Portal:Literature/Did you know/17

... that the John Steinbeck play adaptation Of Mice and Men debuted on Broadway while the novel of the same name was still on the best seller lists?
... that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Eminent Characters series includes: a lawyer, a speaker, a Unitarian, a general, a rebel, a betrayer, a poet, an actress, a philosopher, a friend, a playwright and a lord?
... that The Insider, a roman à clef, was Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao's first novel?
... that a possible source for the poem The Fox, the Wolf and the Husbandman, by the 15th-century Scottish poet Robert Henryson, was Aesop's Fables as published by William Caxton?
... that Maria Konopnicka's poem Rota became so popular it was seen as an unofficial anthem of Poland?