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 The Charles Dickens Museum, in Doughty Street, Holborn is the only one of Dickens's London homes to survive. He lived there only two years, but in this time wrote The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby. |  Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey is fundamentally a parody of Gothic fiction. |
 Roald Dahl's (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) first work was inspired by a meeting with C.S. Forester. The work was published and propelled Dahl into a career as a writer. |  James Alfred Wight is the real name of James Herriot. He was unable to use his real name as an author because England had laws against veterinarians promoting themselves. |
 Louisa May Alcott's first novel, The Inheritance, was not published until 1997. Two biographers found the manuscript in a library at Harvard while doing research on Alcott. |  Jack London developed a great love of agriculture, and he often stated he wrote to support his Beauty Ranch in Glen Ellen. He brought techniques from Japan to California; such as terracing and manure spreading, and was accomplished in animal husbandry. |
 Oh! what a tangled web we weave When first we practice to deceive! is from Sir Walter Scott's poetical work, Marmion. It is often wrongly attributed to William Shakespeare |  A bronze statue of Lewis' character, Digory, from The Magician's Nephew, stands in Belfast, Ireland's Holywood Arches in front of the Holywood Road Library. |
 Asimov's works have been published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System, all except the 100s, philosophy. |  Pratchett holds the record for being the most shoplifted author in Britain. |
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