Russian poets and writers came up with many new words: substance, thermometer (Lomonosov),
industry (Karamzin),
bungling (Saltykov-Shchedrin),
fade away (Dostoevsky),
mediocrity (Severyanin),
exhausted (Khlebnikov).
Pushkin has more than 70 epigraphs, Gogol has at least 20,
almost the same for Turgenev.
Korney Chukovsky's real name was Nikolai Vasilyevich Korneichukov.
Voltaire ridiculed Duke Rohan for his arrogance.
The duke ordered his servants to beat Voltaire, which was done. Voltaire challenged the duke to a duel, but the duke refused, as Voltaire was not a nobleman.
Starting to work on a new work, Balzac locked himself in a room for one or two months and tightly closed the shutters so that light would not penetrate through them. He wrote by candlelight, dressed in a bathrobe, for 18 hours a day.
Mark Twain was born in 1835 when Halley's comet flew close to Earth. He predicted that he would die during her next appearance. And so it happened in 1910.
Alexandre Dumas once participated in a duel where the participants drew lots, and the loser had to shoot himself. The lot went to Dumas, who retired to the next room. A shot rang out, and then Dumas returned to the participants with the words: "I shot, but missed."
Writer Charles Dickens always slept with his head to the north. He also sat facing north when writing his great works.
French writer Guy de Maupassant was one of those who annoyed the Eiffel Tower. However, he dined every day at her restaurant, explaining this by the fact that there the only place in Paris, where you can't see the tower.
Beaumarchais, after presenting his play The Marriage of Figaro, was arrested and imprisoned. Louis XVI, playing cards, wrote an arrest warrant on the seven of spades.
Jules Verne spent many hours a day studying scientific literature, writing out the facts of interest to him on special cards. The scientific community could envy the card index compiled by him: there were more than 20 thousand cards in it.
Hans Christian Andersen was angry when he was called a children's storyteller and said that he wrote fairy tales for both adults and adults. For the same reason, he ordered that there should not be a single child on his monument, where the storyteller was originally supposed to be surrounded by children.
In 1925 Nobel Prize in literature was awarded to Bernard Shaw, who called this event "a token of gratitude for the relief he brought to the world by not publishing anything this year."
The American writer Emily Dickenson (1830-1886) wrote over 900 poems in her lifetime, only four of which were published during her lifetime.
Some biographies of Erich Maria Remarque indicate that his real name is Kramer (Remarque is the other way around). In fact, this is an invention of the Nazis, who, after his emigration from Germany, also spread the rumor that Remarque is the descendants of French Jews.
LN Tolstoy was anathematized. Once a year, anathema was solemnly proclaimed in all churches to three persons: Mazepa, Grishka Otrepyev and Tolstoy.
The Belarusian poet Adam Mitskevich was also a science fiction writer. In Future Story, he wrote about acoustic devices that can be used to listen to concerts from the city while sitting by the fireplace, as well as mechanisms that allow the inhabitants of the Earth to maintain contact with creatures inhabiting other planets.
Jules Verne never visited Russia, but, nevertheless, in Russia (in whole or in part) the action of 9 of his novels unfolds.
American extravagant writer Timothy Dexter wrote a book in 1802 with very peculiar language and lack of any punctuation. In response to reader outrage, in the second edition of the book, he added a special page with punctuation marks, asking readers to arrange them in the text to their liking.
Lord Byron had four domestic geese that followed him everywhere, even at social gatherings. Despite his overweight and rather strong clubfoot, Byron was considered one of the most energetic and attractive people of his time.
Alexandre Dumas, when writing his works, used the services of many assistants - the so-called "literary blacks." Among them, the most famous is Auguste Maquet, who invented the plot of The Count of Monte Cristo and made a significant contribution to The Three Musketeers.
The author of "Robinson Crusoe" Daniel Defoe for a satirical article was (in 1703) sentenced to imprisonment. He spent days tied to pillory on the square. Passers-by were obliged to spit on him. Defoe was then forty-two.
