Monthly Archives: February 2017

Have you ever wondered about the writing habits of famous writers? Here are some interesting facts I found about when they preferred to do their writing. 

NIGHT WRITERS:  

• Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) – German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, playwright
• Tom Wolfe (1931 – ) – American journalist, author
• Robert Frost (1874-1963) – American poet
• Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) – Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, philosopher
• J. D. Salinger (1919-2010) – American writer known for his novel The Catcher in the Rye
• Franz Kafka (1883-1924) – German-language writer of novels, short stories; widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature
• William Faulkner (1897-1962) – American writer of novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays, screenplays
• Rachel Carson (1907-1964) – American marine biologist and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.
• Marcel Proust (1871-1922) – French novelist, critic, essayist
• John O’Hara (1905-1970) – American writer of short stories; a best-selling novelist before the age of thirty
• Mary Louise Booth (1831-1889) – American editor (including Harper’s Bazaar), translator, writer
• James Baldwin (1924-1987) – American novelist, essayist, poet, playwright, social critic
• Alan Ginsberg (1926-1997) – American poet; a leading figure of both the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the following counterculture
• Pablo Neruda (1904-1973 ) – Chilean poet-diplomat and politician; 1971 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
• James Joyce (1882-1941) – Irish novelist, short story writer, poet; one of the most influential and important authors of the 20th century
• T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) – British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic
• Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) – French novelist and playwright
• Danielle Steel (1947 – ) – American novelist currently the best selling author alive and the fourth best selling fiction author of all time
• Carol Ann Duffy (1955 – ) – Scottish poet and playwright; Britain’s Poet Laureate in May 2009
• Richard Brautigan (1935-1984) – American novelist, poet, short story writer

MORNING WRITERS:

At 4:00 A.M.

•  Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) – American poet, novelist, and short story writer

At 5:00 A.M.

• Jack London (1876-1916) – American novelist, journalist, social activist; a pioneer in commercial magazine fiction; one of the first to obtain fame and fortune from fiction alone, including science fiction

• Katherine Ann Porter (1890-1980) – Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, political activist

• Toni Morrison (1931 – ) – American novelist, editor, Pulitzer and Nobel prize winner

At 5:30 A.M.

• Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) – English novelist of the Victorian era

• Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) – American writer of novels, short story collections, plays, works of non-fiction

At 6:00 A.M.

• W. H. Audsen (1907-1973) – English poet; later became an American citizen

• Graham Greene (1904-1991) – English novelist regarded by some as one of the great writers of the 20th century
  

• Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) – American novelist, short story writer, and journalist
  

• Victor Hugo (1802-1885) – French poet, novelist, dramatist of the Romantic movement; one of the greatest and best-known French writers

• Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) – Russian-American novelist and entomologist. First nine novels were in Russian; achieved international prominence after he began writing English prose

• Edith Wharton (1862-1937) – Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, designer; nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930.

At 7:00 A.M.

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1794-1832) – statesman and German writer of a wide variety of genres
  

At 8:00 A.M.

• Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964) – American writer and essayist; an important voice in American literature, she wrote novels, short stories, reviews, commentaries.
  

• Wallace Stegner (1909-1993) – American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, historian; 1972 Pulitzer Prize winner; 1972 U.S. National Book Award winner
  

At 9:00 A.M.

• C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) – British novelist, poet, academic, essayist, medievalist, literary critic, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, Christian apologist; author of the Narnia Chronicles

• Thomas Mann (1875-1955) – German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist; 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) – Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter, journalist

• Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) – Russian writer Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (in English Leo Tolstoy); regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time

• Gore Vidal (1925-2012) – American writer and a public intellectual with a polished style of writing

• Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) – an English writer; one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century
  

• Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) – an American fantasy, science fiction, horror and mystery fiction author and screenwriter

At 9:30 A.M.

• Carson McCullers (1917-1967) – American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, poet
  

At 10:00 A.M.

• Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) – British playwright, novelist,  short story writer; among the most popular writers of his era

It amazes me how much one can accomplish at the earliest times in the morning. I wouldn’t be able to function during the rest of the day!

Now my question to you is … are you a writer who prefers a certain time to write or a reader who has a preferred reading time? Or maybe you have a best time for exercise or meditation? What time works best for you, and why?

Thanks for reading, and … Creative Musings!  🙂