Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Douglas Coupland, born December30, 1961.

Douglas Coupland is a Canadian novelist, designer, and visual artist. His first novel, the 1991 international bestseller Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularized the terms Generation X and McJob. He has published 13 novels, two collections of short stories, seven non-fiction books, and a number of dramatic works and screenplays for film and television. He is a columnist for the Financial Times,[3] as well as a frequent contributor to The New York Times, e-flux journal, DIS Magazine, and Vice

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Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Jenny Lawson, born December 29, 1974.

Jennifer Lawson is an American journalist, author and blogger.

Lawson is from Wall, Texas and is a graduate of Angelo State University. She is the author of The Bloggess website and formerly wrote the Ill Advised blog, co-authored Good Mom/Bad Mom on the Houston Chronicle, and was a columnist for SexIs magazine.

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Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Alasdair Gray, born December 28, 1934.

Alasdair James Gray was a Scottish writer and artist. His first novel, Lanark, is seen as a landmark of Scottish fiction. He published novels, short stories, plays, poetry and translations, and wrote on politics and the history of English and Scots literature. His works of fiction combine realism, fantasy, and science fiction with the use of his own typography and illustrations, and won several awards.

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Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Aidan Chambers, born December 27, 1934.

Aidan Chambers is a British author of children’s and young-adult novels. He won both the British Carnegie Medal and the American Printz Award for Postcards from No Man’s Land. For his “lasting contribution to children’s literature” he won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2002.

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Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to David Sedaris, born December 26, 1956.

David Raymond Sedaris is an American humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor. He was publicly recognized in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay “Santaland Diaries”. He published his first collection of essays and short stories, Barrel Fever, in 1994. His next book, Naked, became his first of a series of New York Times Bestsellers, and his 2000 collection Me Talk Pretty One Day won the Thurber Prize for American Humor.

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Merry Christmas One and All from Curious Penman. Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Angelica Garnett, born December 25, 1918.

Angelica Vanessa Garnett, was a British writer, painter and artist. She was the author of the memoir Deceived with Kindness, an account of her experience growing up at the heart of the Bloomsbury Group.

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Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Adam Haslett, born December 24, 1970.

Adam Haslett is an American fiction writer and journalist. His debut short story collection, You Are Not a Stranger Here, and his second novel, Imagine Me Gone, were both finalists for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the American Academy in Berlin. In 2017, he won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

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Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Elizabeth Noble, born December 22, 1968.

Elizabeth Noble is the author of seven novels: The Reading Group, The Friendship Test (previously published as The Tenko Club), Alphabet Weekends, Things I Want My Daughters to Know, The Girl Next Door, The Way We Were and Between a Mother and Her Child, all of which have reached The Sunday Times Top 10 best sellers. Her novel The Reading Group reached number one.

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Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Albert Payson Terhune, born December 21, 1872.

Albert Payson Terhune was an American writer, dog breeder, and journalist. He was popular for his novels relating the adventures of his beloved collies and as a breeder of collies at his Sunnybank Kennels, the lines of which still exist in today’s Rough Collies.

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