The creator of the famous novel "The Gadfly" Ethel Lilian Voynich was a composer and considered her musical works even more significant than literary ones.
famous Soviet writer and public figure Konstantin Simonov burred, that is, he did not pronounce the letters "r" and "l". It happened in childhood, when, while playing, he accidentally cut his tongue with a razor, and it became difficult for him to pronounce his name: Cyril. In 1934 he took the pseudonym Konstantin.
Expression " balzac age” arose after the release of Balzac’s novel “The Thirty-Year-Old Woman” and is permissible in relation to women not older than 40 years.
Ilf and Petrov are very original way avoided thought-stamps - they discarded ideas that came to mind at once to both.
One of the most prolific writers of all time was the Spaniard Lope de Vega. In addition to The Dog in the Manger, he wrote another thousand eight hundred plays, all of them in verse.
He did not work on any play for more than three days. At the same time, his work was well paid, so Lope de Vega was practically a multimillionaire, which is extremely rare among writers.
The famous fabulist Aesop was so poor that he sold himself into slavery to pay off his debts. At that moment he was thirty years old.
Robinson Crusoe has a sequel. In it, Robinson again suffers a shipwreck and is forced to travel to Europe through all of Russia. For eight months he waits out the winter in Tobolsk. The novel has not been published in Russia since 1935.
Of the American writers, the works of Edgar Allan Poe were the most filmed - 114 times.
Once, at an official reception, Khrushchev called the writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn Ivan Denisovich.
Chekhov sat down to write, dressed in full dress.
Kuprin, on the contrary, loved to work completely naked.
The Spanish playwright Antonio Silva was burned at the stake on October 19, 1739. On the same day, his play "The Death of Phaeton" was shown in the theater.
Writer Ernest Vincent Wright has a novel called Gadsby with over 50,000 words. There is not a single letter E (the most common letter in the English language) in the entire novel.
Polish science fiction writer Stanislaw Lem wrote a collection of short stories "Absolute Void". All stories are united by the fact that they are reviews of non-existent books written by fictitious authors.
Brian Aldiss, an acquaintance of Agatha Christie, once spoke about her methods - “she would finish the book to the last chapter, then choose the most unlikely of the suspects and, returning to the beginning, rework some points to frame him.”
Lewis Carroll liked to communicate and be friends with little girls, but was not a pedophile, as many of his biographers claim. Often his girlfriends underestimated their age, or he himself called adult ladies girls. The reason was that the morality of that era in England strictly condemned communication with a young woman in private, and girls under 14 were considered asexual, and friendship with them was completely innocent.
When the writer Arkady Averchenko during the First World War brought a story to one of the editorial military theme, the censor deleted from it the phrase: "The sky was blue." It turns out that according to these words, enemy spies could have guessed that the matter took place in the south.
Real surname satirist writer Grigory Gorin was Offshtein. When asked about the reason for choosing a pseudonym, Gorin replied that it was an abbreviation: "Grisha Ofshtein decided to change his nationality."
If you're a reader of Stephen King's novels, you'll notice that most of his stories take place in Maine. Paradoxically, this state has the lowest crime rate in the United States.
James Barry created the image of Peter Pan - the boy who will never grow up - for a reason. This hero became a dedication to the author's elder brother, who died the day before he turned 14 and remained forever young in his mother's memory.
Initially, on the grave of Gogol in the monastery cemetery lay a stone, nicknamed Golgotha because of its similarity with Mount Jerusalem. When they decided to destroy the cemetery, when reburial in another place, they decided to install a bust of Gogol on the grave. And the same stone was subsequently placed on the grave of Bulgakov by his wife.
In this regard, Bulgakov's phrase is noteworthy, which he repeatedly addressed to Gogol during his lifetime: "Teacher, cover me with your overcoat."
After the outbreak of World War II, Marina Tsvetaeva was evacuated to the city of Yelabuga, in Tatarstan. Boris Pasternak helped her pack. He brought a rope to tie up the suitcase, and, assuring her of its strength, he joked: "The rope will withstand everything, even hang yourself." Subsequently, he was told that it was on her that Tsvetaeva hanged herself in Yelabuga.
Daria Dontsova, whose father was Soviet writer Arkady Vasiliev, grew up surrounded by creative intelligentsia.
