Famous Scorpio Celebrities

• Achebe, Chinua (November 16)

   The Nigerian author of 1958's Things Fall Apart

• Armstrong, Karen (November 14)

  Author of A History of God

• Atwood, Margaret (November 18)

  The author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Blind Assassin

• Bainbridge, Beryl (November 21)

  The author of An Awfully Big Adventure

• Ballard, J.G. (November 15)

  The author of Empire of the Sun and Crash

• Broadwell, Paula (November 9)

  The biographer who had an affair with Gen. David Petraeus

• Camus, Albert (November 7)

  Nobel-winning author of The Stranger

• Cavett, Dick (November 19)

  The quick-witted TV talk show host from the late 1960s

• Cleese, John (October 27)

  The tall guy from Monty Python's Flying Circus

• Crichton, Michael (October 23)

  The author of Jurassic Park

• Cunningham, Michael (November 6)

  The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours

• Dee, Ruby (October 27)

  Veteran actress and wife of Ossie Davis

• DeLillo, Don (November 20)

   The author of White Noise and Underworld

• Dostoevsky, Fedor (November 11)

  The author of Crime and Punishment

• Drudge, Matt (October 27)

  The muckraking "citizen journalist" who runs The Drudge Report

• Dyson, Michael Eric (October 23)

  The author of the 2007 book Know What I Mean: Reflections on Hip-Hop

• Erasmus (October 27)

  The humanist scholar who wrote The Praise of Folly

• Fuentes, Carlos (November 11)

  The author of 'The Old Gringo' and 'The Death of Artemio Cruz'

• Gaiman, Neil (November 10)

  Author of the Sandman comics

• Gordimer, Nadine (November 20)

  The Nobel-winning South African author who wrote July's People

• Irving, Clifford (November 5)

  Author of the fake Howard Hughes biography

• Ishiguro, Kazuo (November 8)

  The Nobel-winning author of The Remains of the Day

• Keats, John (October 31)

  The Romantic poet who wrote "Ode to a Nightingale"

• Levertov, Denise (October 24)

  The politically-active poet who wrote With Eyes at the Back of our Heads

• Lindgren, Astrid (November 14)

  The author of Pippi Longstocking

• Michaels, Lorne (November 17)

  Creator of TV's Saturday Night Live

• Mitchell, Margaret (November 8)

  The author of Gone With the Wind

• Moore, Alan (November 18)

  Writer of the graphic novel V for Vendetta

• Moore, Marianne (November 15)

  Tricorn hat-wearing modernist poet

• Patten, Gilbert (October 25)

  The writer of the Frank Merriwell dime novels in the early 20th century

• Plath, Sylvia (October 27)

  Poet and author of The Bell Jar

• Post, Emily (October 27)

  Mid-20th century American expert on etiquette

• Pound, Ezra (October 30)

  The early-20th-century poet who wrote The Cantos

• Schwartz, Sherwood (November 14)

  The creator of Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch

• Sexton, Anne (November 9)

  Confessional American poet of the 1960s and '70s

• Shepard, Sam (November 5)

  The actor/playwright who wrote 'Fool for Love' and 'True West'

• Smith, Zadie (October 25)

  The author of White Teeth

• Stevenson, Robert Louis (November 13)

  The author of Treasure Island

• Stoker, Bram (November 8)

  The author who wrote Dracula

• Thomas, Dylan (October 27)

  The Welsh poet who wrote "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Nght"

• Vonnegut, Kurt Jr. (November 11)

  The author of Slaughterhouse-Five

• Whitehead, Colson (November 6)

  The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Underground Railroad'

• Wilson, Owen (November 18)

  Vince Vaughn's co-star in Wedding Crashers

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