Birthday profile
Hal Duncan, Scottish author and poet
Hal Duncan is a Scottish science fiction and fantasy writer. His first novel, Vellum – The Book of All Hours, was released by Pan Macmillan in August 2005. It was nominated for the World Fantasy Award and the Locus Award, and won the Spectrum and the Tähtivaeltaja Awards.
Biography source: Wikipedia. The profile adds birthday-specific historical context from the Celebs Birthday Today editorial database.
Hal Duncan was born in 1971. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.
These figures put everyday life in Hal Duncan's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.
| Measure | 1971 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Gas | $0.36 | $3.45/gal |
| Average home | $18,100 | $435,000 |
| Average income | $11,800 | $67,500 |
| Minimum wage | $1.60 | $7.25/hr (federal) |
| Movie ticket | $1.65 | $11.95 |
| Postage stamp | $0.08 | $0.73 |
| Population | 207.7M | 341 million |
This profile combines a biographical source with structured birthday and historical context. Sources recorded for this profile: Wikipedia, Library of Congress. See our editorial policy for sourcing, corrections, and review standards.
Read the source biography on Wikipedia. Wikipedia text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.