"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on August 17

Evan S. Connell  (1924)
Jonathan Franzen  (1959)
Steve Hockensmith  (1968)
Oliver St. John Gogarty  (1878) 
Ted Hughes  (1930)  

V. S. Naipaul  (1932)
Sylvia Nasar  (1947)

Herta Muller  (1953)
Eric Schlosser  (1959)