Guy de Maupassant (5 August, 1859 – 6 July, 1893), who wrote under several pseudonyms, was a French writer and a master of short stories.
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.
Lord Byron (22 January, 1788 – 19 April, 1824) was an English aristocrat and a romantic poet who is known for his work as well as his scandalous private life.
When his poetry book, El cencerro de cristal, didn’t sell Güiraldes threw the unsold copies into a well. His wife, Adelina del Carril, fished them out and now they are sought after collectibles.
Christopher Marlowe (6 February, 1564 – 30 May, 1593) was an English translator, poet and playwright who influenced Shakespeare
When Madame Bovary was serialized in a newspaper, the French government sued the author and publisher on charges of immorality. The government lost.
The end of the original scroll is a ragged edge where Kerouac wrote “Ate by Patchkee, a dog”, so no one really knows the original ending.
Sir Walter Scott – a poet, historian, and biographer born in Scotland, often considered both the inventor and the best practitioner of the historical novel