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Françoise Sagan Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Françoise Sagan, born June 21, 1935.

Françoise Sagan was a French playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. Sagan was known for works with strong romantic themes involving wealthy and disillusioned bourgeois characters. Her best-known novel was her first, Bonjour Tristesse, which was written when she was a teenager.

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Anna Laetitia Barbauld Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Anna Laetitia Barbauld, born June 20, 1743.

Anna Laetitia Barbauld was a prominent English poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and author of children’s literature. A prominent member of the Blue Stockings Society and a “woman of letters” who published in multiple genres, Barbauld had a successful writing career that spanned more than half a century.

She was a noted teacher at the Palgrave Academy and an innovative writer of works for children. Her primers provided a model for more than a century. Her essays showed it was possible for a woman to be engaged in the public sphere; other women authors such as Elizabeth Benger emulated her. Barbauld’s literary career spanned numerous periods in British literary history: her work promoted the values of the enlightenment and of sensibility, while her poetry made a founding contribution to the development of British Romanticism.

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Elbert Hubbard Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Elbert Hubbard, born June 19, 1856.

Elbert Green Hubbard was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Hubbard is known best as the founder of the Roycroft artisan community in East Aurora, New York, an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement.

Among Hubbard’s many publications were the fourteen-volume work Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great and the short publication A Message to Garcia. He and his second wife, Alice Moore Hubbard, died aboard the RMS Lusitania when it was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915.

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Auberon Herbert Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Auberon Herbert, born June 18, 1838.

Auberon Edward William Molyneux Herbert was a British writer, theorist, philosopher, and 19th century individualist. He was a son of the 3rd Earl of Carnarvon. He was Liberal Member of Parliament for the two-member constituency of Nottingham from 1870 to 1874.

He promoted a classical liberal philosophy and took the ideas of Herbert Spencer a stage further by advocating voluntary-funded government that uses force only in defense of individual liberty and private property. He is known as the originator of voluntarism.

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Carl Van Vechten Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Carl Van Vechten, born June 17, 1880.

Carl Van Vechten was an American writer and artistic photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. He gained fame as a writer, and notoriety as well, for his 1926 novel Nigger Heaven. In his later years, he took up photography and took many portraits of notable people. Although he was married to women for most of his adult years, Van Vechten engaged in numerous homosexual affairs over his lifetime.

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Andy Weir Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Andy Weir, born June 16, 1972.

Andrew Taylor Weir  is an American novelist. His 2011 novel The Martian was adapted into the 2015 film of the same name directed by Ridley Scott. He received the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2016and his 2021 novel Project Hail Mary was a finalist for the 2022 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Harriet Beecher Stowe, born June 14, 1811.

Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe was an American author and abolitionist. She came from the religious Beecher family and wrote the popular novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which depicts the harsh conditions experienced by enslaved African Americans. The book reached an audience of millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and in Great Britain, energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. Stowe wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. She was influential both for her writings as well as for her public stances and debates on social issues of the day.

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Anne Frank Biobite

Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Anne Frank, born June 12, 1929.

Annelies Marie “Anne” Frank  was a German-born Jewish girl who kept a diary in which she documented life in hiding under Nazi persecution during the German occupation of the Netherlands. She is a celebrated diarist who described everyday life from her family’s hiding place in an Amsterdam attic. One of the most-discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the 1947 publication of The Diary of a Young Girl (originally Het Achterhuis in Dutch, lit. ’the back house’; English: The Secret Annex), in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944 — it is one of the world’s best-known books and has been the basis for several plays and films.

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