Birthdays yesterday...Marijane Meaker, Harlan Ellison, John Barth...and today

Marijane Meaker, aka Vin Packer, M.E. Kerr, Ann Aldrich, Mary James...89.

2007

first edition, Fawcett Gold Medal

current edition, Stark House/BC

first novel, 1952

and the back cover...

Harlan Ellison, 82

John Barth, 86

Today's birthdays: May Swenson, Fred Chappell, Meg Wolitzer, Ian Fleming, Walker Percy.

Birthday gang

Let's see...Kate Laity, Richard Chizmar, and Barbara Roden, as well as Alice Chang, all have birthdays around now...and all are within shouting distance of my own age, and I'd say all have contributed more to human joy than I have, at very least in some broad-spectrum ways. And Kate and Alice, coming soon on CBS, are facing round-number bdays...while Richard and Barbara bracket me neatly. (And Patti Abbott nee Nase is the perennial New Year's Baby...)

So, huzzah! Happy days, in the recent past and the near future...and onward!