Neil Gaiman wrote a novelization of the television series that was first released in 1996, during the television show's transmission. This was accompanied by a spoken word release on CD and cassette. A nine-issue comic book limited series began in June 2005, The comic is an adaptation inspired by the novelization, rather than the original TV series. Source: Neverwhere... Continue Reading →
Dennis Lehane was born in Massachusetts and his novels are almost always set in or around Boston,Massachusetts. When he was due to attend the Cannes film festival's opening day in 2003 he chose to speak at his alma mater for that years graduating class instead of walking the red carpet. His last day job was as... Continue Reading →
During Tolkien’s time as a professor of Anglo-Saxon philology and literature at Oxford, one of his students was poet WH Auden, who supported the The Lord of the Rings, contradicting detractors who insisted it had no literary merit. In his 1954 New York Times review of Fellowship of the Ring, Auden wrote: “The Hobbit is... Continue Reading →
Mario Puzo had invented the term ‘The Godfather’ for the novel. It didn’t exist. That's not all that was invented by Puzo. According to Francis Ford Coppola, who made the movie, the term "Don Corleone" is wrong. In Italian, addressing someone as "Don" is the same as addressing them as "Uncle" in English. Correct usage would... Continue Reading →
Margaret Mitchell claimed that she had never intended to publish "Gone With the Wind". In 1935, a friend of hers told Harold Latham, a visiting editor from the MacMillan publishing company, about the book. After some persuasion, Ms. Mitchell took the manuscript, almost as tall as she was, to his hotel. After Margaret gave her... Continue Reading →
The title of William Golding's Debut novel, Lord of the Flies, is a popular translation of Beelzebub, the demon (devil) of the underworld according to Christian Mythology. Further, the title is a break down of "Lord" and "Flies" which denote the two ends of the spectrum of Life: Majestic power (Lord) and Decaying Death (Flies) put... Continue Reading →
Frederick Forsyth has been known to go all the way for all his research material for his thrillers.There are reports that say he prevented a near death call when he ran for his life after finding out that the underworld gun dealer he was about to meet found out that he was a writer looking... Continue Reading →
For all the brilliance and the awards that Maclean had been heaped with he didn’t have a very romantic notion about writing nor about his own ability. MacLean himself had a very clear concept of his work: "I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique." Many... Continue Reading →
In 1928 Antoine de Saint Exupéry became the director of the remote Cap Juby airfield in Rio de Oro, Sahara (He had joined the French Air Force, flying reconnaissance missions until France's armistice with Germany in 1940). His house was a wooden shack and he slept on a thin straw mattress. In this isolation Saint-Exupéry learned to love... Continue Reading →
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