by Regina Kenney 

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Maybe astrology is a whole lot of hooey… But it is a fun mental exercise to dwell on different personality traits, see commonalities between people and ponder how they relate to your own self.

(And maybe it’s not all hocus-pocus, mumbo-jumbo! There is a growing body of science about the affects of birth month on personality. [Time wrote a wonderful article in April 2017 about the very topic: “How the Month You Were Born Affects Your Personality.”])

For your mental pleasure, here is a list of famous writers who share your star-sign.

 

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Aries
March 21-April 19

James Patterson
22 March 1947                                                       

Flannery O’Connor
25 March 1925

Robert Frost
26 March 1874

Tennessee Williams
26 March 1911

Martin McDonagh
26 March 1970

Ernest Christy Cline
29 March 1972

Nikolai Gogol
31 March 1809

John Fowles
31 March 1926

Maya Angelou
4 April 1928

William Wordsworth
7 April 1770

Barbara Kingsolver
8 April 1955

Charles Baudelaire
9 April 1821

Beverly Cleary
12 April 1916

Samuel Beckett
13 April 1906

Thornton Wilder
17 April 1897

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Taurus
April 20-May 20

Charlotte Brontë
21 April 1816

Vladimir Nabokov
22 April 1899

Harper Lee
28 April 1926

Terry Pratchett
28 April 1948

Rabindranath Tagore
7 May 1861

Richard Adams
9 May 1920

Suzan-Lori Parks
10 May 1963

Lionel Shriver
18 May 1957

Li Bai
19 May 701AD 

 

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Gemini
May 21-June 20 

Arthur Conan Doyle
22 May 1859

Ralph Waldo Emerson
25 May 1803

Walt Whitman
31 May 1819

Thomas Hardy
2 June 1840

Allen Ginsberg
3 June 1926

Federico Garcia Lorca
5 June 1898

Alexander Pushkin
6 June 1799

Orhan Pamuk
7 June 1952

Ben Jonson
11 June 1572

Anne Frank
12 June 1929

W. B. Yeats
13 June 1865

Brian Jacques
15 June 1939

 

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Cancer
June 21-July 22

Jean-Paul Sartre
21 June 1905

Dan Brown
22 June 1964

Jean Anouilh
23 June 1910

Markus Zusak
23 June 1975

George Orwell
25 June 1903

Franz Kafka
3 July 1883

Tom Stoppard
3 July 1937

Marcel Proust
10 July 1871

Jhumpa Lahiri
11 July 1967

Pablo Neruda
12 July, 1904

Cormac McCarthy
20 July 1933

Ernest Hemingway
21 July 1899

 

 

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Leo
July 23-August 22

Alexandre Dumas
24 July 1802

Aldous Huxley
26 July 1894

George Bernard Shaw
26 July 1856

Cassandra Clare
27 July 1973

Emily Brontë
30 July 1818

J. K. Rowling
31 July 1965

Herman Melville
1 August 1819

Percy Bysshe Shelley
4 August 1792

Alfred Tennyson
6 August 1809

Sue Monk Kidd
12 August 1948

Sir Walter Scott
15 August 1771

Charles Bukowski
16 August 1920

H. P. Lovecraft 
20 August 1890

Ray Bradbury
22 August 1920

 

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Virgo
August 23-September 22

Ira Levin
27 August 1929

Theodore Dreiser
27 August 1871

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
28 August 1749

Beatrix Potter
28 August 1866 

Mary Shelley
30 August 1797

Richard Wright
4 September 1908

Austin Wright
6 September 1922

Leo Tolstoy
9 September 1828

D. H. Lawrence
11 September 1885

Roald Dahl
13 September 1916

Agatha Christie
15 September 1890

Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880

William Carlos Williams
17 September 1883

Stephen King
21 September 1947

H. G. Wells
21 September 1866

 

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Libra
September 23-October 22

F. Scott Fitzgerald
24 September 1896

William Faulkner
25 September, 1897

Shel Silverstein 
25 September 1930

T. S. Eliot
26 September 1888

Miguel de Cervantes 
29 September 1547

Truman Capote
30 September 1924

Wallace Stevens
2 October 1879

R. L. Stine
8 October 1943

Nora Roberts
10 October 1950 

Harold Pinter 
10 October 1930

ee cummings
14 October 1894

Oscar Wilde
16 October 1854

Eugene O’Neill
16 October 1888

Arthur Miller
17 October 1915

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772

 

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Scorpio
October 23-November 21

Sylvia Plath
27 October 1932

Dylan Thomas
27 October 1914

Ezra Pound
30 October 1885

John Keats
31 October 1795

Sam Shepard
5 November 1943

Albert Camus
7 November 1913

Neil Gaiman
10 November 1960

Fyodor Dostoyevsky
11 November 1821

Kurt Vonnegut 
11 November 1922

Robert Louis Stevenson
13 November 1850

George Eliot
22 November 1819

 

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Sagittarius
November 22-December 21

Eugène Ionesco
26 November 1909

William Blake
28 November 1757

C. S. Lewis
29 November 1898

Mark Twain

30 November, 1835

David Mamet
30 November 1947

Joseph Conrad
3 December 1857

Rainer Maria Rilke
4 December 1875

Christina Georgina Rossetti
5 December 1830

John Milton
9 December 1608

Gustave Flaubert
12 December 1821

Shirley Jackson
14 December 1916

 

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Capricorn
December 22-January 19

David Sedaris
26 December 1956

Rudyard Kipling
30 December 1865

Junto Díaz
31 December 1968

J. D. Salinger
1 January 1919

J. R. R. Tolkien
3 January 1892

Wilkie Collins
8 January 1824

Haruki Murakami
12 January 1949

Molière
15 January 1622

Anne Brontë
17 January 1820

Edgar Allen Poe
19 January 1809

 

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Aquarius
January 20 to February 18

John Donne
22 January 1572

Lord Byron
22 January 1788

Virgina Woolf
25 January 1882

Robert Burns
25 January 1759

Lewis Carroll
27 January 1832

Anton Chekhov
29 January 1860

Langston Hughes
1 February 1902

James Joyce
2 February 1882

Christopher Marlow
6 February 1564

Charles Dickens
7 February 1812

Laura Ingalls Wilder
7 February 1867

John Grisham
8 February 1955

Jules Verne
8 February 1828

Elizabeth Bishop
8 February 1911

Toni Morrison
18 February 1931

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Pisces
February 19 to March 20

W. H. Auden
21 February 1907

Edward Gorey
22 February 1925

Victor Hugo
26 February 1802

John Steinbeck
27 February 1902

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807

Dr. Seuss
2 March, 1904

Peter Straub
2 March 1943

Gabriel García Márquez
6 March 1927

Elizabeth Barrett Browning 
6 March 1806

Bret Easton Ellis
7 March 1964

Jeffrey Eugenides
8 March 1960

Edward Albee
12 March 1928

Jack Kerouac
12 March 1922

Henrik Ibsen
20 March 1828

Lois Lowry
20 March 1937

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