Author Birthday Bambinos discussion

List authors born in December here.

December Authors Read and Planned

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2 Strangers by Mary Anna Evans, 8 Aug 2015 - Diane
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5 I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time by Laura Vanderkam, 22 Apr 2016 - Diane
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7 O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, 16 Apr 2016 - Jim
8 A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson, 13 Aug 2015 - Diane
9 book:Mara, Daughter of the Nile|406186] by Eloise Jarvis McGraw, 13 Apr 2016
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11 The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 29 Sep 2016 - Jim
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14 The Silver Branch by Rosemary Sutcliff, 25 Nov 2015 - Diane
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16 Persuasion by Jane Austen, 17 Aug 15 - Diane
17 Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell, 6 Feb 2016 - Diane
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24 The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty, 14 Jul 2016 - Diane
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26 The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, 25 Mar 2016 - Jim
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30 Kim by Rudyard Kipling, 28 Dec 2016 - Jim
31 The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, 27 July 2016, from autobiographical sketch in book - Jim

Strangers by Mary Anna Evans, 8 Aug 2015, birthdate from GR bio

I read A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail by Bill Bryson, 13 Aug 2015, author birthdate 8 Dec from GR bio.

I read Persuasion by Jane Austen, 17 Aug 15, author birthdate 16 Dec from GR bio.

I read The Silver Branch by Rosemary Sutcliff, 25 Nov 2015, December 14th birthdate from GR bio.

I read The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, 25 March 2016, 26 Dec birthdate per GR bio.

Jim

I just finished O Pioneers! by Willa Cather 16 April 2016, December 7th birthdate per a four-page introduction leaflet to the Reader's Digest edition of the novel bought at the 2015 AAUW book sale at my local mall on 9/10/2015.

Jim

I love Willa Cather! My favorite so far is Death Comes for the Archbishop.

Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell, 6 Feb 2016, birthdate December 17th from GR bio.

Good morning!

Just read the movie tie-in edition of The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, 27 July 2016; birthdate December 31st according to an autobiographical sketch written by the author that is in the movie tie-in edition.

Jim

Jim wrote: "Good morning!

Just read the movie tie-in edition of The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, 27 July 2016; birthdate December 31st according to an autobiographical sketch writte..."

I just looked at his bio here on GR. He was born in Omaha, NE - which is where I live. Who knew?

Good evening!

Yesterday, September 29, 2016, I finished The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books I-II by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Dec 11th birthdate per Wikipedia.

Jim

I read Mara, Daughter of the Nile by Eloise Jarvis McGraw, 13 Apr 2016. Birthdate 9 Dec per GR bio.

I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time by Laura Vanderkam, 22 Apr 2016

In a blog dated 7 Dec 2015 author states her birthday was last Saturday. 7 Dec that year was a Monday putting her birthday on Saturday, Dec 5.

The Chaperone by Laura Moriarty, 14 Jul 2016, birthdate Dec 24th from GR bio.

Kim by Rudyard Kipling, 28 Dec 2016, birthdate 30th December per Wikipedia.

We can't use the Jan Brett. Challenge rules state the book must be 125 pages. Love her books though!