Story of Writing August 18, 2024

The Spanish language gets its grammar rules, women in the U.S. get the right to vote, Nabokov's "Lolita" is published in the U.S., and anti-Apartheid activist Steven Biko is arrested in South Africa. Happy birthday to Antonio Salieri and Margaret Murie - with a reading from "The Marrow of Tradition," by Charles Chesnutt.