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

Diane Ackerman  (1948)
Sherman Alexie  (1966) 
Amiri Baraka  (1934)
Thomas Keneally  (1935)

Rachel Kushner  (1968)
James Whitcomb Riley  (1849)
Dan Savage  (1964)
William Zinsser  (1922)