#Authors born on June 19: Max Pemberton (Captain Black), Julius Schwartz (comics), Patricia Wrightson (The Nargun and the Stars), Salman Rushdie (Midnight’s Children), Clare Bell (Ratha), and Boris Johnson (Seventy-Two Virgins). #booksky
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#Authors born on June 13: William Butler Yeats (The Second Coming), Dorothy L. Sayers (Lord Peter Wimsey), Mark Van Doren (poet), Whitley Strieber (kook), and Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife). #booksky
#Authors born on June 14 include Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom’s Cabin), Jerzy Kosiński (The Painted Bird), Peter Mayle (A Year in Provence), and Harry Turtledove (How Few Remain). #booksky
#Authors born on June 16: Giovanni Boccaccio (The Decameron), Murray Leinster (“The Exploration Team”), Frank Thorne (Red Sonja), Joyce Carol Oates (them), and Andy Weir (The Martian). #booksky
#Authors born on June 12: Djuna Barnes (Nightwood), Henry Slesar (The Gray Flannel Shroud), Anne Frank (The Diary of a Young Girl), Trevanian (The Eiger Sanction), Rona Jaffe (Mazes and Monsters), Mary A. Turzillo (Mars is No Place for Children), and Len Wein (Swamp Thing). #booksky
#Authors born on June 18 include Dick Wimmer (Irish Wine), Roger Ebert (Who Killed Bambi?), Chris Van Allsburg (The Polar Express), and Richard Powers (The Overstory). #booksky
#Authors born on June 20: Edward Eager (Half-Magic), Lillian Jackson Braun (The Cat Who…), Pamela Zoline (“The Heat Death of the Universe”), Vikram Seth (A Suitable Boy), and Robert Crais (The Monkey’s Raincoat). #bluesky
#Authors born on June 21 include Gonzaga Duque (Dead Youth), Jean-Paul Sartre (Nausea), Mary McCarthy (The Group), Andrzej Sapkowski (The Witcher), Ian McEwan (The Cement Garden), Berkeley Breathed (Bloom County), and Christa Faust (Money Shot). #booksky
#Authors born on June 17 include James Weldon Johnson (“Lift Every Voice and Sing”), Dean Ing (The Ransom of Black Stealth One), Newt Gingrich (Contract on America), and Starhawk (The Spiral Dance). #booksky
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#Authors born on June 15: Cicely Hamilton (How the Vote was Won), Hugo Pratt (Corto Maltese), Brian Jacques (Redwall), Sondra Marshak (Star Trek: The New Voyages), Don McGregor (Sabre), David S. Garnett (Bikini Planet), and Dava Sobel (Longitude). #booksky
