Happy birthday to Bilbo and Frodo!
Happy Birthday Jorge Luis Borges!
Hey followers - Be prepared to be bombarded with Borges material all day today. It’s a celebration!
Happy birthday to Ray Bradbury!
Let’s all hope that you live another 91 years!
You’ve been my favorite author since high school, inspiring me explore both far-off worlds and my own country side. Without you on my bookshelf, I can’t imagine where I’d be today. Just thinking back on your short stories fills me with so many memories that I feel as though I’ll burst.
I wish you a long and exciting life. We’ll meet someday, sir, I’m sure of it.
Happy birthday to M. M. Kaye!
You would have been 103 today.
Happy Birthday, Mr. Hemingway.
“On July 21, Hemingway’s twenty-third birthday passed without fanfare in the summer heat of Paris. His parents sent him handkerchiefs which he said he appreciated (all good boys keep their noses blown). Headlines proclaimed that Lenin’s brain was paralyzed, his rule finished. Once a month the papers declared the bolshevic revolution moribund. A new Paris-to-London record of one hour and forty-two minutes was set by a British flier in a Hangley-paide, and the St. Louis Browns were in first place in the American League, a game and a half ahead of Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees. Ernest and Hadley, in Paris for only a month, were planning their next adventure.”
-Excerpted from Hemingway: The Paris Years by Michael S. Reynolds
(Photo: Ernest Hemingway’s 1923 passport photo)
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Happy birthday to author Antoine Francois Prevost! 1697 - 1763
