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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.

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.

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