Colin Thubron
Colin Gerald Dryden Thubron is a British travel writer and novelist. In 2008, The Times ranked him among the 50 greatest postwar British writers. He is a contributor to The New York Review of Books, The Times, The Times Literary Supplement and The New York Times. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages. Thubron was appointed a CBE in the 2007 New Year Honours. He is a Fellow and, between 2009 and 2017, was President of the Royal Society of Literature.
14 June 1939
Born on the same birth date (14 June 1939): Peter Mayle • Steny Hoyer
Born on the same birth day (14 June): Alonzo Church • Bernard Petitjean • František Palacký • Jack Adams • John McCormack (tenor) • Jonathan Raban • Judith Kerr • Laurence Yep • Mark Cosgrove • Moon Tae-il • Nick Van Eede • Nicole Irving • Renaldo Benson • Rhe-Ann Niles-Mapp • Roberto García-Calvo Montiel • Thomas Pennant • Yury Prilukov
Born in the same month (June 1939): Billy Craddock • Budge Rogers • Chuck Robb • David Hobbs (racing driver) • Denis de Belleval • Don Matthews • Ed Paschke • Frank McCloskey • George Reid (Scottish politician) • Jackie Stewart • Neil Hawke • R. D. Burman • Steny Hoyer • Ward Connerly