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The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, November 8, 2021

The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, November 8, 2021

“In a weak moment, I have written a book.” said Margaret Mitchell of her epic novel “Gone With the Wind.” She was born on this day in 1937.

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The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, November 7, 2021

The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, November 7, 2021

Today marks the birth of Canadian songstress and painter Joni Mitchell (1943), as well as of Polish physicist and chemist Marie Curie (1867).

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The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, November 6, 2021

The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, November 6, 2021

It’s the birthday of poet Anne Porter (1911). She published her first collection, “An Altogether Different Language” in 1994 when she was 83 years old.

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The Writer’s Almanac for Friday, November 5, 2021

The Writer’s Almanac for Friday, November 5, 2021

“I do not remember when I did not expect to be a writer,” wrote Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American poet, born on this day in 1850.

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The Writer’s Almanac for Thursday, November 4, 2021

The Writer’s Almanac for Thursday, November 4, 2021

Today is the birthday of Pulitzer Prize winning American poet C.K. Williams (1936) and of humorist, actor, and vaudeville performer Will Rogers (1879).

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The Writer’s Almanac for Wednesday, November 3, 2021

The Writer’s Almanac for Wednesday, November 3, 2021

The last public execution at London’s Tyburn Gallows took place on this date in 1783. And 100 years later, 1883, the outlaw who called himself “Black Bart the poet” robbed his last stagecoach.

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The Writer’s Almanac for Tuesday, November 2, 2021

The Writer’s Almanac for Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Today is the birthday of the ill fated, and much maligned, Queen of France Marie-Antoinette (1755) who lost her head to the French Revolution.

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The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, November 1, 2021

The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, November 1, 2021

The first medical school for women opened in Boston, Massachusetts, on this date in 1848. It was started by Samuel Gregory who named it the Boston Female Medical College.

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The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, October 31, 2021

The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, October 31, 2021

“My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.”– Natalie Clifford Barney, an American writer born in 1876 who lived an openly lesbian life in Paris.

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The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, October 30, 2021

The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, October 30, 2021

Today is the birthday of Ezra Pound (1885). He coined the term “imagism” for poetry which sought clarity of expression through the use of precise images.

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