"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on August 12

Jacinto Benavente  (1866)

William Goldman  (1931)
Edith Hamilton  (1867)

Donald Justice  (1925)

Sue Monk Kidd  (1948)

Ann M. Martin  (1955)
 J. D. McClatchy  (1945)
Walter Dean Myers  (1937)
Gail Parent  (1940)
Robert Southey  (1774)