Merlin the sorcerer first appeared in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s The History of the Kings of Britain (1137).
This Latin prose work by the English chronicler also helped build the legend of Merlin’s protégé, King Arthur.
His Family by Ernest Poole won the first Pulitzer Prize in 1918.
The subtitle of Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo is A Tale of the Seaboard.
Edward Bellamy looking backward from the year 2000 in Looking Backward.
The hero of Longfellow’s Song of Hiawatha (1855) belonged to the Mohawk tribe, one of the Five Nations of the Iroquois.
The author of Gone With the Wind (1936) Margaret Mitchell died in 1949 at age forty-eight after being hit by a taxi in Atlanta. The author of Gone With the Wind (1936) died in 1949 at age forty-eight after being hit by a taxi in Atlanta.
Thomas Shadwell was refer to as “Mac Flecknoe”, a playwright whose work John Dryden despised. Dryden satirized Shadwell as the son of (“Mac”) Richard Flecknoe, another bad contemporary poet.