Garrison Keillor's Podcast

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Garrison Keillor's Podcast episodes

April 04, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Sunday, April 4, 2021
This Easter marks the birthday of two American icons: poet, writer, and activist Maya Angelou (1928), and blues musician and songwriter Muddy Waters (1915).

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April 03, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Saturday, April 3, 2021
Today is the birthday of author and illustrator Sandra Keith Boynton, 1953. She began her career writing greeting cards, developing her humor and the cohort of animals that populate her dozens of childrens books.

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April 02, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Friday, April 2, 2021
Today is the birthday of Giacomo Casanova (1725). He wrote 12 volumes of autobiography, leaving posterity the best record we have of 18th-century society and its customs, and his own womanizing.

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April 01, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Thursday, April 1, 2021
Anne McCaffrey was born on this day 1926. A pioneer for women in science fiction writing, she was the first female winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards.

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March 31, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Today marks the 85th birthday of Marge Piercy. Author, feminist, and social activist, her latest work is one of poetry, “On the Way Out, Turn Off the Light.”

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March 30, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Tuesday, March 30, 2021
A friend of students and writers, the common pencils with attached eraser was patented this day 1858 by Hymen Lipman. A single pencil can write around 45,000 words.

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March 29, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Monday, March 29, 2021
It was on this day in 1944 that Anne Frank made the decision to rewrite her diary as an autobiography so that history might understand what the Jews of Europe had suffered.

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March 28, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Sunday, March 28, 2021
“The Devil Wears Prada” author Lauren Weisberger celebrates her 44th birthday today. Her a seventh novel, “Where The Grass Is Green And The Girls Are Pretty,” will be released in May.

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March 27, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Saturday, March 27, 2021
On this date in 1915, Mary Mallon, better known as "Typhoid Mary," was put into quarantine for the first time. A healthy carrier of the Salmonella typhi bacteria, her work as a cook caused multiple outbreaks and deaths.

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March 26, 2021 The Writer's Almanac - Friday, March 26, 2021
One hundred ten years ago today playwright and author Tennessee Williams was born, 1911. The conflict and pain of his life inspired his plays. He said, “If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”

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