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Author Birthdays
July is time to celebrate the birth of the Good Ol' U.S. of A. And what does America
do better than any other country? Well, there are lots of answers to that question, some
serious, some sarcastic. One thing is for certain: America invented the noir story and
everyone else (especially the French) copied it slavishly. And who better to read in July
than birthday boy Raymond Chandler, the father of detective fiction? His collection
TROUBLE IS MY BUSINESS is a must own and will transport you into a world of tough talking
dames and hard boiled mugs.
July |
| 1 |
George Sand, 1804 |
| 2 |
Hermann Hesse, 1877 |
| 3 |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1860;
Franz Kafka, 1883;
M.F.K. Fisher,1908;
Tom Stoppard, 1937 |
| 4 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804 |
| 7 |
Robert Heinlein, 1907 |
| 10 |
Marcel Proust, 1871;
Alice Munro, 1931 |
| 11 |
E. B. White, 1899;
Harold Bloom, 1930 |
| 12 |
Henry David Thoreau, 1817;
Pablo Neruda, 1904 |
| 15 |
Iris Murdoch, 1919;
Richard Russo, 1949 |
| 16 |
Anita Brookner, 1928 |
| 18 |
Hunter S.Thompson, 1939 |
| 20 |
Thomas Berger, 1924;
Cormac McCarthy, 1933 |
| 21 |
Hart Crane, 1894;
Ernest Hemingway, 1899 |
| 22 |
Tom Robbins, 1936 |
| 23 |
Raymond Chandler, 1888 |
| 24 |
Robert Graves, 1895 |
| 26 |
George Bernard Shaw, 1856;
Carl Jung, 1875;
Aldous Huxley, 1894 |
| 27 |
Joseph Mitchell, 1908;
Bharati Mukherjee, 1940 |
| 28 |
Beatrix Potter, 1866;
Malcolm Lowry, 1909;
William T. Vollman, 1959 |
| 30 |
Emily Bronte, 1818 |
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