Wilkie Collins (8 January, 1824 – 23 September, 1889) was a popular English author best known for The Woman in White and The Moonstone. Mr. Collins is credited with writing novels full of intrigue and mystery, forerunners to today’s popular detective novels.
Green Lantern’s oath (“In the brightest day, in darkest night”) is credited to Mr. Bester.
Mr. Woolrich’s noir stories were adapted to screenplays more than any other writer.
Selma Lagerlöf (20 November, 1858 – 16 March, 1940) was a prize winning author from Sweden. “1959 CPA 2284” by Post of USSR http://kolekzioner.net/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=224. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons. Lagerlöf was born with a hip injury and gotten an illness which […]
Kurt Vonnegut (11 November, 1922 – 11 April, 2007) was a prolific American author, best known for his 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five.
Only two works of Chénier were published during his lifetime, he got his reputation posthumously.
In 2007 Mrs. Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature. She was the eleventh (and oldest) woman to win the prize
The first federal copyright laws (1790) were instituted much due to Mr. Webster’s efforts to protect his work (even though he “borrowed” as well).
Tadeusz Różewicz (9 October, 1921 – 24 April, 2014) was a renowned Polish poet “Różewicz cropped” by Michał Kobyliński from http://gilling.info/ – Poetyckie Foto Niusy – File:Rozewicz Grass.JPG. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5 via Commons. During World War II Mr. Różewicz was […]
In 1936 Mr. Stevens broke his hand while punching the jaw of one Ernest Hemingway.