In the 1970s and 80s Lee Israel was one of the successful writers of the era. Living on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, the woman kept a cache of old typewriters: Adlers, Remington’s, Olympias and Royals, while writing biographies of the famous actress Tallulah Bankhead, cosmetics magnate Estee Lauder and the journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. In the… Read More →
Alexander Pope was an XVIII century English poet, who was best known for his brilliant translation of Homer and his satirical verse. It is important to mention that this historical figure is the third most frequently quoted writer in the famous Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after his colleagues – Tennyson and Shakespeare. The poet was… Read More →
It’s not a secret that sometimes the writers are far ahead the time they live in, and their masterpieces are not as appreciated and beloved by their contemporaries as they are by the XXI century generation. This unfortunate phenomenon is related to many well-known names that haven’t got the credit they deserved at the right… Read More →