Happy Birthday to Alan Bennett, prolific British playwright and screenwriter, born this day in 1934.  Bennett is the author of one of my favorite novellas, The Uncommon Reader, published in 2007.  This is a charming, fiction about the Queen of England's journey from being a "doer" to becoming an obsessive "reader", after a chance visit to her local bookmobile.  It is a delightful little read with a great surprise ending.  Happy birthday, Mr. Bennett,  Please turn out more works like The Uncommon Reader, for readers like me!