English poets born in december

Contributed by: Mark Woodard

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Rex Stout (1886) Nero Wolfe mysteries

Woody Allen (1935) Short stories: Without Feathers, Mere Anarchy, Getting Even, screenwriter: Sleeper, Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Purple Rose of Cairo

Jan Brett (1949) Gingerbread Baby, Trouble with Trolls, The Mitten

Candace Bushnell (1958) Sex and the City, One Fifth Avenue, Lipstick Jungle

Gail Z.

Martin (1962) Chronicles of the Necromancer series

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Dan Jenkins (1929) Sports journalist, Semi-Tough, Stick a Fork in Me

Brian Lumley (1937) Necroscope series, Deadspeak

David Macaulay (1946) The Way things Work, Built to Last, Cathedral

Elizabeth Berg (1948) The Art of Pleasures, Home Safe, The Art of Mending

Coraghessan Boyle (1948) When the Killing’s Done, The Terranauts

George Saunders (1958) Lincoln in the Bardo, Tenth of December

Ann Patchett (1963) Commonwealth, State of Wonder, B