10 Interesting Fact About Famous writers and their literary works
10 Interesting Fact About Famous writers and their literary works
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J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings, created his own fictional language called Elvish.
Charles Dickens, writer Oliver Twist, sleeps facing north because he believes it will increase his creativity.
Virginia Woolf, Author Mrs. Dalloway, often writing while standing.
Franz Kafka, author of The Metamorphosis, suffered greatly from anxiety and depression, and only published a few works during his life.
Agatha Christie, writer Murder on the Orient Express, is an amateur archeologist and has participated in an expedition to Syria in the 1930s.
Ernest Hemingway, author of The Old Man and The Sea, is an extreme sports addict and has participated in hunting, fishing, and Toro racing in Spain.
Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaids Tale, was once a candidate to become the Mayor of Toronto.
Arthur Conan Doyle, author of Sherlock Holmes, believes in the existence of supernatural beings such as Peri and ELF.
George Orwell, 1984 author, is actually not the original name. His real name is Eric Arthur Blair.
Jane Austen, the writer of Pride and Prejudice, has many fans to date, there are even groups that offer himself to study and commemorate his works, called Janeites.
