- Which author left Harvard without a diploma because he felt the $5 fee was too much to pay?
- Which author wrote a letter to her niece stating, “Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones.—It is not fair.—He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people’s mouths.—I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverly if I can help it—but fear I must.”?
- In 2004, the US defense budgeted $1 million to bring productions of which Shakespeare play to military bases?
- Who was the first poet buried at Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey?
- Daniel Defoe changed from his original last name to Defoe because he found it “more socially and upward sounding.” What was his original last name?
Last Week's Answers
- William Sydney Porter/O.Henry
- Mary Westmacott/Agatha Christie
- Amandine Dudevant/George Sand
- Francois Marie Arouet/Voltaire
- Eric Blair/George Orwell
- Charles Dodgson/Lewis Carroll
- Mary Ann Evans/George Eliot
2 comments:
2. Jane Austen
4. Chaucer
1. Thoreau
2. Hillary Rodham ... ?
3. Henry V
4. Chaucer
5. Defriend ... he was a little confused.
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