What was Said’s real name?
Said’s real name was H. H. Munro (1870-1916).
The Scottish fiction writer and playwright was born in Burma and killed by a sniper in France during World War I.
Said’s real name was H. H. Munro (1870-1916).
The Scottish fiction writer and playwright was born in Burma and killed by a sniper in France during World War I.
The hero of William Faulkner’s Light in August is Joe Christmas. He was a man believed to be part black, who murders a white woman named Joanna Burden and is castrated and killed for it.
The title of Sean O’Casey’s The Plough and the Stars refers to the banner of the Irish Citizens Army, of which O’Casey was once a member. The play concerns members of the army before and during the Easter Rising in 1916.
Edward Bellamy looking backward from the year 2000 in Looking Backward.
These occupations of characters in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (c. 1387-1400) refer to the following: summoner—an officer who summoned suspects before the ecclesiastical courts canon’s yeoman—an attendant of a canon; a canon was a clergyman associated with a cathedral or large church franklin—a prosperous country man of low birth manciple—a steward of a community of lawyers…
For nearly ten years the short story writer Guy de Maupassant apprenticed himself to Flaubert to learn to write fiction.
Robert Graves wrote one sequel to I, Claudius, Claudius the God, published in 1934. It charts Claudius’s rule from 41 A.D. until his poisoning by his wife Agrippina in 54 A.D.