"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on February 4

Luis de Camoes  (1524) 
Robert Coover  (1932)
Tsitsi Dangarembga  (1959)
Gavin Ewart  (1916)

Betty Friedan  (1921)
MacKinlay Kantor  (1904)
Uys Krige  (1910)
Ben Lerner  (1979)

Pierre de Marivaux  (1688)  

Stewart O'Nan  (1961)
Jacques Prévert  (1900)