Alice Munro Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Alice Munro, born July 10, 1931.

Alice Ann Munro was a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Her work is said to have revolutionized the architecture of the short story, especially in its tendency to move forward and backward in time, and with integrated short fiction cycles.

Munro’s fiction is most often set in her native Huron County in southwestern Ontario. Her stories explore human complexities in an uncomplicated prose style. Her writing established her reputation as a great author in the vein of Anton Chekhov.

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Barbara Cartland Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Barbara Cartland, born July 9, 1901.

Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland was an English writer, known as the Queen of Romance, who published both contemporary and historical romance novels, the latter set primarily during the Victorian or Edwardian period. Cartland is one of the best-selling authors worldwide of the 20th century.

Many of her novels have been adapted into films for television including A Hazard of Hearts, A Ghost in Monte Carlo and Duel of Hearts.

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Alison McGhee Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Alison McGhee, born July 8, 1960.

Alison McGhee is an American author, who has published several picture books, books for children, and adult novels. She is a New York Times bestselling author, and the winner of numerous awards.

McGhee attended Holland Patent High School, in New York and Middlebury College in Vermont.

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David Eddings Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to David Eddings, born July7, 1931.

David Carroll Eddings was an American fantasy writer. With his wife Leigh, he authored several best-selling epic fantasy novel series, including The Belgariad, The Malloreon, The Elenium, The Tamuli, and The Dreamers.

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Bernhard Schlink Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Bernhard Schlink, born July 6, 1944.

Bernhard Schlink is a German lawyer, academic, and novelist. He is best known for his novel The Reader, which was first published in 1995 and became an international bestseller. He won the 2014 Park Kyong-ni Prize.

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Allegra Goodman Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Allegra Goodman, born July 5, 1967.

Allegra Goodman is an American writer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Allegra Goodman was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Hawaii. The daughter of Lenn and Madeleine Goodman, she was brought up as a Conservative Jew. Her mother, who died in 1996, was a professor of genetics and women’s studies, then assistant vice president at the University of Hawaii at Manoa for many years, before moving on to Vanderbilt University in the 1990s.

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Deon Meyer Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Deon Meyer, born July 4, 1958.

Deon Godfrey Meyer is a South African thriller novelist, writing primarily in Afrikaans. His works have been translated into 28 languages. He has also written numerous scripts for television and film.

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Dave Barry Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Dave Barry, born July 3, 1947.

David McAlister Barry is an American author and columnist who wrote a nationally syndicated humor column for the Miami Herald from 1983 to 2005. He has also written numerous books of humor and parody, as well as comic novels and children’s novels. Barry’s honors include the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary  and the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.

Barry has defined a sense of humor as “a measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason. Laughter is how we express the anxiety we feel at this knowledge.”

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Hermann Hesse Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Hermann Hesse, born July 2, 1877.

Hermann Karl Hesse was a German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. Although Hesse was born in Germany’s Black Forest region of Swabia, his father’s celebrated heritage as a Baltic German and his grandmother’s French-Swiss roots had an intellectual influence on him. He was a precocious, if not difficult child, who shared a passion for poetry and music with his mother, and was especially well-read and cultured, due in part to the influence of his polyglot grandfather.

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Blake Bailey Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Blake Bailey, born July 1, 1963.

John Blake Bailey is an American writer and educator. Bailey is known for his literary biographies of Richard Yates, John Cheever, Charles Jackson, and Philip Roth. He is the editor of the Library of America omnibus editions of Cheever’s stories and novels.

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