Winding Up the Week #472

An end of week recap “It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” – Ursula K. Le Guin Hello, winders of the world. I’m back – sun‑warmed, page‑turned and ready to share my latest literary findings with you! There are hordes of well-loved writers with birthdays today, including the English novelist, diarist and playwright Fanny Burney (1752), Irish poet, dramatist and writer William Butler Yeats (1863), Portuguese poet, writer and literary critic Fernando Pessoa (1888), English crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers (1893), Spanish writer associated with the Generation of ’36 movement Gonzalo Torrente Ballester (1910), Paraguayan novelist and short-story writer Augusto Roa Bastos (1917), Northern Irish author Colin Bateman (1962) and American writer Audrey Niffenegger (1963). Sunday is similarly overflowing with literary types born on this day, among them American author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811), French poet and member of…