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Glen Engel-Cox
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Writer, World Traveller, Gamer, Cocktailian. Member of SFWA, NCWW, Codex, Taos2020,21,22. www.engel-cox.com, Patreon.com/gengelcox
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#Authors born on January 31 include Zane Grey (Riders of the Purple Sage), John O’Hara (BUtterfield 8), Norman Mailer (The Executioner’s Song), Kenzaburo Oe (The Silent Cry), Laura Lippman (Sugar House), Grant Morrison (Supergods), and Will McIntosh (Bridesicle). #booksky
January 31, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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#Author birthdays for 30 January include Rena Vale (The Red Court), Barbara W. Tuchman (A Distant Mirror), Lloyd Alexander (The Black Cauldron), Shirley Hazzard (The Great Fire), Richard Brautigan (Trout Fishing in America), Gregory Benford (Timescape), and Judith Tarr (Epona). #booksky
January 30, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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#Authors born on January 29 include Anton Chekhov (The Cherry Orchard), Paddy Chayefsky (Altered States), Edward Abbey (The Monkey Wrench Gang), Germaine Greer (The Female Eunuch), and Monte Cook. #booksky
January 29, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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#Authors born on January 28 include Sabine Baring-Gould (Curious Myths of the Middle Ages), Colette (Gigi), Parke Godwin (The Fire When It Comes), David Lodge (Small World), Ismail Kadare (The General of the Dead Army), and Carrie Vaughn (Bannerless). #booksky
January 28, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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#Authors born on January 27 include Lewis Carroll, Mordecai Richler (Barney’s Version), D.M. Thomas (The White Hotel), Michaela Roessner (Walkabout Woman), K.D. Wentworth, Steve Leialoha, Frank Miller (Sin City), Joe Bob Briggs, Patton Oswalt, and Irene Gallo. #booksky
January 27, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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My latest publication is out today! The Mass Market and the Madness of Crowds is a cozy tale about crowds of aliens. Read it here: breakingintothecraft.com/2026/01/27/t...
The Mass Market and the Madness of Crowds
Today’s story comes to us from Glen Engel-Cox. Glen thinks more about authors and writing than anyone outside of the offices of The Paris Review, who has never published him. He emails a dail…
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January 27, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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#Authors born on January 26: Mary Mapes Dodge (Hans Brinker), Philip José Farmer (Riverworld), Jules Feiffer, M.J. Engh (Arslan), Judy-Lynn del Rey, Jonathan Carroll (Bones of the Moon), Steven Levy (Insanely Great), Yoon Ha Lee (Ninefox Gambit), and Brian McClellan (The Powder Mage). #booksky
January 26, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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#Authors born on January 25 include Robert Burns (To a Mouse), W. Somerset Maugham (Of Human Bondage), Virginia Woolf (To the Lighthouse), Margery Sharp (The Rescuers), Gloria Naylor (The Women of Brewster Place), Peter Watts (Blindsight), Gina Koch (Touched by an Alien), 1/2
January 25, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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#Authors born on January 24 include E.T.A. Hoffman (The Nutcracker), Edith Wharton (The House of Mirth), C.L. Moore (Jirel of Joiry), René Barjavel, Aaron Elkins (Old Bones), David Gerrold (The Trouble with Tribbles), and Aimée Carter (The Goddess Test). #booksky
January 24, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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#Authors born on January 23 include Stendhal (The Red and the Black), Anya Seton (Green Darkness), Walter M. Miller, Jr. (A Canticle for Leibowitz), Tom Reamy (Blind Voices), Greg and Tim Hildebrandt (Urshurak), and Andrew S. Fuller. #booksky
January 23, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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Authors born on Jan 22: Francis Bacon, John Donne, Lord George Gordon Byron, August Strindberg, Robert E. Howard, Katherine MacLean (The Missing Man), Joseph Wambaugh (The Onion Field), Marshall Rogers, Michael Scott Rohan (The Spiral), Alex Ross, and Stephen Graham Jones (The Only Good Indians).
