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The Writer’s Almanac for Friday, February 17, 2023

Posted on February 17, 2023 - Writer's Almanac

It was on this day in 1904 that Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly had its premiere at La Scala Theater in Milan, Italy. The audience hated it so much they hissed and booed. Puccini closed it after one night, revised it, and opened it later the same year. The second time around it was such a hit that there were five encores, and Puccini had to come out in front of the curtain 10 times.

The Writer’s Almanac for Thursday, February 16, 2023

Posted on February 16, 2023 - Writer's Almanac

It’s the birthday of American novelist and short-story writer Richard Ford (1944). On writing, Richard Ford says: “I like the part of being a writer in which you don’t feel the sides of anything. You don’t see the beginning, and you don’t see the end, you’re just in it.”

The Writer’s Almanac for Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Posted on February 15, 2023 - Writer's Almanac

Today is the birthday of a pioneer in the women’s suffrage movement., Susan B. Anthony, in 1820. With the help of some famous friends, abolitionist Frederick Douglass and fellow suffragette Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she fought and raised her voice for equality. Equality she did not live to witness.

The Writer’s Almanac for Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Posted on February 14, 2023 - Writer's Almanac

Let me not to the marriage of true minds/Admit impediments. Love is not love/Which alters when it alteration finds,/Or bends with the remover to remove –William Shakespeare, a love sonnet for Valentines day.

The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, February 13, 2023

Posted on February 13, 2023 - Writer's Almanac

“Writing is considered a profession, and I don’t think it is a profession. I think that everyone who does not need to be a writer, who thinks he can do something else, ought to do something else. Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don’t think an artist can ever be happy.” – Georges Simenon, born on this day in 1903.

The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, February 12, 2023

Posted on February 12, 2023 - Writer's Almanac

It’s the birthday of two famous who were born on the same day in 1809: Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln. It’s also the birthday of Judy Blume (1938) and poet and editor Deborah Garrison (1965).

The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, February 11, 2023

Posted on February 11, 2023 - Writer's Almanac

Joseph L. Mankiewicz, film director, producer, and screenwriter, was born on this day in 1909.. He won many awards, including double Oscars as Best Director and Best Screenplay for “All About Eve”, in which he gave Bette Davis the line, “Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.”

The Writer’s Almanac for Friday, February 10, 2023

Posted on February 10, 2023 - Writer's Almanac

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.” the words of playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht, born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht on this day in Augsburg, Bavaria (1898).

The Writer’s Almanac for Thursday, February 9, 2023

Posted on February 9, 2023 - Writer's Almanac

It’s the birthday of poet Amy Lowell (1874). Her posthumous collection of poetry, “What’s O’Clock”, won the Pulitzer Prize. She once said “God made me a businesswoman and I made myself a poet.”

The Writer’s Almanac for Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Posted on February 8, 2023 - Writer's Almanac

It’s the birthday of Jules Verne (1828). Known as the father of science fiction, Verne described inventions that were similar to modern airplanes and automobiles, and tall skyscrapers where people use electricity to listen to the radio and send faxes, and yet he wrote his stories by candlelight.

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