"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on October 18

Henri Bergson  (1859)
A. J. Liebling  (1904)
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos  (1741) 
Terry McMillan  (1951)
Rick Moody  (1961) 

Thomas Love Peacock  (1785) 
 Ntozake Shange  (1948)
Wendy Wasserstein  (1950)