Alice Hoffman Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Alice Hoffman, born March 16, 1952.

Alice Hoffman is an American novelist and young-adult and children’s writer, best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships.

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Ben Okri Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Ben Okri, born March 15, 1959.

Sir Ben Golden Emuobowho Okri is a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist. Considered one of the foremost African authors in the postmodern and post-colonial traditions, Okri has been compared favourably to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez. In 1991, his novel The Famished Road won the Booker Prize. Okri was knighted at the 2023 Birthday Honours for services to literature.

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Algernon Blackwood Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Algernon Blackwood, born March 14, 1951.

Algernon Henry Blackwood, was an English broadcasting narrator, journalist, novelist and short story writer, and among the most prolific ghost story writers in the history of the genre. The literary critic S. T. Joshi stated, “His work is more consistently meritorious than any weird writer’s except Dunsany’s” and that his short story collection Incredible Adventures “may be the premier weird collection of this or any other century”.

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Alastair Reynolds Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Alastair Reynolds, born March 13, 1966.

Alastair Preston Reynolds  is a Welsh science fiction author. He specializes in hard science fiction and space opera.

Reynolds was born in Wales and spent his early years in Cornwall before moving back to Wales, and later attended Newcastle University, where he studied physics and astronomy. He subsequently earned a PhD in astrophysics from the University of St Andrews

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Carl Hiaasen Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Carl Hiaasen, born March 12,

Carl Hiaasen is an American journalist and novelist. He began his career as a newspaper reporter and by the late 1970s had begun writing novels in his spare time, both for adults and for middle grade readers. Two of his novels have been made into feature films.

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Deborah Copaken Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Deborah Copaken, born March 11, 1966.

Copaken was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Marjorie Ann and Richard Daniel Copaken. Her father was a White House Fellow and lawyer. She grew up in Maryland, first in Adelphi, and then from 1970 in Potomac. She has three siblings. She graduated from Harvard University in 1988.

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Åke Edwardson Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Åke Edwardson, born March 10, 1953.

Åke Edwardson is a Swedish author of detective fiction, and was previously a lecturer in journalism at Gothenburg University, the city where many of his Inspector Winter novels are set. Edwardson has had many jobs, including as a journalist and press officer for the United Nations and his crime novels have made him a three-time winner of the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy Award for best crime novel. His first novel to be translated into English, in 2005, was Sun and Shadow. The second, Never End, followed in 2006. In a Spiegel Online interview on 21 June 2008, Edwardson declared that he would not write any more crime novels after 10 episodes about his protagonist Winter.

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Hannu Rajaniemi Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Hannu Rajaniemi, born March 9, 1978.

Hannu Rajaniemi is a Finnish American author of science fiction and fantasy, who writes in both English and Finnish. He lives in Oakland, California, and was a founding director of a commercial research organisation ThinkTank Maths.

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Jeffrey Eugenides Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Jeffrey Eugenides, born March 8, 1960.

Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American author. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex, and The Marriage Plot. The Virgin Suicides served as the basis of the 1999 film of the same name, while Middlesex received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in addition to being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International Dublin Literary Award, and France’s Prix Médicis.

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Andrea Levy Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Andrea Levy, born March 7, 1956.

Andrea Levy was an English author best known for the novels Small Island and The Long Song. She was born in London to Jamaican parents, and her work explores topics related to British Jamaicans and how they negotiate racial, cultural and national identities.

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