Wizard of Oz author,  L Frank Baum…came up with the name “Oz” because one of his file cabinets in his office was labeled O-Z.

Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland was originally banned in China because it includes talking animals.

Victor Hugo’s novel Les Miserables contains an 800-word sentence.

Charles Dickens is said to be the most cinematically adapted novelist of all time…but the most performed literary character on the silver screen is popularly said to be either Count Dracula or Sherlock Holmes.

A novel written in the form of a series of letters is called an epistolatory novel.

Frankenstein’s Monster isn’t called “Frankenstein.” The only name by which it is referred to in the original novel is “Adam.”

All the profits from JM Barrie’s novel Peter Pan were donated to a children’s hospital in London.