How many plays did Shakespeare write?
William Shakespeare wrote about 37 to 39 plays, depending on how collaborations are counted, along with 154 sonnets.
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- Was Edgar Allan Poe an orphan?
“Edgar Allan Poe was orphaned as a child and taken in by John Allan.”
Reference: Poe Museum
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Did Dickens's pet raven inspire Poe?
Charles Dickens's pet raven, Grip, is believed to have inspired Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven," and the stuffed bird is now at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Interesting fact about U.S. presidents
No president of the United States was an only child.