What is Toni Morrison’s real name?
The author of the novels Song of Solomon (1977) and Beloved (1987) Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford.
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Was Erle Stanley Gardner, the creator of Perry Mason ever a lawyer?
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How are Gargantua and Pantagruel related?
In Rabelais’s French satire Gargantua and Pantagruel (1533), Gargantua is Pantagruel’s father. Both are giants who go on humorous adventures.
In what year is C. J. Koch’s The Year of Living Dangerously (1978) set?
C. J. Koch’s The Year of Living Dangerously is set in 1965, the year of Suharto’s overthrow of Sukarno’s Indonesian government.
What were the names of the Brothers Grimm?
The names of the Brothers Grimm were Jacob Ludwig and Wilhelm Carl.
Who was George Eliot’s (1819-80) living companion?
Writer George Henry Lewes (1817-78), who was officially married to another woman, Agnes, but unable to get a divorce, was George Eliot’s (1819-80) living companion. Eliot and Lewes lived together from 1854 until his death in 1878.