Tragically, the alienation of anti-hero Holden Caulfield has resonated with society's sociopaths. After assassinating John Lennon in 1980, Mark David Chapman was found by police casually thumbing through a copy of The Catcher in the Rye. Chapman later claimed that the novel was his statement and that it provided the answer to why he'd killed... Continue Reading →
William Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616, at the age of 52—not bad for an era when the average life expectancy ranged between 30 and 40 years. Despite his swift demise, Shakespeare supposedly had the wherewithal to pen the epitaph over his tomb, which is located inside a Stratford church. Intended to thwart the numerous... Continue Reading →
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, or Plum to his friends, was an enormously popular comic novelist with a career spanning more than 70 years. His tales of Jeeves and Wooster still captivate readers today after almost 4 decades. His father was a British judge in Hong Kong and at the age of three Wodehouse was placed into... Continue Reading →
For Robert Ludlum, life has indeed been his most endearing mentor. He published his first book. And the world suddenly went dark. He was not able to remember anything for twelve hours. It was as though he no longer existed. No name. No memory. No past. Ludlum’s affliction with temporary amnesia formed the backdrop for his most successful... Continue Reading →
Palahniuk began writing fiction in his thirties while attending writer’s workshops, hosted by Tom Spanbauer, who inspired Palahniuk’s minimalistic writing style. His initial works were rejected publication mostly because of the amount of disturbing content. However, Palahniuk managed to get one of his short stories published in a compilation in 1995.The story later became... Continue Reading →
Robert Harris got started as a writer when he won a contract to write a biography of John le Carré. But le Carré said the book could not be published until his death, so Harris started roughing out a novel exploring what would have happened if the Nazis had won the war. He says that... Continue Reading →
C.S Lewis was hugely popular as a teacher – with students. Lewis's Oxford lectures on medieval literature were standing room only with some students sitting in the windows. But some professors resented his popularity. Theologians, in particular, didn't appreciate Lewis invading their academic territory – with more success than they had. Also, his orthodox Christian... Continue Reading →
Michael Crichton is pronounced like "Cry-ten". It  rhymes with frighten. Crichton's first best-seller, The Andromeda Strain (1969), was published while he was still in medical school. The author sky-rocketed to popularity in the 1990s, when director Steven Spielberg turned his book Jurassic Park(1993) into one of the highest-grossing films of all time. Crichton also created the medical... Continue Reading →
Charles Dickens was forced to leave school after his father was jailed for "Bad Debts and so Charles started to work in a blacking factory (a boot polish factory). The conditions were very poor and Charles Dickens suffered from loneliness. It was this phase of his life that Dickens blew life into when he... Continue Reading →
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