"They say it's your birthday" - writers born on October 8

Benjamin Cheever  (1948)
Philip Booth  (1925)
Frank Herbert  (1920)
Bret Lott  (1958)
Walter Lord  (1917)
Blake Morrison  (1950)
Harvey Pekar  (1939)

Heather Cox Richardson  (1962)

R. L. Stine  (1943)