I recently read Bram Stoker’s Dracula and enjoyed it very much a well written story, here is a special Halloween edition of Fun Facts Friday
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas has been one of my favorite novels for years, ever since I was a little boy. I’m glad to see that a new movie has been made, movies of famous books always generate interest in the original and get new following. Alexander Dumas based the book on historical events, but also took great liberties. It seems Dumas was more interested in writing good fiction than accurate history. However, those persons who did exist he captured without many grave errors.
October 14 1822, the anniversary of poet Victor Hugo & his childhood sweetheart Adèle Foucher. The marriage survived infidelities, children and scandal.
Today, October 7 in the year 1955 poet Allen Ginsberg read his seminal poem “Howl” at Six Gallery in San Francisco, California
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. As you can tell, I am a fan because I think that Don Quixote is still one the most relevant stories in the world.
September 23, 1862 marks the wedding of one of them the most tumultuous couples in literary history when Leo Tolstoy married Sophie Andreyevna Behrs
Award winning author Stephen Jay Gould (September 10, 1941 – May 20, 2002). A scholar as well as an author, Mr. Gould won many awards for his work.
Author and cartoonist Mort Walker is mostly known for creating the comic strip Beetle Bailey in 1950 as well as Hi and Lois in 1954
Theodore Dreiser is known for many things, among them are the situations he created which resemble nature studies more than the philosophical choice of agency
While many people had issues with Bestselling author Jacqueline Susann’s writing skills, she did write several best sellers.
