There is a Stephen King novel Rage that he himself pulled from the shelves because of it’s creepy connection with actual school shootings.
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Morgan Robertson wrote a short story called Futility (14 years before the Titanic) about a British passenger liner called the Titan that was deemed to be unsinkable but hit an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic resulting in the loss of everyone on board.
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Dr. Seuss wrote and illustrated an “adult” book about about 7 naked women.
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The world’s longest novel was 15,145 pages, never published, and written by a custodian from Chicago.
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J.R.R. Tolkien typed the entire “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy while using only two fingers. It ran to over 1,200 pages and took him 14 years.
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Robert M. Pirsig, the author of Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was diagnosed with schizophrenia (and he had childhood IQ of 170).
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, enjoyed practical jokes. He is said to have once sent a telegram to twelve of his friends, all people of great significance and power. The telegram said: ‘Flee at once, the secret is discovered’. Within 24 hours all twelve had left the country.
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J.R.R Tolkien was an anarchist.
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Not only did Ernest Hemingway commit suicide, but so did his brother, sister and father.
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Hemmingway once wrote a story that was only six words long. “For sale: baby shoes, never worn“.
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Charles Dickens always slept facing north, in an effort to battle insomnia – when he travelled, he would carry a compass with him and move his bed around so it was correctly aligned. He also liked to face north while writing, believing it aided his creativity.