July 1st – William Strunk
“A careful and honest writer does not need to worry about style. As you become proficient in the use of language, your style will emerge, because you yourself will emerge, and when this happens you will find it increasingly easy to breakthrough the barriers that separate you from other minds, other hearts – which is,…
July 2nd – Hermann Hesse
This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today…But you must play your part and sing a song, one of your best. – Hermann Hesse,…
July 20th – Cormac McCarthy
If there is an occupational hazard to writing, it’s drinkingCormac McCarthy Author Cormac McCarthy was born on July 20th, 1933, in Providence, Rhode Island, and raised primarily in Knoxville, Tennessee. He was the eldest of six children, and his father’s job as a lawyer for the Tennessee Valley Authority positioned them solidly in the upper-middle…
July 21st – Ernest Hemingway
I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you. – Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school Hemingway worked as a reporter for The Kansas City Star before enlisting as an Ambulance driver on the…
July 22 – Margery Williams
‘It doesn’t happen all at once,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept.” Born July 22, 1881, in London, Margery Williams grew up with a vivid imagination and a…
July 23, 1885 – Ulysses S. Grant
On this day, July 23, 1885, Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War General and 18th President of the United States, died at the age of 63 of throat cancer. Grant spent the final year of his life writing his personal memoirs to save his family from financial ruin. Ulysses. S Grant is best known for leading the…
July 24th – Zelda Fitzgerald
Zelda Fitzgerald was born Zelda Sayre on July 24, 1900, in Montgomery, Alabama. Known for her beauty and personality, Zelda is remembered for much more than simply the wife of a famous writer. In 1918 Zelda met her future husband as a young Lieutenant, recently dropped out of Princeton to enlist during WWI. F. Scott…
July 25th – Archie Joscelyn
Archie Lynn Joscelyn was born on July 25th, 1899 in Great Falls, Montana. He grew up on a cattle ranch, and used his background in the West to write popular historical Westerns. He was incredibly prolific, and also authored a number of detective and romance novels. His first book, The Golden Bowl, was published in…
July 27th – Peter Reading
“Eschew baggage for the expedition is brief “Peter Reading Born July 27th, 1946, Peter Reading was an English poet, described by the Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry as “strongly anti-romantic, disenchanted and usually satirical.” After high school Reading studied painting at Liverpool College of Art, then from 1968-1970 taught art history. From 1970 – 1992 he…
Rumbling The Reason: Daily Inspiration 