Life of Pi was published in 2001 to warm, although somewhat mixed, critical reception. But the popularity of the book went through the roof after the writer won the Man Booker Prize and became an international best-seller. There were those who had problems with the book as what they saw as Martel’s heavy-handedness with the issue... Continue Reading →
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He studied in Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria. Ghosh's work has been translated into more than twenty languages, and he has served on the Jury of the Locarno Film Festival (Switzerland) and the Venice Film Festival (2001). He has taught in... Continue Reading →
Carroll suffered from a bad stammer, but he found himself vocally fluent when speaking with children. The relationships he had with young people in his adult years undoubtedly inspired his best-known writings. Carroll loved to entertain children, and it was Alice, the daughter of Henry George Liddell his dean at Oxford who can be credited... Continue Reading →
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 →
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