Garrison Keillor's Podcast

Today is the birthday of Marilyn French (1929), who wrote fiction and non-fiction about radical feminism including the influential novel “The Women’s Room.”

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Today is the birthday of Nadine Gordimer (1923) who said, "Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."

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It’s the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Gettysburg Address, which reminded a nation engaged in civil war of its commitment to liberty, equality, and freedom.

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Today is the 80th birthday of the author of Margaret Atwood, author of “The Handmaid's Tale,” in which she wrote: “Don't let the bastards grind you down.”

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"The show doesn't go on because it's ready; it goes on because it's 11:30" –Lorne Michaels, born this day in 1944.

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Today is the birthday of Andrea Barrett (1954), a biologist by training whose fiction often features women in science.

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It’s the birthday of Jessica Abel (1969), who said, "My own method of making comics is at least unteachable, if not just plain unadvisable."

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Today is the birthday of Astrid Lindgren (1907), who created the red-haired, pigtailed, nine-year-old character named Pippi Longstocking.

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Today is the birthday of Robert Louis Stevenson (1850), whose novel “Treasure Island” was based on a game he invented to entertain his stepson.

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Today is the birthday of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815) an American suffragist and abolitionist. She published three volumes of “The History of Woman Suffrage.”

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