Fun Facts Friday

Fun Facts Friday: Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller is father-in-law to actor Daniel Day Lewis, who is married to his daughter Rebecca.

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Fun Facts Friday: Harold Pinter

7. Pregnant pauses were Pinter’s best-known literary mannerism, in fact, an awkward silence suggesting menace was coined as “Pinteresque”.The term…

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Fun Facts Friday: T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot loved Groucho Marx and even wrote him a fan letter and kept his picture on the wall. The…

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Fun Facts Friday: Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham (19 September, 1867 – 6 September, 1939) was an English book illustrator whose work is still sought out…

10 years ago

Fun Facts Friday: Michael Ondaatje

The protagonist of The English Patient, Hana, is the daughter of the protagonist from an earlier novel Mr. Onadaatje wrote…

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Fun Facts Friday: On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The end of the original scroll is a ragged edge where Kerouac wrote “Ate by Patchkee, a dog”, so no…

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Fun Facts Friday: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (29 August, 1809 – 7 October, 1894) was a Cambridge, MA native known for his poetry and…

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Fun Facts Friday: Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury didn’t like computers or eBooks, believing that the Internet was “distracting”. However his stance softened when his agent…

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Fun Facts Friday: Sir Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott - a poet, historian, and biographer born in Scotland, often considered both the inventor and the best…

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Fun Facts Friday: Brian Aldiss

In 1958 Mr. Aldiss was voted as Most Promising New Author at the Word Science Fiction Convention.

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