What novel won the first Pulitzer Prize?
His Family by Ernest Poole won the first Pulitzer Prize in 1918.
His Family by Ernest Poole won the first Pulitzer Prize in 1918.
The character Professor Henry Higgins in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion was based on a British scholar of phonetics and Old English named Henry Sweet. His works included History of English Sounds (1874).
George F. Babbitt, the lead character in Sinclair Lewis’s Babbitt (1922), is a real-estate dealer in Zenith, an average American city. He is married to Myra Babbitt; his children are named Verona and Ted.
Archibald Macleish (1892-1982) said, “A poem should not mean/But be” in Ars Poetica.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde didn’t exist, but there was a Scottish cabinetmaker named William Brodie who inspired Robert Louis Stevenson’s story. Brodie, a respected businessman by day, wore a mask and led a gang of robbers by night. Born in 1741, Brodie was hanged in 1788. The story interested Stevenson and inspired The Strange…
The alternative title to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was The Modern Prometheus.
Marvin Neil Simon’s (1927) first Broadway play was Barefoot in the Park, about a young married couple living in New York City. It was produced in 1963.