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Published Today: 1961. "Catch-22," a novel by Joseph Heller. In the book "catch-22" is a military rule that creates no-win situations.
10:00 AM Nov 11th
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Born Today, 1847: Bram Stoker, Irish author of "Dracula."
11:00 AM Nov 8th
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Published Today: 2003, in Britain. "Eats Shoots & Leaves," the popular English language commentary by Lynne Truss.
10:00 AM Nov 6th
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Published Today, 1937: Agatha Christie's "Death on the Nile."
10:00 AM Nov 1st
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Mignon Fogarty's new book, "The Grammar Devotional" goes on sale today:
12:47 PM Oct 27th
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Born Today, 1974: Aravind Adiga, author of the Booker-Man-Prize-winning novel "The White Tiger."
10:00 AM Oct 23rd
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Born Today: 1919. Doris Lessing, author of "The Golden Notebook" and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
10:00 AM Oct 22nd
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Born Today: 1758. Noah Webster, author of the first American dictionary and American English schoolbooks used in elementary schools.
10:00 AM Oct 16th
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Published Today, 1957: "Atlas Shrugged" by objectivist author Ayn Rand.
10:00 AM Oct 10th
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Born Today, 1924: Truman Capote, American author of works including "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "In Cold Blood."
10:00 AM Sep 30th
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Born Today, 1897: William Faulkner, Nobel-Prize-winning author of works including "The Sound and the Fury" and "As I Lay Dying."
10:00 AM Sep 25th
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Born Today, 1866: H.G. Wells, author of many influential science fiction works, including "War of the Worlds."
10:00 AM Sep 21st
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Born Today, 1911: William Golding, Nobel-Prize-winning author of "Lord of the Flies."
12:01 PM Sep 19th
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Born Today, 1890: Agatha Christie, best-selling author of many crime and mystery works, including "Murder on the Orient Express."
10:00 AM Sep 15th
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Published Today. 2000. "The Blind Assassin," winner of the Man Booker Prize, by Margaret Atwood
10:00 AM Sep 2nd
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Born Today, 1797: Mary Shelley, British author of "Frankenstein."
10:01 AM Aug 30th
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Died Today, 1930: William Archibald Spooner, the namesake of a specific type of verbal stumble called a Spoonerism.
10:01 AM Aug 29th
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Born Today, 1828: Leo Tolstoy, Russian author of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina."
10:02 AM Aug 28th
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Born Today. 1965. J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling "Harry Potter" books.
10:00 AM Jul 31st
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Born Today, 1933: John Gardner, Jr., author of "Grendel," the story of "Beowulf" from the monster's point of view.
10:01 AM Jul 21st
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- Name Mignon Fogarty
- Location Reno, USA
- Web http://grammar.qd...
- Bio A daily tweet of something interesting that happened in literary history. From Grammar Girl.
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