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The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, October 31, 2022

Posted on October 31, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

Happy Halloween! Happy birthday to poet John Keats, born in London in 1795., and to journalist and essayist Susan Orlean who turns 67 today.

The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, October 30, 2016

Posted on October 30, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

Today is the birthday of the American Patriot and second president of the United States, John Adams, born in Massachusetts in 1735. The statesman began as a lawyer, and rose to prominence after defending British Soldiers after the Boston Massacre, getting 6 acquitted and proving justice could be had in the courts of Massachusetts.

The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, October 29, 2016

Posted on October 29, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

“Prose should be a long intimacy between strangers with no direct appeal to what both may have known. It should slowly appeal to feelings unexpressed, it should in the end draw tears out of the stone.” — British novelist Henry Green, born on this day in 1905

The Writer’s Almanac for Friday, October 28, 2011

Posted on October 28, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

It’s the birthday of the man who developed the polio vaccine, Dr. Jonas Salk, born in New York City (1914). Following the public release of the vaccine polio infections declined from over 10,000 to less than 100.

The Writer’s Almanac for Thursday, October 27, 2022

Posted on October 27, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

Sylvia Plath, the budding poet tragically lost to suicide at the age of 30, was born on this day in Boston, 1932. Sylvia Plath wrote: “Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

The Writer’s Almanac for Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Posted on October 26, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

It was on this day in 1900 that Henry James wrote his first letter to the budding novelist Edith Wharton, beginning a long friendship. His advice inspired her to write about the New York society she’d grown up in, and the result was The House of Mirth (1905), which became her first big success.

The Writer’s Almanac for Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Posted on October 25, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

The birthday of Geoffrey Chaucer, the first great English poet and author of “The Canterbury Tales”., is unknown, and so we instead remember him on the anniversary of his death, this day in the year 1400.

The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, October 24, 2022

Posted on October 24, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

Poet Denise Levertov was born on this day in 1923 in Ilford, England. At 12 she was sending poems to T.S. Eliot, and by 17 she had been published. She wrote 24 books of poetry.

The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, October 23, 2022

Posted on October 23, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

Today is the birthday of English poet Robert Bridges (1844), talk show host Johnny Carson (1925), American writer Nick Tosches (1949), and novelist Laurie Halse Anderson (1961).

The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, October 22, 2022

Posted on October 22, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

On this day in 1734 Daniel Boone was born to a Quaker family in Pennsylvania. The renown frontiersman became a folk hero and legend. He explored and helped settle Kentucky, fought in the revolution and was taken and adopted by Shawnee natives, and later became a politician and businessman.

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