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The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, September 12, 2022

Posted on September 12, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

It’s the birthday of poet and novelist Michael Ondaatje. Born in Sri Lanka in 1943, Ondaatje was only 19 when he published his first collection of poetry. His 1992 novel “The English Patient” won the Booker Prize and was made into a successful movie.

The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, September 11, 2022

Posted on September 11, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

“The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.” Such was the belief of English novelist, poet, and short-story writer D.H. Lawrence (1885), born David Herbert Richards Lawrence. He’s best known for his scandalous novel “Lady Chatterley’s Lover.”

The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, September 10, 2022

Posted on September 10, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

Today would have been the 87th birthday of poet Mary Oliver. She said: “I’ve always wanted to write poems and nothing else. There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you’re working a few hours a day and you’ve got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you’re okay.”

The Writer’s Almanac for Friday, September 9, 2022

Posted on September 9, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

“Today is the birthday of Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, better known as Leo Tolstoy (1828), the Russian novelist responsible for two of the world’s most enduring novels, “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina.”

The Writer’s Almanac for Thursday, September 8, 2022

Posted on September 8, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

American novelist and short-story writer Ann Beattie was born on this day in Washington, D.C. (1947). It was also this day in 1892 that an early version of the Pledge of Allegiance appeared in a magazine called “The Youth’s Companion.” And, in 1952 on this day “The Old Man and the Sea” was published, Ernest Hemingway’s last novel.

The Writer’s Almanac for Wednesday, September 7, 2022

Posted on September 7, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

“I am not an eccentric. It’s just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.” The words of poet Edith Sitwell, born on this day in 1887. She also said, “It is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.”

The Writer’s Almanac for Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Posted on September 6, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

Activist Jane Addams was born on this day in 1860. In “Democracy and Social Ethics” (1902), she wrote: “Action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics. We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation and must remain in the sphere of intellectual comment, that a situation does not really become moral until we are confronted with the question of what shall be done in a concrete case, and are obliged to act upon our theory.”

The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, September 5, 2022

Posted on September 5, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

On this day in 1957 the novel On the Road” by Jack Kerouac was published. Destined to become a classic, the novel was first written on a120 foot long scroll of tracing paper.

The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, September 4, 2022

Posted on September 4, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

American novelist Richard Wright, author of the novel “Native Son” and “Black Boy” was born on this day in 1908. He said “All literature is protest. You can’t name a single novel that isn’t protest.”

The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, September 3, 2022

Posted on September 3, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

September 3rd is the birthday of several female American writers. Novelist Alison Lurie (1926), anthropologist and author Loren Eiseley (1907), and writer Sarah Orne Jewett (1749). Also on this date in 1838, Frederick Douglass boarded a train to escape from slavery.

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