August 2025

James Bond author Ian Fleming also wrote the children’s novel Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Winston Churchill’s History of the English-Speaking Peoples was published when he was eighty-two years old.

Robert Louis Stevenson said he had envisioned the story The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a dream and simply recorded it the way he saw it. Stevenson claimed to be able to dream plots for his  stories as well.

Between 1986 and 1996, Brazilian author Jose Carlos Ryoki de Alpoim Inoue had 1,058 novels published.

Charles Dickens would work himself up so much when he performed his own works on stage that he sometimes fainted.

Beatrix Potter, famous for writing and illustrating the Peter Rabbit children’s books, actually had a rabbit killed with chloroform to provide the model for Peter Rabbit.

Borrowed by Daheap from The World’s Greatest Book of Useless Information; Noel Botham & the Useless Information Society