Happy Birthday!

January 1

E.M. Forster

J.D. Salinger

January 2

Isaac Asimov

William Scott

January 3

Cicero

J.R.R. Tolkien

January 4

Jacob Grimm

Max Eastman

Katie Davis

Phyliss Reynolds Naylor

January 5

W. D. Snodgrass

Umberto Eco

Lynne Cherry

Seanan McGuire

January 6

Carl Sandburg

Khalil Gibran

Alan Watts

E.L. Doctorow

January 7

Zora Neale Hurston

Gerald Malcolm Durrell

January 8

Wilkie Collins

Stephen Hawking

Nancy Bond

January 9

Henry B. Fuller

Simone de Beauvoir

Walter R. Brooks

January 10

Philip Levine

Jared Carter

January 11

Alan Paton

Manfred B. Lee

Robert C. O’Brien

January 12

Edmund Burke

Jack London

Haruki Murakami

Walter Mosley

Charles Perrault

Iza Trapani

David Mitchell

January 13

Horatio Alger Jr

Carolyn Heilbrun

Jay McInerney

Michael Bond

January 14

John dos Passos

Tillie Olsen

Mary Robison

Hugh Lofting

January 15

Molière

Osip Mandelstam

Ernest J. Gaines

Frank Conroy

January 16

Robert Service

Susan Sontag

Inger Christensen

Kate McMullen

January 17

Benjamin Franklin

Anne Brontë

William Stafford

John Bellairs

Robert Cormier

January 18

A.A. Milne

Arthur Ransome

January 19

Edgar Allan Poe

Alexander Woollcott

Patricia Highsmith

Julian Barnes

January 20

Joy Adamson

Sawako Ariyoshi

January 22

Sir Francis Bacon

August Strindberg

Joseph Wambaugh

Rafe Martin

January 23

Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)

Derek Walcott

Katharine Holabird

January 24

William Congreve

Edith Wharton

January 25

Robert Burns

W. Somerset Maugham

Virginia Woolf

Gloria Naylor

January 26

Angela Davis

Jules Feiffer

Mary Mapes Dodge

January 27

Lewis Carroll

Mordecai Richler

January 28

Colette

Valentin Katayev

David Lodge

Vera B. Williams

January 29

Thomas Paine

Anton Chekhov

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Edward Abbey

Rosemary Wells

January 30

Barbara Tuchman

Shirley Hazzard

Richard Brautigan

Michael Dorris

Lloyd Alexander

Polly Horvath

January 31

Zane Grey

John O’Hara

Norman Mailer

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