"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on March 7

Kōbō Abe  (1924)
 Rick Bass  (1958)
William Boyd  (1952)

Bret Easton Ellis  (1964)
Robert Harris  (1957) 
Dan Jacobson  (1929) 
Ewald Christian von Kleist  (1715)
Andrea Levy  (1956)
Alessandro Manzoni  (1785)
Georges Perec  (1936)