1. Geoffrey Chaucer, the poet, was also a diplomat.

2. Jim Corbett was born in India.

3. Thomas Hardy is best known as one of the greatest humorous writers of the Victorian era.

4. W. Somerset Maugham was one of the most influential writers of the Italian Renaissance.

5. As a boy the novelist Charles Dickens was forced to support his family by working in a factory.

6. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. died in London in 1895.

7. Isaac Asimov wrote hundreds of books.