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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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The Writer’s Almanac for Tuesday, June 22, 2021

The Writer’s Almanac for Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Erich Maria Remarque , author of the anti-war novel “All Quiet on the Western Front “ was born this day in 1898.

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The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, June 21, 2021

The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, June 21, 2021

“Money may not buy happiness, but I’d rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.” — French novelist and playwright Françoise Sagan, born this day in 1958.

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The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, June 20, 2021

The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, June 20, 2021

On this day in 1893, Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the hatchet murders of her father and stepmother at their home in Fall River, Massachusetts, about 50 miles south of Boston.

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