Garrison Keillor's Podcast

It's the birthday of the author who gave us "The Spoon River Anthology," Edgar Le Masters (1868). The work lost him friends in Spoon River, but earned him enough to live as a writer.

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Today is the birthday of novelist Annie Proulx (1935), who won the Pulitzer Prize for her second novel, “The Shipping News” (1993).

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“Poetry…answers to no one, it crosses borders without a passport, and it speaks the truth... it is one of the most powerful of the arts."-- Ellen Hinsey, born in 1960.

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It was on this day in 1940 that Winston Churchill delivered a speech to the House of Commons with the famous line: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

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Today is the 100th birthday of Gene Roddenberry, most famous as the creator of “Star Trek,” the first sci-fi series to depict a generally peaceful future.

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Vladimir Nabokov's “Lolita” was published in the United States on this day in 1958 and, in 1920, on this day the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified.

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“…the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatment by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world." –Ted Kooser, born on this day in 1930.

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Today is the birthday of Charles Bukowski, born in Germany in 1920. His first rejection note read, “Possibly we will print you sometime, but I don’t know exactly when. That depends on you.”

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This day in 1969 the three-day concert known as Woodstock began. A beautiful weekend of music and togetherness in a time of societal anger and war.

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It's the birthday of blockbuster best-selling romance novelist Danielle Steel (1947), who has written 185 books, 141 of which are novels.

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