LitToday
- Born Today: 1899. E.B. White, author of "Charlotte's Web" and "Stuart Little," and co-author of later editions of "The Elements of Style."10:00 AM Jul 11th from API
- Published Today, 2008: "Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing," written by Mignon Fogarty. (Me!)10:00 AM Jul 8th from API
- First Published Today: 1938. "It's News to Me," the long-running San Francisco newspaper column by Herb Caen.10:00 AM Jul 5th from API
- Born Today: 1869. William Strunk, Jr., original author of "The Elements of Style," co-author of the later version known as "Strunk & White."10:01 AM Jul 1st from web
- Published Today: 1997, in Britain. The first edition of the first "Harry Potter" book, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone."10:00 AM Jun 30th from web
- Born Today, 1892: Pearl Buck, author of many works including "The Good Earth," first female American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.10:01 AM Jun 26th from web
- Born Today, 1963: Yann Martel, author of "The Life of Pi," winner of the Man Booker Prize.10:01 AM Jun 25th from web
- Born Today: 1903. George Orwell, British author of the novels "Nineteen Eighty-Four" and "Animal Farm."10:01 AM Jun 25th from web
- Born Today, 1842: Ambrose Bierce, author of the satirical "Devil's Dictionary," available at Project Gutenberg: http://cli.gs/QPdgg610:02 AM Jun 24th from web
- Born Today, 1964: Joss Whedon, head writer of the TV shows "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Angel," "Firefly," and "Dollhouse."10:03 AM Jun 23rd from web
- Born Today, 1964: Dan Brown, author of "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels and Demons."12:36 PM Jun 22nd from web
- Born Today, 1948: Ian McEwan, author of acclaimed novels including "Atonement" and "Amsterdam."10:00 AM Jun 21st from web
- Born Today, 1947: Salman Rushdie, author of "The Satanic Versus," for which he and people who worked on the book received death threats.10:00 AM Jun 19th from web
- Born Today, 1929: Anne Frank, the teenage girl who kept a diary for a little over two years while in hiding from the Nazis.10:01 AM Jun 12th from web
- Born Today, 1920: Maurice Sendak, author of "Where the Wild Things Are."10:00 AM Jun 10th from web
- Published Today, 1997: "The God of Small Things," winner of the Man Booker Prize, written by Arundhati Roy.10:00 AM Jun 9th from web
- Published Today, 1949: "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell. Included the idea that governments could use language for control.10:00 AM Jun 8th from web
- Published Today, 2003: "Notes on a Scandal," shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, written by Zoe Heller.10:00 AM Jun 5th from web
- Born Today, 1937: Robert Fulghum, author of "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten."10:00 AM Jun 4th from web
- Born Today, 1930: Marion Zimmer Bradley, author of "Mists of Avalon" and novels in the Darkover series.10:00 AM Jun 3rd from web
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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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