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- Writers Gone Wild Podcast #7 for March 3: Helen Keller, Anthony Comstock, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Arthur KoestlerOn this day in 1887, Anne Sullivan began teaching six year old Helen Keller how to connect to a world she could neither see nor hear. She began by spelling […]5 min
- Writers Gone Wild Podcast #6 for March 2: D.H. Lawrence, Juvenal, Tom Wolfe and Dr. SeussOn this day in 1930, D.H. Lawrence died at his rented home in Vence, France. Two days later, he was buried in the town cemetery. It was not to be […]6 min
- Writers Gone Wild Podcast #5 for March 1: Geoffrey Chaucer, James Murray and Astounding Science FictionOn this day in 1360, the Keeper of the King’s Wardrobe paid £16, the equivalent about $15,000 to ransom a soldier who had been captured in the Burgundy region during […]6 min
- Writers Gone Wild Podcast #4 for Feb. 29: Joan Collins, Hattie McDaniel, the Family Circus, Tony RobbinsOn this day in 1996, Joan Collins struck a blow for writers everywhere when a judge ruled that her publisher, Random House, should pay her an extra million dollars on […]5 min
- Writers Gone Wild Podcast #3 for Feb. 28: Henry Fielding, Upton Sinclair and Ben HechtOn this day in 1749, Henry Fielding’s monumental novel “Tom Jones” was published, and helped establish the book as a means of conveying entertainment and enlightenment. A longtime lawyer and […]4 min
- Writers Gone Wild Podcast #2 for Feb. 26: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, Christopher Marlowe and Theodore SturgeonThis is Writers Gone Wild for Sunday, February 26, 2012. On this day in 1956, poet Sylvia Plath looked across a crowded room at a literary party and saw, as […]6 min
- Writers Gone Wild Podcast #1: John Millington Synge, Victor Hugo and P.G. WodehouseOn this day in 1904, John Millington Synge’s play “Riders of the Sea” premiered at Molesworth Hall in Dublin by the Irish National Theatre Society. Set on the Aran Islands […]6 min
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This day in literary history from Bill Peschel, author of “Writers Gone Wild” and “The Complete, Annotated Whose Body?”