On this day in 1891, Henrik Ibsen’s play “Ghosts” opened for one night only at The Independent Theatre in London. The play had run into trouble with the Lord Chamberlain’s […] The post Writers Gone Wild Podcast #17 for March 13: Henrik Ibsen, Norman Mailer and William Styron, and Kitty Genovese appeared first on Bill Peschel.

Writers Gone Wild

Writers Gone Wild Podcast #17 for March 13: Henrik Ibsen, Norman Mailer and William Styron, and Kitty Genovese

On this day in 1901, millionaire industrialist Andrew Carnegie offers New York City $5.2 million to build 65 branch libraries. He had sold that year the Carnegie Steel Company for […] The post Writers Gone Wild Podcast #16 for March 12: Andrew Carnegie, Roald Dahl and Robert Ludlum appeared first on Bill Peschel.

Writers Gone Wild Podcast #16 for March 12: Andrew Carnegie, Roald Dahl and Robert Ludlum

Before we get into today’s episode, the podcast will drop Monday through Friday from now on, to give me more time to work on it and other projects as well. […] The post Writers Gone Wild Podcast #15 for March 11: Romeo and Juliet, Mary Shelley, Lorraine Hansbury and Douglas Adams appeared first on Bill Peschel.

Writers Gone Wild Podcast #15 for March 11: Romeo and Juliet, Mary Shelley, Lorraine Hansbury and Douglas Adams

On this day in 1812, three years after attacking his critics in print, the first two cantos of Lord Byron’s Romantic epic “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” were published. The narrative poem […] The post Writers Gone Wild Podcast #14 for March 10: Lord Byron and Zelda Fitzgerald appeared first on Bill Peschel.

Writers Gone Wild Podcast #14 for March 10: Lord Byron and Zelda Fitzgerald

On this day in 1765, Voltaire succeeded in getting a French court to exonerate a Huguenot cloth merchant, Jean Calas, of the murder of his son in Toulouse. It was […] The post Writers Gone Wild Podcast #13 for March 9: Voltaire, Lord Byron and Virginia Woolf appeared first on Bill Peschel.

Writers Gone Wild Podcast #13 for March 9: Voltaire, Lord Byron and Virginia Woolf

On this day in 1932, Henry Miller took Anaïs Nin to a Paris hotel room where they made love for the first time. He was an impoverished writer who moved […] The post Writers Gone Wild Podcast #12 for March 8: Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin, Thomas Wolfe, Sherwood Anderson and Jim Bouton appeared first on Bill Peschel.

Writers Gone Wild Podcast #12 for March 8: Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin, Thomas Wolfe, Sherwood Anderson and Jim Bouton

On this day in 1923, Robert Frost’s most famous poem, “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening,” was published in the New Republic. He was living in South Shaftsbury, Vermont, […] The post Writers Gone Wild Podcast #11 for March 7: Robert Frost, 2 Live Crew appeared first on Bill Peschel.

Writers Gone Wild Podcast #11 for March 7: Robert Frost, 2 Live Crew

On this day in 1888, Louisa May Alcott, the author of “Little Women,” died at the age of 55, on the day of her father’s burial. She had worked from […] The post Writers Gone Wild Podcast #10 for March 6: Louisa May Alcott, John Stuart Mill and Dylan Thomas appeared first on Bill Peschel.

Writers Gone Wild Podcast #10 for March 6: Louisa May Alcott, John Stuart Mill and Dylan Thomas

On this day in 1839, Charlotte Bronte wrote a letter. Rev. Henry Nussey, the brother of her best friend, Ellen, had asked for her hand in marriage. There were a […] The post Writers Gone Wild Podcast #9 for March 5: Charlotte Bronte, Dylan Thomas and Tom Clancy appeared first on Bill Peschel.

Writers Gone Wild Podcast #9 for March 5: Charlotte Bronte, Dylan Thomas and Tom Clancy

On this day in 1675, a warrant was issued for the arrest of nonconformist minister John Bunyan for preaching without a license from the king. He had been a wanderer […] The post Writers Gone Wild Podcast #8 for March 4: John Bunyan, George Sand and Frédéric Chopin, Sherlock Holmes and Ernest Hemingway appeared first on Bill Peschel.

Writers Gone Wild Podcast #8 for March 4: John Bunyan, George Sand and Frédéric Chopin, Sherlock Holmes and Ernest Hemingway

On this day in 1887, Anne Sullivan began teaching six year old Helen Keller how to connect to a world she could neither see nor hear. She began by spelling […] The post Writers Gone Wild Podcast #7 for March 3: Helen Keller, Anthony Comstock, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Arthur Koestler appeared first on Bill Peschel.

Writers Gone Wild Podcast #7 for March 3: Helen Keller, Anthony Comstock, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Arthur Koestler

On this day in 1930, D.H. Lawrence died at his rented home in Vence, France. Two days later, he was buried in the town cemetery. It was not to be […] The post Writers Gone Wild Podcast #6 for March 2: D.H. Lawrence, Juvenal, Tom Wolfe and Dr. Seuss appeared first on Bill Peschel.

Writers Gone Wild Podcast #6 for March 2: D.H. Lawrence, Juvenal, Tom Wolfe and Dr. Seuss

On this day in 1360, the Keeper of the King’s Wardrobe paid £16, the equivalent about $15,000 to ransom a soldier who had been captured in the Burgundy region during […] The post Writers Gone Wild Podcast #5 for March 1: Geoffrey Chaucer, James Murray and Astounding Science Fiction appeared first on Bill Peschel.

Writers Gone Wild Podcast #5 for March 1: Geoffrey Chaucer, James Murray and Astounding Science Fiction

On this day in 1996, Joan Collins struck a blow for writers everywhere when a judge ruled that her publisher, Random House, should pay her an extra million dollars on […] The post Writers Gone Wild Podcast #4 for Feb. 29: Joan Collins, Hattie McDaniel, the Family Circus, Tony Robbins appeared first on Bill Peschel.

Writers Gone Wild Podcast #4 for Feb. 29: Joan Collins, Hattie McDaniel, the Family Circus, Tony Robbins

On this day in 1749, Henry Fielding’s monumental novel “Tom Jones” was published, and helped establish the book as a means of conveying entertainment and enlightenment. A longtime lawyer and […] The post Writers Gone Wild Podcast #3 for Feb. 28: Henry Fielding, Upton Sinclair and Ben Hecht appeared first on Bill Peschel.

Writers Gone Wild Podcast #3 for Feb. 28: Henry Fielding, Upton Sinclair and Ben Hecht

This day in literary history from Bill Peschel, author of “Writers Gone Wild” and “The Complete, Annotated Whose Body?”

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