1838 - Edwin Abbott Abbott
English schoolmaster and theologian, best known for the satirical novella Flatland.
1948 - Abdulrazak Gurnah
Tanzanian novelist, winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fates of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents".
1954 - Sandra Cisneros
American novelist, acclaimed for her first novel The House on Mango Street.
1960 - Nalo Hopkinson
Jamaican science fiction and fantasy author.
Died:
1954 - James Hilton
1968 - John Steinbeck
1991 - Simone Beck
1996 - Carl Sagan
American novelist, acclaimed for her first novel The House on Mango Street.
1960 - Nalo Hopkinson
Jamaican science fiction and fantasy author.
Died:
1954 - James Hilton
1968 - John Steinbeck
1991 - Simone Beck
1996 - Carl Sagan
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