#Authors born on August 26 include John Buchan (The Thirty-Nine Steps), Gerald Kersh (Nightshade and Damnation), Julio Cortázar (Blow-Up and Other Stories), Barbara Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dimed), and Paula Hawkins (The Girl on the Train). #booksky

#Authors born on August 25 include Bret Harte (Paint Your Wagon), Walt Kelly (Pogo), Dorothy Dunnett (The Game of Kings), Carolyn G. Hart (cozy mystery), Frederick Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal), Martin Amis (Money), and Laura Anne Gilman (The Cold Eye). #booksky

#Authors born 24 Aug: Max Beerbohm (Zuleika Dobson), Jean Rhys (Wide Sargasso Sea), Jorge Luis Borges (Ficciones), James Tiptree, Jr., A.S. Byatt (Possession), Larry Gonick (Cartoon History), Alexander McCall Smith, Orson Scott Card (Ender’s Game), & Stephen Fry (The Liar). #booksky

#Authors born on 23 August include Edgar Lee Masters (Spoon River Anthology), Robert Irwin (The Arabian Nightmare), Rick Springfield (Late, Late at Night), and Steven D. Brewer (science educator). #booksky

#Authors born on August 22 include George Herriman (Krazy Kat), Dorothy Parker (Algonquin wit), Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451), Annie Proulx (The Shipping News), and Will Shetterly (Dogland). #booksky

#Author born on Aug 21: Aubrey Beardsley, Miriam Allen deFord (A Death in the Family), M.M. Kaye (The Far Pavilions), Anthony Boucher (Nine Times Nine), Robert Stone (Dog Soldiers), Lucius Shepard (Life During Wartime), Lindsey Davis (Falco), and Vox Day (asshole). #booksky

#Authors born on August 20 include H.P. Lovecraft (The Mountains of Madness), Taro Gomi (Everyone Poops), Greg Bear (Blood Music), and Greg Egan (“Oceanic”). #booksky

#Authors born on August 19 include John Dryden (“An Essay upon Satire”), Ogden Nash (poet), William Gresham (Nightmare Alley), Gene Roddenberry (screenwriter), and Mary Doria Russell (The Sparrow). #booksky

#Authors born on August 18 include Hugo Bettauer (The Joyless Street), Brian W. Aldiss (Hothouse), and Brian Michael Bendis (House of M). #booksky

#Authors born on August 17 include V.S. Naipaul (A House for Mr Biswas), Trina Robbins (comics), Neil Clarke (editor), and Rae Carson (The Girl of Fire and Thorns). #booksky

#Authors born on August 16 include Hugo Gernsback (editor), T.E. Lawrence (Seven Pillars of Wisdom), Hal Foster (Prince Valiant), Georgette Heyer (regency romance), Diana Wynne Jones (Howl’s Moving Castle), and Andrew J. Offutt (Iron Lords). #booksky

#Authors born on August 15 include Walter Scott (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), E. Nesbit (Five Children and It), Robert Benchley (How to Sleep), Julia Child (Mastering the Art of French Cooking), and Robert L. Forward (Dragon’s Egg). #booksky

#Authors born on August 14: John Galsworthy (The Forsyte Saga), Russell Baker (Growing Up), Lindsay Clarke (The Chymical Wedding), Steve Martin (a wild and crazy guy), Danielle Steel (Fine Things), Gary Larson (The Far Side), Joan Slonczewski (A Door Into Ocean), & William Shunn. #booksky

#Authors born on August 13 include Pauline Hopkins (Of One Blood; Or, the Hidden Self), Alfred Hitchcock (filmmaker), and Sharon Kay Penman (Time and Chance). #booksky

#Authors born on August 12 include Edith Hamilton (Mythology), Mary Roberts Rinehart (The Circular Staircase), William Goldman (Adventures in the Screen Trade), and Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees). #booksky

