This Week's Literary Birthdays

November 26:

Eugene Ionesco, 1909; Eric Sevareid, 1912; Roz Chast, 1954.

November 28:

William Blake, 1757; Friedrich Engels, 1820.

November 29: C.S. Lewis, 1898; Madeleine L'Engle, 1918.

November 30: Mark Twain, 1835; Winston S. Churchill, 1874; L.M. Montgomery, 1874; Jacques Barzun, 1907; David Mamet, 1947.

December 1:

Rex Stout, 1886; Woody Allen, 1935.

December 2:

T. C. Boyle, 1948; Ann Patchett, 1963.