Fun Facts Friday

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.

10 years ago

Fun Facts Friday: Herman Melville

Herman Melville (1 August, 1819 – 28 September, 1891) was an American writer and poet, and writer of short stories. Melville…

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Fun Facts Friday: Elias Canetti

Elias Canetti (25 July, 1905 – 14 August, 1994) was a novelist, non-fiction writer, memoirist and playwright. Mr. Elias was…

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Fun Facts Friday: Animal Farm

In “Animal Farm” Orwell criticized the Russian Government and communism.

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Fun Facts Friday: E.B. White

White did not underestimate his young audience, in fact he told the Paris review that “You have to write up,…

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Fun Facts Friday: Charlemae Hill Rollins

Among her many awards and honors, Mrs. Rollins was the first African-American to receive an honorary life membership in the…

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Fun Facts Friday: William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats (13 June, 1865- 28 January, 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer. He is considered…

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Fun Facts Friday: Alexander Pushkin

Pushkin's great-grandfather, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, was born in Northern Abyssinia (Ethiopia) in the 1690s. Abram was kidnapped from Ethiopia when…

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Fun Facts Friday: Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin (30 May, 1835 – 2 June, 1913) was the Poet Laureate of England in 1896. Mr. Austin was…

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