Daniel H. Wilson Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Daniel H. Wilson, born March 6, 1978.

Daniel H. Wilson  is a New York Times bestselling author, television host and robotics engineer. He currently resides in Portland, Oregon. His books include the award-winning humor titles How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Where’s My Jetpack? and How to Build a Robot Army and the bestseller Robopocalypse.

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Gregg Olsen Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Gregg Olsen, born March 5, 1959.

Gregg Olsen is a New York Times, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal bestselling author of nonfiction books and novels, most of which are crime-related. The subjects of his true crime books include convicted child rapist and school teacher Mary Kay Letourneau, product tampering killer Stella Nickell, fasting specialist Linda Burfield Hazzard, and former Amishman and convicted murderer Eli Stutzman.

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Fiona Maazel Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Fiona Maazel, born March 4, 1975.

Fiona Maazel is the author of three novels: Last Last Chance, Woke Up Lonely, and A Little More Human. In 2008 she was named a 5 under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation. In 2017, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Her father was conductor Lorin Maazel. Her mother is Israela Margalit, a pianist and scriptwriter

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Arthur Machen Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Arthur Machen, born March 3, 1863.

Arthur Machen was the pen-name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror, with Stephen King describing it as “Maybe the best [horror story] in the English language.”[2] He is also well known for “The Bowmen“, a short story that was widely read as fact, creating the legend of the Angels of Mons.

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Dr. Seuss Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Dr. Seuss, born March 2, 1904.

Theodor Seuss Geisel was an American children’s author and cartoonist. He is known for his work writing and illustrating more than 60 books under the pen name Dr. Seuss. His work includes many of the most popular children’s books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages by the time of his death.

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Jim Crace Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Jim Crace, born March1, 1946.

James Crace is an English novelist, playwright and short story writer. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999, Crace was born in Hertfordshire and has lectured at the University of Texas at Austin. His novels have been translated into 28 languages—including Norwegian, Japanese, Portuguese and Hebrew.

Crace’s first novel, Continent, was published in 1986. Signals of Distress won the 1994 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. His next novel, Quarantine, won the Whitbread Novel in 1997 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize of the same year. Being Dead won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1999. Harvest was shortlisted for the 2013 Booker Prize, won the 2013 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and won the 2015 International Dublin Literary Award.

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Nicholas Christopher Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Nicholas Christopher, born February 29, 1951.

Nicholas Christopher  is an American novelist and poet. He is the author of seven novels, eight volumes of poetry, and a critical study of film noir.

Christopher graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in English Literature. After traveling extensively abroad, he returned to New York. He began publishing his poetry in The New Yorker while still in his twenties.

From the 1970s, his work also appeared in Esquire, The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Nation, and The New York Review of Books.

Christopher has published seven novels, eight books of poetry, a study of film noir and the American city, and has edited two poetry anthologies.

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Tessa Hadley Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Tessa Hadley, born February 28, 1956.

Tessa Jane Hadley FRSL is a British author, who writes novels, short stories and nonfiction. Her writing is realistic and often focuses on family relationships. Her novels have twice reached the longlists of the Orange Prize and the Wales Book of the Year, and in 2016, she won the Hawthornden Prize, as well as one of the Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes for fiction. The Windham-Campbell judges describe her as “one of English’s finest contemporary writers” and state that her writing “brilliantly illuminates ordinary lives with extraordinary prose that is superbly controlled, psychologically acute, and subtly powerful.” As of 2016, she is professor of creative writing at Bath Spa University.

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Alexandra Bracken Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Alexandra Bracken, born February 27, 1987.

Alexandra Bracken is a #1 New York Times bestselling American author known for The Darkest Minds series and Passenger series.

Alexandra Bracken was born in Phoenix, Arizona, where she later returned after living in New York City for many years. She graduated from Chaparral High School in 2005, and attended the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, graduating magna cum laude with a degree in History and English in May 2009. She worked in the children’s publishing industry in New York City, first as an editorial assistant and then in marketing.

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Christopher Hope Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Christopher Hope, born February 26, 1944.

Christopher Hope is a South African novelist and poet who is known for his controversial works dealing with racism and politics in South Africa. His son is violinist Daniel Hope.

Christopher Hope was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, to Dudley Mitford and Kathleen Margaret Hope. Hope was educated at the University of Witwatersrand and the University of Natal. He served in the South African Navy beginning in 1962.

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