Rank #1: Writers Gone Wild Podcast #12 for March 8: Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin, Thomas Wolfe, Sherwood Anderson and Jim Bouton
On this day in 1932, Henry Miller took Anaïs Nin to a Paris hotel room where they made love for the first time. He was an impoverished writer who moved […]
Mar 08 2012
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Rank #2: Writers Gone Wild Podcast #11 for March 7: Robert Frost, 2 Live Crew
On this day in 1923, Robert Frost’s most famous poem, “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening,” was published in the New Republic. He was living in South Shaftsbury, Vermont, […]
Mar 07 2012
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Rank #3: Writers Gone Wild Podcast #10 for March 6: Louisa May Alcott, John Stuart Mill and Dylan Thomas
On this day in 1888, Louisa May Alcott, the author of “Little Women,” died at the age of 55, on the day of her father’s burial. She had worked from […]
Mar 06 2012
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Rank #4: Writers Gone Wild Podcast #9 for March 5: Charlotte Bronte, Dylan Thomas and Tom Clancy
On this day in 1839, Charlotte Bronte wrote a letter. Rev. Henry Nussey, the brother of her best friend, Ellen, had asked for her hand in marriage. There were a […]
Mar 05 2012
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Rank #5: Writers Gone Wild Podcast #8 for March 4: John Bunyan, George Sand and Frédéric Chopin, Sherlock Holmes and Ernest Hemingway
On this day in 1675, a warrant was issued for the arrest of nonconformist minister John Bunyan for preaching without a license from the king. He had been a wanderer […]
Mar 04 2012
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Rank #6: Writers Gone Wild Podcast #7 for March 3: Helen Keller, Anthony Comstock, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Arthur Koestler
On this day in 1887, Anne Sullivan began teaching six year old Helen Keller how to connect to a world she could neither see nor hear. She began by spelling […]
Mar 03 2012
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Rank #7: Writers Gone Wild Podcast #6 for March 2: D.H. Lawrence, Juvenal, Tom Wolfe and Dr. Seuss
On this day in 1930, D.H. Lawrence died at his rented home in Vence, France. Two days later, he was buried in the town cemetery. It was not to be […]
Mar 02 2012
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Rank #8: Writers Gone Wild Podcast #5 for March 1: Geoffrey Chaucer, James Murray and Astounding Science Fiction
On this day in 1360, the Keeper of the King’s Wardrobe paid £16, the equivalent about $15,000 to ransom a soldier who had been captured in the Burgundy region during […]
Mar 01 2012
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Rank #9: Writers Gone Wild Podcast #3 for Feb. 28: Henry Fielding, Upton Sinclair and Ben Hecht
On this day in 1749, Henry Fielding’s monumental novel “Tom Jones” was published, and helped establish the book as a means of conveying entertainment and enlightenment. A longtime lawyer and […]
Feb 28 2012
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Rank #10: Writers Gone Wild Podcast #17 for March 13: Henrik Ibsen, Norman Mailer and William Styron, and Kitty Genovese
On this day in 1891, Henrik Ibsen’s play “Ghosts” opened for one night only at The Independent Theatre in London. The play had run into trouble with the Lord Chamberlain’s […]
Mar 13 2012
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