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,… Read More July 1st – William Strunk
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,… Read More July 2nd – Hermann Hesse
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… Read More July 21st – Ernest Hemingway
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… Read More July 22 – Margery Williams
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… Read More July 23, 1885 – Ulysses S. Grant
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… Read More July 24th – Zelda Fitzgerald
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… Read More July 25th – Archie Joscelyn
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… Read More July 27th – Peter Reading
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October 21st – Ursula Le Guin
“All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don’t, our lives get made up for us by other people.” —Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind, 2004. Ursula Le Guin… Read More October 21st – Ursula Le Guin
October 20th – Lilian Garis
“She believes in girls, studies them, and depicts them with pen both skilled and sympathetic.” Advertisement in Polly and Eleanor, Lillian Elizabeth Roy. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1922. Lilian C. McNamara was born in 1872 in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Irish immigrants. She was an avid writer, penning a popular “Women’s Page” for… Read More October 20th – Lilian Garis
October 19th – John le Carré
“…we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.” John le Carré Best-selling spy novelist John le Carré was born David John Moore Cornwell, on October 19th, 1931, in Poole, Dorset, England. His father was in and out of jail for fraud, and his mother left the family when he… Read More October 19th – John le Carré
October 18th – Ntozake Shange
“Creation is everything you do. Make something.” Ntozake Shange Playwright and poet Ntozake Shange was born Paulette Linda Williams on October 18th, 1948, in Trenton, New Jersey. Her father was a surgeon, and her mother an educator and psychiatric social worker. Her parents had a strong interest in the arts, and guests at their home… Read More October 18th – Ntozake Shange
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