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- Which 19th century writer continuously got his wife pregnant and then got mad at her when she was too tired to travel with him overseas on his lecture tour?
- Which writer, who in later years became famous during the Harlem Renaissance, strung along a high school romantic interest through letters for years with no intent of having a relationship with her?
- Which married 20th Century writer invited other women into his bed while his wife was in it, knowing that the wife would lie there in humiliation and pretend to be asleep?
- Which contemporary author spent much of his youth getting into bar brawls and street fights, partially because of his anger at his father, also an author?
- Which contemporary author spent much of his youth being raised by the regulars who frequented his neighborhood’s bar?
- During the 1800s this author helped a financially struggling African-American law student pay his tuition at one of the most prestigious universities in the country. The law student in later years mentored Thurgood Marshall, who later because U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
- This writer was tossed into jail repeatedly for what was called “The love that dare not speak its name”
- This writer was a college dropout who moved in with reclusive writer J.D. Salinger. The relationship ended when he announced to her that he didn’t want anymore children.
- This prolific writer’s relationship with prison inmates inspired the two novels that launched her career.
- Oprah seeks advice from this author and poet.