"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on August 24

Max Beerbohm  (1872)
Jorge Luis Borges  (1899)

A. S. Byatt  (1936)

Orson Scott Card  (1951)

Paulo Coelho  (1947)

John Green  (1977)
Robert Herrick  (1591)

Oscar Hijuelos  (1951)

Alexander McCall Smith (1948)
Jean Rhys  (1890)
Howard Zinn  (1922)