Brian Moore (novelist)

Brian Moore, was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland during and after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The Troubles, and has been described as "one of the few genuine masters of the contemporary novel". He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1975 and the inaugural Sunday Express Book of the Year award in 1987, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. Moore also wrote screenplays and several of his books were made into films.

25 August 1921

Born on the same birth date (25 August 1921): Bryce Mackasey • Monty Hall

Born on the same birth day (25 August): Adrian Lam • David Alan Basche • Erich Honecker • H. Trendley Dean • Ippolito II d'Este • Ivan the Terrible • John Savage (actor) • Ricardo Rodriguez (footballer) • Vivek Razdan

Born in the same month (August 1921): Alan Whicker • Alex Haley • Herb Ellis • Jack Wilson (Australian cricketer) • Monty Hall • Sam Cook (cricketer, born 1921) • Zdzisław Żygulski (art historian)