Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, again …

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.)