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Story of Writing October 23, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1023
The first national convention on Women’s Rights begins in Massachusetts and the birthday club includes Ellie Greenwich and Michael Crichton - with a …
9 months ago
Story of Writing October 22, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1022
The Cuban Missile Crisis begins, Jean-Paul Sartre refuses the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the birthday club includes Doris Lessing, Timothy Leary…
9 months ago
Story of Writing October 21, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1021
Thomas Edison applies for a patent for the electric light bulb, Ernest Hemingway publishes his classic novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls," and the birth…
9 months ago
Story of Writing October 20, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1020
The U.S. approves the Louisiana Purchase, the U.S. and UK set the modern border of Canada, and the U.N. tries to promote cultural expression as a cou…
9 months ago
Story of Writing October 19, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1019
The American colonists win their independence from the British, "Black Monday" upends the U.S. financial markets, and the birthday club includes Migu…
9 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing October 18, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1018
Herman Melville publishes "The Whale" - better known as "Moby Dick" - in London, Phyllis Wheatley is granted her freedom, and the birthday club inclu…
9 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing October 17, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1017
Marconi goes wireless across the Atlantic and the birthday club includes Elinor Glyn, Jerry Siegel, Arthur Miller, George Mackay Brown, Ariel Levy, a…
9 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing October 16, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1016
Charlotte Bronte publishes "Jane Eyre," and the Cardiff Giant is "discovered."
9 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing October 15, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1015
The Julian calendar gives way to the Gregorian calendar and the birthday club includes P. G. Wodehouse, Mario Puzo, Italo Calvino, and Eugene Patters…
9 months, 1 week ago
Story of Writing October 14, 2025
Season 25 Episode 1014
George Eastman gets the U.S. patent for "paper strip" photographic film, Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier, and the Reverend Martin Luther King, …
9 months, 1 week ago