Portal:Literature/Did you know/6

... that in Googled: The End of the World as We Know It, Ken Auletta uses the story The Purloined Letter to describe the attitude of the traditional media executives toward Google?
... that Miriam Roth grew up in a Hungarian-speaking town, studied at a German-speaking university, and wrote best-sellers in Hebrew?
... that in the 1895 play Trilby, the role of Svengali was created by American actor Wilton Lackaye?
... that Louisa Venable Kyle wrote a children's book on The Witch of Pungo?
... that Walter Arthur Berendsohn, who successfully nominated Nelly Sachs and Willy Brandt for their respective Nobel Prizes, wrote Die humanistische Front, the seminal book on German exile literature?