January 22, 2026 at 4:16 PM
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#Authors born on January 21 include Judith Merril (That Only a Mother), Alice Denham (My Darling from the Lions), and Louis Menand (The Metaphysical Club). #booksky
January 21, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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#Authors born on January 20 include A. Merritt (The Moon Pool), Robert Olen Butler (A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain), Nancy Kress (Beggars in Spain), R.A. Salvatore (Forgotten Realms), Tami Hoag, Kij Johnson (Ponies), and Geoffrey Thorne. #booksky
January 20, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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#Authors born on January 19 include Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell, Tale Heart), Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr. Ripley), Julian Barnes (The Sense of an Ending), William Messner-Loebs (Journey), Allen Steele (The Emperor of Mars), and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (The Witching Hour). #booksky
January 19, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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#Authors born on January 18 include Montesquieu (The Spirit of the Laws), A.A. Milne (The House at Pooh Corner), Arthur Ransome (Swallows and Amazons), Robert Anton Wilson (Illuminatus), D.F. Lewis, and Pamela Dean (Tam Lin). #booksky
January 18, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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#Authors born on Jan 17: Benjamin Franklin, Anne Brontë (Agnes Grey), May Gibbs, Compton Mackenzie (Whisky Galore), Nevil Shute (On the Beach), Robert Cormier (I Am the Cheese), Paul O. Williams, John Bellairs (The Face in the Frost), Ted Conover (Rolling Nowhere), and Rand Miller (Myst). #booksky
January 17, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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#Authors born on January 16 include Robert W. Service (The Cremation of Sam McGee), Christine Brooke-Rose (Such), Susan Sontag (On Photography), Russell Letson, Graham Masterton, William Browning Spencer (Zod Wallop), and Garth Ennis (The Boys). #booksky (oops, missed posting this yesterday!)
January 17, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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#Authors born on January 15 include Lucius Apuleius (The Golden Ass), Moliêre (Tartuffe), Beatrice Sparks (Go Ask Alice), Martin Luther King, Jr. (Why We Can’t Wait), Robert Silverberg (A Time of Changes), Christopher Stasheff (A Warlock in Spite of Himself), 1/2
January 15, 2026 at 6:52 PM
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#Authors born on Jan 14: Hugh Lofting (Dr. Doolittle), John Dos Passos, Kenneth Bulmer (Dray Prescot), Yukio Mishima (The Sailor Who Feel from Grace with the Sea), Richard Laymon (Funland), Lawrence Kasden (The Big Chill), and Arthur Byron Cover (The Platypus of Doom and Other Nihilists). #booksky
January 14, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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#Authors born on January 13 include Matteo Palmieri (On Civic Life), Clark Ashton Smith (Zothique), Michael Bond (A Bear Called Paddington), Ron Goulart, Edmund White (A Boy’s Own Story), Roger Elwood, Joy Chant (Red Moon and Black Mountain), 1/2
January 13, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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#Authors born on January 12 include Charles Perrault (fairy tales), Jack London (The Call of the Wild), Geoffrey Hoyle (Fifth Planet), Tim Underwood, Haruki Murakami (Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World), Rush Limbaugh (big fat idiot), Walter Mosley (Easy Rawlins), 1/2
January 12, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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#Authors born on January 11 include Alexander Hamilton (The Federalist Papers), Alan Paton (Cry, the Beloved Country), John Myers Myers (Silverlock), Robert C. O’Brien (Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH), Jerome Bixby (“It’s a Good Life”), William Johnston (The Marriage Cage), 1/2
January 11, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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#Authors born on January 10 include George Alec Effinger (What Entropy Means to Me), James Lapine (Sunday in the Park with George), and James Alan Gardner (All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault). #booksky
January 10, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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#Authors born on Jan 9: Walter R. Brooks (Mr. Ed), Karel Čapek (R.U.R.), Barbara Euphan Todd (Worzel Gummidge), Simone de Beauvoir, Algis Budrys (Rogue Moon), Wilbur Smith (River God), Anne Rivers Siddons (The House Next Door), Stuart Woods, and Philippa Gregory (The Other Boleyn Girl). #booksky
January 9, 2026 at 4:45 PM
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#Authors born on Jan 8: Wilkie Collins (The Moonstone), Dennis Wheatley, Niel Hancock (Squaring the Circle), Graham Chapman (A Liar’s Autobiography), Stephen Hawking (A Brief History of Time), Richard Bowes (“If Angels Fight”), Terry Brooks (Sword of Shannara), Jack Womack (Terraplane), 1/2
January 8, 2026 at 5:49 PM