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Weird/funny facts about writers

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I know it's very popular and maybe allready boring to talk about weird things well known people have done or said, but I thought it would be interesting to have a topic about writers, where we could share some strange facts, for instance 'Franz Kafka would attend nudist camps but refused to drop his trousers'.

Any facts you know?

-- 19 Aug 2016, 09:56 --

I have another one:

Mark Twain Invented The Bra Strap.
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this is an interesting topic, but I don't have any to share! thanks for sharing yours though.
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In order to feel close to it, Joan Didion often sleeps in the same room as the book she is working on.
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Did NOT know Twain invented the bra strap. In looking that up I also found that he was born the day of an appearance of a Halley's Comet, predicted he would die when it came again, and did die on the appearance of the next.
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I don't know how true this is, but I heard that J.R.R. Tolkien loved flowers. People hated going on walks with him, because he'd stop and stare at every tree and flower on the way and each time he stopped to stare it would be for like 20 minutes.
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Michael Crichton's earliest books were written under the pen name John Lange. Lange means tall one in German, Danish and Dutch. Crichton was 6'9"! He literally stood above the rest.
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fabulasaule wrote:I know it's very popular and maybe allready boring to talk about weird things well known people have done or said, but I thought it would be interesting to have a topic about writers, where we could share some strange facts, for instance 'Franz Kafka would attend nudist camps but refused to drop his trousers'.

Any facts you know?

-- 19 Aug 2016, 09:56 --

I have another one:

Mark Twain Invented The Bra Strap.
Death to Mark Twain! :lol:
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Many reviewers rave about James Lee Burke, even calling him "America's greatest novelist." He invariably comes up with bestsellers in the crime and thriller genre.

But one of his early works, The Lost Get-Back Boogie, was rejected 111 times over 9 years until it was finally published in 1986. Said book was eventually nominated for a Pulitzer prize.

This author is clearly not a quitter!
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Arthur Conan Doyle of Sherlock Holmes fame believed in fairies (the Tinkerbell variety).
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I don't have any new facts to shared but i liked the facts all of have shared here. They have added immensely to my knowledge about these writes :D
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What a great idea. I would like to read more about it. These kind of things make the writers more human and maybe we can find something in common with an amazing author
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Jo Nesbo is a world famous author but only recently did i know that he's also the lead singer and songwriter of a Norwegian band which is quite famous and have hit the charts. Plus he used to be a league football player.
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I read that Ernest Hemingway had a particular breed of cats.
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Fyodor Dostoevsky was sentenced to death but was pardoned at the last minute. Like they had their guns raised to shoot him and then someone came on horseback and said that his sentence was supposed to be reduced. Apparently, Dostoevsky figured the Czar was trying to teach him a lesson for causing dissension.
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