The lives of writers, novelists, and poets always look fascinating to general readers. It has always been interesting to know some funny incidents or some surprising facts about our favorite writers.
Let us get to know some fun facts closely associated with the lives of writers.
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens wanted to have a downer ending in his famous English novel Great Expectation. However, a friend of author advised him to conclude the story with a happy ending to please more readers. That’s the novel we read today, and it obviously worked.
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway, an American novelist who is best known for his book The Old Man and Sea, once took the urinal from his favorite bar to home, in dispute that he has ‘pissed away’ so much of his money into it that he owned it. Well, great story!
Toni Morrison
Employed as a professor at Howard University, Morrison joined a writing group for fun. She was in her thirties at that time and started working on a story about a little black girl who wished she had blue eyes. Meanwhile, she gets divorced, after which she began working on the story again, and over next few years, it developed into her first novel, The Bluest Eye, first published when Morrison was 39.
Washington Irving
Washington Irving, the famous America short story writer, essayist, biographer and historian, who is best known for her work ‘Rip Van Winkle’ and ‘The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow’ is known to suffer from insomnia.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson had only three students enrolled at the school he opened in 1730s. But one of these three pupils was none other than future actor David Garrick.
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka, one of the major fiction writers of 20th century, put considerable effort with his friend Max Brod to organize three of his works presented as novels after his death. But, Kafka on his own was never successful to make Amerika, The Castel, and The Trial come together. In fact, through a letter, he made a wish to Brod to destroy them along with his other works after his death. As Brod refused to do so, we have Kafka’s three novels published today.
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