November 1st – Nicholasa Mohr
Nicholasa Mohr was born on November 1st, 1938, in Manhattan, New York. She is the best-known and most published Nuyorican writers – first and second-generation Puerto Ricans living in New York who integrate Spanish and English language and American and Puerto Rican cultures. Her mother, Nicholasa Rivera, had moved from Puerto Rico to Spanish Harlem during the Depression.…
November 2nd – Dale Brown
“My advice to aspiring writers: write what you love and not what’s hot. If you enjoy what you’re writing you’ll be more likely to finish it, rewrite and improve it, and market it when the time comes.”Dale Brown Dale Brown was born in Buffalo, New York, on November 2, 1956. He graduated from Penn State…
November 3rd – Karl Baedeker
“The traveller need have no scruple in limiting his donations to the smallest possible sums, as liberality frequently becomes a source of annoyance and embarrassment.”Karl Baedeker Karl Ludwig Johannes Baedeker (BAY-day-ker) was born on November 3rd, 1801, in Essen, in what was then the Kingdom of Prussia. His father and grandfather were booksellers and publishers.…
November 4th – Jay Anson
“Advice for beginning writers? Sure. I got advice for them. The Amityville book is a good book because when I didn’t write it well I listened to Tammy Mossman. When Tammy said something needed to be fixed I didn’t argue. I fixed it. So my advice to beginners is to listen to your editors. Your words are…
November 5th – Ida Tarbell
Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists — with it all things are possible.Ida Tarbell Ida Minerva Tarbell, one of the nation’s first and foremost investigative journalists, was born on November 5th, 1857, in a log cabin in Hatch Hollow, Pennsylvania. Later the family moved to Titusville, Pennsylvania, where her…
November 6th – Zig Ziglar
“If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time.”Zig Ziglar Hilary Hinton Ziglar was born prematurely on November 6th, 1926, in Coffee County, Alabama. Nine days after his birth, he died – but was revived by his grandmother. Nicknamed ‘Zig’ in elementary school, he was the 10th of 12 children. The family moved to…
November 7th – Albert Camus
“…we must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.”Albert Camus Philosopher and author Albert Camus was born November 7th, 1912, in French Algeria. He studied philosophy at the…
November 8th – Margaret Mitchell
“Hardships make or break people.”Margaret Mitchell Margaret Mitchell was born on November 8th, 1900, in Atlanta, Georgia. Her father was a successful Atlanta lawyer, and her mother was a devoted suffragist. Mitchell was raised in the shadow of the Civil War and under such strong Southern lore that she was ten years old and indignant…
November 9th – Carl Sagan
“I think I’m able to explain things because understanding wasn’t entirely easy for me. Some things that the most brilliant students were able to see instantly I had to work to understand. I can remember what I had to do to figure it out. The very brilliant ones figure it out so fast they never…
November 10th – Neil Gaiman
“The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you’re walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself, that’s the moment you may be starting to get it right.”― Neil Gaiman The View From the Cheap Seats: Selected Non-Fiction Neil Gaiman…
November 11th – Anna Katharine Green
There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.Anna Katharine Green Born in Brooklyn, New York, on…
November 12th – Roland Barthes
“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text Roland Barthes, the French philosopher and literary critic, was born in Normandy, France, on November 12, 1915. His father was a naval officer and died during WWI, leaving his mother a 23-year-old widow. Barthes was not yet one when…
November 13th – Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world,Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson was born on November 13th, 1850, in Edinburgh, Scotland. He later changed the spelling to Louis and dropped the Balfour. His father was a leading…
November 14th – Astrid Lindgren
“Don’t let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.”Astrid Lindgren Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren was born on November 14th, 1907, in Sweden. She grew up on a farm with three siblings. After finishing school, she worked at a local newspaper, where she had a relationship with the chief editor. He was fifty…
November 15th – Richmal Crompton
“Why can’t grown-ups just give me stuff, let me do what I like and then go away A LOT?” Richmal Crompton, William Again Richmal Crompton was born on the 15th of November in 1890 in Bury, Lancashire, England. Her father, Rev. Edward John Sewell Lamburn, taught classics at the local boys’ school, and Richmal attended a…
November 16th – Joan Lindsay
“Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place.” ― Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock Australian novelist Joan Lindsey was born Joan à Beckett Weigall on November 16, 1896, in a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. Her father was a judge. Her mother, a musician, was born in Dublin and was the daughter of the Governor of…
November 17th – Shelby Foote
“Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made. “Shelby Foote Shelby Foote was born on November 17th, 1916, in Greenville, Mississippi. His family moved a bit around the South, to Jackson, Vicksburg, Pensacola, and Mobile, with his father’s job. After his father died when he was six, he and his mother…
November 18th – Margaret Atwood
If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood was born on November 18, 1939, in Ontario, Canada. She was the second of three children, with a brother two years older and a sister twelve years younger. Her father was an entomologist, and the family traveled back and forth to…
November 19th – Anna Seghers
“Not only can what others are suffering be a consolation while we are suffering, but even knowing what others suffered long ago can be consoling.”― Anna Seghers, The Seventh Cross Anna Seghers was born Anna Reiling on November 19, 1900, in Mainz, Germany. Her family was Jewish, and her father owned an Art and Antiquities…
November 20th – Pauli Murray
“One person plus one typewriter constitutes a movement.” ― Pauli Murray Pauli Murray was born Anna Pauline Murray on November 20, 1910, in Baltimore, Maryland. She was the fourth of six children. After her mother died from a cerebral hemorrhage in 1914, Pauli was sent to live with her maternal aunt and grandparents in Durham, North…
November 23rd – Christopher Logue
Come to the edge.We might fall.Come to the edge.It’s too high!COME TO THE EDGE!And they came,and he pushed,And they flewChristopher Logue Christopher Logue was born November 23, 1926, in Portsmith, Hampshire, England. A notable pacifist and poet associated with the British Poetry Revival, he was also a playwright, screenwriter, and actor. Logue became popular in…
November 24th – Frances Hodgson Burnett
“Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. “A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett Frances Hodgson Burnett was born on November 24, 1849, in Cheetham, Manchester, England. Her father died suddenly of a stroke when she was just…
November 30th – Lucy Maud Montgomery
“It’s it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive – it’s such an interesting world. It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we knew all about everything.”Lucy Maud Montgomery Lucy Maud Montgomery was born on November 30th, 1874, on Prince…
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