What play won the first Pulitzer Prize?
Why Marry? by Jesse L. Williams won the first Pulitzer Prize in 1918.
Why Marry? by Jesse L. Williams won the first Pulitzer Prize in 1918.
The original title of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake was Work in Progress during the seventeen years of its composition (1922-39). Parts of it were published under that title before the work was completed.
In Charles Perrault’s original version (1697), the wolf devours Little Red Riding Hood, the “prettiest girl that ever was seen.” In the Brothers Grimm version (1812), called “Little Red Cap,” a hunter cuts open the wolf with a pair of scissors and frees the girl and her grandmother.
Russian writer Ivan Turgenev coined the word “nihilist” in his 1862 novel Fathers and Sons.
Sam Shepard’s first play was The Tooth of Crime (1973). His later plays include Buried Child (1979) and True West (1980).
Alexander Pope’s expression of charity, “To err is human, to forgive divine” appears in An Essay on Criticism (1711).
The unhappy Werther’s beloved in Goethe’s novel The Sorrows of Young Werther is Lotte.