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Saturday, August 24, 2024

"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on August 24



Max Beerbohm  (1872)
Jorge Luis Borges  (1899)
A. S. Byatt  (1936)
Orson Scott Card  (1951)
Paulo Coelho  (1947)
Robert Herrick  (1591)
Oscar Hijuelos  (1951)
Alexander McCall Smith (1948)
Jean Rhys  (1890)
Howard Zinn  (1922)

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