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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

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“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.

The Writer’s Almanac for Tuesday, February 7, 2023

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It’s the birthday of Sinclair Lewis, born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota (1885), author of “Main Street” and “Babbitt”, and the first American to win the Nobel Prize in literature.

The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, February 6, 2023

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It was on this day in 1937 that John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men was published. It’s the birthday of British paleoanthropologist Mary Douglas Leakey (1913) and of Babe Ruth (1895).

The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, February 5, 2023

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The American novelist, poet, and painter William S. Burroughs was born on this day in 1914.Burroughs is best known for his third novel, “Naked Lunch.” On writing, he said: “The only way I can write narrative is to get right outside my body and experience it. This can be exhausting and at times dangerous. One cannot be sure of redemption.”

The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, February 4, 2023

Posted on February 4, 2023 - Writer's Almanac

It’s the birthday of writer, activist, and feminist Betty Friedan (1921), who wrote the groundbreaking book “The Feminine Mystique”, which explored the unhappy lives of American housewives and spurred the second wave of feminism in the United States during the 1960s.

The Writer’s Almanac for Friday, February 3, 2023

Posted on February 3, 2023 - Writer's Almanac

Today is the birthday of the first woman to graduate from medical school, Elizabeth Blackwell, born on this day in Bristol, England, in 1821. She wanted to become a doctor because she knew that many women would rather discuss their health problems with another woman. After becoming a doctor, she opened the New York Infirmary for Women and Children.

The Writer’s Almanac for Thursday, February 2, 2023

Posted on February 2, 2023 - Writer's Almanac

“The artist, like the God of the Creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.” — James Joyce, born on this day in Dublin, 1882.

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