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NOVEMBER 15, 2009
What Famous Author?

 What famous author?

1.created the ToysRUs Kids campaign
2. started his life as Charles Lutwidge Dodson
3. was worth 30 million in 2008
4.was a pulitzer prizer winning novel (1931) was rejected because Americans are "not interested in anything Chinese"
5. disappeared from her Berkshire, England home in 1926 and was missing for 11 days
6.created the character Bertha Cool but was best know for his male character with the initials P.M.
7.earned $15 a month working in a mouse house, feeding mice used in medical expirements
8. got inspiration for his book by answering this question "What's the silliesy, least likely vampire I can imagine?"
9.wrote "A Boy named Sue" immortalized by Johnny Cash
10. was a ghost writer for R.L. Stine

Bonus:  wrote an estimated 100,000 letters of which 20,000 still survive today
 

I hope you had as much fun as me trying to answer these questions. If you don't know the answers you can find them in a gem of a book just added to our collection:
 

Under the Covers and Between the Sheets: The Inside Story Behind Classic Characters, Authors, Unforgettable Phrases, and Unexpected Endings
C. Alan Joyce & Satah Janssen

I came across this book in a preview copy at Book Expo 2009, New York, which Su, Megan and I attended this past June. In a sea of thousands of publishers and books soon to hit the market, I knew this was one I wanted to purchase and share with you. Under the Covers gives you the inside story and is chock full of little known facts and trivia about some of your famous authors. Divided into chapters with such fun titles as Shot Out of the Canon: simply the best: tantalizing trivia about some of the greatest works in Western liteature, Young At Heart: Books you loved as a kid, books to revisit with your kids, Time to Make the Donuts: Odd jobs and moonlighting gigs of famous authors: brainy inventors, sexy rock & rollers, and more, it's the perfect book for lazing away a few hours.Both authors are great fact finders as they are Editorial Director for World Almanac Books and Editor of The World Almanac and Book of Facts, respectively. Includes an index which can be helpful in case you lose the fact you want to quote.

"Oh, Did you think I was going to leave you without the answers? For those of you who want to know and can't get your hands on the book:"

1. James Patterson
2.Lewis Carroll
3.J.K Rowling
4.Pearl Buck - The Good Earth
5. Agatha Christie
6.Earle Stanley Gardner creator of Perry Mason
7.Arthur Miller
8. James Howe creator of Bunnicula
9. Shel Silverstein
10. Tom Perotta

Bonus H.P. Lovecraft


 


 


 


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