December 1st – Eugene Redmond
“And poetry is music’s twin.”Eugene Redmond, Drumvoices Eugene Redmond was born on December 1st, 1937, in St. Louis, Missouri. His mother died in 1946, and his father was not around, so he was raised by his grandmother and friends from church in East St. Louis. He was an observant child, always writing things down, and…
December 2nd – Elizabeth Berg
“Isn’t that one of the great pleasures of reading? You enlarge your life in so many ways.”Elizabeth Berg Author Elizabeth Berg was born on December 2nd, 1948, in St. Paul, Minnesota. When she was three years old, her father re-enlisted in the Army, and her family frequently moved after that. Berg attended college at the…
December 4th – Monro Leaf
“if one found some truths worth telling they should be told to the young in terms that were understandable to them.”Monro Leaf Wilbur Munro Leaf was born on December 4th, 1905, in Hamilton, Maryland. He grew up in Washington, D.C., and in 1927 graduated from the University of Maryland. In 1931 Leaf received his M.A.…
December 6th – Evelyn Underhill
“All artist are of necessity in some measure contemplatives.” -Evelyn Underhill Evelyn Underhill was born on December 6th, 1875, in Wolverhampton, England. Her father was a barrister and writer, and her mother the daughter of the justice of the peace. She was primarily educated at home, except for three years at a private school. She then…
December 7th – Willa Cather
“Nothing mattered … but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.”Willa Cather Willa Cather was born Wilella Sibert Cather on December 7th, 1873, in Gore, Virginia. She was the eldest of seven children, and when she was nine, the family moved from Virginia to Nebraska in search…
December 8th – James Thurber
“Don’t get it right, just get it written.”James Thurber, Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing And Writers, Humor and Himself James Grover Thurber was born December 8th, 1894, in Columbus, Ohio. When he was seven years old, his brother accidentally shot him in the eye with an arrow. His parents took him to a local…
December 9th – Jean dr Brunhoff
“In the great forest a little elephant is born. His name is Babar. His mother loves him very much. She rocks him to sleep with her trunk while singing softly to him.”Jean dr Brunhoff French writer and illustrator Jean de Brunhoff was born on December 9th, 1899, in Paris, France. His father, Maurice de Brunhoff,…
December 14th – Shirley Jackson
“All the time that I am making beds and doing dishes and driving to town for dancing shoes, I am telling myself stories.”Shirley Jackson Shirley Jackson was born on December 14th, 1916, in San Francisco, California. Her family moved from California to Rochester, New York, during her senior year of high school. Jackson later received…
December 15th – Betty Smith
“The world was hers for the reading.” Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith, author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, was born on December 15, 1896, in Brooklyn, New York. Her given name was Elisabeth Lillian Wehner. Her father, a first-generation American with German roots, was a waiter. She had a warm relationship with…
December 16th – Jane Austen
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park Jane Austen was born on December 16th, 1775, in Stevenson, a small rural village in England. There is a plethora of biographical information about Jane Austen, so I’ll keep it brief here…
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