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Anne Rice (Interview with a Vampire), Karen Cushman (Catherine, called Birdy), and Tochi Onyebuchi (Riot Baby). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 5h

#Authors born on October 4 include Mary Elizabeth Braddon (Lady Audley’s Secret), Edward Stratemeyer (Tom Swift), Damon Runyon (Guys and Dolls), Donald J. Sobol (Encyclopedia Brown), Alvin Toffler (Future Shock), Jackie Collins (The World is Full of Married Men), 1/2

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 03/10/2026

#Authors born on October 3 include Thomas Wolfe (You Can’t Go Home Again), James Herriot (All Creatures Great and Small), Harvey Kurtzman (Little Annie Fanny), Gore Vidal (Myra Breckinridge), and Katherine Kerr (Deverry). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 03/10/2026

#Authors born on October 2 include Willy Ley, A.E. Waite, Wallace Stevens (“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”), Graham Greene (The Third Man), Jack Finney (Time and Again), Jan Morris (Pax Brittanica), and Vernor Vinge (A Fire Upon the Deep). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 01/10/2026

#Authors born on October 1 include Donald A. Wollheim, Daniel J. Boorstin (The Discoverers), Jimmy Carter (A Full Life), Tim O’Brian (The Things They Carried), Paul Park (The Starbridge Chronicles), and Holly Lisle (Mugging the Muse). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 30/09/2026

#Authors born Sep 30: Rumi, Michael Innes (Sir John Appleby), Truman Capote (In Cold Blood), Elie Wiesel (Night), Jonathan Gash, Laura Esquival (Like Water for Chocolate), Simon Hawke, Nicola Griffith (Ammonite), Sheree Renée Thomas, & Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 30/09/2026

#Authors born on September 29 include Miguel de Cervantes (Don Quixote), Elizabeth Gaskell (Wives and Daughters), and Barbara Mertz (The Ape Who Guards the Balance). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 28/09/2026

#Authors born Sep 28: Prosper Mérimée (Carmen), Kate Douglas Wiggin (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), Barry Pain, Ellis Peters (Cadfael), Charles Portis (True Grit), Rosario Ferré (Maldito Amor), John Sayles (Passion Fish), Christopher Buckley (Wry Martinis), & Piper Kerman (Orange is the New Black).

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 27/09/2026

#Authors born on September 27 include Jim Thompson (The Killer Inside Me), Sheila Williams (Asimov’s SF Magazine), and Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 27/09/2026

#Authors born on September 26 include Winsor McCay (Little Nemo in Slumberland), J. Frank Dobie, T.S. Eliot (“The Waste Land”), L.W. Currey, Jane Smiley (MOO), and Tanya Huff (Blood Books). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 26/09/2026

#Authors born on September 25 include Lu Xun (A Madman’s Diary) and William Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 25/09/2026

#Authors born on September 24 include Horace Walpole (The Castle of Otranto), F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby), Wilson Rawls (Where the Red Fern Grows), John Brunner (Stand on Zanzibar), and John Kessel (Pride and Prometheus). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 23/09/2026

#Authors born on September 23 include Jane Taylor (“Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”), Baroness Orczy (The Scarlet Pimpernel), Pauline Réage (Story of O), Richard Wilson (“Mother to the World”), and Peter David (comics). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 23/09/2026

#Authors born on September 22 include Rosamunde Pilcher (The Shell Seekers), Fay Weldon (The Lives and Loves of a She-Devil), Thomas Harris (The Silence of the Lambs), Carter Scholz (Radiance), and Elizabeth Bear (“Shoggoths in Bloom”). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 16/09/2026

Howard Waldrop (A Dozen Tough Jobs), Jane Lindskold (Changer), and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Half of a Yellow Sun). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 16/09/2026

#Authors born on September 15 include James Fenimore Cooper (The Deerslayer), Agatha Christie (And Then There Were None), Adolfo Bioy Casares (The Invention of Morel), Norman Spinrad (Bug Jack Barron), Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (Hotel Transylvania), 1/2

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 15/09/2026

#Authors born on September 14 include Dante Alighieri (Divine Comedy), Martin Caidin (Cyborg), Steve Rasnic Tem (Blood Kin), and Michael Reaves (Voodoo Child). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 13/09/2026

