Literati and Libations

September/Part II

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More smoke in another room potentially changes the scenery. Still, only if accompanied by another great cocktail, and an alternate good book by an exceptional author.

That said, why not raise a second glass in celebration of another round of literary greats, including:

• 16^th

  John Gay, satirical and burlesque poet and dramatist; John Knowles, novelist; Francis Parkman, historian; Alfred Noyes, poet; Frans Sillanpaa, writer; James Alan McPherson, short story writer; and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., literary critic, editor, and academic professor;

• 17^th

  Abilio Manuel de Guerra Junqueiro, poet and playwright; John Creasey, mystery and crime fiction writer; William Carlos Williams, poet; Jean-Claude Carrière, author, playwright and screenwriter; and Ken Kesey, novelist;

• 18^th

  Dr. Samuel Johnson, essayist, poet, critic, and lexicographer; and Noel Perrin, essayist;

• 19^th

  Arthur Rackham, illustrator of children's fairytales and classics; Mika Waltari, novelist; William Golding, novelist; Mike Rovko, journalist and columnist; and Thomas H. Cook, mystery novelist;

• 20^th

  Upton Sinclair, novelist; Donald Hall, poet, playwright, and essayist; [Carlos] Alberto de Lacerda, poet; and Javier Marías, novelist;

• 21^st

  Stephen King, author; H. G. Wells, writer; Fannie Flagg, novelist; and Marsha Norman, playwright;

"A man's gotta believe in something. I believe I'll have another drink." - W.C. Fields

• 22^nd

  Philip Dormer Stanhope, writer; Rosamunde Pilcher, novelist; Ann Grifalconi, children’s book author; and Fay Weldon, comic novelist;

• 23^rd

  Euripides, playwright; Edgar Lee Masters, poet and author; and Walter Lippmman, journalist;

• 24^th

  Horace Walpole, gothic writer; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, poet, novelist, short story writer, and orator; F[rancis] Scott [Key] Fitzgerald, novelist and short-story writer; W. Wilson Rawls, author; John Brunner, sci-fi writer; and [Masani] Alexis De Veaux, novelist, dramatist, essayist, illustrator, and educator;

• 25^th

  William [Harrison] Faulkner, novelist; bell hooks -fka- Gloria Watkins, writer, philosopher, social critic, poet, and professor; and Carlos Ruiz Zafón, novelist;

• 26^th

  Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar, writer; T[homas] S[tearns] Eliot, poet, dramatist, and critic; and Jane Smiley, novelist;

"In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria." -Benjamin Franklin

• 27^th

  Grazia Deledda, novelist; Louis Auchincloss, novelist and short-story writer; Josef Skvorecky, novelist, playwright, poet, and publisher; Joyce Johnson, writer; and Mark Vinz, poet;

• 28^th

  Kate Douglas Wiggin, author; Francis Turner Palgrav, poet; James Edwin Campbell, dialectic poet; and Elmer Rice/ Elmer L. Reizenstein, playwright;

• 29^th

  Miguel de Cervantes, writer; William Beckford, novelist and travel writer; Elizabeth Cleghorn [Stevenson] Gaskell, novelist; and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, writer; and

• 30^th

  J[ohn] I[nnes] M[ackintosh] Stewart, mystery writer; Truman Capote, short story writer and novelist; and Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, poet, historian, critic, and novelist.

"Write drunk; edit sober." - Ernest Hemingway

Skål!

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