Birthdays: William Ernest Henley (1849), Edgar Lee Masters (1868), Will Cuppy (1884), Henry F. Pringle (1897), J.V. Cunningham (1911), Norbert Blei (1935), Nelson DeMille (1943), Robert Irwin (1946), Willy Russell (1947), Melanie Rae Thon (1957), Charley Boorman (1966), Curtis Sittenfeld (1975),

Edgar Lee Masters is best known for his poetry collection “Spoon River Anthology”

Henry Pringle won the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for “Theodore Roosevelt”

Quote: “If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity.” – Nelson DeMille

Writing doesn’t leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a profession.” – Nelson DeMille

Tip: A metaphor compares two dissimilar things, but utilizing the word “like”: He was shaking like a leaf in a windstorm.

Jumpstart: He stared at the bodies in the room – there were at least a half dozen. In the corner, she stood watching him, wiping her blade on her shirt. “You’re late…”