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

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

Posted on October 17, 2022 -

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.

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

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

Posted on October 16, 2022 -

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.”

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

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

Posted on October 15, 2022 -

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.

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

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

Posted on October 14, 2022 -

“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.

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

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

Posted on October 13, 2022 -

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.”

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

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

Posted on October 12, 2022 -

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.”

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The Writer’s Almanac for Tuesday, October 11, 2022

The Writer’s Almanac for Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Posted on October 11, 2022 -

Buddhist monk and author Thich Nat Hanh was born in Vietnam on this day in 1929. He said, “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.” Hanh died in January of 2022.

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The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, October 10, 2022

The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, October 10, 2022

Posted on October 10, 2022 -

Today is the birthday of Harold Pinter (1930 – 2008) the Nobel Prize winning dramatist used so much silence and pauses in his dialogue the style became known as “Pinteresque” and is now included in the Oxford English Dictionary.”

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The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, October 9, 2022

The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, October 9, 2022

Posted on October 9, 2022 -

Singer Songwriter John Lennon was born on this day in Liverpool, England in the year 1940.

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The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, October 8, 2022

The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, October 8, 2022

Posted on October 8, 2022 -

R.L. Stine, author of the “Goosebumps” series of horror stories for kids, was born Robert Lawrence Steine on this day in 1943.

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