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

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Which author do you share a birthday with?


August 1, 1819–September 28, 1891 – Herman Melville, Moby-Dick 
August 2, 1947– Lawrence Wright, The End of October
August 3, 1924–June 21, 2003 – Leon Uris, Exodus  
August 4, 1969 – Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
August 5, 1960 – David Baldacci, Archer Series
August 6, 1809 – Alfred Tennyson, 1st, Poet 
August 7, 1942 – Garrison Keillor, Lake Wobegon Days  
August 8, 1896-December 14, 1953 – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, The Yearling   
August 9, 1927–June 15, 2014 – Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon 
August 10, 1962 – Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games 
August 11, 1921–February 10, 1992 – Alex Haley, Roots 
August 12, 1962 – Chris Bohjalian, The Red Lotus
August 13, 1961 – Tom Perrotta, Election 
August 14, 1947 – Danielle Steel, Romance Novels 
August 15, 1968 – Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers' Diary
August 16, 1920–March 9, 1994 – Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye & Poetry 
August 17, 1959 – Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections          
August 18, 1925–August 18, 2017 – BrianAldiss, Sci-fi Books
August 19, 1930-July 19, 2009 – Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes             
August 20, 1890–March 15, 1937 – H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness            
August 21, 1969 – Brad Thor, Thriller Novels  
August 22, 1920–June 5, 2012 – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
August 23, 1943 – Nelson DeMille, Suspense Novels
August 24, 1947 – Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
August 25, 1938 – Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal
August 26, 1972 – Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train
August 27, 1899–April 2, 1966 – C.S. Forester, The African Queen 
August 28, 1913–December 2, 1995 – Robertson Davies, Fifth Business
August 29, 1942 – Gillian Rubenstein, British Children’s Author
August 30, 1973 – Nina George, The Little Paris Bookshop      
August 31, 1908–May 18, 1981 – William Saroyan, The Human Comedy

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