donaldus Byers
    Our Lady of Darkness
    written by Fritz Leiber
    collected in The Mind Boggles: A Unique Book of Quotations 
• Johnny Gruelle (Raggedy Ann)
• Eric Van Lustbader (The Ninja)
• Noel Streatfield (Ballet Shoes)

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Happy bookish birthdays (23 December) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (23 December) to…

• Donna Tartt (The Goldfinch)
• Norman Maclean (A River Runs Through It)
• Tim Fountain (Resident Alien)
• Samuel Smiles (Self-Help)

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Happy bookish birthdays (21 December) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (21 December) to…

• Anthony Powell (A Dance to the Music of Time)
• Edward Hoagland (In the Country of the Blind)
• Rebecca West (Black Lamb and Grey Falcon)
• Heinrich Böll (The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum)
• Albert Payson Terhune (Lad: A Dog)
• Benjamin Disraeli (Vivian Gray)

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