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#Authors born on Mar 7: Paul Preuss (The Gates of Heaven), Stanley Schmidt (Analog editor), Elizabeth Moon (Remnant Population), E.L. James (Fifty Shades of Grey), and Bret Easton Ellis (American Psycho). #booksky

Ann VanderMeer (The Silver Web), Liz Holliday (short stories), and K.J. Bishop (The Etched City). #booksky 2/2

#Authors born on Mar 6: Cyrano de Bergerac (A Voyage to the Moon), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (“How Do I Love Thee?”), Ring Lardner (You Know Me, Al), Will Eisner (The Spirit), William F. Nolan (Logan’s Run), Gabriel Garcia Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude), Edward L. Ferman (F&SF editor), 1/2

#Authors born on Mar 5: Howard Pyle (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood), Mike Resnick (Kirinyaga), Leslie Marmon Silko (Ceremony), Robin Hobb (Farseer), Mark Z. Danielewski (House of Leaves), and Sarah J. Maas (Throne of Glass). #booksky

#Authors born Mar 4: Johann David Wyss (The Swiss Family Robinson), James Ellroy (The Black Dahlia), Peggy Rathmann (Good Night, Gorilla), Geoff Nicholson (Hunters and Gatherers), Khaled Hosseini (The Kite Runner), Dav Pilkey (Captain Underpants), and Dan Wells (I Am Not a Serial Killer). #booksky

#Authors born on Mar 3: Arthur Machen (“The Great God Pan”), David Lindsay (A Voyage to Arcturus), Patrician MacLachlan (Sarah, Plain and Tall), Max Allen Collins (Road to Perdition), Robyn Hitchcock (1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left), and Gregory Feeley (The Oxygen Barons). #booksky

Mark Evanier (DNAgents), Peter F. Hamilton (The Suspect Genome), and Ann Leckie (Ancillary Justice). #booksky 2/2

#Authors born on Mar 2: Marija Jurić Zagorka (The Witch of Gric), Inez Haynes Gillmore (Angel Island), Dr. Seuss (Green Eggs and Ham), Olivia Manning (The Balkan Trilogy), Tom Wolfe (The Bonfire of the Vanities), John Irving (The World According to Garp), Peter Straub (Lost Boy, Lost Girl), 1/2

Martin H. Greenberg (anthologist), David Pringle (editor), Nevada Barr (Anna Pigeon), and Steven Barnes (In the Heat of the Night). #booksky 2/2

#Authors born on Mar 1: William Dean Howells (A Traveler from Alturia), Tiffany Thayer (Dr. Arnoldi), Ralph Ellison (Invisible Man), Robert Lowell (Day by Day), William M. Gaines (MAD), Leonard Wolf (translator and annotator), Ruby Jean Jenson (Such a Good Baby), 1/2

#Authors born on Feb 29: Sharon Webb (Earth Song), Patricia A. McKillip (The Forgotten Beasts of Eld), Tim Powers (The Anubis Gates), and Howard Taylor (Shlock Mercenary). #booksky

#Authors born on Feb 28 include Maurice Renard (The Hands of Orlac), Ben Hecht (Underworld), Linus Pauling (No More War), Milton Caniff (Terry and the Pirates), Walter Tevis (The Queen’s Gambit), John Barnes (Mother of Storms), and Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events). #booksky

Stephen Leigh (Dark Water’s Embrace), Jeff Smith (Bone), and Lisa McMann (The Unwanteds). #booksky 2/2

#Authors born on Feb 27: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (The Song of Hiawatha), John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath), Lawrence Durrell (Justine), Irwin Shaw (Rich Man, Poor Man), Dick King-Smith (Babe), Ralph Nader (Unsafe at Any Speed), Ken Grimwood (Replay), 1/2

#Authors born Feb 26: Victor Hugo (Les Misérables), Theodore Sturgeon (More Than Human), Jack Ritchie (Little Boxes of Bewilderment), Johnny Cash (“The Holografik Dancer”), Sharyn McCrumb (Bimbos of the Death Sun), Elizabeth George (A Great Deliverance), and Liz Williams (Banner of Souls). #booksky

