Birthdays: Bret Harte (1836), Paul H. Buck (1899), Leonard Bernstein (1918), Brian Moore (1921), Thea Astley (1925), Patrick McManus (1933), Charles Wright (1935), Virginia Wolff (1937), Frederick Forsyth (1938), Margaret Maron (1938), Howard Jacobson (1942), Charles Ghigna (1946), Martin Amis (1949),Ian Falconer (1959), Lane Smith (1959), Taslima Nasrin (1962)
Paul H. Buck won the 1938 Pulitzer Prize for History for “The Road to Reunion, 1865-1900”
Charles Wright won both the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Charles Ghigna, a children’s book writer, goes by the name “Father Goose”
Quote: ““To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.”
― Leonard Bernstein
“The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. ” ― Bret Harte
“Every time we start thinking we’re the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, ‘I’m sorry. What’d you say your name was again?” ― Margaret Maron, Bootlegger’s Daughter
As a novelist nowadays, you have to assume that everything you say will be, for some reader somewhere (and maybe for hundreds of them), something they know a lot about. And they do not forgive slovenly descriptions riddled with errors.” – Frederick Forsyth
Tip: A fragment is a sentence that is missing something, usually the subject, as in: “And do it now.” In this fragment, the subject is implied. But a fragment can also be a single word: “Now!” They can be used to a good effect, but don’t overuse them or they lose their impact.
Jumpstart: You walk into English class in school. Everyone’s staring at you… why? Are you a student? Or a teacher? What’s happening?
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