Who invented Mary Poppins?
P. L. Travers invented Mary Poppins, in a series of books beginning with Mary Poppins in 1934.
P. L. Travers invented Mary Poppins, in a series of books beginning with Mary Poppins in 1934.
The satire of America, called The Confidence Man, was the last work of Herman Melville published in his lifetime. It was published in 1857 to little public notice. Melville died in 1891.
William Butler Yeats’s “The Second Coming” (1920) contains the line, “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold”.
John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1819) contains the line “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”.
The original title of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake was Work in Progress during the seventeen years of its composition (1922-39). Parts of it were published under that title before the work was completed.
Robert Frost won four Pulitzer prizes, for New Hampshire (1924), Collected Poems (1931), A Further Range (1937), and A Witness Tree (1943).
Edward Stratemeyer, under the pseudonym Victor Appleton created Tom Swift.