What play won the first Pulitzer Prize?
Why Marry? by Jesse L. Williams won the first Pulitzer Prize in 1918.
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Was there a real Robinson Crusoe?
Daniel Defoe based The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719-20) on the real-life story of Alexander Selkirk (1676-1721), a Scottish sailor who survived for more than four years on the desert island of Juan Fernandez off the Chilean coast. He became a celebrity after his rescue and homecoming in 1709.
What is Edgar Allan Poe’s epitaph?
Edgar Allan Poe’s epitaph was “Quoth the Raven nevermore,” from his poem “The Raven” (1845).
In what Shakespeare play does a character “Exit, pursued by a bear”?
In The Winter’s Tale, Act III, Scene 3. Antigonus, a lord of Sicilia, runs for his life after hearing “A savage clamor!” He doesn’t make it; his death is reported later in the scene.
What poem contains the line, “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold”?
William Butler Yeats’s “The Second Coming” (1920) contains the line, “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold”.
What is the name of the minor-league team in Mark Harris’s Bang the Drum Slowly (1956)?
The name of the minor-league team in Mark Harris’s Bang the Drum Slowly is The New York Mammoths. The novel’s narrator is Henry Wiggen, star pitcher for the Mammoths.
What was Hiawatha’s tribe?
The hero of Longfellow’s Song of Hiawatha (1855) belonged to the Mohawk tribe, one of the Five Nations of the Iroquois.