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): Alan Arnett McLeod • Aleksandr Dianin • Carl Greenidge • David Brainerd • Donald Pettit • Emperor Go-Kōmyō • Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau • James Gammon • Johannes Agricola • Joseph Wolpe • Luther Vandross • Michael Brandon • Mike Portnoy • Mother Angelica • Naftali Temu • Robert Byrne (chess player) • Sandro Chia • Steve Spurrier • Wop May

Born in the same month (April 1953): Arielle Dombasle • Barry Sonnenfeld • Bill Drummond • Brian Greenhoff • Christopher Franke • James Russo • John Howard (singer-songwriter) • Keiko Han • Malika Oufkir • Merrill Osmond • Patrick Doyle • Peter Garrett • Ron Clements • Rosemary Bryant Mariner • Tae Jin-ah • Tanino Liberatore