#Authors born Feb 25: Jane G. Austin (Fairy Dreams), Frank G. Slaughter (That None Should Die), Edgar Pangborn (Davy), Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange), John Saul (Suffer the Children), Neil Jordan (Mistaken), A.M. Dellamonica (Indigo Springs), and Chelsea Handler (My Horizontal Life). #booksky

Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl), and Peter Brown (Creepy Carrots). #booksky 2/2

#Authors born on Feb 24: Muhammad bin Battutah (Travels in Asia & Africa), Julius Vogel (Anno Domini 2000, or, Woman’s Destiny), Mary de Morgan (The Necklace of Princess Florimonde), August Derleth (Sac Prarie Saga), Kent Haruf (Plainsong), Bryan Talbot (The Tale of One Bad Rat), 1/2

Authors born on Feb 23: Christopher Marlowe (Doctor Faustus), Samuel Pepys (diarist), W.E.B. Du Bois (John Brown: A Biography), B. Traven (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre), Bernard Cornwell (Sharpe), Doug Moench (Master of Kung-Fu), and Francesca Simon (Horrid Henry). #booksky

#Authors born on February 22 include James Russell Lowell, Edna St. Vincent Millay (The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver), Edward Gorey (The Gashlycrumb Times), Edward D. Hoch (The Oblong Room), Joanna Russ (The Female Man), Ishmael Reed (Mumbo Jumbo), and Genesis P-Orridge. #booksky

#Authors born on February 21 include Anais Nin (Delta of Venus), Raymond Queneau, W.H. Auden (The Age of Anxiety), Ha Jin (Waiting), David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest), Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club), Jonathan Safran Foer (Here I Am), and Bryan Lee O’Malley (Scott Pilgrim). #booksky

#Authors born on February 20 include Pierre Boulle (Planet of the Apes), Thomas Berger (Little Big Man), Richard Matheson (I Am Legend), Ardath Mayhar, Ellen Gilchrist (Victory Over Japan), Diana L. Paxson, Nick Mamatas, and Trevor Noah (Born a Crime). #booksky

Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn), Jeff Kinney (Diary of a Wimpy Kid), and Marissa Meyer (Cinder). #booksky 2/2

#Authors born on February 19 include Carson McCullers (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter), Terry Carr, William Messner-Loebs (Journey), Patricia T. O’Conner (Woe Is I), Amy Tan (The Joy Luck Club), Helen Fielding (Bridget Jones’s Diary), Laurell K. Hamilton (Anita Blake), 1/2

Douglas Rushkoff (Ecstasy Club), and Michael Bailey (The Impossible Weight of Life). #booksky 2/2

#Authors born on February 18 include Nikos Kazantzakis (Zorba the Greek), André Breton (Nadja), Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose), Len Deighton (The Ipcress File), Gahan Wilson (Eddy Deco’s Last Caper), Toni Morrison (Beloved), Jane M. Auel (The Clan of the Cave Bear), 1/2

#Authors born on February 17 include Margaret St. Clair (Agent of the Unknown), Andre Norton (Witch World), Ruth Rendell (A Fatal Inversion), Chaim Potok (The Chosen), Johnny Hart (The Wizard of Id), Susan Beth Pfeffer (Life as We Knew It), and Hiroaki Samura (Blade of the Immortal). #booksky

#Authors born on February 16 include Henry Adams (The Education of Henry Adams), Ross Thomas (The Cold War Swap), Richard Ford (Independence Day), Iain M. Banks (The Wasp Factory), Natalie Angier (Woman: An Intimate Geography), and Warren Ellis (Transmetropolitan). #booksky

#Authors born on February 15: Sax Rohmer (Dr. Fu Manchu), Ian Ballantine, Gregory McDonald (Fletch), Jo Clayton (Diadem), Jack Dann (Da Vinci Rising), Douglas Hofstadter (Gödel, Escher, Bach), Art Spiegelman (Maus), Elizabeth Knox (The Vintner’s Luck), and Matt Groening (The Simpsons). #booksky

#Authors born on February 14 include Frederick Douglass, Frank Harris (My Life and Loves), Dorothy Langley (Mr. Bremble’s Buttons), Robert Shea (Illuminatus!), Carl Bernstein (All the President’s Men), and Gwyneth Jones (Bold as Love). #booksky