Julio Cortázar, born Jules Florencio Cortázar (] ; August 26, 1914 – February 12, 1984), was an Argentine novelist, short story writer, and essayist.
 Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in the Americas and Europe.
Ivan E. Coyote (born August 11, 1969 in Whitehorse, Yukon) is a Canadian spoken word performer, writer, and LGBT advocate.
 Coyote has won many accolades for their collections of short stories, novels, and films.
 Coyote also visits schools to tell stories and give writing workshops.
 The CBC has called Coyote a “gender-bending author who loves telling stories and performing in front of a live audience.”
 Coyote is non-binary and uses "singular they" pronouns.
 Many of Coyote’s stories are about gender, identity, and social justice.
 Some of their favorite books are "Women on the Edge of Time" by Marge Piercy and "The Chronology of Water" by Lidia Yuknavitch.
 Coyote currently resides in Vancouver, BC.
Pamela Ryder (born 1949) is an American writer.
 Ryder is the author of "Correction of Drift: A Novel in Stories" (Fiction Collective 2), "A Tendency to Be Gone: Stories" (Dzanc Books), and "Paradise Field: A Novel in Stories" (Fiction Collective 2).
 Her fiction has also been published in many literary journals, including "Black Warrior Review", "Conjunctions", "Prairie Schooner", "The Quarterly", "Shenandoah", and "Unsaid".
Harold Alfred Manhood (born 6 May 1904 Leyton, Essex - died January 1991 Haywards Heath district, West Sussex) was a British author, particularly of short stories who for much of his life lived in a converted railway carriage in the Sussex countryside growing his own food and brewing his own cider.
 Harold Manhood was born in 1904 to Henry Alfred Manhood (born 1872 Bromley-by-Bow, London a railway worker and house carpenter) and his mother Alice Norris (born c.1878 Bromley-by-Bow, London).
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 Many of Manhood's stories had a rural setting, and would often touch upon the weird and supernatural.
 His short story collections, which include "Nightseed and other Tales" (1928), "Apples by Night" (1932) and "Fierce and Gentle" (1935) are widely considered to be classics.
 His novel "Gay Agony" was published in 1930.
 Manhood contributed 97 tales to the "Evening News" between 1934 and 1964.
 Other short stories appeared in "Argosy", "Lilliput", "The Star" and "John O'London's Weekly".
Rebecca Makkai (born April 20, 1978) is an American novelist and short-story writer.
 Her first novel, "The Borrower", was released in June 2011.
 It was a "Booklist" Top Ten Debut, an Indie Next pick, an "O Magazine" selection, and one of "Chicago Magazine's" choices for best fiction of 2011.
 It was translated into seven languages.
 Her short stories have been anthologized in "The Best American Short Stories" 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 and as well as in ″The Best American Nonrequired Reading″" 2009 and 2016; she received a 2017 Pushcart Prize and a 2014 NEA fellowship.
 Her fiction has also appeared in "Ploughshares", "Tin House", "The Threepenny Review", "New England Review", and "Shenandoah".
 Her nonfiction has appeared in "Harpers" and on Salon.com and the "New Yorker" website.
 Makkai's stories have also been featured on Public Radio International's "Selected Shorts" and "This American Life."
 Her second novel, "The Hundred-Year House", is set in the Northern suburbs of Chicago, and was published by Viking/Penguin in July 2014, having received starred reviews in "Booklist", "Publishers Weekly" and "Library Journal".
 It won the 2015 Novel of the Year award from the Chicago Writers Association and was named a best book of 2014 by BookPage.
 Her short story collection, "Music for Wartime", was published by Viking in June 2015.
 A starred and featured review in "Publishers Weekly" said, "Though these stories alternate in time between WWII and the present day, they all are set, as described in the story “Exposition,” within “the borders of the human heart”—a terrain that their author maps uncommonly well.”
 "The Kansas City Star" wrote that "if any short story writer can be considered a rock star of the genre, it's Rebecca Makkai."
Beverle Graves Myers (born March 31, 1951) is an American author of mystery novels and short stories.
 Her major work is the Tito Amato mystery series set in 18th-century Venice, published by Poisoned Pen Press.
 She is also the co-author, with Joanne Dobson, of a stand-alone crime novel set in New York City on the eve of World War II.
 Myers' novels are traditional mysteries which feature a large cast of characters, a deep sense of time and place, and meticulously researched period details.
 Myers' short stories are set in a variety of times and places; several stories feature her series characters.
Linda Christanty (born 18 March 1970 in Bangka island, at the island province of Bangka Belitung) is an Indonesian author and journalist.
 She won the 2013 S.E.A Write Award.
 Some of her books are: "Kuda Terbang Maria Pinto"/"Maria Pinto’s Flying Horse" (short stories, 2004), "Dari Jawa Menuju Atjeh: Politik, Islam dan Gay"/"From Java to Atjeh: Politic, Islam and Gay" (essays, 2008), "Rahasia Selma"/"Selma’s Secret" (short stories, 2010), "Jangan Tulis Kami Teroris"/"Don’t Write that We Are Terrorists"/"Schreib ja nicht, dass wir Terroristen sind!"
 (essays, 2011), "Seekor Anjing Mati di Bala Murghab"/"A Dog Died in Bala Murghab" (short stories, 2012), and "Seekor Burung Kecil Biru di Naha: Konflik, Tragedi, Rekonsiliasi"/"A Little Blue Bird in Naha: Conflict, Tragedy, Reconciliation" (2015).
Blow-Up and Other Stories is a collection of short stories, selected from the short fiction of the Argentinian author Julio Cortázar.
 It was originally published in hardcover as End of the Game and Other Stories.
 The title story of the paperback collection served as inspiration for Michelangelo Antonioni's film "Blowup".
Mary Morris (born May 14, 1947 in Chicago) is an American author and a professor at Sarah Lawrence College.
 Morris published her first book, a collection of short stories, entitled "Vanishing Animals & Other Stories", in 1979 at the age of thirty-two and was awarded the Rome Prize in Literature by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
 She has gone on to publish numerous collections of short stories, novels, and travel memoirs.
 She has also edited with her husband, the author Larry O'Connor, an anthology of women's travel literature, entitled "Maiden Voyages", subsequently published as "The Virago Book of Women Travellers".
 Her most recent novel,"The Jazz Palace", has been awarded the 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Award in fiction.
 This award goes to work that addresses issues of cultural diversity and racism in America.
Dora Dueck (born 1950) is a Canadian writer.
 She is the author of two novels and a collection of short fiction.
 Her novel, "This Hidden Thing", was shortlisted for the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction and won the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award at the 2011 Manitoba Book Awards.
 "What You Get at Home", a collection of short stories, was shortlisted for the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction and the Carol Shields Winnipeg Award at the 2013 Manitoba Book Awards.
 It won the High Plains Book Award for Short Stories.
 The Malahat Review, a Canadian literary magazine, awarded its 2014 Novella Prize to her story "Mask".
 Her stories and articles have appeared in a variety of journals and on the CBC.

Question: When was the author of "Blow-up and Other Stories" born? 
Answer: August 26, 1914