Literati and Libations

August/Part II

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Further enhancements of reading experiences may include a charcuterie board, premium tobacco products, and an additional bottle of wine.

That said, join me in also toasting:

• 16^th

  Jules Laforgue, poet and short story writer; Hugo Gernsback, sci-fi writer; Georgette Heyer, novelist; Wallace Thurman, writer; William Maxwell, novelist, short story writer and editor; Beatrice Schenk de Regniers, children’s author; Charles Bukowski, poet; [Alan] Anthony Price, journalist, crime fiction writer and reviewer;

• 17^th

  Charlotte Lottie Forten, diarist, poet, and essayist; Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, writer and poet; Marcus [Moziah] Garvey [Jr.], essayist, editor, journalist and poet; John Hawkes, poet, playwright, and avant-garde novelist; [Edward James] Ted Hughes, poet; V[idiadhar] S[urajprasad] Naipaul, novelist and essayist;

• 18^th

  Elsa Morante, history writer; Alain Robbe-Grillet, novelist and film writer; Sonia Levitin, children’s author; Paula Danzigre, children's author;

• 19^th

  Samuel Richardson, novelist; John Dryden, poet and dramatist; Charles Montegu Doughty, travel writer; Minna Canth, novelist and dramatist; Edith Nesbit, children’s writer; Ogden Nash, light verse writer; James Gould Cozzens, novelist; Josephine Jacobsen, writer; Ring Lardner, Jr., screenwriter and journalist;

"A man's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another drink."

W.C. Fields

• 20^th

  Edgar A. Guest, poet; H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, gothic/supernatural novelist; Jacqueline Susann, novelist; Salvatore Quasimodo, poet/critic/translator; Sue Alexander, children’ author; Lionel G. Garcia, novelist, playwright and short story writer; Heather McHugh, poet; Kevin Baker, novelist; Deidre Madden, novelist;

• 21^st

  X.J. Kennedy, poet; Gennady Nikolaevich Aygi, poet; Mart Crowley, playwright; Robert Stone, novelist; Lucius Shepard, writer;

• 22^nd

  Dorothy Parker, short story writer, poet, and critic; Ray Bradbury, writer; E. Annie Proulx, novelist, short story writer, and how-to writer;

• 23^rd

  William Ernest Henley, poet, critic and editor; Edgar Lee Masters, poet, playwright, and novelist; J.V. Cunningham, poet; Robert Irwin, novelist and comic novelist; Willy Russell, playwright; Melanie Rae Thon, novelist and short story writer;

"Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne."

Dorothy Parker

• 24^th

  Jorge Luis Borges, writer and essayist; Robert Herrick, poet; Sir Max Beerbohn, essayist, novelist, caricaturist, and critic; Jean Rhys -aka- Ella Gwendolyn Rees Williams, writer; Malcolm Cowley, literary critic, historian, editor, poet, and essayist; A. S. Byatt -fka – Antonia Susan Drabble, novelist; Mason Williams, poet, scriptwriter, comedy writer;

• 25^th

  Bret Hart, journalist, editor, poet; Brian Moore, novelist; Chrles Writch, poetry; Margaret Maron, mystery writer; Charles Ghigna -aka- Father Goose, poet and children's author;

• 26^th

  Sir John Buchan, writer; Guillaume Apollinaire, poet and movie critic; Earl Biggers, creator of Charlie Chan; Jules Romains, novelist, dramatist, poet; Christopher Isherwood, novelist and playwright; Julio Cortázar, novelist and poet; Elizabeth Brewster, novelist and short story writer; Barbara Ehrenreich, novelist, short-story writer, and poet;

• 27^th

  Confucius -aka- K'ung-fu-tzu, philosopher and writer; Theodore Dreiser, novelist and newspaper writer; C. S. Forester, creator of Horatio Hornblower; Ira Levin, novelist; Antonia Fraser, mystery writer, historian, and biographer; William Least Heat Moon -fka- William Lewis Trogdon, author;

"I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a Champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer."

George Bernard Shaw

• 28^th

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dramatist, poet, and novelist; Leo Tolstoy, novelist; Bruno Bettelheim, writer; Sir John Betjeman, poet; Janet Frame, novelist; Vonda N. McIntyre, science-fiction writer and novelist; Rita Dove, poet;

• 29^th

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, physician, essayist, poet, novelist, and co-founder of the Atlantic Monthly magazine; Anna Ella Carroll, propagandist and author; Count Maurice Maeterlinck, poet; Valery Nicolas Larbaud, novelist and translator; Preston Sturges, screenwriter, director, and playwright; Thomas Gunn, poet; Sue Harrison, novelist;

• 30^th

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, writer and creator of Frankenstein; Elizabeth Longford, biographer; and

• 31^st

  [Pierre Jules] Théophile Gautier, romantic poet, novelist, critic, and travel book writer; DuBose Heyward, novelist and creator of Porgy, on which ‘Porgy and Bess’ is based; William Shawn, editor; and William Saroyan, novelist and playwright.

Cin Cin!

Thanks for reading,