September-born Authors: Who do you share a birthday with?

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Which author do you share a birthday with?

September 1, 1875-March 19, 1950 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Legend of Tarzan
September 2, 1918-September 2, 1998 – Allen Drury – Won Pulitzer in 1960 for Advise and Consent
September 3, 1926 – Alison Lurie – 1985 Pulitzer for Foreign Affairs
September 4, 1908-November 28, 1960 – Richard Wright, Native Son, Black Boy
September 5, 1905-March 1, 1983 – Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon
September 6, 1950 – Robyn Davidson – Tracks  
September 7, 1962 – Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad, 2011 Pulitzer Prize 
September 8, 1863-September 1, 1943 – W.W. (William Wymark) Jacobs, The Monkey’s Paw
September 9, 1900-December 20, 1954  - James Hilton, Lost Horizon
September 10, 1963 – Marian Keyes, Sushi for Beginners
September 11, 1862-June 5, 1910 – O. Henry – William Sydney Porter, Gift of the Magi  
September 11, 1885-March 2, 1930 – D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
September 12, 1943 – Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
September 13, 1916-November 23, 1990 – Roald Dahl, My Uncle Oswald
September 14, 1955 – Geraldine Brooks, March, 2006 Pulitzer Prize
September 15, 1890-January 12, 1976 – Agatha Christie, Death on the Nile, Murder on the Orient Express
September 16, 1966 – Elizabeth McCracken, The Giant’s House
September 17, 1935-November 10, 2001 – Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
September 18, 1948 – Lynn Abbey, Daughter of the Bright Moon
September 19, 1953 – Roland Merullo, Breakfast with Buddha
September 20, 1948 – George R.R. Martin,  Game of Thrones          
September 21, 1944 – Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes
September 22, 1924 – Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers
September 23, 1949 – Jerry B. Jenkins, Left Behind
September 24, 1896-December 21, 1940 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
September 25, 1953  - Ron Rash, Serena
September 25, 1964-June 19, 2020 Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind
September 25, 1960 – Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane, The Nightingale
September 25, 1970 – David Benioff, City of Thieves 
September 26, 1888-January 4, 1965 – Thomas Stearns T.S. Eliot, Poet, The Wasteland
September 27, 1958 – Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting
September 28, 1961 – Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah’s Key
September 29, 1810-November 12, 1865 – Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford
September 30, 1950 – Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
September 30, 1928-July 2, 2016 – Elie Wiesel, Night


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