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The Writer’s Almanac for Tuesday, February 15, 2022

The Writer’s Almanac for Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Cartoonist Matt Groening celebrates his birthday today. Born in 1954, Groening is best known for creating “The Simpsons.”

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The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, February 14, 2022

The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, February 14, 2022

On this Valentine’s Day, we remember Zelda Sayer and F. Scott Fitzgerald, a couple so famous in their day they were known by their first names, Scott and Zelda.

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The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, February 13, 2022

The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, February 13, 2022

Today is the birthday of religious historian Elaine Pagels, author of The Gnostic Gospel, and most recently, Why Religion? A Personal Story.

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The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, February 12, 2022

The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, February 12, 2022

Judy Blume, who for decades has written memorable and provoking books for young people (and a few for adults), celebrates 84 years on earth today.

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The Writer’s Almanac for Friday, February 11, 2022

The Writer’s Almanac for Friday, February 11, 2022

It’s the birthday of Pico Iyer (1957) who said writing should “be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has just lost a parent”

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The Writer’s Almanac for Thursday, February 10, 2022

The Writer’s Almanac for Thursday, February 10, 2022

Snow by Anne Sexton Snow, blessed snow, comes out of the sky like bleached flies. The ground is no longer naked. The ground has on its clothes. The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears the sock of God. There is hope. There is hope everywhere. I bite it. Someone once said: Don’t […]

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The Writer’s Almanac for Wednesday, February 9, 2022

The Writer’s Almanac for Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Middle-Age by Pat Schneider The child you think you don’t want is the one who will make you laugh. She will break your heart when she loses the sight in one eye and tells the doctor she wants to be an apple tree when she grows up. It will be this child who forgives you […]

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The Writer’s Almanac for Tuesday, February 8, 2022

The Writer’s Almanac for Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Poet Elizabeth Bishop was born on this day in 1910. She published only 101 poems in her lifetime, and reworked her poem “The Moose” for 25 years.

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The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, February 7, 2022

The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, February 7, 2022

Today is 210 years since the birth of Charles Dickens, one of the most famous writers in the English language.

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

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

Food and plant centered non-fiction writer, Michael Pollan, celebrates his 67th birthday today. He urges, “Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.”

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