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The Writer’s Almanac for Friday, July 2, 2021

The Writer’s Almanac for Friday, July 2, 2021

It was on this day in 1937 that pilot Amelia Earhart was last heard from, somewhere over the Pacific. Her last transmission was,”We are running north and south.”

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The Writer’s Almanac for Thursday, July 1, 2021

The Writer’s Almanac for Thursday, July 1, 2021

It’s the birthday of the “father of gospel music,” Thomas A. Dorsey, born in Villa
Rica, Georgia, in 1899.

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The Writer’s Almanac for Wednesday, June 30, 2021

The Writer’s Almanac for Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Nobel Prize winning poet Czeslaw Milosz was born on this day in Lithuania, 1911. He once said, “Language is the only homeland.”

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The Writer’s Almanac for Tuesday, June 29, 2021

The Writer’s Almanac for Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Today in the year 1900 French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was born in France (1900). A pilot turned writer of the children’s novella, “Le Petit Prince.”

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The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, June 28, 2021

The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, June 28, 2021

In the early hours of this day in 1969 the Stonewall riots broke out in New York City, marking the beginning of the gay rights movement.

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The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, June 27, 2021

The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, June 27, 2021

On this day in 1787 English historian Edward Gibbon completed the final volume of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

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The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, June 26, 2021

The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, June 26, 2021

It’s the birthday of writer Pearl S. Buck (1892), Nobel Prize-winning author of “The Good Earth,” published 90 years ago.

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The Writer’s Almanac for Friday, June 25, 2021

The Writer’s Almanac for Friday, June 25, 2021

Today would have been the 92nd birthday of Eric Carle, author of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and many other children’s books. He died on May 23, 2021.

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The Writer’s Almanac for Thursday, June 24, 2021

The Writer’s Almanac for Thursday, June 24, 2021

“I just went on writing it (English) because I always wanted to belong to this world of books.”– Anita Desai, novelist, born this day in 1937.

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The Writer’s Almanac for Wednesday, June 23, 2021

The Writer’s Almanac for Wednesday, June 23, 2021

It’s the birthday of the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, 1889. Came to fame for the poems of her love affair, and later, after her son’s imprisonment, wrote a 10-poem cycle “Requiem.”

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