Once at school, she was asked to write an essay on the topic: “What was Valentin Petrovich Kataev thinking about when he wrote the story“ The Lone Sail Is Whitening? ”And Dontsova asked Kataev himself to help her. As a result, Daria received a deuce, and the literature teacher wrote in her notebook: “Kataev didn’t think about it at all!”
William Shakespeare 1. William Shakespeare was born and died on the same day (but fortunately on different years) - On April 23, 1564, he was born and, 52 years later, died on the same day. 2. Another Shakespeare Died on the Same Day great writer- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. The author of Don Quixote died on April 23, 1616. 3. Contemporaries claimed that Shakespeare was fond of poaching - he hunted deer in the possessions of Sir Thomas Lucy, without any permission from this very Lucy. 
George Byron 4. The great poet Byron was lame, prone to corpulence and extremely loving - in a year in Venice, according to some reports, he made 250 ladies happy with himself, lame and fat. 5. Byron had an amazing personal collection - strands of hair cut from the pubes of the women he loved. Strands (or, perhaps, curls) were stored in envelopes on which the names of the hostesses were romantically inscribed. Some researchers argue that it was possible to admire (if this word is appropriate here) the poet's collection back in the 1980s, after which the traces of vegetation were lost. 6. And also great poet Byron liked to spend time with boys, including, alas, with minors. We don't even comment! It was not enough for the scoundrel of 250 ladies! 7. Well, a little more about Byron - he was very fond of animals. Fortunately, not in the sense that you may have put into this phrase, having read about Byron a little higher. The romantic poet adored animals platonically and even kept a menagerie in which a badger, monkeys, horses, a parrot, a crocodile and many other living creatures lived. 
Charles Dickens 8. Charles Dickens had a very difficult childhood. When his dad went to debtor's prison, little Charlie was sent to work ... no, not in a chocolate factory, but in a wax factory, where he stuck labels on jars from morning to evening. Dusty, you say? But glue them from morning till night instead of playing football with the boys, and you will understand why Dickens' images of unfortunate orphans turned out so convincing. 9. In 1857, Hans Christian Andersen came to visit Dickens. This is not a Kharms joke, this is life itself! Andersen met Dickens back in 1847, they were completely delighted with each other, and now, 10 years later, the Dane decided to take advantage of the invitation given to him. The trouble is that over the years in Dickens' life everything has changed and become more complicated - he was not ready to accept Andersen, and he lived with him for almost five weeks! “He does not speak any languages other than his Danish, although there are suspicions that he does not know it either,” Dickens told his friends about his guest in this vein. Poor Andersen became the target of ridicule from the numerous offspring of the author of Little Dorrit, and when he left, Papa Dickens left a note in his room: “Hans Andersen spent the night in this room for five weeks, which seemed to our family for years.” And you still ask why Andersen wrote such sad tales? 10. Dickens was also fond of hypnosis, or, as they said then, mesmerism. 11. One of Dickens's favorite pastimes was going to the Paris morgue, where unidentified bodies were exhibited. Truly the cutest person ever! 
Oscar Wilde 12. Oscar Wilde did not take the writings of Dickens seriously and mocked them for any reason. At all, contemporary to Charles Critics endlessly hinted to Dickens that he would never be on the list of the best British writers. And we'll get to Oscar Wilde. 13. But Dickens was devotedly loved by ordinary readers - in 1841, in the port of New York, where they were supposed to bring the continuation of the final chapters of the Antiquities Shop, 6 thousand people gathered, and everyone was yelling at the passengers of the mooring ship: “Will little Nell die?” 14. Dickens could not work if the tables and chairs in his office did not stand as they should. As it should be, only he knew - and each time he began work with a rearrangement of furniture. 15. Charles Dickens did not like monuments and monuments so much that in his will he strictly forbade him to erect them. The only bronze statue of Dickens is in Philadelphia. By the way, the statue was initially rejected by the writer's family. 
O.Henry 16. American writer O. Henry began writing career in prison, where he ended up for embezzlement. And things went so well with him that everyone soon forgot about the prison. 
