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--Mark Twain's original name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Mark Twain is his pen name!

-Jodi Picoult was the writer of DC Comic's //Wonder Woman// from March-June 2007. She also wrote her first story at age 5, and her novel //Salem Falls// is based on //The Crucible.// (Danielle Gold)

-When Stephen King was 2 his father went out for a pack of cigarettes and never returned leaving only his mother. Also when he was 11 he witnessed his friend being struck by a train though he has no recollection of this event. Both may very well have influenced his future writings. (Garrett Keenan)

- Ernest Hemingway wrote for the Chicago Tribune in the 1920s. He was one of the first to write about Al Capone. (Brandon Dubov)  - Slyvia Plath paralleled her life story in "The Bell Jar". Also on March 23, 2009 Slyvia's son Nicholas Hughes also committed suicide 46 years after his mother's suicide. (Meredith Hryczyk)

In 1967 John Steinbeck went to Vietnam, only to report on the Vietnam War. John Steinbeck was cremated and his urn of ashes were buried. He married three times, and had to sons named Thomas and John. In all, he wrote a total of 27 novels. He received a total of 17 awards and honors. - In 1925, while working at a restaurant in Washington D.C., Hughes tucked a few of his poems under the dinner plate of then-reigning poet Vachel Lindsay. Lindsay shared the poems during his reading that night, and in the morning, Hughes was crowned Lindsay's new discovery, the "busboy poet."  - Theodor Seuss Geisel (aka. Dr. Seuss) was voted by his classmates at Springfield Central High School, Least Likely to Succeed. =-James Baldwin was of great interest to the FBI, they had over 1,750 files on him. = =-Baldwin was so sick of discrimination of blacks in the U.S that he left to France with only $40 in his pocket. (Nikki Sude) = =- Edgar Allen Poe was found dead in a gutter after being lost for 3 days. = =-Edgar Allen Poe when he was 27 married his 13 year old cousin. ( Kyle Funesti ) =
 * Ernest Hemingway served in both World War I and World War II. In World War I, at age 18 he was seriously wounded in both legs by mortar fire, but despite his injury he managed to carry and allied Italian soldier to safety, and was the first American awarded the Italian Silver Medal of Bravery.
 * In World War II, Hemingway was stationed on a naval ship in the Atlantic, and he observed the D-Day invasion from a landing craft

- Langston Hughes was a prominent writer during the harlem renaissance an african american cultural movement of the late 1920s and early 1930s - Hughes wrote the lyrics for the 1947 opera //Street Scene// (Garett Lindenberg)

Mark Twain was born under Halley's comet and also died when the comet reappeared some 70 years later Every woman Edgar Allan Poe ever loved died of Tuberculosis. Mark Twain was the first notable American Author who placed black and white Americans on the same social rank (Huckleberry Finn and Jim).

Slyvia Plath attempted to end her life many times before succeeding prior to her 31st birthday. Her first attempt took place during her college years, she swallowed sleeping pills under her house. (Abby Strauss)   Slyvia Plath ended her life by sticking her head in an oven with the gas on. Ann Brashares, the author of the Sisterhood and Traveling Pants series attended Quaker School while growing up. Ernest Hemingway survived two plane crashes, malaria, anthrax, pneumonia, skin cancer, dysentery, hepitis, anemia,diabetes, high blood pressure, a gun shot and several other war wounds. After surviving all these things he ended up committing suicide at the age of 61.

Before Dan Brown became a author, he used to write musical songs for children and adults alike. He only sold about 100's of each CD produced. One of his CD's "Angels and Demons" was adapted for his book and also the cover art was too.

Most of Dan Brown's factual information for his novels were researched by his wife, Blythe Brown, after their marriage in 1997 in New Hampshire. (Tony Xu)

 Mitch Albom, author of __5 People You Meet in Heaven__ and __Tuesdays with Morrie__, is a member of an ESPN television show called the Sports Reporters. It is on every sunday morning, with five main reporters discuss prevalent topics in sports (Alex Feldman.

Mark Twain's name was a pseudonym. He also wrote under two other names. (Danielle Wankmuller)

Langston Hughes and his family moved so many times when he was a child that he later said that he had slept in 10,000 beds.
(Julian DeZao)

(Pat Reynolds)
 * William Apess was an alcoholic at the age of 16, and this would be the cause of his death.**

- As a teenager, Maya Angelou lived in a car graveyard where other homeless children lived. - Maya can speak six languages fluently. Ani Sarajian

**Tom Clancy is the proud co-owner of the Baltimore Orioles.**
-Matt Rosenberg

Tom Clancy would have chosen a military career but his eyesight was very poor. (David Alonso)
<span style="font-family: Helvetica,Courier,monospace; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: normal;">**F. Scott Fitzgerald was named after his distant cousin Francis Scott Key, the composer of the American National Anthem. --Alyssa Klepper** //
 * F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife Zelda suffered from mental breakdowns, so he paid her large medical bills with money he made writing short stories for magazines. He later went on to use her actual legal and medical records in his novel** //**Tender is the Night.**

<span style="color: #3446ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">-Hunter S. Thompson once wrote .. "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone . . . but they've always worked for me." -Later on, he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head at his home in Aspen. The police said that they didn't believe his suicide was out of desperation, but was well thought out because of his many painful and chronic medical conditions. Thompson's wife, Anita, who was at a gym at the time of her husband's death, was on the phone with him when he ended his life. -(Ashley Holl)

Jack London died of uremia followed by acute renal colic which is a type of pain described as the worst pain ever experienced commonly followed by kidney stones. Because he was in so much pain it is believed that he overdosed on morphine. Matt Hamilton

**Edgar Allan Poe may have been named after a character in William Shakespeare's //King Lear.// - Candice Blundo

Mitch Albom's book "Tuesday's With Morrie" was based on a true story about Albom's professor in college, Morrie Schwartz. The book is about the experiences the two had together. Morrie was dying of ALS and every Tuesday the two men got together and talked about life and death. -Tom Tillison**

**Frances Harper** helped escaped slaves along the Underground Railroad on their way to Canada.
- Dan Rosenblatt


 * Stephen King author of, "Cujo" and "Christine" was in a rock band called Rock Bottom Remainders along with other writers such as Dave Barry, Ridley Pearson, and Matt Groening. They had played on Good Morning America and also played in Webster Hall, NYC.

In 1939, Ernest Vincent who wrote a novel called Gadsby which was 50,000 words, never used the letter "e" in the whole novel. - Alex Van Horn

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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Although William Faulkner is one of literature’s best-known alcoholics, he insists he never drank while writing (hunter)

** ** After the death of his wife, Edgar Allan Poe began to lose his struggle with drinking and drugs. He had several romances, including an affair with the poet Sarah Helen Whitman. -Gina DeRosa **