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Iago was an influential character on the detective fiction writer Agatha Christie, who, says her biographer, was "obsessed" with him. In The Rose and the Yew Tree, written under Christie's pen name Mary Westmacott, her protagonist understands how Iago suffered, "hat[ing] the human being who's up amongst the stars". [44]
Iago is the play's main antagonist, and Othello's standard-bearer. He is the husband of Emilia who is in turn the attendant of Othello's wife Desdemona. Iago hates Othello and devises a plan to destroy him by making him believe that Desdemona is having an affair with his lieutenant, Michael Cassio.
The final Poirot novel that Christie wrote, Elephants Can Remember, was published in 1972 and takes place in that year, followed by Christie's last novel to be written, Postern of Fate. Finally, Christie authorised Curtain ' s removal from the vault and its subsequent publication. It was the last of her books to be published during her lifetime.
It seems like British author J.K. Rowling, creator of the beloved Harry Potter franchise, is constantly getting into trouble on Twitter.But it can sometimes be hard to keep track of what people ...
Richard Miller Flanagan (born 1961) is an Australian writer, who has also worked as a film director and screenwriter. He won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North [1] and the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Question 7, making him the first writer in history to win both Britain's major fiction and non-fiction prizes.
José de Sousa Saramago GColSE GColCa (European Portuguese: [ʒuˈzɛ ðɨ ˈsozɐ sɐɾɐˈmaɣu]; 16 November 1922 – 18 June 2010) was a Portuguese writer. He was the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature for his "parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony [with which he] continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality."
When Rolling Stone ranked all then-145 cast members of "SNL," they put John Belushi in the top spot, calling him "the first rock 'n' roll star of comedy.". Belushi was another one of the seven ...
In the United States, the books were collected as pairs into omnibus volumes because the publisher thought they were too short to publish independently. The title for the first book in the series All Creatures Great and Small (and subsequently of the movies and television series) was taken from the hymn "All Things Bright and Beautiful".