Fun interesting facts about Jack London, author of White Fang and The Call of the Wild 1. Jack London’s San Francisco home has a collection of some of the 600 rejections he received before he sold a single story. Born John Griffith Chaney in 1876, Jack London read voraciously as a youth, and amassed […]
Curious trivia about the classic L. Frank Baum novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its afterlife Surprisingly, the famous 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz was not the first time L. Frank Baum’s book had been adapted. It wasn’t even the second. In fact, the 1939 film The Wizard […]
Fun Ezra Pound facts, including his unusual middle name and his even weirder fashion sense 1. Ezra Pound’s middle name was Loomis. Or rather, one of his middle names. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was born in Idaho in 1885; a childhood friend was Hilda Doolittle, who would become known as an […]