George Burr Leonard (1923 – January 6, 2010) was an American writer, editor, and educator who wrote extensively about education and human potential.
 He was President Emeritus of the Esalen Institute, past-president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, President of ITP International, and a former editor of "Look Magazine".
 He was a former United States Army Air Corps pilot, and held a fifth degree black belt in aikido.
James Harrison (December 11, 1937 – March 26, 2016) was an American writer known for his poetry, fiction, reviews, essays about the outdoors, and writings about food.
 He is best known for his 1979 novella "Legends of the Fall".
 He has been called "a force of nature", and his work has been compared to that of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway.
 Harrison's characters tend to be rural by birth and to have retained some qualities of their agrarian pioneer heritage which explains their sense of rugged intelligence and common sense.
 They attune themselves to both the natural and the civilized world, surrounded by excesses but determined to live their lives as well as possible.
Takashi Matsuoka (born January 10, 1947) is a first-generation Japanese American writer.
 He lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, and worked at a Zen Buddhist temple before becoming a full-time writer.
 His books about American missionaries' visits to Japan are often compared to "Shōgun" and other books by British historical novelist James Clavell.
 Matsuoka also worked as a writer for the 1990 film "Pale Blood".
John Crittenden Duval (1816–1897) was an American writer of Texas literature.
 He has been noted as being the first Texas man of letters and was dubbed the "Father of Texas Literature" by J. Frank Dobie.
 His "Early Times in Texas" was initially published serially in 1867 in "Burke's Weekly" (Macon, Georgia) and was finally published in book form in 1892.
 The story, which became a Texas classic, recounted Duval's escape from the Goliad Massacre, in which his own brother Burr H. Duval was killed, as well as other tales.
Margaret J. Wheatley (commonly Meg Wheatley) (born 1941) is an American writer and management consultant who studies organizational behavior.
 Her approach includes systems thinking, theories of change, chaos theory, leadership and the learning organization: particularly its capacity to self-organize.
 Her work is often compared to that of Donella Meadows and Dee Hock.
 She describes her work as opposing "highly controlled mechanistic systems that only create robotic behaviors."
James Burr is an English writer of dark, although often humorous, paranoiac fiction.
 His first collection of short stories, "Ugly Stories For Beautiful People" was published in 2007 and was favourably compared to the work of Russell Hoban, David Cronenberg, early Kurt Vonnegut.
 and Philip K. Dick.
 The collection featured "Foetal Attractions" which won second prize in the "Roadworks 2000 Short Story Competition" and two of the stories in the collection, “It” and “Blue” later garnered honorable mentions in that year's "The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror".
 HellNotes described the collection as "Odd, unique, very cool, and extremely readable" while Horror World described Burr as "not merely a “new” voice, he is a fresh voice – a different and disturbing voice - and one deserving of your attention."
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 His work has often been described as Bizarro fiction although he has no direct links to the group of writers working under that banner.
General James Burr Davis (born November 14, 1935) is a retired U.S. Air Force general and was chief of staff, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in Mons, Belgium.
Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American writer notable for publishing works of science fiction.
Anna Robeson Brown Burr (1873 – September 10, 1941) was an American writer of novels, poetry, stories, essays, and biographies.
 Her "The Autobiography: A Critical and Comparative Study" (1909), was the first book on the subject.
The Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent.
 (1802) is a collection of nine observational letters written by American writer Washington Irving under the pseudonym Jonathan Oldstyle.
 The letters first appeared in the November 15, 1802, edition of the New York "Morning Chronicle", a political-leaning newspaper partially owned by New Yorker Aaron Burr, and edited by Irving's brother, Peter.
 The letters were printed at irregular intervals until April 23, 1803.
 The letters lampoon marriage, manners, dress, and culture of early 19th century New York City.
 They are Irving's début in print.

Question: When was the American writer which James Burr work was compared with born
Answer: December 16, 1928