Weird Facts About Authors

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1. Which author was known for liking to write first drafts with a Number 2 pencil? Answer: (Last name only - American male author)

2. What did O. Henry, Marquis de Sade and Oscar Wilde have in common? They were all vegetarians. They all smoked pipes. They were all cross-dressers. They all wrote while imprisoned.

3. What did Jorge Luis Borges, John Milton and James Thurber have in common? deaf blind mute no sense of smell

4. Which of these writers did NOT attend college -- John Steinbeck, Jack London, Mark Twain? Answer: (Hannibal, MO)

5. What affliction did Winston Churchill, Charles Dickens and Rudyard Kipling have in common? Hay Fever Insomnia Tuberculosis Narcolepsy