Authors' Day
Fri, Nov 01
|Location is TBD
If you’ve known the pains of writing a story will understand that writing a whole book is no easy task. Authors’ Day commemorates all the wonders that have been spun into the world by the pen of these creative souls, but especially those works of the Author.
Time & Location
Nov 01, 2019, 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM
Location is TBD
About the event
It was 1928, and the Illinois Women’s Club was meeting yet again to enjoy the writings of some of their favourite authors. Nellie Verne Burt McPherson decided to bring up the idea of having a day dedicated to American Authors and brought it up amongst her fellow club members. Nellie had spent her life as a teacher and an avid lover of literature, and one day had written a letter to Irving’s Bacheller while she was recovering in a hospital in WWI. She had thoroughly enjoyed Irving’s story “Eben Holden’s Last Day A’ Fishin”, and was overjoyed to receive an autographed copy of another story he had written.
So, touched by this show of appreciation by her favourite author that she determined that the only way she could properly show her appreciation was by setting aside a day to honour all American Authors, and to do so she submitted her…