Story of Writing August 12, 2026

from The Story of Writing · host Jon Brown

Isaac Singer gets the patent for the sewing machine, Sue Hendrickson discovers the best and most complete T. rex skeleton, NAFTA is born, and the birthday club includes Radclyffe Hall, Erwin Schrodinger, William Goldman, and Mary Roberts Rinehart - with a reading from Rinehart's "Writing is Work."

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