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The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, September 26, 2026

Posted on September 26, 2026 - Writer's Almanac

The poet Thomas Stearns Eliot, better known as T.S. Eliot , was born on this day in 1888, in St. Louis, Missouri, where he spent the first 18 years of his life.

The Writer’s Almanac for Friday, September 25, 2026

Posted on September 25, 2026 - Writer's Almanac

On this day in 1981, Sandra Day O’Connor was sworn in as a justice in the Supreme Court of the United States, becoming the first woman to hold that office.

The Writer’s Almanac for Thursday, September 24, 2026

Posted on September 24, 2026 - Writer's Almanac

Today is the birthday of F. Scott Fitzgerald, born Francis Scott Fitzgerald in St. Paul, Minnesota (1896). The son of a would-be furniture manufacturer who never quite made it big in business, Fitzgerald grew up feeling like a “poor boy in a rich town,” in spite of his middle-class upbringing.

The Writer’s Almanac for Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Posted on September 23, 2026 - Writer's Almanac

It’s the birthday of Roman emperor Caesar Augustus, born Gaius Octavius Thurinus in Rome in the year 63 B.C. The great-nephew of Julius Caesar, Augustus was named as the childless statesman’s heir upon his assassination.

The Writer’s Almanac for Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Posted on September 22, 2026 - Writer's Almanac

It was on this day in 1862 that President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in rebel states free as of January 1 the following year.

The Writer’s Almanac for Monday, September 21, 2026

Posted on September 21, 2026 - Writer's Almanac

It’s the birthday of writer H.G. Wells, born in Bromley, England (1866). He was known as one of the fathers of modern science fiction, having published classics such as The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, and The War of the Worlds within the first few years of his writing career.

The Writer’s Almanac for Sunday, September 20, 2026

Posted on September 20, 2026 - Writer's Almanac

It’s the birthday of poet, editor, and literary critic Donald Hall (1928), born in Hamden, Connecticut. He started writing poems when he was a kid at his grandparents’ farm in New Hampshire.

The Writer’s Almanac for Saturday, September 19, 2026

Posted on September 19, 2026 - Writer's Almanac

It’s the birthday of writer and editor Roger Angell, born in New York (1920). His mother and stepfather were well known in the literary world — Katharine Sergeant Angell, the longtime New Yorker fiction editor, and E.B. White, the essayist and children’s author — but Angell attributes his earliest cultural education to his father.

The Writer’s Almanac for Friday, September 18, 2026

Posted on September 18, 2026 - Writer's Almanac

It’s the birthday of French physicist Jean Bernard Léon Foucault, born in Paris (1819). He invented the gyroscope and took the first clear photograph of the sun.

The Writer’s Almanac for Thursday, September 17, 2026

Posted on September 17, 2026 - Writer's Almanac

On this date in 1683, Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek wrote a letter to the Royal Society, sharing his discovery of “animalcules,” or what we know as bacteria.

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