Literary birthdays for January 7-14, 2017

Light some candles! These literary lights' birthdays fall in the coming week:



8   Wilkie Collins (1824); Joseph Epstein (1937)



9   Karel Capek (1890); Richard Halliburton (1900); Richard Nixon (1913)





10  Robinson Jeffers (1887); Tintin (1929)





11  William James (1842); Aldo Leopold (1887); Bernard DeVoto (1898)



12  Edmund Burke (1729); Jack London (1876);  Hiroshi Murakami (1949)



13  Carolyn Heilbrun (1926); Michael Bond (1926); Edmund White (1944)