Mr. Wouk said that the two most important influences on his life were his grandfather and the United States Navy
Honoré de Balzac (20 May, 1799 – 18 August, 1850) – French novelist and playwright, known for his novels and short fictional stories and his keen eye for detail
Victor Hugo was a French author best known for his novels Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. He was also a human rights activist
Darwin loved animals…. He started a club in college which dined on “birds and beasts, which were before unknown to human palate”. While traveling around the globe, he continued to eat exotic animals.
Syd Hoff (4 September, 1912 May, 22004) was a children’s book author and a cartoonist. Books by Syd Hoff Books by Syd Hoff Zohar – Man of la Book
As a young man Mr. Goethe was tutored at home in the usual subjects learned at the time, but specifically in languages. He learned Latin, Greek, French, Italian, English and Hebrew among others.
Down All the Days, an expansion of My Left Foot, was an international best seller was said to be “the most important Irish novel since Ulysses.”
In his book A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (1828) Washington Irving gave birth to the myth that people during Columbus’ time thought the Earth was flat and Columbus set out to prove them wrong. (Inventing the Flat Earth by Jeffrey Russell) In the 1490s people argues about the size of the Earth, not its shape, in fact in 1492, when Columbus set sail, the first globes were produces.
Christopher Marlowe (6 February, 1564 – 30 May, 1593) was an English translator, poet and playwright who influenced Shakespeare
Arthur Miller is father-in-law to actor Daniel Day Lewis, who is married to his daughter Rebecca.
