Sebastian Faulks

Sebastian Charles Faulks is a British novelist, journalist and broadcaster. He is best known for his historical novels set in France – The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray. He has also published novels with a contemporary setting, most recently A Week in December (2009) and Paris Echo, (2018) and a James Bond continuation novel, Devil May Care (2008), as well as a continuation of P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves series, Jeeves and the Wedding Bells (2013). He was a team captain on BBC Radio 4 literary quiz The Write Stuff.

20 April 1953

Born on the same birth day (20 April): Augoustinos Kantiotes • Carol I of Romania • Dinah Craik • Johannes Agricola • Johnny Gavin (footballer) • Pauli Ellefsen • Peter S. Beagle • Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha • Tito Puente • Viktor Suvorov

Born in the same month (April 1953): Andrew Wiles • Barry Sonnenfeld • Brian Greenhoff • Debralee Scott • Douglas Kell • Eric Bogosian • Guy Verhofstadt • Jim Allister • John Brumby • John Howard (singer-songwriter) • Malika Oufkir • Robert Bertrand • Stephen Paddock