Category: Literary Fun Facts

Literary Fun Fact of the Day!

On October 21, 1949:  Alduous Huxley, the author of Brave New World, wrote a letter to congratulate George Orwell on his new novel 1984. He wrote how “profoundly important the book is” in their world of prevailing materialism. Both of their novels depict dystopian worlds full of truths that mirror the world they were living in….

Literary Fun Fact of the Day!

On October 14th, 1988: Naguib Mahfouz became the first Arabic writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Cairo, he began writing at the age of only seventeen. Now his literature is well circulated throughout the Arabic-speaking world. In his Nobel Prize recognition, it states that he “has formed an Arabian narrative art that…

Literary Fun Fact of the Day!

On October 7th, 1849: The world lost poet Edgar Allen Poe. Four days earlier, he was found delirious on the streets of Baltimore outside of a polling station. To this day, no one has a concrete answer on how he died, but theories of alcohol poisoning, rabies, tumors, and even murder are still in circulation. Do…