Birthdays: Leonora Speyer (1872), Leon Trotsky (1879), Margaret Leech (1893), Armstrong Sperry (1897), Albert Camus (1913), R.A. Lafferty (1914), Mary Daheim (1937), Tom Peters (1942), Helen Garner (1942), Stephen Greenblatt (1943), Guy Gavriel Kay (1954)

Leonora Speyer won the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for “Fiddler’s Farewell”

Margaret Leech was a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner in History

Armstrong Sperry won the 1941 Newbery Award for “Call it Courage”

Albert Camus won the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature

Stephen Greenblatt won the Pulitzer and National Book Award for his 2011 book “The Swerve”

Quote: “There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.” – Albert Camus

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.” – Stephen King

Tip: When an adverb ends in “ly” – do not hyphenate it with the word that follows as in: happily married couple (not: happily-married)

Jumpstart: There it sat, on the shelf in the back of my closet. Never to be brought out into the light of day. And yet…