Ernest Hemingway 17. Ernest Hemingway was not only an alcoholic and suicidal, as everyone knows. He also had peyraphobia (fear of public speaking), moreover, he never believed the praises of even his most sincere readers and admirers. I didn’t even believe my friends, and that’s it! 18. Hemingway survived five wars, four car and two air crashes. And his mother in childhood forced him to study at a dance school. And he himself eventually began to call himself the Pope. 19. The same Hemingway often and willingly talked about the fact that the FBI was following him. The interlocutors smiled wryly, but in the end it turned out that the Pope was right - declassified documents confirmed that it really was surveillance, and not paranoia. 
Gertrude Stein 20. The first person to use the word “gay” in literature was Gertrude Stein, a lesbian writer who hated punctuation and gave the world the name “lost generation.” 21. Oscar Wilde - like Ernest Hemingway - was dressed up in girly dresses for a long time as a child. In both cases, we note, it ended badly. 22. Most famous quote from Gertrude Stein - "A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose." 
Honore de Balzac 23. Honore de Balzac loved coffee - he drank about 50 cups of strong Turkish a day. If it was not possible to brew coffee, the writer simply grinded a handful of grains and chewed them with great pleasure. 24. Balzac believed that ejaculation is a waste of creative energy, since the seed is a brain substance. Once, talking with a friend after a successful conversation, the writer bitterly exclaimed: “This morning I lost my novel!” 
Edgar Allan Poe 25. Edgar Allan Poe was afraid of the dark all his life. Perhaps one of the reasons for this fear was that in childhood future writer studied ... at the cemetery. The school where the boy went was so poor that it was not possible to buy textbooks for children. The resourceful math teacher held classes at a nearby cemetery, among the graves. Each student chose tombstone and calculated how many years the deceased lived by subtracting the date of birth from the date of death. It's no surprise that Poe grew up to become what he became - the founder of world horror literature. 
Lewis Carroll 26. The most psychedelic writer of all time is Lewis Carroll, the shy British mathematician who wrote the tales of Alice. His compositions inspired the Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, Tim Burton and others. 27. Lewis Carroll's real name is Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He had the church rank of deacon, and in personal diaries Carroll constantly repented of some sin. However, these pages were destroyed by the writer's family so as not to discredit his image. Some of the researchers seriously believe that it was Carroll who was Jack the Ripper, who, as you know, was never found. 28. Carroll suffered from swamp fever, cystitis, lumbago, eczema, furunculosis, arthritis, pleurisy, rheumatism, insomnia and a whole bunch of other diseases. In addition, he almost constantly - and very badly - had a headache. 29. The author of "Alice" was a passionate admirer technical progress, and he personally invented a tricycle, a mnemonic system for remembering names and dates, an electric pen, and it was he who came up with writing the title of a book on the spine and created the prototype of everyone's favorite Scrabble game. 
Franz Kafka 30. Franz Kafka was the grandson of a kosher butcher and a strict vegetarian. 
Walt Whitman 31. The great American poet Walt Whitman had a very definite sexual orientation. He admired, however, primarily Abraham Lincoln, whom he sang in the poem “Oh, Captain! My captain!". Once again, Whitman met with another gay icon - the caustic Irishman Oscar Wilde, who did not like Charles Dickens so much (who, in turn, did not like Andersen, see above). Wilde told Whitman that he adored Leaves of Grass, which his mother often read to him as a child, after which Whitman kissed the "great, big and handsome young man" right on the lips. “I still feel Whitman's kiss on my lips,” the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray shared with friends. Brr! 
Mark Twain 32. Mark Twain - pseudonym a man named Samuel Langhorne Clemens. In addition, Twain also had the pseudonyms Tramp, Josh, Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass, Sergeant Fathom, and W. Epaminondas Adrastus Blub. By the way, "Mark Twain" - a concept from the field of navigation, means "measure two" fathoms: this is how they marked the minimum depth suitable for navigation. 33. Mark Twain was friends with one of the most mysterious people of his time - the inventor Nikola Tesla. The writer himself patented several inventions, such as: self-adjusting suspenders and a scrapbook with adhesive pages. 34. And Twain loved cats and hated children (he even wanted to erect a monument to King Herod). Once a great writer said: "If it were possible to cross a man with a cat, the human breed would only benefit from this, but the feline would obviously worsen." 35. Twain was a heavy smoker (it is he who owns the authorship of the phrase, which is now attributed to everyone in a row: “There is nothing easier than quitting smoking. I already know, I did it a thousand times”). He began smoking at the age of eight and smoked between 20 and 40 cigars daily until his death. The writer chose the stinkiest and cheapest cigars. 
