-Emily Dickinson wrote more than nine hundred poems, only four of which were published during her lifetime.
-Gibbon spent twenty years writing The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Noah Webster spent thirty-six years writing his dictionary.
-There is no living descendant of William Shakespeare.
-Voltaire considered Shakespeare's works so deplorable that he referred to the Bard as “that drunken fool.”
-All the proceeds earned from James M. Barrie's book Peter Pan were bequeathed to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London.
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