Who created Tom Swift?
Edward Stratemeyer, under the pseudonym Victor Appleton created Tom Swift.
Edward Stratemeyer, under the pseudonym Victor Appleton created Tom Swift.
The alternative title to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was The Modern Prometheus.
The Fugitives and Agrarians were a group of writers associated with Vanderbilt University in Nashville in the 1920s and 1930s. The most famous of the group were Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Donald Davidson.
Alice Liddell, daughter of Henry George Liddell, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford was the model for Alice in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
The Mill on the Floss is the Dorlcote Mill, located in St. Ogg’s on the River Floss. It is owned by Edward Tulliver, father of Maggie Tulliver, central character of George Eliot’s 1860 novel, The Mill on the Floss.
The A.A. in A. A. Milne stands for Alan Alexander. Milne is best known as the author of Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner (1928).
The source of the title of Thomas Wolfe’s novel Look Homeward, Angel (1929) was John Milton’s poem “Lycidas” (1637). Milton asks his dead friend, now an angel, to look back compassionately on his still-living friends: Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth: And, 0 ye dolphins, waft the hapless youth.