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A writer’s brain is like a magician’s hat. If you’re going to get anything out of it/you have to put something in first.
—Louis L’Amour/Education of a Wandering Man (Bantam)
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We honor the following writers born during the month of August. Happy Birthday!
Herman Melville
8/1/1819
Isabelle Allende 8/2/1942
Phyllis (P.D.) James) 8/2/1920
Sally Benson 8/3/1899
Leon Uris 8/3/1924
Taylor Caldwell 8/7/1900
Ann Beattie 8/7/1947
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 8/8/1896
Alex Haley 8/11/1921
Mary Roberts Rinehart 8/12/1876
Alfred Hitchcock 8/13/1899
Danielle Steel 8/14/1947
Russell Baker 8/14/1925
Edna Ferber 8/15/1855
Sir Walter Scott 8/15/1771
T.E. Lawrence 8/15/1888
Henry Charles Bukowski
8/16/1920
Ring Lardner 8/19/1915
Jacqueline Susann 8/2/1921
Ray Bradbury 8/22/1920
Dorothy Parker 8/22/1893
Bret Harte 8/25/1839
Catherine Marshall 8/27/1914
Antonia Fraser 8/27/1932
Johann Wolfgang Goethe 8/28/1749
Leo Tolstoy 8/28/1828
Oliver Wendall Holmes 8/29/1809
Mary Shelley 8/30/1797
William Saroyan 8/31/1908
PS Looking for more famous birthdays? Check out these sites: http://www.famousbirthdays.com/ | http://www.wic.org/cal/idex_cal.htm