#Authors born on September 13 include J.B. Priestley (An Inspector Calls), Roald Dahl (Matilda), Warren Murphy (The Destroyer), Patrick O’Leary (Door Number Three), and Tom Holt (Expecting Someone Taller). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 13/09/2026

#Authors born on September 12 include H.L. Mencken, Stanislaw Lem (The Cyberiad), John Clute, and Charles L. Grant (Shadows). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 07/09/2026

#Authors born on September 7 include: Elinor Wylie (The Venetian Glass Nephew), Taylor Caldwell (Captains and the Kings), Malcolm Bradbury (Eating People is Wrong), and Joe Klein (Primary Colors). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 07/09/2026

#Authors born Sep 6: Felix Salten (Bambi), Groff Conklin (anthologist), Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance), Sergio Aragonés (Groo the Wanderer), Jennifer Egan (A Visit from the Goon Squad), Alice Sebold (The Lovely Bones), & China Miéville (Perdido Street Station). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 05/09/2026

#Authors born on September 5 include Arthur Koestler who wrote Darkness at Noon, the tale of Rubashov, an Old Bolshevik who is arrested, imprisoned, and tried for treason against the government that he had helped to create. #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 04/09/2026

#Authors born on September 4 include Mary Renault (The Bull from the Sea), Richard Wright (Native Son), and Lee Ballentine (POLY: New Speculative Writing). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 03/09/2026

#Authors born on September 3 include Sarah Orne Jewett (A Country Doctor), Loren Eiseley (All the Strange Hours), Alison Lurie (Foreign Affairs), Cherry Wilder (Torin), Paul Chadwick (Concrete), and Malcolm Gladwell (Blink). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 02/09/2026

#Authors born on September 2 include Joseph Roth (Radetzky March) and Allen Drury (Advise and Consent). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 01/09/2026

#Authors born on September 1 include Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan), Eleanor Alice Hibbert (prolific novelist), C.J. Cherryh (Cyteen), Timothy Zahn (Thrawn), David Wingrove (Chung Kuo), and Martha Wells (Murderbot). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 31/08/2026

#Authors born on August 31 include Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (The Gates Ajar), DuBose Heyward (Porgy), William Saroyan (The Human Comedy), Robert Adams (Horseclans), G. Willow Wilson (Alif the Unseen), and Cassandra Khaw (The Library at Hellebore). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 30/08/2026

#Authors born on August 30 include Mary Shelley (Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus), Virginia Lee Burton (Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel), Judith Moffett (“Surviving”), Robert Crumb (Weirdo), and Molly Ivins (satirist). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 29/08/2026

#Authors born Aug 29: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Old Ironsides), Georgia Wood Pangborn, Preston Sturges (The Great McGinty), Thomas N. Scortia (The Glass Inferno), Timothy Ferris (The Science of Liberty), Temple Grandin, Janeen Webb (Dreaming Down-Under), and Nancy Holder (Lady Madonna). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 28/08/2026

#Authors born on August 28 include Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Faust), Sheridan Le Fanu (Carmilla), Robertson Davies (Fifth Business), Bernard Wolfe (Limbo), Jack Vance (The Last Castle), Vonda N. McIntyre (Dreamsnake), and Barbara Hambly (Those Who Hunt the Night). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 28/08/2026

#Authors born Aug 27: Theodore Dreiser, C.S. Forester (Horatio Hornblower), Norah Lofts (I Met a Gypsy), T.L. Sherred (Alien Island), Ira Levin (Rosemary’s Baby), Antonia Fraser, Edward Bryant (giANTS), Richard Kadrey (Sandman Slim), & Jeanette Winterson (Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 26/08/2026

#Authors born on August 26 include John Buchan (The Thirty-Nine Steps), Gerald Kersh (Nightshade and Damnation), Julio Cortázar (Blow-Up and Other Stories), Barbara Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dimed), and Paula Hawkins (The Girl on the Train). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 25/08/2026

#Authors born on August 25 include Bret Harte (Paint Your Wagon), Walt Kelly (Pogo), Dorothy Dunnett (The Game of Kings), Carolyn G. Hart (cozy mystery), Frederick Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal), Martin Amis (Money), and Laura Anne Gilman (The Cold Eye). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 24/08/2026

