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The Writer’s Almanac for June 27, 2018

Posted on June 27, 2018 - Writer's Almanac

It is the birthday of Helen Keller, who said, “No one has ever given me a good reason why we should obey unjust laws.”

The Writer’s Almanac for June 26, 2018

Posted on June 26, 2018 - Writer's Almanac

Today is the birthday of novelist and activist Pearl S. Buck, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Good Earth.

The Writer’s Almanac for June 25, 2018

Posted on June 25, 2018 - Writer's Almanac

Today is the birthday of Eric Carle, author & illustrator of the beloved children’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. It is also the birthday of George Orwell, who gave us the anthropomorphized communist critique Animal Farm.

The Writer’s Almanac for June 24, 2018

Posted on June 24, 2018 - Writer's Almanac

In 1440 on this day, England’s King Henry VI founded Eton College. The earliest records of school life at Eton are from the mid-16th century, and they describe a rigorous program: boys slept three to a bed, rising at 5 a.m. and chanting their prayers while they dressed. Studies began promptly at 6 o’clock and concluded at 8 p.m. Two meals a day were provided, except on Friday, which was a day of fasting, so no one ate. Friday was also set aside as “flogging day,” the day when the week’s corporal punishments were meted out.

The Writer’s Almanac for June 23, 2018

Posted on June 23, 2018 - Writer's Almanac

Today is the birthday of Anna Akhmatova, whose 10-poem cycle “Requiem,” is considered by many Russians to be the greatest piece of literature ever written about Stalinist Russia. She died in 1966, and a complete collection of her poetry didn’t come out in the Soviet Union until the late 1980s.

The Writer’s Almanac for June 22, 2018

Posted on June 22, 2018 - Writer's Almanac

It’s the birthday of best-selling novelist Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code. Of his process, he said, “Writing an informative yet compact thriller is a lot like making maple sugar candy. You have to tap hundreds of trees, boil vats and vats of raw sap … evaporate the water … and keep boiling until you’ve distilled a tiny nugget that encapsulates the essence.”

The Writer’s Almanac for June 21, 2018

Posted on June 21, 2018 - Writer's Almanac

On this day in 1956, playwright Arthur Miller refused to name communists before the House Un-American Activities Committee. It is also the birthday of philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, who refused the Nobel Prize in literature when it was awarded to him in 1964.

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