Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to David Levine, born December 20, 1926.
David Levine was an American artist and illustrator best known for his caricatures in The New York Review of Books. Jules Feiffer has called him “the greatest caricaturist of the last half of the 20th Century”.
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Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Brandon Sanderson, born December 19, 1975.
Brandon Winn Sanderson is an American author of high fantasy and science fiction. He is best known for the Cosmere fictional universe, in which most of his fantasy novels, most notably the Mistborn series and The Stormlight Archive, are set. Outside of the Cosmere, he has written several young adult and juvenile series including The Reckoners, the Skyward series, and the Alcatraz series. He is also known for finishing Robert Jordan’s high fantasy series The Wheel of Time. Sanderson has created several graphic novel fantasy series, including White Sand and Dark One.
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Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to A.M. Homes, born December 18, 1961.
Amy M. Homes is an American writer best known for her controversial novels and unusual short stories, which feature extreme situations and characters. Notably, her novel The End of Alice is about a convicted child molester and murderer.
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Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Ford Madox Ford, born December 17, 1873.
Ford Madox Ford was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals The English Review and The Transatlantic Review were important in the development of early 20th-century English and American literature.
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Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Arthur C. Clarke, born December 16, 1917.
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was an English science fiction writer, science writer, futurist,[3] inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.
He co-wrote the screenplay for 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely regarded as one of the most influential films of all time.
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Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Betty Smith, born December 15, 1896.
Betty Smith was an American playwright and novelist, who wrote the 1943 bestseller A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
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Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Amy Hempel, born December 14, 1951.
Amy Hempel is an American short story writer and journalist. She teaches creative writing at the Michener Center for Writers.
Hempel was born in Chicago, Illinois. She moved to California at age 16, which is where much of her early fiction takes place. She moved to New York City in the mid-seventies.
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12/13/2023 The staff at the Writer’s Dash wish you and yours a very happy holiday season and a safe and prosperous new year. Thanks to everyone who followed us throughout 2023 on Theo March’s pulp fiction Knight Shade Stories and Frank Waterman’s Carlinesque off-centered rhyme poetry.
The Writer’s Dash is taking the holidays off to close out the old year and prepare for the next. We will be back in February 2024 with new murders, mysteries, and verse for our readers.
We’re looking forward to seeing you again in 2024!
12/13/2023 – The Curious Penman attended the Winter Writing Workshop and Cookie exchange at Montclair Community Library on Monday, December 11, 2023. The workshop was hosted by Andrea Yarborough of the Northern Virginia Writing Project (NVWP). The theme of this workshop was Table Tales: Food as Concept.
Attendees participated in four multiple-choice writing exercises involving food and kitchen. The results of the exercises were whimsical and amusing, with thoughts on junk food, remembrances of family time in the kitchen, and from Curious Penman, an ode to over-indulging, followed by a trip through the Cookie Exchange, where seasonal bakery treats were enjoyed,
Today’s Happy Birthday shout out goes to Emma Bull, born December 13, 1954.
Emma Bull is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Her novels include the Hugo- and Nebula-nominated Bone Dance and the urban fantasy War for the Oaks. She is also known for a series of anthologies set in Liavek, a shared universe that she created with her husband, Will Shetterly. As a singer, songwriter, and guitarist, she has been a member of the Minneapolis-based folk/rock bands Cats Laughing and The Flash Girls.
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