Boz. Charles Dickens
George Eliot. Mary Ann Evans
George Orwell. Eric Arthur Blair
Ellery Queen. Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee Stendhal. Marie-Henri Beyle
Saki. Hector Hugh Munro
Voltaire. Francois-Marie Arouet
Maksim Gorki. Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov
Marvin Neil Simon’s (1927) first Broadway play was Barefoot in the Park, about a young married couple living in New York City. It was produced in 1963.
James Dickey has written two novels, Deliverance (1970) and Alnilam (1987). Dickey also wrote the screenplay for the 1972 movie Deliverance, and appeared in the film as a sheriff. A poet and critic, Dickey received the National Book Award for poetry in 1966 for Bucketdancer’s Choice (1965).
The three subjects of Gertrude Stein’s Three Lives are as follows: “The Good Anna” is about a German servant, “Melanctha” is about a young black woman, and “The Gentle Lena” is about a German maid.
The 1981 novel Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson is set in Fingerbone, Montana.
None. Hector’s parents, Priam and Hecuba, are both human.
The Trojan priest Laocoon who was killed by sea serpents is a character in Vergil’s Aeneid (c. 19 B.C.).