Which crime novelist secretly wrote romance novels under the pen name Mary Westmacott?

Literature

Nora Roberts writes her futuristic 'In Death' crime series under which pen name?

Nora Roberts writes her futuristic 'In Death' murder mysteries as J.D. Robb, publishing her romance novels under her own name to keep the two apart.

Literature

Which bestselling romance author uses the pseudonym J.D. Robb for her crime fiction so retailers shelve the books separately?

Nora Roberts writes romance under the pen name J.D. Robb, keeping the identities separate so bookstores stock them in different sections.

Literature

What literary genre did Agatha Christie secretly write in under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott?

Agatha Christie's pen name Mary Westmacott fooled critics for years; even her publisher didn't initially know they were the same person.

Literature

Which Charles Dickens novel features the character Miss Havisham, a wealthy recluse who stopped all the clocks on her wedding day?

Dickens originally wrote a different, unhappy ending for Great Expectations, but rewrote it after a friend argued readers would prefer a more hopeful conclusion.

Literature

What scientific phenomenon, involving experiments that made dead frogs' legs twitch, is believed to have inspired the reanimation science in Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein'?

Mary Shelley conceived Frankenstein during a ghost-story contest with Lord Byron and her husband, after reading about galvanism experiments on dead frogs.

Literature

Which American author wrote the 1951 novella 'The Old Man and the Sea,' which helped earn him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954?

The entire first print run of Life magazine featuring The Old Man and the Sea — 5.3 million copies — sold out within two days of publication in September 1952.