An earlier post referred to 7 March as being the day when a number of eminent writers share a birthday. It seems that a similar astrological alignment occurs today, 24 August, as writers whose work we might admire or envy prepare to blow out the candles on their cake. So let’s hear it for –
Alexander McCall Smith
Ali Smith
A S (Antonia Susan) Byatt
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Stephen Fry
Paulo Coelho
(Bonus marks if you’ve read any of their works.)
South of Watford 
Four of them…
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