Happy bookish birthdays (5 March) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (5 March) to…

• Frank Norris (McTeague)
• Sarah Mass (Throne of Glass series)
• Howard Pyle (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
• Katarina Frostenson (I mellan)
• Danny King (The Burglar Diaries)
• Robin Hobb (Assassin’s Apprentice)
• Mike Resnick (Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge)
• Joel Osteen (Your Best Life Now)
• Penn Jillette (Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday!)
• Ray Suarez (Latino Americans)
• Nelly Arcan (Whore)
• Roy Gutman (Banana Diplomacy: The Making of American Policy in Nicaragua 1981-1987)

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Happy bookish birthdays (4 March) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (4 March) to…

• Dav Pilkey (Captain Underpants series)
• Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner)
• Alan Sillitoe (The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner)
• Takeo Arishima (A Certain Woman)
• Johann David Wyss (Swiss Family Robinson)
• Katherine Center (Happiness for Beginners)
• Daniel Woodrell (Tomato Red)
• Meinert DeJong (The Wheel on the School)
• David Plante (Difficult Women)
• Barbara Newhall Follett (The House Without Windows & Eepersip’s Life There)
• Charles Goren (Contract Bridge for Beginners)
• John Scarne (Scarne on Card Tricks)

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Happy bookish birthdays (3 March) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (3 March) to…

• Arthur Machen (The Great God Pan)
• David Lindsay (A Voyage to Arcturus)
• Max Allan Collins (Nathan Heller series)
• William Godwin (Things As They Are: Or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams)

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Happy bookish birthdays (2 March) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (2 March) to…

• Dr. Seuss (The Cat in the Hat)
• John Irving (The World According to Garp)
• Tom Wolfe (The Bonfire of the Vanities)
• Sholem Aleichem (the Tevye the Dairyman series)
• Peter Straub (Ghost Story)

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Happy bookish birthdays (1 March) to…

Happy bookish birthdays (1 March) to…

• Ralph Ellison (Invisible Man)
• Nevada Barr (the Anna Pigeon mysteries)
• Jim Crace (Harvest)
• William Dean Howells (The Rise of Silas Lapham)

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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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