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The Writer’s Almanac for June 20, 2019

The Writer’s Almanac for June 20, 2019

Today is the birthday of poet Paul Muldoon (1951), who was convinced that he got his job at the BBC because he poured tea for everyone at the interview.

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The Writer’s Almanac for June 19, 2019

The Writer’s Almanac for June 19, 2019

Today is Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, dating back to 1865 when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas.

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The Writer’s Almanac for June 18, 2019

The Writer’s Almanac for June 18, 2019

It’s the birthday of Paul McCartney (1942), who saw 15-year-old John Lennon perform at a church festival and soon joined his band The Quarrymen.

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The Writer’s Almanac for June 17, 2019

The Writer’s Almanac for June 17, 2019

It was on this day that the first standardized tests were administered by the College Board to 973 students at 67 locations, plus two in Europe.

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The Writer’s Almanac for June 16, 2019

The Writer’s Almanac for June 16, 2019

It’s the birthday of writer Ilene Beckerman (1935), whose memoir “Love, Loss, and What I Wore” was turned into a play by sisters Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron.

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The Writer’s Almanac for June 15, 2019

The Writer’s Almanac for June 15, 2019

It’s the birthday of writer Ilene Beckerman (1935), whose memoir “Love, Loss, and What I Wore” was turned into a play by sisters Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron.

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The Writer’s Almanac for June 14, 2019

The Writer’s Almanac for June 14, 2019

Today is the birthday of writer Diablo Cody (1978), who wrote the screenplay for the breakout hit “Juno” (2007) in the Starbucks of a Target store in Minneapolis.

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The Writer’s Almanac for June 13, 2019

The Writer’s Almanac for June 13, 2019

It’s the birthday of poet, Irish Nationalist, and mystical enthusiast William Butler Yeats (1895), who said, “We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”

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The Writer’s Almanac for June 12, 2019

The Writer’s Almanac for June 12, 2019

“It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals…I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death.” –Anne Frank, born this day in 1929

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The Writer’s Almanac for June 11, 2019

The Writer’s Almanac for June 11, 2019

“I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.”
–Richard Strauss, born this day in 1864

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