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August 2022 - July 2023 is the plan.

September 8

BORN: 1924 Grace Metalious (Peyton Place), The Tight White Collar), Manchester, N.H.
1947 Ann Beattie (Chilly Scenes of Winter, Distortions), Washington, D.C.
1954 Jon Scieszka (The Stinky Cheese Man, Math Curse), Flint, Mich.

DIED: 1995 Eileen chang (Lust, Caution: Love in a Fallen City), 74, Los Angeles

September 7

BORN: 1900 Taylor Caldwell (Captains and the Kings), Manchester, England
1962 Jennifer Egan (A visit from the Good Squad, Look at Me), Chicago

DIED: 1962 Isak Dinesen (Winter's Tales), 77, Rungsed, Denmark
1990 A. J. P. Taylor (The Struggle for Mastery in Europe), 84, London

September 6

BORN: 1928 Robert M. Pursig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance), Minneapolis
1974 China Miévo;;e. (Perdido Street Statiion), Norwich, England

DIED: 1939 Arthur Rackham (illustrator of Grimm's Fairy Tales), 71, Limpsfield, England
1994 James Clavell (Shōgun, Noble House), 69, Vevey, Switzerland

September 5

BORN:1935 Ward Just (An Unfinished Season, Echo House), Michigan City, Ind.
1950 Cathy Guisewite (Cathy), Dayton, Ohio

DIED: 1803 Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (Les liaisons dangereuses), 61, Taranto, Italy
1997 Leon Edel (Henry James), 89, Honolulu

September 4

BORN: 1905 Mary Renault (The King Must Die), Forest Gate, England
1908 Richard Wright (Black Boy, Uncle Tom's Children), Roxie, Miss.

DIED: 1977 E. F. Schumacher (Small Is Beautiful), 66, Romont, Switzerland
1989 Georges Simenon (Dirty Snow, My Friend Maigret), 86, Lausanne, Switzerland

September 3

BORN: 1940 Eduardo Galeano (Open Veins of Latin America), Montevideo, Uruguay
1963 Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point, Outliers), Fareham, England

DIED: 1883 Ivan Turgenev (Fathers and Sons, Torrents of Spring), 64, Bougival, France
2001 Pauline Kael (I Lost It at the Movies), 82, Great Barrington, Mass.

September 2

BORN: 1894 Joseph Roth (The Radetsky March),, Brody, Austro-Hungarian Empire
1918 Allen Drury (Advice and Consent, Preserve and Protect), Houston, Tex.

DIED: 1973 J.R.R. Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings), 81, Bournemouth, England
1997 Viktor Frankl (Man's Search for Meaning), 92, Vienna

September 1

BORN: 1889 Herbert Asbury (The Gangs of New York), Farmington, Mo.
1942 C.J. Cherryh (Downbelow Station, Cyteen), St. Louis

DIED: 1729 Richard Steele (The Tatler, The Spectator), 57, Carmarthen, Wales
1967 Siegfried Sassoon (Counter-Attack), 80, Heytesbury, England

August 31

BORN: 1885 DuBose Heyward (Porgy, Mamba's Daughters), Charleston, S.C.
1908 William Sorayan (The Human Comedy), Fresno, Calif.

DIED: 1688 John Bunya (The Pilgrims's Progress), 59, London
1951 Abraham Cahan (The Rise of David Lewinsky), 91, New York City

August 30

BORN: 1797 Mary Shelley (Frankenstein), London
1943 Robert Crumb (Fritz the Cat, Zap Comix), Philadelphia

DIED: 1989 Seymour Krim (Shake It for the World, Smarts), 67, New York City
2006 Naguib Mahfouz (Palace Walk, Midaq Alley), 94, Cario

August 29

BORN: 1929 Thom Gunn (The Man with Night Sweats), Gravesend, England
1947 Temple Grandin (Thinking in Pictures, Animals in Translation), Boston

DIED: 1769 Edmond Hoyle (A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist), c. 97, London
1981 Lowell Thomas (With Lawrence in Arabia), 89, Pawling, N.Y.

August 28

BORN: 1749 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (The Sorrows of Young Werther), Frankfurt
1828 Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace, Anna Karenina), Yasnaya Pollyanna, Russia

DIED: 1989 Joseph Alsop (I've Seen the Best of It), 78, Washington, D.C.
1993 E. P. thompson (The Making of the English Working Class), 69, Worcester, England

August 26

BORN: 1880 Guillaume Apollinaire (Calligrammes, Alcools), Rome
1941 Barbara Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dime, Fear of Falling), Butte, Mont.

