Gabriel García Márquez was a trained journalist before becoming a renowned novelist. elaborate
Shakespeare never actually used the word "eyeball" in his works. elaborate
Toni Morrison was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. elaborate
The Zork series, one of the most famous Interactive Fiction games, was originally written in a programming language called MDL (specifically, MDL/Zork), not the more commonly known Infocom's own ZIL. elaborate
The longest poem ever written is reportedly "The Mahabharata," an epic Sanskrit poem containing over 100,000 verses. elaborate
The longest sentence in English literature is reportedly over 1,300 words long and comes from Jonathan Coe's novel *The Rotters' Club*. elaborate
The word "literally" is often used figuratively, a fact that would likely frustrate many a literary purist. elaborate