Birthdays: Sarah Fielding (1710), Bram Stoker (1847), Margaret Mitchell (1900), Margaret Gelhorn (1908), Ben Bova (1932), Timothy Egan (1954), Kazuo Ishiguro (1954), Jeffrey Ford (1955), Joshua Ferris (1974), Lauren Oliver (1982), Samantha Shannon (1991)
Sarah Fielding was responsible for the first English language novel written specifically for children (The Governess).
Bram Stoker was an Irish novelist best known for the 1897 novel “Dracula”
Margaret Mitchell won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for her novel “Gone With the Wind”
Timothy Egan won the 2006 National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction for his “The Worst Hard Time”
Quote: “A fanatic who is willing to die for his cause thinks nothing of killing you for his cause.” ― Ben Bova, The Return
“What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer’s life with the writing. I think that’s something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now.” – Kazuo Ishiguro
Tip: A compound adjective (two or more adjectives in a row) is hyphenated if it’s in front of a noun (an up-to-date calendar) but not when they follow the noun (the calendar is up to date).
Jumpstart: It came in a small box. A small blue box. With a ribbon…
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