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien 36. The author of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, J. R. R. Tolkien, was a remarkably bad driver, snored so much that he had to spend the night in the bathroom so as not to disturb his wife's sleep, and was also a terrible Francophobe - he hated the French since William the Conqueror. 
Lev Tolstoy 37. On the wedding night with Sophia Bers, 34-year-old Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy forced his 18-year-old freshly baked wife to read those pages in his diary, which describe in detail the amorous adventures of the writer with different women, among others - with serf peasant women. Tolstoy wanted no secrets between him and his wife. 
Agatha Christie 38. Agatha Christie suffered from dysgraphia, that is, she practically could not write by hand. All her famous novels were dictated. 
Anton Chekhov 39. Chekhov was a big fan of walking in brothel- and, being in a foreign city, the first thing he studied it from this side. 
James Joyce 40. James Joyce was most afraid of dogs and thunderstorms, hated monuments and was a masochist. 41. When Tolstoy left home in old age, most of reporters rushed after him, and only one, the most quick-witted zhurka, came to Yasnaya Polyana to find out how Sofya Andreevna was doing. Soon the editorial office received a telegram: "The Countess, with a changed face, runs to the pond." This is how the reporter described Sofia Andreevna's intention to drown herself. Subsequently, the phrase was picked up by two completely different writers - Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, presenting it to their brilliant hero Ostap Bender. 
William Faulkner 42. William Faulkner worked as a postman for several years until it turned out that he often threw undelivered letters in the dustbin. 
Jack London 43. Jack London was a socialist, and besides - the first in history American writer who earned a million dollars by their work. 
Arthur Conan Doyle 44. Arthur Conan Doyle, who invented Sherlock Holmes, was an occultist and believed in the existence of little winged fairies. 
Jean-Paul Sartre 45. Jean-Paul Sartre experimented with mind-expanding substances and supported terrorists in every possible way. Perhaps the first had something to do with the second.
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1. One of the most extraordinary books - " The Divine Comedy» Dante, created by G. Chelani on one sheet of paper measuring 800x600 mm. 14 thousand poems fit on it, while they can be read without special magnifying equipment. If you look at the book from a distance, you get a map of Italy. Monk Gabriel spent 4 years on its creation.
2. Most big fee The Roman Empire received the poet Oppian. Marcus Aurelius paid him a gold coin for each line of the poem. For his work, he received 20 thousand gold coins.
3. To make books as cheap as cigarettes, Penguin began using paperbacks. The first such books were distributed in churches.
4. A bibliocleptomaniac is a person who steals books. Steven Bloomberg, the most notorious book thief, has stolen over 23,000 rare copies of books. Now his collection is worth about $20 million.
5. In medieval Europe a book, so that it would not be taken out of the public library, was chained to a shelf. Their length made it possible to remove books from the shelves and read, but not take them with you. This method of protection against theft was used until the 18th century, since books at that time were very expensive.
6. According to Google, there are almost 130 million book titles in the world (this includes all fiction, journalistic and scientific works).
7. The book of the famous Dutch doctor Herman Boerhaave called "The Only and Deepest Secrets of the Medical Art" was sold for 10 thousand dollars. When the seal on it was opened, it turned out that its pages were clean. Only title page said: "Keep your head cold, your feet warm, and you will make the best doctor poor."
8. The well-known and close "bookworm" appeared thanks to small insects that eat the spines of books.
9. In Shakespeare's works, the word "love" occurs almost 10 times more often than the word "hatred" (2259 and 229 times, respectively).
10. The work of Leonardo da Vinci on water, land and celestial bodies under the name "Leicester Code" is considered one of the most expensive books in the world. To become its owner, Bill Gates spent more than 30 million dollars. The book itself should be read only with a mirror, as it is written in mirror handwriting.
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Writers are people who are engaged in writing text works that are intended to be familiar to others. When we want to plunge into another Universe, we always turn to these very creations of writers. Their activity helps us a lot in life, teaches us to be useful to society, mutual assistance.
