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The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, June 12, 2021

Posted on June 12, 2021 - Writer's Almanac

“Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.” A quote by sociologist and writer Harriet Martineau, born this day in England, 1802.

The Writer’s Almanac for Friday, June 11, 2021

Posted on June 11, 2021 - Writer's Almanac

Ben Jonson, author, playwright, friend of William Shakespeare, was born on this day in London, probably in 1572.

The Writer’s Almanac for Thursday, June 10, 2021

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Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Saul Bellow was born on this day in 1913. “Human beings can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”

The Writer’s Almanac for Wednesday, June 9, 2021

Posted on June 9, 2021 - Writer's Almanac

Today is the birthday of the man who wrote the songs “I Get a Kick Out of You,” “You’re the Top,” and “Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall In Love”: Cole Porter (1891).

The Writer’s Almanac for Tuesday, June 8, 2021

Posted on June 8, 2021 - Writer's Almanac

It’s the birthday of best-selling crime novelist Sara Paretsky (1947), who invented a smart, sexual, hard-boiled female detective, V.I. Warshawski, in her novel “Indemnity Only.”

The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, June 7, 2021

Posted on June 7, 2021 - Writer's Almanac

“Writers don’t write from experience … If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.” — Nikki Giovanni (1943)

The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, June 6, 2021

Posted on June 6, 2021 - Writer's Almanac

Poet Maxine Kumin was born this day in 1925. She said, “Until the Women’s Movement, it was commonplace to be told by an editor that he’d like to publish more of my poems, but he’d already published one by a woman that month.”

The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, June 5, 2021

Posted on June 5, 2021 - Writer's Almanac

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” began its serial run in abolitionist newspaper the National Era on this date in 1851.

The Writer’s Almanac for Friday, June 4, 2021

Posted on June 4, 2021 - Writer's Almanac

The Nineteenth Amendment was originally drafted by Susan B. Anthony. On June 4, 1919 it passed the Senate, sending it to the states for ratification. Fifteen months later it was ratified, giving American women the right to vote

The Writer’s Almanac for Thursday, June 3, 2021

Posted on June 3, 2021 - Writer's Almanac

“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” — Allen Ginsberg (1926)

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