#Authors born on August 11 include Enid Blyton (Famous Five), Alex Haley (Roots), Alan E. Nourse (Blade Runner [really, check it out]), Bud Sparhawk (Sam Boone), and Joanna Cole (Magic School Bus). #booksky

#Authors born on August 10 include Alfred Döblin (Berlin Alexanderplatz), Ward Moore (Bring the Jubilee), Jorge Amado (Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands), Alexis A. Gilliland (cartoonist), Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games), and Adam America (War of the Wolf). #booksky

#Authors born on August 9 include P.L. Travers (Mary Poppins), Tove Jansson (Moomin), Frank M. Robinson (The Glass Inferno), Daniel Keyes (Flowers for Algernon), John Varley (Millenium), and Glen Engel-Cox (Darwin’s Daughter). #booksky

#Authors born on August 8 include Sara Teasdale (Love Songs), Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (The Yearling), and Terry Nation (Doctor Who). #booksky

#Authors born on August 7 include David R. Bunch (Moderan), James Randi (Conjuring), Jerry Pournelle (Janissary), Anne Fadiman (Ex Libris), and Melissa Scott (Trouble and Her Friends). #booksky

#Authors born on August 6 include Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Idylls of the King); Charles Fort (The Book of the Damned); Piers Anthony (Macroscope); Sarah LeFanu (In the Chinks of the World Machine); Ian R. MacLeod (Song of Time); and Paolo Bacigalupi (The Windup Girl). #booksky

#Authors born on August 5 include Guy du Maupassant (“Boule de Suif”), Ruth Sawyer (Roller Skates), Conrad Aiken (“Mr. Arcularis”), Elisabeth Vonarburg (In the Mothers’ Land), and Peter McWilliams (Ain’t Nobody’s Business if You Do). #booksky

#Authors born on August 4 include Percy Bysshe Shelley (“Ozymandias”), Knut Hamsun (Nobel Prize), James Herbert (The Fog), Katherine Neville (The Eight), Barack Obama (The Audacity of Hope), and Dennis Lehane (Mystic River). #booksky

#Authors born on August 3 include Clifford D. Simak (SFWA Grand Master), P.D. James (MWA Grand Master), Steven Millhauser (Martin Dressler), John DeChancie (Castle Perilous), Victor Milán (Cybernetic Samurai), Marc Laidlaw (Dad’s Nuke), and William Kowalski (Eddie’s Bastard). #booksky

#Authors born on August 2 include Lucy Clifford (“Mrs. Keith’s Crime”), James Baldwin (The Fire Next Time), Isabel Allende (The House of the Spirits), Robert Holdstock (Mythago Wood), Ken MacLeod (The Sky Road), and Caleb Carr (The Alienist). #booksky

#Authors born on August 1 include Herman Melville (Moby-Dick), M.R. James (ghost stories), Rose Macaulay (The Towers of Trebizond), David Gemmell (Legend), James Gleick (Chaos), and Tomi Adevemi (Children of Blood and Bone). #booksky

#Authors born on July 31 include Kenneth Morris (The Fates of the Princes of Dyfed and Book of the Three Dragons), Primo Levi (If This Is a Man), Kim Newman (Anno Dracula), J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter), and John Joseph Adams (Lightspeed). #booksky

#Authors born on July 30 include Emily Brontë (Wuthering Heights), Reginald Bretnor (Feghoots), John E. Stith (Manhattan Transfer), Kate Bush (“Wuthering Heights”), and Cherie Priest (Boneshaker). #booksky

#Authors born on July 29 include Booth Tarkington (The Magnificent Ambersons), Don Marquis (Archy and Mehitabel), Dave Stevens (The Rocketeer), Change-Rae Lee (Native Speaker), and Gail Simone (Birds of Prey). #booksky

#Authors born on July 28 include Beatrix Potter (The Tale of Peter Rabbit), Natalie Babbitt (Tuck Everlasting), Jim Davis (Garfield), Carol Higgins Clark (Regan Reilly), and William T. Vollmann (You Bright and Risen Angels). #booksky