Posted on November 1, 2019
In the past, I wrote posts about National Science Fiction Day (on the birthday of sci-fi author Isaac Asimov) and International Children's Book Day (on the birthday of children's author Hans Christian Andersen), and I have written posts about many authors...
...Well, today is National Authors Day! Not just science fiction, or children's lit, or even fiction - today we celebrate authors and writers of all sorts.
We can use the excuse to do some reading-for-pleasure...
We can share in person or on social media our favorite authors (many of whom are likely gone for years, decades, maybe even centuries!)...
We can also write to our favorite living authors, telling them the impact their writing has had on us; we can even make a plan to meet an author at a book-signing or other event...
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| As a teen, I wrote a list of personal heroes, all of whom were writers: educator John Holt, scientist Isaac Asimov, and astronomer Carl Sagan. All three are now gone, but I got to meet Holt several times, and I at least met Asimov's daughter and a woman who helped inspire Sagan's novel. I was actually pretty thrilled with these three meetings! Since then I've been able to meet authors Richard Dawkins (pictured above), Jack Prelutsky, Bruce Coville, and PZ Myers. |
Finally, we can use the special day as a push on our own writing projects!
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