Writer's Almanac Archives - Page 120 of 281 - Garrison Keillor

Albums APHC Clips Audio Events Prairie Home Archives Songs Writer's Almanac

Writer's Almanac

To subscribe to the Writer’s Almanac Anniversary Episode email, which includes the unedited text and audio from one daily anniversary episode selected from the archive, click here >>>

To browse archived episodes of The Writer’s Almanac from before 2017, click here >>>

• • • • •

To support The Writer’s Almanac Anniversary Episodes newsletter, please consider “buying” a donation here >>>

You can also buy a paid subscription to the Anniversary Episode newsletter here >>>

Checks may be made out to Prairie Home Productions, LLC and mailed to:

Prairie Home Productions
P.O. Box 2090
Minneapolis, MN 55402

(Note: donations to LLCs are not tax-deductible)

• • • • •

The Writer’s Almanac for Friday, October 21, 2022

Posted on October 21, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

Today is the birthday of Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (1929). The renown science fiction writer is best known for her “Earthsea” series. She said, “It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.”

The Writer’s Almanac for Thursday, October 20, 2022

Posted on October 20, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

American poet, essayist, and translator Robert Pinsky, was born on this day in 1940. — “Poetry takes care of itself. All art does — that is paramount. In a survival race, I’m quite sure poetry will long outlast reality TV and Twitter.”

The Writer’s Almanac for Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Posted on October 19, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

Today is the birthday of novelist Tracy Chevalier (1962) author of “Girl with a Pearl Earring.” She has said, “Don’t write about what you know — write about what you’re interested in. Don’t write about yourself — you aren’t as interesting as you think.”\

The Writer’s Almanac for Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Posted on October 18, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

“Women’s novels are more like breathing, and men’s more like running.” — Ntozake Shange, born Paulette Williams in Trenton, NJ on this day in 1949.

The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, October 17, 2022

Posted on October 17, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), and The Crucible (1953) – Three major plays of the American Theater cannon, all written by playwright Arthur Miller, who was born on this day in 1915.

The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, October 16, 2022

Posted on October 16, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

It’s the birthday of the writer who said: “A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.” That’s Oscar Wilde, born in Dublin (1854). He wrote just one novel, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” and in it he wrote: “All art is quite useless.”

The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, October 15, 2022

Posted on October 15, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

P.G. Wodehouse was born on this day in 1881. He was a humorist and novelist best known for his character of Jeeves, the valet to featherbrained Bertie Wooster.

The Writer’s Almanac for Friday, October 14, 2016

Posted on October 14, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

“The older I get, the more I believe in what I can’t explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.” –Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States, born on this day in Denison, TX, 1890.

The Writer’s Almanac for Thursday, October 13, 2022

Posted on October 13, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

Today is the birthday of Conrad Richter (1980). Born in Pine Grove Pennsylvania, Richter became a novelist, winning the Pulitzer prize for his novel “The Town.”

The Writer’s Almanac for Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Posted on October 12, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

American poet and translator Robert Fitzgerald was born on this day in 1920. On translating poetry from one language to another, Robert Fitzgerald said, “I think that one poet is lending himself to the other poet, that the obligation is to the other poet, and that one is taking on for the time being the spirit and impulse and intent of the other poet, and so the wish is to make all that clear in one’s own language rather than express oneself, so to speak.”

Load next posts