Fun Facts Friday: Voltaire
Fun Facts Friday , Latest Posts / November 21, 2014

The name Voltaire, which the author started using in 1718, is an anagram of “AROVET LI,” the Latinized spelling of Arouet and the initial letters of “le jeune” (“the young”). Many saw the adoption of the name, which followed his incarceration at the Bastille, as a formal separation from his family and past.

Fun Facts Friday: Albert Camus
Fun Facts Friday , Latest Posts / November 7, 2014

5) In 1940 Camdus moved to Paris and met Francine Faure, a pianist and a mathematician. The two fell in love and gotthen married that same year. The couple had twins in 1945, Francine would also be part of the Manhattan Project

Fun Facts Friday: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Fun Facts Friday , Latest Posts / October 31, 2014

At first Frankenstein was published anonymously (1818) to scathing reviews (“a tissue of horrible and disgusting absurdity”). A play in 1823 made the story popular and the book appeared in print again (1831), but with significant changes including crediting Mary Shelley with the authorship.

Fun Facts Friday: Moss Hart
Fun Facts Friday , Latest Posts / October 24, 2014

Moss Hart (24 October, 1904 – 20 December, 1961) was an American theater directory, playwright and TV personality. Moss Hart was born in New York City to Jewish Immigrants. The Moss family lived in The Bronx. Hart was attached to his Aunt Kate who piqued his interest in theater. Hart got his directorial start in amateur theaters and summer resorts. Once in a Lifetime, a comedy about the arrival of sound in Hollywood, was Hart’s first Broadway hit. Hart’s play, You Can’t Take It With You, won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for drama. Hart was the host of an early television game show, Answer Yes or No, in 1950 Characters in Hart’s play, The Man Who Came To Dinner, are based on Alexander Woollcott (critic and friend), Noël Coward, Harpo Marx and Gertrude Lawrence. Hart won the Tony for Best Director in 1956 for My Fair Lady. Hart was nominated for an Oscar for the screenplay of 1947’s Gentleman’s Agreement, 1952’s Hans Christian Andersen, and 1954’s A Star Is Born. Moss Hart was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1972, 11 years after his death. Zohar – Man of la Book Moss Hart was inducted into the…

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