10 Interesting Fact About Famous authors and their works

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• J.K. Rowling, writer Harry Potter, actually wrote his first book in a cafe because his house did not have a heater.
• Ernest Hemingway, author for Whom The Bell Tolls, is known as an extreme sports fan such as fishing sharks and hunting.
• Margaret Mitchell, the writer of Gone with The Wind, refused to give an interview after his book was published and never wrote a book again.
• Agatha Christie, author of Murder on the Orient Express, is a pharmacist who was inspired by the stories of patients who came to his pharmacy.
• Roald Dahl, writer Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, had worked as a British intelligence agent during World War II.
• George Orwell, an animal farm writer, is actually named Eric Blair and once worked as a police officer in Burma.
• Jane Austen, the writer of Pride and Prejudice, initially wrote with a pseudonym A Lady because at that time, writing was considered an inappropriate job for women.
• Toni Morrison, the writer of Beloved, was a literary professor at Princeton University and became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize of Literature.
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, has lived in a hotel in Paris that is now a hostel and is equipped with Fitzgerald's room.
• Harper Lee, writer to kill a mockingbird, never wrote another book after a big success with his first novel.