Oct. 12, 2008: The Writer's Almanac
Published on Oct 12, 2008 in Arts > Literature
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Oct. 12, 2008: The Writer's Almanac
October 12, 2008
Sunday’s Poem: “Elegy” by Arthur Guiterman from The Lyric Baedeker: the Mirthful Lyre. Sunday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of Lester Dent, t... More
Sunday’s Poem: “Elegy” by Arthur Guiterman from The Lyric Baedeker: the Mirthful Lyre. Sunday’s Literary Notes: It’s the birthday of Lester Dent, the American adventure and mystery novelist, born in La Plata, Missouri, in 1904. The Dents moved to a remote part of Wyoming when Lester was two years old. While he was a telegraph operator for the Associated Press, one of his co-workers published a story in a pulp magazine. Dent read it and thought that he could probably write a story that was at… Less
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