Theodor Seuss Geisel known as Dr. Seuss died on September 24, 1991, at age eighty-seven.
Dr. Seuss had written about fifty books that sold more than 200 million copies.
His last book, Oh, the Places You’ll Go (1990), was still on the bestseller list when he died.
Yes, Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym (1838) is based upon actual events. The adventures of J. N. Reynolds is about a stowaway who survived a mutiny, cannibalism, and other adventures.
Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde was written between 1385-90.
The Latin translation of the Bible was written mostly by St. Jerome in 382-384 A.D. The term comes from Latin editio vulgata, “spread among the people.”
John Berryman commit suicide on January 7, 1972. He jumped off a bridge into the Mississippi River. He was fifty-eight.
Philip Freneau (1752-1832), whose poems include “American Liberty” (1775) and “The Indian Burying Ground” (1788), is known as the “poet of the American Revolution”. He was a favorite of Thomas JefferÂson’s.
A scrivener is a copier of legal documents.