Writers Born December 8

Celebrate the birthday of fellow Buckeye James Thurber and others:

• Roman poet Horace (65 BC; d.8 BC), born Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace in Latin)
• 1903 Nobel Prize winner, Norwegian dramatist, poet, novelist, and politician Bjornstjerne [Martinius] Bjornson (1832; d.1910)
• British writer of travel books, zoological treatises, novels, and an autobiography, [George] Norman Douglas (1868; d.1952)
• Irish novelist and poet Padraic Colum, born Patrick Collumb (1881; d.1972)
• Pittsburgh native and novelist Hervey Allen (1889; d.1949), author of Anthony Adverse
• Ohio humorist James Thurber (1894; d.1961)
• Welsh/British novelist Richard Llewellyn aka Richard David Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd (1906; d.1983)
• NYC-born poet, short story writer, and critic Delmore Schwartz (1913; d.1966)
• NY-born novelist Mary Gordon (1949), who wrote Final Payments (1978) and The Company of Women (1981)

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