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Category: Birthday

  • Birthday

Happy Birthday, Jan Brett!

  • Jen Gheller
  • Posted on December 1, 2020November 30, 2020

Jan Brett may not be the kind of author usually featured on the LSQ blog, but today…

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  • Birthday

Forget the bombshell, remember the brains

  • Jennifer Lyn Parsons
  • Posted on January 19, 2019February 27, 2019

The first thing I want you to note is that I will not be including…

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  • An Editor's Ephemera

“Grandma COBOL”

  • Jennifer Lyn Parsons
  • Posted on December 6, 2018May 21, 2020

Rear Admiral, Teacher, Mathematician, Programmer. For my column this month I want to tell you…

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  • Birthday

Happy Birthday, Margaret Atwood!

  • Anna O'Brien
  • Posted on November 18, 2018January 27, 2019

Get out your party hats, dear readers, (or maybe your handmaid’s bonnets?), because today we’re…

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  • A Place Where It Rains

The Notorious CPG: A Tribute to Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Resisting Bad Faith

  • Tracy Townsend
  • Posted on July 3, 2018February 26, 2019

There are few writers whose name creates as immediate and profound a sense of recognition…

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  • Birthday

Celebrating Virginia Woolf’s Sapphic Fiction

  • Linda H. Codega
  • Posted on January 25, 2018January 20, 2019

Virginia Woolf is a work of art. Her fiction, although sometimes dense and hard to…

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  • Birthday

Happy Birthday, Shirley Jackson!

  • Danielle Perry
  • Posted on December 14, 2017May 21, 2020

When I wrote about Shirley Jackson and The Haunting of Hill House three years ago,…

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  • Birthday

Happy Birthday, Tamora Pierce–May your Pen Stay Sharp.

  • Linda H. Codega
  • Posted on December 13, 2017May 21, 2020

There are few authors that can stand on a history of writing like Tamora Pierce.…

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  • Birthday

Happy birthday, Madeleine L’Engle!

  • Jen Gheller
  • Posted on November 29, 2017May 21, 2020

On this day in 1918, science fiction author Madeleine L’Engle was born. She is best…

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  • Birthday

Happy Birthday Elizabeth Hand & Mary Gentle!

  • Cheryl Wollner
  • Posted on March 29, 2017May 21, 2020

Today we celebrate two female genre writers: Elizabeth Hand (1957- ) and Mary Gentle (1956-…

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