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
Leo Tolstoy, despite his immense literary success, renounced his copyrights, believing that his works should be freely available to all. elaborate
The word "memoir" comes from the French word "mémoire," meaning "memory." elaborate
Toni Morrison was the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. elaborate
The longest poem ever written is reportedly "The Mahabharata," an epic Sanskrit poem containing over 100,000 verses. elaborate
Gabriel García Márquez was a trained journalist before becoming a renowned novelist. elaborate
Shakespeare never actually used the word "eyeball" in his works. elaborate