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Kurt Vonnegut Day: The Book That Took Twenty YearsAlice’s Day: The Story Told on a Rowing BoatNational Library Lovers Month: The Building a Town Pays ForF. Scott Fitzgerald Day: The Masterpiece That FloppedRaymond Chandler Day: The Novelist Who Started at FiftyJohn Steinbeck Day: The Reporter Who Wrote the NovelInternational Translation Day: The Invisible AuthorsMaya Angelou Day: The Dare That Became a MemoirSuperman Day: The $130 Contract Behind the CapeNational Podcast Day: The Interview Is the Raw MaterialTell a Fairy Tale Day: The Stories Everybody EditedHarry Potter’s Birthday: The Book Twelve Publishers MissedHarper Lee Day: The Draft Her Editor Saw ThroughGene Roddenberry Day: The Pilot Who Pitched the StarsRoald Dahl Day: Six Pencils and a Grudge Against Grown-UpsInternational Literacy Day: The Readers Books LoseJack Kerouac Day: The Scroll and the Last AddressFyodor Dostoevsky Day: The Novels Written Against the ClockStephen King Day: The Daily Two ThousandZora Neale Hurston Day: The Ear She TrainedBack to the Future Day: The Script Where Everything Pays OffEncourage a Young Writer Day: The Adult Who Read the PagesElmore Leonard Day: Leave Out the Part Readers SkipRobert E. Howard Day: The Texan Who Built ConanIan Fleming Day: Two Thousand Words a MorningEmily Dickinson Day: The Poems in the DrawerElmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing, and Which Ones I BreakShould Your Novel Have a Prologue? When a Cold Open Earns Its Place“People Who Use AI Deserve to Be Castrated”: When the Sentence Outruns the CrimeHow Famous Memoirs Were Really Written: What the Collaborators DidFlorida RoadkillStranger in a Strange LandCampus BattlefieldShattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of MidwayOpen: An AutobiographyLifeBeneath a Scarlet SkyThe Phone Book: The Curious History of the Book That Everyone Uses But No One ReadsThe Bell JarThe Columbia Restaurant: Celebrating a Century of History, Culture, and CuisineSam Walton: Made in America: My StoryThe MAGA DoctrineDid I Ever Tell You This?: A MemoirThe Sage of SagittariusPa’anAmerican SoldierThe Melting Point: High Command and War in the 21st CenturyMake Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life…And Maybe the WorldRadioIt Doesn’t Take a Hero

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Actor: Maureen Stapleton

Maureen Stapleton won Best Supporting Actress for Reds and was nominated three other times, and won a Tony and an Emmy as well. Airport gave her a bomber’s wife whose scenes are the only genuinely serious material in that film. She was famously afraid of flying, which she noted the irony of.

Airport (1970) film poster

Airport (1970)

George Seaton's 1970 airline disaster film. Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Helen Hayes Oscar.

Reds (1981) film poster

Reds (1981)

Warren Beatty's 1981 John Reed biopic. American journalist who covered the Russian Revolution.