John McPhee's Birthday

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From the Writer's Almanac (scroll down a bit). McPhee is one of my all-time, enduring favorite authors.

[McPhee's] goal as a young writer was to write for The New Yorker, but it took 14 years of being rejected before he published his first article there. During those years, he said, "I tried everything, sometimes with hilarious results. I think that young writers have to roll around like oranges on a conveyor belt. They have to try it all."