Writers Gone Wild

On this day in 1891, Henrik Ibsen’s play “Ghosts” opened for one night only at The Independent Theatre in London. The play had run into trouble with the Lord Chamberlain’s […]

On this day in 1901, millionaire industrialist Andrew Carnegie offers New York City $5.2 million to build 65 branch libraries. He had sold that year the Carnegie Steel Company for […]

Before we get into today’s episode, the podcast will drop Monday through Friday from now on, to give me more time to work on it and other projects as well. […]

On this day in 1812, three years after attacking his critics in print, the first two cantos of Lord Byron’s Romantic epic “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” were published. The narrative poem […]

On this day in 1765, Voltaire succeeded in getting a French court to exonerate a Huguenot cloth merchant, Jean Calas, of the murder of his son in Toulouse. It was […]

On this day in 1932, Henry Miller took Anaïs Nin to a Paris hotel room where they made love for the first time. He was an impoverished writer who moved […]

On this day in 1923, Robert Frost’s most famous poem, “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening,” was published in the New Republic. He was living in South Shaftsbury, Vermont, […]

On this day in 1888, Louisa May Alcott, the author of “Little Women,” died at the age of 55, on the day of her father’s burial. She had worked from […]

On this day in 1839, Charlotte Bronte wrote a letter. Rev. Henry Nussey, the brother of her best friend, Ellen, had asked for her hand in marriage. There were a […]

On this day in 1675, a warrant was issued for the arrest of nonconformist minister John Bunyan for preaching without a license from the king. He had been a wanderer […]