As we ring in 2025, the Edison Public Library wishes all our patrons a happy and healthy New Year.
All locations will be closed on Tuesday, December 31, 2024, and Wednesday, January 1, 2025, in observance of the holiday but all digital services remain available through our website, including access to ebooks, audiobooks, and movies adapted from written works penned by renowned authors born during January.
J.R.R Tolkien (Jan. 3, 1892) whose iconic favorites include The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, along with J.D. Salinger (Jan. 1, 1919), author of Catcher in the Rye (1951); Jack London (January 12, 1876), who wrote the 1903 fiction classic The Call of the Wild as well as the novel White Fang, are among the many born this month. January is also the birth month of American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809) and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Innocence fiction writer Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862) as well as British writers Anne Brontë (January 17, 1820), Lewis Carroll (January 27, 1832), and Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882)
Whether your New Year’s resolution includes reading more classics or delving into something written more recently, such as the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon (January 11, 1952) or one of the many crime and historical mystery series by Walter Mosely (January 12, 1952), why not check out some of these selections from just a few of the many authors born this month: |
