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3) Ironically enough, William Shakespeare’s family were all illiterate.
4) Ernest Hemingway once stole a urinal from his favorite bar, claiming that he had ‘p***** away’ enough in it to deserve it.
5) To this day there are still books being released by Robert Ludlum (author of the Jason Bourne series), however Ludlum passed away back in 2001. His name is used as a pen name by many authors that want to carry on his name.
6) After his unfortunate death in 1892, the tomb that Walt Whitman was buried in was one that he had designed and built himself.
7) Ayn Rand moved to America from Russia by lying to Russian authorities on the length of her stay. Upon arrival to the states, she quickly fell in love with being able to write whatever she wanted without fear of government interference.
8) Henry David Thoreau’s ‘Civil Disobedience’ is credited with inspiring the leaders of many protest movements such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Mohandas Ghandi.
9) Virginia Woolf struggled with many mental illnesses and anorexia throughout her life. Her battle with depression eventually got the best of her in 1941 after her house was bombed by the Germans in the Blitz. She committed suicide by filling her pockets with rocks and drowning herself.
10) During his school days, F Scott Fitzgerald, author of ‘The Great Gatsby’, was a terrible student and could not spell to save his life. Even during his college days he was notorious for misusing words commonly.