Facts about writers
Any connoisseur of literature is familiar with. According to rumors, he was very loving, but at the same time full of chrome, but this did not stop him from luring women into his networks.
Was not a child happy childhood. His father was sent to a debtor's prison, and the boy himself had to work to feed his family. He was taken to a wax factory, where every day from morning to night he glued labels on cans. Many will say that the work is not dusty, what's wrong with that? And you try to do this all day instead of the usual children's games and you will understand. That is why the images of unfortunate children in Dickens came out perfectly.
We are all familiar with creativity. He was scared to death of the dark. Perhaps the reason for this was that the future writer studied at the cemetery. The school was too poor, so the math teacher brought the children to where the children chose a monument for themselves and counted how many years a person lived. Now the themes of Allan Poe's works are not so surprising.
He was a friend of the inventor, who was considered the most secretive person of his time. Twain even invented a couple of things.
He was addicted to drugs, and he also supported the ideas of terrorists. Perhaps it was because of him drug addiction, who knows?
A whole team of proofreaders worked on it. The thing is that he had absolutely no knowledge of spelling and punctuation. Since he wanted his work to be published in looking good had to hire people to correct his mistakes.
In Great Britain, a little less than the queen is revered. It is also called the symbol of the country. Its sales circulation is practically the highest, second only to Shakespeare.
He was so popular that towards the end of his life, loving readers sent letters with the address "V. Hugo Avenue", although the street had a specific name. However, the parcel always found its addressee.
About Russian writers and poets
One can only say about Russian writers and poets that they are loved all over the world. Every connoisseur literary works says that Russian classics are a necessary basis for any person.
The most popular poet in Russia was very ugly, which distinguishes him from his wife, Natalia Goncharova. He was ten centimeters shorter than her. That is why at the balls Alexander Sergeevich tried to stay as far away from his beloved as possible, so that such a contrast would not greatly distract people.
When I was young, I spent a lot of time on gambling. Once he even lost his estate in Yasnaya Polyana. He wanted to buy her back, but for some reason did not.
Helped to collect things for the evacuation. He rewound her suitcase with a strong rope, joking that you could at least hang yourself on it. It was on her that Tsvetaeva hanged herself in the end.
Gogol was not indifferent to needlework. For the summer, he even sewed neckerchiefs for himself, which he loved very much.
A few years before his death, he wrote that he should not be buried until the moment when the body began to decompose. He was not listened to and buried almost immediately. After digging up the body, they said that the skull was turned on its side. Another version says that the skull was missing. The writer was very afraid that he would be buried alive. Whether it happened or not, no one knows.
The only word he used to describe his homeland was the word "steal" when asked about Russia in another country.
Tolstoy had terrible handwriting. It could only be understood by the writer's wife, who rewrote it several times. famous novel"War and Peace". He wrote quickly, so that the handwriting became illegible. Looking at the scope of his works, the theory seems real.
The most readable handwriting was at, for which he was thanked many times.
I had a keen sense of smell. Once he decomposed the fragrance of a French perfumer into ingredients, to which the latter only sighed in disappointment, regretting that Kuprin was just a writer.
- a historian-philologist by training.
From the life of writers and poets
Writers are the same people, they have a lot of funny things going on in their lives:
As a joke, Sir chose twelve of the richest people in London, who had a reputation for honest and decent bankers, and wrote them notes saying that everything had surfaced. The next day, every single banker left the city. So their criminal atrocities were revealed, and it was just a joke.
In his early years, Mark Twain worked as a journalist in Nevada. One day he went to a pool club, but bet a young man 50 cents that he would beat him in a game. The stranger said that he would play with his left hand, so sorry for Twain, who played worse than ever. Mark decided to teach him a lesson, but still lost by handing over his money. He then said that he would like to see the guy play right hand, if the left one is so good, to which the latter said that he was actually left-handed.
Pushkin was gambling, he had big debts. When time was running out, he amused himself by drawing caricatures of creditors in his notebooks. One day it came out, there was a huge scandal.
Once, on the embankment of the Fontanka River, three students from a local university caught up with them. One of them said: “Look, the cloud is coming,” hinting at the fullness of the fabulist. The latter did not remain in debt, saying that the toads croaked.
