The census report found that median household income, adjusted for inflation, was $51,017 in 2012, down about 9 percent from an inflation-adjusted peak of $56,080 in 1999, mostly as a result of the longest and most damaging recession since the Depression.
J. R. R. Tolkien was a professor at England's Oxford University and a respected scholar of medieval literature.But he is best known as the author of the fantasy novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa.At the age of three he moved with his mother to Sarehole, a village outside Birmingham, England.. R. R. Tolkien was a professor at England's Oxford University and a respected scholar of medieval literature.
Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine (1853 - 1931), usually known as Hall Caine, was a British novelist, dramatist, short story writer, poet and critic of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Caine's popularity during his lifetime was unprecedented. Writing fifteen novels, he became an international literary celebrity, selling ten million books. Caine was the most highly paid novelist of his day. The Eternal City is the first novel to sell over a million copies worldwide. In addition to his books, Caine is the author of more than a dozen plays and was one of the most commercially successful dramatists of his time; many were West End and Broadway productions.