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Happy Birthday, Mr. Lewis!

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Today is C.S. Lewis’ birthday. For those of you who don’t know him, C.S. Lewis wrote The Chronicles of Narnia, which has been made into movies and mini-series several times. Lewis was a contemporary of J.R.R. Tolkien and, in fact, was part of the same writing group, the Inklings. It was there that the two [...]

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Happy Birthday, Bram!

Saturday, November 8, 2008

According to the Writer’s Almanac, today is Bram Stoker’s birthday. If you’ve been living under a cultural rock for the past hundred years or so, you might not know that Bram Stoker wrote the now infamous Dracula. He wrote other books as well, and was quite well known in his own time for his work [...]

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Happy Birthday, Mr. Herbert!

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Today is Frank Herbert’s Birthday. Of course, he passed away in 1986, the year I graduated from high-school, but his work lives on. Mr. Herbert is primarily known for his seminal work, Dune, and the other books in the series that followed. Though, interestingly enough, he never intended to write sequels. Often refered to as [...]

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Two Writers and One Publisher’s Birthday

Sunday, September 21, 2008

According to Writer’s Almanac there are three birthdays to celebrate today. First, there’s novelist Herbert George (H.G.) Wells, who was born in Bromley, England in1866. According to the note I got from Writer’s Almanac, Wells had a job writing biology textbooks until he developed a respiratory illness in his late 20s. Since he thought he [...]

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Happy Birthday, Mr. Burroughs!

Monday, September 1, 2008

Today is Edgar Rice Burroughs’ birthday! ERB, as he is often known by fans, was born in Chicago in 1875. He is probably most famous as the creator of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, which is a series of stories about an English nobleman who was abandoned in the African jungle during infancy and brought [...]

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Happy Birthday, Guy Montag!

Friday, August 22, 2008

It’s the birthday of science fiction writer Ray Bradbury, who was born in Waukegan, Illinois on this day in 1920. Bradbury is one of the most famous and well-known science-fiction writers of all time, having written a number of classics. The story goes, that one night, Bradbury was out for a walk when a policeman [...]

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Birthday from beyond space

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die. Ah, if only Lovecraft could live on in that eternal life beyond death. But, alas, he cannot and we have only his tremendous body of work to keep us company. Never the less, knowing that it is his birthday, [...]

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Happy Birthday, Ms. Rowling!

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Today is J.K. Rowling’s Birthday! If you don’t know who J. K. Rowling is, well, you certainly haven’t been paying attention. She is, in short, the creator of Harry Potter and crew. As a divorced, single mother struggling to scrape by on public assistance, aka “the Dole”, in the UK, she wrote Harry Potter and [...]

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