Once I ran into a cyclist, both got off with only a slight fright. When the guy began to apologize to the writer, he laughed and said:
"It's good that you didn't kill me, otherwise you would forever remain the one who killed Bernard Shaw."
About children's writers
Children's writers are just a name. Their works are often read by adults. There is even a list best writers children's literature:
Hans Christian Andersen is one of the most famous storytellers in the world. However, he always believed that his works were for an adult audience. He didn't even like children. When they decided to erect a monument to him, he demanded that the figures of children should not be close by.
The works are familiar to each of us. He changed many professions before he became a writer. During the Great Patriotic War Dragunsky took part in the defense of Moscow.
- the person whose poems we learn first of all. His fairy tales are very firmly embedded in the life of any person. Playing with children, he himself became a child. Children adored him for the simplicity of his soul.
It is part of everyone's childhood. She was a very determined woman: if she drove something into her head, do not hesitate, she will achieve her goal.
The work of a writer takes a lot of time and effort. People engaged in literature in this vein are spiritually developed much better than others. Their talent instills in us a love of beauty.
Today I will tell you 20 facts about writers and poets that you did not know. Or maybe they knew, of course. The fact that all this is true, I can not guarantee you, and no one can. It is your choice to believe or not.
20 facts about writers and poets that you did not know
Fact #1.Alexander Pushkin was blond!
True, only up to 19 years. In memories little Pushkin called "frisky blond boy", in childhood he was blond. Pushkin lost his blond curls due to illness. At the age of 19 he was struck by a fever, the poet was shaved bald. For a long time Alexander Sergeevich wore a red yarmulke, and then dark blond hair replaced the cap. And he began to look like we are used to.
Fact #2. Alexandre Dumas is Pushkin
There is a version according to which our beloved Pushkin did not die at all, but staged his death and left for France, since he was fluent in French. The evidence is plentiful. One of them - they say, until Pushkin died, Dumas could not write anything, and after 1837, one after another, he began to write brilliant novels. The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years Later, Queen Margo...
Fact #3. Conan Doyle believed in winged fairies
Yes, yes, the man who invented Sherlock Holmes believed in the existence of fairies. He wrote the book "The Coming of the Fairies", in which he published photographs of winged fairies and examinations proving the authenticity of the pictures. The writer, who believed in the existence of a small people, spent more than a million dollars on these studies.
Fact number 4. Chekhov's pet was a mongoose
The writer brought an outlandish animal from a trip to the island of Ceylon. Chekhov himself called the mongoose "a cute and independent little animal," and his family called him "Bastard." By the way, then Chekhov exchanged the Bastard for a free ticket to the Moscow Zoo.
Fact number 5.Nikolai Gogol invented the first attraction
Writer remade windmill into a Ferris wheel and rolled peasant children on it. But the trouble is - Gogol did not think about reliable insurance. Then everything is like in a book: “The auditor is coming to us!”. In general, the amusement park covered it.
Fact number 6. St. Petersburg journalist received fees for "The Master and Margarita"
Dying, Bulgakov bequeathed to give part of the royalties for the book to someone who, after the publication of The Master and Margarita, would bring flowers to the grave of the writer, and not sometime, but on the day when he burned the first version of the manuscript of the novel. That person was Vladimir Nevelsky, a journalist from Leningrad. It was to him that Bulgakov's wife gave a check for a decent amount of royalties.
Fact number 7.Lewis Carroll invented the tricycle
The author of Alice in Wonderland was a mathematician, a poet and a great inventor. He invented a tricycle, a mnemonic system for remembering names and dates, an electric pen (by the way, what is it ?!), a dust jacket, a prototype of everyone's favorite Scrabble game, which in Russian is called Scrabble.
Fact number 8.Edgar Allan Poe studied at the cemetery
And, by the way, terribly afraid of the dark. The school where little Edgar studied was very poor, and the children had no textbooks. A resourceful math teacher took schoolchildren to the cemetery, where they counted the graves and calculated the years of the life of the dead.
