"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on January 6

Allen Appel  (1945)
Idris Davies  (1905)
E. L. Doctorow  (1931) 

Khalil Gibran  (1883)
Juan Goytisolo  (1931)
Barry Lopez  (1945)
Ion Minulescu  (1881)
Wright Morris  (1910)

Carl Sandburg  (1878)
Karin Slaughter  (1971) 

Elizabeth Strout  (1956)
Alan Watts  (1915)