Happy Birthday!

February 1
Langston Hughes
Jerry Spinelli
Meg Cabot

February 2
James Joyce
Ayn Rand
Judith Viorst
Ina Garten

February 3
Gertrude Stein
James A. Michener
Paul Auster

February 4
MacKinlay Kantor
Betty Friedan
Stewart O’Nan
Russell Hoban

February 5
William S. Burroughs
David Weisner

February 7
Charles Dickens
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Sinclair Lewis

February 8
Jules Verne
Kate Chopin
Elizabeth Bishop
John Grisham
Barbara Joose
Donna Jo Napoli

February 9
J. M. Coetzee
Alice Walker

February 10
Boris Pasternak
Lucy Cousins
E.L. Konigsburg
Mark Teague

February 11
Jane Yolen

February 12
Judy Blume
David Small
Jacqueline Woodson

February 13
Elaine Pagels
Janet Taylor Lisle
Simms Taback

February 14
Phyllis Root
Paul O. Zelinsky
Frederick Douglass

February 15
Matt Groening
Norman Bridwell
Jan Spivey Gilchrist

February 16
Richard Ford

February 18
Wallace Stegner
Toni Morrison
Audre Lorde

February 19
Amy Tan

February 20
Richard Matheson

February 21
Anaïs Nin
Ha Jin
Chuck Palahniuk

February 22
Hugo Ball
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sean O’Faolain
Morley Callaghan
Edward Gorey

February 23
John Sandford
Walter Wick

February 24
Etel Adnan
Wilhelm Carl Grimm

February 25
Anthony Burgess
Cynthia Voigt

February 26
Christopher Marlowe
Victor Hugo

February 27
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
John Steinbeck
N. Scott Momaday
Uri Shulevitz

February 28
Walter Tevis
Megan McDonald
John Tenniel