June 8

Sara Paretsky

Sara Paretsky (born June 8, 1947) U.S. novelist, detective fiction, V.I. Warshawsky series – Overboard (2022)

Sara Paretsky tells her favorite books here

Watch an interview with Sara Paretsky
 here



Karin Alvtegen

Karin Alvtegen (born June 8, 1965) – Swedish novelist, crime fiction – Missing / Saknad (2000)

Read more here

Watch Karin Alvtegen talk about the disease ME/CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome)
 here


Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar (born June 8, 1903) French novelist

Read more about Marguerite Yourcenar here

Watch a 1979 interview with Yourcenar (French language)
 here


Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee (born June 8, 1955) U.K. computer scientist – Weaving the Web: The Past, Present and Future of the World Wide Web by its Inventor (co-author Mark Fischetti, 1999)

Read a 2021 interview with Tim Berners-Lee here

Watch Tim Berners-Lee talk about the history of the worldwide web
 here


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 <p class= Alicia Boole Stott (born June 8, 1860) Irish mathematician

Read more about Alicia Boole here