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The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, November 6, 2022

Posted on November 6, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

Scottish poet and journalist Kate Clanchy celebrates her 58th birthday today. She’s the author of plays, poetry, and memoir. When she was asked in an interview what she thought the role of the poet was in today’s society, she said: “What are we for? Nobody cares about us, I think. I think probably we’re for what we’ve always been for: recording intimate experience and speaking for people. It’s not about public utterance, I don’t think. When was poetry about that? People say Dryden and Pope. Maybe.”

The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, November 5, 2022

Posted on November 5, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

Today is the 62nd birthday of novelist and food writer Diana Abu-Jaber, who writes most often about Arab-American culture in the United States. Abu-Jaber was born in Syracuse, New York, to an American mother and Jordanian father. Abu-Jaber’s novels include “Arabian Jazz” (1993) and “Birds of Paradise” (2011)

The Writer’s Almanac for Friday, November 4, 2022

Posted on November 4, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

It’s the birthday of the man who said “I am not a member of an organized political party. I am a Democrat,” and “There’s no trick to being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.” That’s Will Rogers, born 1879 on the Cherokee Nation land that is now part of Oklahoma.

The Writer’s Almanac for Thursday, November 3, 2022

Posted on November 3, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

On this day in 1903 Walker Evans, the American photographer of Dust Bowl Sharecroppers, ghost towns, and automobile graveyards was born. It’s also the 80th birthday of mystery novelist Martin Cruz Smith, and the 72nd birthday of satirist and critic Joe Queenan.

The Writer’s Almanac for Wednesday, November 2, 2022

Posted on November 2, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

It’s the birthday of American writer Thomas Mallon (1951), whose books of historical fiction, like Watergate (2012) and Finale (2015), examine American politics and culture through the lens of the American presidency. Mallon once joked, “I seem to only want to see presidents at the lowest points in their fortunes.”

The Writer’s Almanac for Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Posted on November 1, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

Today is All Saints’ Day. In the Western Catholic tradition, it’s a time to honor Christian saints and martyrs. It is also the date the first medical school for women opened (1848), the date of the race run between horses Seabiscuit and War Admiral (1938), the day the US Weather Bureau made it’s first forecast (1870), and the day the Arecibo Observatory opened (1963).

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.

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