1. Ernest Hemingway's mother dressed him like a girl until he was 6 years old.
2. James Joyce's wife was actually named Nora Barnacle.
3. Charles Bukowski had really, really, bad acne.
4. William Faulkner was a cub scout troop leader (until he was fired for drinking).
5. Samuel Beckett repeatedly fought off advances from Joyce's daughter, Lucia. Never ever say yes to the tantalizing suggestions of your boss's daughter.
6. James Fennimore Cooper never met an Indian in his entire life.
7. William Blake liked to walk around the house naked to make his wife mad. He is rumoured to have had a really hairy back.
8. Ben Johnson, who killed a man over a bar bill, got out of being sentenced to execution because he could read. Sounds worse than O. J.
9. Walt Whitman shared a bed for years with his grown retarded brother.
10. Mark Twain was reported as saying, "I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey." To which I say amen.