#Authors born 24 Aug: Max Beerbohm (Zuleika Dobson), Jean Rhys (Wide Sargasso Sea), Jorge Luis Borges (Ficciones), James Tiptree, Jr., A.S. Byatt (Possession), Larry Gonick (Cartoon History), Alexander McCall Smith, Orson Scott Card (Ender’s Game), & Stephen Fry (The Liar). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 23/08/2026

#Authors born on 23 August include Edgar Lee Masters (Spoon River Anthology), Robert Irwin (The Arabian Nightmare), Rick Springfield (Late, Late at Night), and Steven D. Brewer (science educator). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 23/08/2026

#Authors born on August 22 include George Herriman (Krazy Kat), Dorothy Parker (Algonquin wit), Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451), Annie Proulx (The Shipping News), and Will Shetterly (Dogland). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 22/08/2026

#Author born on Aug 21: Aubrey Beardsley, Miriam Allen deFord (A Death in the Family), M.M. Kaye (The Far Pavilions), Anthony Boucher (Nine Times Nine), Robert Stone (Dog Soldiers), Lucius Shepard (Life During Wartime), Lindsey Davis (Falco), and Vox Day (asshole). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 20/08/2026

#Authors born on August 20 include H.P. Lovecraft (The Mountains of Madness), Taro Gomi (Everyone Poops), Greg Bear (Blood Music), and Greg Egan (“Oceanic”). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 20/08/2026

#Authors born on August 19 include John Dryden (“An Essay upon Satire”), Ogden Nash (poet), William Gresham (Nightmare Alley), Gene Roddenberry (screenwriter), and Mary Doria Russell (The Sparrow). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 19/08/2026

#Authors born on August 18 include Hugo Bettauer (The Joyless Street), Brian W. Aldiss (Hothouse), and Brian Michael Bendis (House of M). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 18/08/2026

#Authors born on August 17 include V.S. Naipaul (A House for Mr Biswas), Trina Robbins (comics), Neil Clarke (editor), and Rae Carson (The Girl of Fire and Thorns). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 16/08/2026

#Authors born on August 16 include Hugo Gernsback (editor), T.E. Lawrence (Seven Pillars of Wisdom), Hal Foster (Prince Valiant), Georgette Heyer (regency romance), Diana Wynne Jones (Howl’s Moving Castle), and Andrew J. Offutt (Iron Lords). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 15/08/2026

#Authors born on August 15 include Walter Scott (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), E. Nesbit (Five Children and It), Robert Benchley (How to Sleep), Julia Child (Mastering the Art of French Cooking), and Robert L. Forward (Dragon’s Egg). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 14/08/2026

#Authors born on August 14: John Galsworthy (The Forsyte Saga), Russell Baker (Growing Up), Lindsay Clarke (The Chymical Wedding), Steve Martin (a wild and crazy guy), Danielle Steel (Fine Things), Gary Larson (The Far Side), Joan Slonczewski (A Door Into Ocean), & William Shunn. #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 13/08/2026

#Authors born on August 13 include Pauline Hopkins (Of One Blood; Or, the Hidden Self), Alfred Hitchcock (filmmaker), and Sharon Kay Penman (Time and Chance). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 13/08/2026

#Authors born on August 12 include Edith Hamilton (Mythology), Mary Roberts Rinehart (The Circular Staircase), William Goldman (Adventures in the Screen Trade), and Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 12/08/2026

#Authors born on August 11 include Enid Blyton (Famous Five), Alex Haley (Roots), Alan E. Nourse (Blade Runner [really, check it out]), Bud Sparhawk (Sam Boone), and Joanna Cole (Magic School Bus). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 11/08/2026

#Authors born on August 10 include Alfred Döblin (Berlin Alexanderplatz), Ward Moore (Bring the Jubilee), Jorge Amado (Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands), Alexis A. Gilliland (cartoonist), Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games), and Adam America (War of the Wolf). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 10/08/2026

#Authors born on August 9 include P.L. Travers (Mary Poppins), Tove Jansson (Moomin), Frank M. Robinson (The Glass Inferno), Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon), John Varley (Millenium), and Glen Engel-Cox (Darwin’s Daughter). #booksky

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Glen Engel-Cox @engel-cox.com · 08/08/2026

#Authors born on August 8 include Sara Teasdale (Love Songs), Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (The Yearling), and Terry Nation (Doctor Who). #booksky

Cover of The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings showing a young man holding an animal with a farmhouse in the background

Photo bust of Terry Nation (with a Dalek in the background)

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