March birthdays

It's the start of a new month, so we're changing the display in the corner of the library, in the lounge area where you first walk in. March is a little harder to come up with material for than February (Black History Month and Valentine's Day), so I got to thinking about writers with March birthdays. There's got to be a website, I thought, and no doubt there is, but I didn't find it in my initial stumblings in Google. So I decided to take a radical step and look in ... a book! An actual reference book, right on our shelves. The World Almanac and Book of Facts, right near the start of our reference collection (REF AY 67.N5 W7 in Library of Congress-speak) and wouldn't you know they have a listing of modern writers and their birthdays. So I wrote down all the ones for March -- and even better, the vast majority are represented on our shelves! The list is posted now in the monthly display area -- but for those of you following along at home, here it is: *Edward Albee, *Russell Banks, *Billy Collins, *Dave Eggers, James Ellroy, *Gabriel Garcia Marquez, *Alice Hoffman, *John Irving, Horton Foote, *John McPhee, *James Patterson, *Marge Piercy, *David Rabe, *Philip Roth, *John Updike, *Mario Vargas Llosa, *Tom Wolfe.
(* means they have at least one book in our collection)