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

Meena Alexander  (1951)
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer  (1836)
Dorothy Canfield Fisher  (1879)
Jack Gilbert  (1925) 

Ronald Knox  (1888) 

Andre Norton  (1912) 
Banjo Paterson  (1864)

Chaim Potok  (1929) 

Ruth Rendell  (1930) 

Margaret Truman  (1924)
Mo Yan  (1955)