DIED: 1945 Franz Werfel (The Forty Days of Musa Degh), 54, Los Angeles
1989 Irving Stone (Lust for Life, The Agony and the Ecstasy), 86, Los Angeles

August 25

BORN: 1921 Brian Moore (Black Robe, Lies of Silence), Belfast, Northern Ireland
1949 Martin Amis (Money, Time's Arrow), Swansea, Wales

DIED: 1900 Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil) 55, Weimar, Germany
1984 Truman Capote (Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood), 59, Los Angeles

August 24

BORN: 1899 Jorge Borges (A Universal History of Infamy), Buenos Aires
1977 John Green (Paper Towns, The Fault in Our Stars), Indianapolis

DIED: 1943 Simone Weil (Waiting for God, The Need for Roots), 34, Ashford, England
2004 Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (On Death and Dying), 78, Scottsdale, Ariz.

August 23

BORN: 1926 Clifford Geertz (The Interpretation of Cultures), San Francisco
1975 Curtis Sittenfeld (Prep, American Wife), Cincinnati

DIED: 1723 Increase Mather (A Further Account of the Trials of the New-England Witches), 84, Boston
2012 James Fogle (Drugstore Cowboy), 75, Monroe, Wash.

August 22

BORN: 1920 Ray Bradbury (The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451), Waukegan, Ill.
1931 Annie Proulx (Brokeback Mountain, The Shipping News), Norwich, Conn.

DIED: 1979 James T. Farrell (Young Lonigan, Judgement Day), 75, New York City
2007 Grace Haley (Enormous Changes at the Last Minute), 84, Thetford, Vt.

August 21

BORN: 1930 Joseph McElroy Women and Men), New York City
1937 Robert Stone (Dog Soldiers, Children of Light), Brooklyn

DIED: 1940 Leon Trotsky (The History of the Russian Revolution), 60, Mexico City
2007 Siobhan Dowd (Bog Child, The London Eye Mystery), 47, Oxford, England

August 20

BORN: 1890 H.P. Lovecaft (At the Mountains of Madness), Providence, R.I.
1951 Greg Bear (The Forge of God, Darwin's Radio), San Diego. Calif.

DIED: 1887 Jules Laforgue (The Imitation of Our Lady the Moon), 27, Paris
2001 Fred Hoyle (The Black Cloud(, 86, Bournemouth, England

August 18

BORN: 1922 Alain Robbe-Grillet (The Voyeur, The Erasers), Brest, France
1974 Nicole Krauss (The History of Love, Great House), New York City

DIED: 1850 Honoré de Balzac (Père Goriot, Eugenię Gradet), 51, Paris
1981 Anita Loos (Gentleman Prefer Blondes), 92, New York City

August 17

BORN: 1932 V.S. Naipaul (A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River), Chaquanas, Trinidad
1959 Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections, Freedom), Western Spring, Ill.

DIED: 1935 Charlotte Perkins Gilman (The Yellow Wallpaper), 75, Pasadena, Calif.
1973 Conrad Aiken (The Charnel Rose, Ushant), 84, Savannah, Ga.

August 16

BORN: 1902 Georgette Heyer (The Black Moth, The Grand Sophy), London
1902 Wallace Thurman (The Blacker the Berry), Salt Lake City

DIED: 1949 Margaret Mitchell (Gone with the Wind), 48, Atlanta
1998 Dorothy West (The Wedding, The Living Is Easy), 91, Boston

BORN; 1771 Walter Scott (Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Waverley), Edinburgh
1885 Endna Ferber (So Big, Show Boat, Giant), Kalamazoo, Mich.

DIED: 2009 Richard Poirier (A World Elsewhere), 83, New York City
2012 Harry Harrison (Make Room! Make Room!), 87, Brighton, England

August 14

BORN: 1947 Danielle Steele (The Promise, Fine Things), New York City
1950 Gary Larson (The Far Side), Tacoma, Wash.

DIED: 1951 William Randolph Hearst (publisher, New York Journal), 88, Beverly Hills, Calif.
1963 Clifford Odets (Waiting for Lefty, Awake and Sing!), 57, Los Angeles

August 13

BORN: 1940 Michael Herr (Dispatches, Winter Winchell), Syracuse, N.Y.
1961 Tom Perrotta (Election, Little Children), Garwood, N.J.

DIED: 2004 Julia Child (Mastering the Art of French Cooking), 91, Montecito, Calif.
2012 Helen Gurley Brown (Sex and the Single Girl), 90, New York City

August 12

BORN: 1937 Walter Dean Myers, (Fallen Angels, Monster), Martinsburgh, W.Va.
1964 Katherine Boo (Behind the Beautiful Forevers(, Washington, D.C.

DIED: 1955, Thomas Mann (The Magic Mountain, Doctor Faustus), 80, Zurich
1964 Ian Fleming (Dr. No, chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang), 56, Canterbury, England

August 11

BORN: 1897 Louise Bogan (The Blue Estuaries), Livermore Falls, Maine
1922 Mavis Gallant (From the Fifteenth District), Montreal

DIED: 1890 John Henry Newman (Apologia pro vita sua), 89, Edgbaston, England
1979 J.G. Farrell (Troubles, The Siege of Krishapur), 44, Bantry Bay, Ireland