Mende Nazer (born c. 1982) is a UK-resident, Sudanese author and human rights activist.
 Nazer was a slave in Sudan and in London for eight years.
 She later co-wrote the 2002 book "Slave: My True Story".
Jacki Lynn Moss (born October 8, 1952) is an American writer, editor, and journalist.
 She is best known for her article "George Hitchings and Gertrude Elion: Nobel Laureates", penned while she was the Managing Editor of COPE and Coping Magazines, a healthcare publication directed at medical professionals specializing in oncology and a consumer magazine for people living with cancer.
 In 2016, Moss completed her first novel "With A Bullet", published by "The Wild Rose Press, Inc." Moss is also known for her 2002 book "Nashville: City in Harmony" and her 1995 book "We Have to Talk: The Guide to Bouncing Back From a Break-up".
How to Be Alone is a 2002 book collecting fourteen essays by American writer Jonathan Franzen.
Ross Dawson (born 1962) is an Australian author, futurist, entrepreneur and former stockbroker.
 Best known for his 2002 book 'Living Networks', Dawson founded the futures think tank Future Exploration Network and consults on digital futures to various big organisations such as Ernst & Young, Macquarie Bank, Microsoft and News Corp.
Brian Crosby is an American author, educator, and newspaper columnist.
 He writes "The Crosby Chronicles" blog for the "Glendale News-Press".
 He is a national board-certified teacher and has taught high school English for over 26 years.
 s of 2014 , he is the co-chair of the English Department at Herbert Hoover High School in Glendale, California.
 He has written two books about teaching and the educational system.
 His 2002 book, "The $100,000 Teacher: A Teacher's Solution to America's Declining Public School System" was honored by "ForeWord" magazine as the Book of the Year in Education.
Mark Robert Bowden (born July 17, 1951) is an American writer and author.
 He is a National Correspondent for The Atlantic and a contributing editor at "Vanity Fair".
 Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he is a 1973 graduate of Loyola University Maryland.
 While at Loyola, he was inspired to embark on a journalistic career by reading Tom Wolfe's book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test".
 In 2010, in his acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award at the National Book Awards, Wolfe called Bowden one of the two "writers to watch" (along with Michael Lewis).
Joseph William "Joey" Coyle (February 26, 1953 – August 15, 1993) was an unemployed longshoreman in Philadelphia who, in February 1981, found $1.2 million in the street, after it had fallen out of the back of an armored car, and kept it.
 His story was made into the 1993 film "Money for Nothing", starring John Cusack, as well as a 2002 book by Mark Bowden, "".
Chantal Thomas (born 1945, in Lyon) is a French writer and historian.
 Her 2002 book, "Farewell, My Queen", won the Prix Femina and was adapted into a 2012 film starring Diane Kruger and Léa Seydoux.
Lytta Bassett (born 25 April 1950 at Raiatea in French Polynesia) is a Swiss philosopher and Protestant theologian.
 After serving as pastor in the Reformed Church at Geneva, she became a professor of Practical Theology in the Faculty of Theology of the University of Neuchâtel.
 She is the author of several works that have reached a wide audience, especially her 2002 book "Sainte Colère", released in 2007 in English translation as "Holy Anger".
 In this book, through the biblical figures of Jacob, Job and Jesus, she develops the thesis that it is through anger, and not through its suppression, that one develops an adult, personal faith.
Fortune Smiles is a 2015 collection of short stories by American author and novelist Adam Johnson.
 It is Johnson's second published short story collection, after his 2002 book "Emporium" and his first book after winning the Pulitzer Prize for "The Orphan Master's Son".
 The collection includes six stories, several of which have won awards.

Question: when was the American writer and author who produced  2002 book born 
Answer: July 17, 1951