Fact #9. Hans Andersen had Pushkin's autograph
The Danish storyteller received it from the wife of the owner of the Kapnistovaya Notebook, in which Pushkin copied the verses he had selected with his own hand. The wife tore out one sheet from the notebook and sent it to Andersen, who was immensely happy. By the way, now this sheet is kept in the Copenhagen Royal Library.
Fact number 10. Nikolai Gogol knitted perfectly
Gogol had a passion for cooking and needlework. He treated his friends to personally prepared dumplings and dumplings, knitted on knitting needles and sewed neckerchiefs for himself. But he flatly refused to be photographed - either he covered his face with a top hat, or he grimaced in every possible way. Therefore, he was rarely invited to social events.
Fact number 11. The army of Chekhov's fans was nicknamed "Antonovka"
When Anton Chekhov moved to Yalta, his enthusiastic fans also moved to the Crimea. They ran after him all over the city, studied his walk and suit, tried to attract attention. In January 1902, the News of the Day newspaper wrote: “In Yalta, a whole army of stupid and unbearably ardent admirers of his artistic talent, called here “Antonovka”, was formed.
Fact number 12.Mark Twain invented suspenders
He was an inventor no worse than Carroll. He has patents for self-adjusting braces and a scrapbook with adhesive pages. Also, Mark Twain invented a notebook with loose leaves, a wardrobe with sliding shelves, but his most ingenious invention is a tie-tying machine. It doesn't seem to have spread...
Fact number 13.Lewis Carroll - Jack the Ripper
Journalist Richard Wallis, author of Jack the Ripper, Windy Friend, claims that the Jack the Ripper who brutally murdered London prostitutes is Lewis Carroll. And Carroll himself in his diaries constantly repented of some kind of sin. But no one knew which one, because Carroll's relatives destroyed all his diaries. Away from sin.
Fact #14. Boxing gloves helped Vladimir Nabokov emigrate
Nabokov became interested in boxing while still in the army. When he emigrated to America in 1940, at the border, three customs officers began to meticulously examine his luggage. But when they saw boxing gloves in the suitcase, they immediately put them on and started boxing with each other as a joke. In general, America and Nabokov liked each other.
Fact #15. Jack London is a millionaire
Jack London became the first American writer to earn a million dollars from his work. London lived only 41 years, but he began to work at the age of 9 - he sold newspapers. Becoming a writer, London worked 15-17 hours a day and wrote about 40 books in his short life.
Fact #16. John Tolkien snored terribly
His snoring was so loud that he slept in the bathroom so as not to disturb his wife's sleep. And the author of the trilogy "The Lord of the Rings" bequeathed to never, never make films based on his books. But, apparently, the thirst for money took up the wills of a brilliant father, and Tolkien's children agreed to the film adaptation. Well, what came of it, we all know.
Fact number 17. Vladimir Mayakovsky - Shchen
Mayakovsky terribly loved various “cats and dogs,” as he called them. Once, while walking with Lilya Brik, they picked up a homeless red puppy. They took him home and named him Shchen. Later, Lily began to call Mayakovsky Puppy. And he has since signed “Puppy” in letters and telegrams and always added a puppy at the bottom.
Fact #18 Balzac drank 50 cups of coffee a day
And he wrote only at night. He sat down to work at midnight, dressed in a white coat, he wrote for 15 hours in a row, drinking only at night up to 20 cups of strong Turkish coffee or simply chewing coffee beans. So at night he wrote his 100 novels of the literary epic "The Human Comedy".
Fact No. 19. Alexandre Dumas opened the first kebab house in France
Yes, it was he who introduced France to barbecue. For the first time, Dumas tried barbecue while traveling in the Caucasus. He liked the dish so much that he included it in his Great Cookbook. Yes, Dumas had one. Rumor has it that the writer cooked barbecue for the French even from crows. They praised.
Well, if you believe the fact number 2, then it was Alexander Pushkin who was such an ardent lover fried meat on skewers...
Fact #20. Dickens only slept with his head to the north
And he sat down to write, too, only when his face was turned to the north. And he could not work at all if the chair and table in the office were not the way he wanted. Therefore, before starting to write, he always rearranged the furniture.
Illustrations by Katerina Karpenko
(except for the illustration to the fact about Vladimir Mayakovsky)
