John McPhee & Kenneth Grahame

Today's Birthday wishes go out to John McPhee and Kenneth Grahame.

John McPhee won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Annals of the Former World and the 1977 Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

He was also nominated for the National Book Award (in the Science category) for The Curve of Binding Energy, and again for Encounters with the Archdruid (and, again, in the Science category).

Kenneth Grahame is best known as the author of The Wind in the Willows.