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The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, August 27, 2022

Posted on August 27, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

“Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.” –Georg Hegel, philosopher, born on this day in 1770.

The Writer’s Almanac for Friday, August 26, 2022

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Roman Catholic nun and missionary Mother Teresa was born on this day in Macedonia, 1910. Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She accepted the award, but asked that they cancel the gala dinner and donate the money to charity. The committee asked her what people should do to promote peace and she answered, “Go home and love your family.”

The Writer’s Almanac for Thursday, August 25, 2022

Posted on August 25, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

Today is the birthday of Brian Moore, a novelist born in Ireland (1921) and of the American poet Charles Wright (1935.) Also, on this day in 1916 President Woodrow Wilson signed into law the act that established the National Park Service.

The Writer’s Almanac for Wednesday, August 24, 2022

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Poet and short-story writer Jorge Luis Borges was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on this day in 1899. By 1955 he was completely blind. He said, “I speak of God’s splendid irony in granting me at once 800,000 books and darkness,.”

The Writer’s Almanac for Tuesday, August 23, 2022

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On this date in 1305, William Wallace was executed for treason in London. A Scottish national hero of about 35 years old, his traitors death was written about in “The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I .”

The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, August 22, 2022

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Today is the birthday of American novelist Annie Proulx (1935), who won the Pulitzer Prize for her second novel, “The Shipping News.” And, of the prolific science fiction and fantasy writer Ray Bradbury (1920).

The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, August 21, 2022

Posted on August 21, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

It’s the birthday of novelist Robert Stone. “”Writing is lonely. […] So, it’s a bad life for a person because it’s so lonely and because it consists of such highs and lows, and there’s not always anywhere to take these emotional states. […] It’s a life that’s tough to sustain without falling prey to some kind of beguiling diversion that’s not good for you.”

The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, August 20, 2022

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“I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.” –H.P. Lovecraft, born on this day in (1890).

The Writer’s Almanac for Thursday, August 18, 2022

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On this day in 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, giving women the right to vote. It is also the birthday of Australian poet, essayist, and literary critic Nettie Palmer (1885), and on this date in 1958, Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” was published in the United States.

The Writer’s Almanac for Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Posted on August 17, 2022 - Writer's Almanac

Today is the birthday of Ted Hughes, a poet, translator, and children’s writer born in 1930. Hughes said: “The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case, the voice of pain — and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world.”

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