LITERARY FACTS

1.

Saul Bellow is the only American author to win three National Book Awards, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize (1976).

2.

Saul Bellow was married five times.

3.

Robert Frost died in Boston on January 29, 1963.

4.

Robert Lowell (1917-1977) was winner of three Pulitzer Prizes.

5.

Ernest Hemingway, winner of the Pulitzer Prize (1953) for his masterpiece The Old Man And The Sea, and Nobel Prize for literature in 1954, committed suicide in July 2, 1961.

6.

William Faulkner (1897-1962), one of the greatest American novelists, was rejected by U. S. Army for being underweight and too short ( 5 feet 5 inches).

7.

Samuel Becket’s poem WHOROSCOPE (1930) has seventeen footnotes.

8.

When Beckett won the Nobel Prize (1969), his wife Suzanne remarked: “This is a catastrophe.”

9.

The novel The Crook Factory by Dan Simmons reveals Nobel Laureate Hemingway’s World War II experiences in Cuba.

10.

Andre Breton published The Surreal Manifesto in 1924.

11.

While meditating on a boat, Ikkyu experienced satori as he heard the sound of a crow.

12.

Proust (1871-1922) started writing his novel Remembrance of Things Past in 1909, finished just before he died in 1922.

13.

French poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) produced his best works while still in his late teens. He gave up creative writing before he reached 21.