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The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, November 16, 2019

The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, November 16, 2019

Today is the birthday of Andrea Barrett (1954), a biologist by training whose fiction often features women in science.

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The Writer’s Almanac for Friday, November 15, 2019

The Writer’s Almanac for Friday, November 15, 2019

It’s the birthday of Jessica Abel (1969), who said, “My own method of making comics is at least unteachable, if not just plain unadvisable.”

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The Writer’s Almanac for Thursday, November 14, 2019

The Writer’s Almanac for Thursday, November 14, 2019

Today is the birthday of Astrid Lindgren (1907), who created the red-haired, pigtailed, nine-year-old character named Pippi Longstocking.

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The Writer’s Almanac for Wednesday, November 13, 2019

The Writer’s Almanac for Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Today is the birthday of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), whose novel “Treasure Island” was based on a game he invented to entertain his stepson.

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The Writer’s Almanac for Tuesday, November 12, 2019

The Writer’s Almanac for Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Today is the birthday of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815) an American suffragist and abolitionist. She published three volumes of “The History of Woman Suffrage.”

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The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, November 11, 2019

The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, November 11, 2019

Today is Veterans Day, and it’s also the birthday of U.S. Army veteran and author Kurt Vonnegut (1922).

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The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, November 10, 2019

The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, November 10, 2019

On this day in 1973, school officials in Drake, North Dakota, burned copies of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel “Slaughterhouse-Five.”

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The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, November 9, 2019

The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, November 9, 2019

Today is the birthday of Anne Sexton (1929), the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Live or Die” and “All My Pretty Ones.”

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The Writer’s Almanac for Friday, November 8, 2019

The Writer’s Almanac for Friday, November 8, 2019

On this day in 1894, Robert Frost’s first poem “My Butterfly” was published, beginning his poetic career.

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The Writer’s Almanac for Thursday, November 7, 2019

The Writer’s Almanac for Thursday, November 7, 2019

It’s the birthday of Marie Skłodowska Curie (1867), the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different scientific fields (Physics and Chemistry).

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