Pat Barker
Patricia Mary W. Barker, is a British writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres on themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery. Her work is described as direct, blunt and plainspoken. In 2012, The Observer named the Regeneration Trilogy as one of "The 10 best historical novels".
8 May 1943
Born on the same birth day (8 May): Adrián González • Aloysius Stepinac • Anthony Field • Arthur Q. Bryan • David King (figure skater) • Evgeny Lebedev • John Vianney • Louis Moreau Gottschalk • Michelle McManus • Samuel Leonard Tilley • Thomas Drury (1551–1603) • Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy • Viviana Durante
Born in the same month (May 1943): Cilla Black • Eddie May • Ignacio Ramonet • James Chaney • Jim Risch • Mary Wells • Milton William Cooper • Mustafa Nadarević • Peter Kenilorea • Terry Allen (artist)